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Smith, W. Robertson
Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia
Boston: Beacon Press. First thus. Reprint of the 1903 edition. Trade soft cover. Published Boston: Beacon Press n.d. 8vo. xxv324 pp. Some soiling to covers and edges few page corners creased name on title page. Contents clean unmarked binding tight. Good. . Good. Soft cover. 1st. Beacon Press paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002979
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Smith, W. Robertson.
Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. Cambridge, University Press, 1885.
8vo. XIV, 322, (2) pp. Original brown cloth with giltstamped title to spine. First edition of the standard work by W. Robertson Smith, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. - Removed from the Harvard College Library (with duplicate stamp). A single ink marking in the margin, otherwise fine. Remains of shelfmark labels. Another copy sold for £1,500 at Sotheby's in 1998 (Oct 14, lot 1125: some underlining of text & marks in margins). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1921. Fück 210. OCLC 2156214.
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Smout, Alan Hilder.
Lower Tertiary Foraminifera of the Qatar Peninsula. London, printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1954.
Folio (256 x 318 mm). VIII, (2), 96 pp. With 15 leaves of plates and several illustrations in the text. Original cloth with giltstamped spine title. Only edition. - Systematic account of fossilized foraminifera discovered in the desert of the Qatar Peninsula. OCLC 8202535. Not in Macro.
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Snape, Andrew.
The Anatomy of an Horse. London, Miles Flesher for Thomas Fletcher, 1683.
Folio (243 x 367 mm). (12), 237, (1), 45, (7) pp. With engr. portrait of the author by R. White and 48 (of 49) engraved plates (lacking plate I). Contemporary calf with modern morocco label to gilt spine. First edition. Andrew Snape served as serjeant farrier to King Charles II. In his dedication to the king, he speaks of "being a Son of that Family that hath had the honour to serve the Crown of this Kingdom in the Quality of Farriers for these two Hundred Years." It is this classic work on which François Garsault was to base his 1734 "Anatomie Générale du Cheval". - Some brownstaining; some leaves with repaired tears, binding repaired. With armorial bookplate with cipher of George Simon Harcourt, Earl Harcourt (1736-1809) on front pastedown. Huth 26. Mellon 31. Wing S4382. ESTC R-14873. Nissen ZBI, 3887. OCLC 29155938. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance I, 526.
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Snouck Hurgronje, C[hristian].
Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian Archipelago. Leyden & London, E. J. Brill & Luzac, 1931.
Large 8vo. VI, 309, (3) pp. With 20 half-tone plates, folding plan of Mecca, and plan of the Haram. Original blue cloth. First edition of the English translation of a book on the holy city of Mecca by the Dutch orientalist and professor Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936). The book is divided into four large chapters, dealing respectively with daily life, family life, learning and the Jâwah in Mecca. Each chapter is illustrated with several photographs, mostly portraits, depicting among others a physician, a merchant with his slave, a bride and groom, pilgrims and the doorkeeper of the Kaabah, and also including a view of the Masjid al-Haram mosque. The book closes with an index and two maps, one showing Mecca. During his travels Snouck Hurgronje took many pictures of the holy city and its inhabitants, which made him the first western photographer in the city. In 1888 he published two volumes in German entitled "Mekka" describing his travels, to which a "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka" was added in 1888. The present translation is based on the second of the two German volumes from 1888, "which seems likely to appeal to a wider public" (p. V), thus representing a Mecca from nearly fifty years earlier. The two maps included in the first German volume are included here as well, and the 21 reproductions of photographs are a selection from the photographs in the "Bilder-Atlas". - Binding only slighty worn at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior slightly browned, but otherwise a very good copy, clean and well-preserved, with both the text and plates in very good condition. Macro 1238. D. van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgonje: the First Western Photographer in Mecca, 1884-1885 (2011). OCLC 1088989. Cf. Fück 231.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Bilder aus Mekka. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1889.
Folio (282 x 372 mm). 20 collotype prints mounted on 18 sheets loose in red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with half-title, list of plates, title and preface. One of the earliest photographic documents of Mecca and the Hajj, preceded only by the photographs of Muhammed Sadiq Bey published in 1881 (Sotheby's, 4 June 1998: £1,250,000). Much rarer than the author's similarly titled "Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka", a portfolio of lithographs to accompany the "Mekka" books which Snouck had published after his return from the Arabian Peninsula. - "Following the publication of 'Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka', Hurgronje received a letter from his doctor in Makkah, whom he had taught the art of photography. The letter contained new photographs of the hajj which were of such great interest that he decided in 1889 to publish his 'Bilder aus Mekka' [...] The photographs provide an insight into the world of Makkah's inhabitants, pilgrims from all over the Islamic world, in addition to the sharif of Makkah, the Turkish governor, and various religious and secular figures" (Badr el-Hage, p. 46f.). - "In 1981 F. H. S. Allen and C. Gavin first identified the earliest Arabian photographer by deciphering his elaborately calligraphed signatures, which without exception had been erased from the plates reproduced by Snouck Hurgronje: 'Futugrafiyat al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka' (The Photography of the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physican of Mecca). This princely eye surgeon had been host to the young Snouck in Mecca immediately after the Dutchman's conversion to Islam. Snouck claimed to have taught his host how to use a camera and attributes to him (without ever mentioning his name) the pictures reproduced in 'Bilder aus Mekka'". - Light spotting, title and text leaves frayed at inner edge (not affecting text), occasional minor stains or wear to edges of mounts, covers rather marked and stained. Very rare: only two copies at auctions internationally during the past decades (the last, at Sotheby's in 2006, was incomplete, lacking all the text leaves). Macro 1233. Badr el-Hage. Saudi Arabia Caught in Time. Reading, 1997. F. E. Peters. The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Place. Princeton University Press 1996.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Mekka. (And:) Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka. Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Half calf with gilt-stamped morocco label to spine. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates (conjoined as 2), 6 (1 double-sized) toned lithogr. plates, and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 40 plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Cloth portfolio with gilt cover title. Remarkable set, rarely encountered complete with the plates volume. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Very nicely rebound, in matching period style portfolio and half calf. An unusually crisp and clean copy throughout: text volumes spotless; the plates with the vintage photographs, much sought after as the earliest photographic documents of the city, its dignitaries and its pilgrims, are backed on thin linen and preserved in perfect condition. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
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Snouck Hurgronje, Christian.
Mekka. (And:) Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka. Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889.
2 vols. of text (4to) and one volume of plates (folio, 284 x 378 mm). Text: XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. With 3 genealogical tables and 2 folding maps. XVIII, 397, (1) pp. Atlas: 4 chromolithogr. plates, 5 (of 6) toned lithogr. plates (one folding), and 65 mounted photographs on a total of 39 (of 40) plates; 1 letterpress leaf of contents. Includes original printed upper board cover, loosely inserted. Modern black library cloth with gilt title to spine; atlas portfolio uniform with books. Contemporary black half roan, spines in five compartments with raised bands gilt, original atlas-portfolio of black cloth-backed printed cream boards. First edition, a complete set with both text volumes and the portfolio with all the photographic plates, but lacking one of the lithographs. The Dutch orientalist Snouck spent a year in Mecca and Jeddah during 1884/85 and was married to a Mecca woman. He was the first non-Muslim to visit the city outside the annual pilgrimage. The photographs, taken by himself and an Arabic physician, are among the earliest to show Mecca and its pilgrims. - Spines of both text volumes and portfolio professionally restored. Atlas lacks plate XVII (detail of Kiswah fabric), some light scattered spotting, minor creasing to mounts. Macro 1239 (omitting mention of the Atlas). Henze V, 177. Dinse 443.
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Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique & de l'Afrique Orientale.
Action de Cinq Cents Francs au Porteur. No 296. Paris, Imprimérie centrale des chemins de fer / Imprimérie chaix, 2. II. 1883.
Folio (ca. 305 x 393 mm). 1 page. Share certificate for a bearer stock security of 500 francs with 24 coupons, signed by two administrators of the "Société des factoreries francaises du Golfe Persique". The company operated from the small port town of Obock, on the Gulf of Tadjoura opposite Aden. It was the site of the first French colony in the region, which was established in 1862, initiating the colonisation of Djibouti. The French were especially interested in having a coaling station for steamships, which proved valuable upon the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
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Soden, Hermann Freiherr von.
Palästina Palaestina und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. FIRST EDITION 1899.
Leipzig Teubner 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 12mo. Pp. 112. Plus 2 full-page maps printed in colour and one plan of ancient Jerusalem bound at rear; index. Set in Gothic type. HARDCOVER original illustrated cloth publisher's catalogue on endpapers. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> Leipzig, Teubner hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0700
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Soden, Hermann Freiherr von.
Palästina Palaestina und seine Geschichte. Sechs volkstümliche Vorträge. AND: Map of Jerusalem American Colony Store 1910.
Leipzig Teubner 1904. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Duodecimo. Pp. iv 112 plus 32 pages of publisher's catalogue. Plus a plan of ancient Jerusalem 6 photographic plates 2 coloured maps. Printed endpapers illustrated paste-downs. Set in Gothic type. HARDCOVER bound in the original publisher's full cloth lettered and decorated in black. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ Second edition. ADDED: Map of Jerusalem. Original letterpress coloured map issued by Fr. Vester & Co. American Colony Store ca. 1910. Overall size ca. 28 x 32 cm image size ca. 25 x 28.5 cm linen-backed printed in black yellow green blue pink red. Issued for tourists and pilgrims to Jerusalem it identifies the major sites in the city the actual excavations of the ancient city wall as well as the location of the American Colony Store itself. In fine condition. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> Leipzig, Teubner hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0767
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SOKOLOWICZ JOAQUIN
ISRAELIANI E PALESTINESI
MILANO, GARZANTI, 1989. Le radici, i fatti, le prospettive del conflitto mediorientale. In 16°: pp. 142. Collana Memorie Documenti Biografie. Br. edit. fig.
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Solomon, Norman; Erlich, Reese; Erlich, Reese W.
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
2003. Soft Cover. Good. PB/Gd. condition/188 pages - What the news media didn't tell you concerning Iraq. K846HT9 paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : K846 ISBN : 1893956393 9781893956391
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Somer, Jan.
Johann Sommers See- und Land-Reyß nach der Levante, das ist nach Italien, Candia, Cypern, Rhodis Egypten, Syrien, Gelobten Lande, Constantinopel und von dar wider durch Ungarn, Italien und Teutschland nach Mittelburg nach Hauß [...]. Frankfurt, Johann Frantz for Wilhelm Serlin, 1664.
4to. (8), 200 pp. With 8 engraved plates (some with touches of colour, two folded). - (Bound with) II: Wenner, Adam. Türckisches Reisebuch von Prag aus biß gen Constantinopel [...]. Nuremberg, Johann Andreas Endter & Wolfgang Endter's heirs, 1665. (8), 135, (5) pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Exceedingly rare Mediterranean travelogue: one of two German editions published in the same year (the other, an entirely different translation, by Cunradus in Amsterdam; the Nuremberg edition cited by several bibliographies is fictitious). Dutch editions had previously appeared in 1649 (the first) and in 1661. Although the Amsterdam-published German edition dates the journey to 1640-42, the Dutch first edition as well as the present translation make it clear that it had taken place as early as 1590-92! Somer's voyage began inauspiciously - he was captured by a Turkish galley in the harbour of Famagusta and briefly enslaved, but was soon set free after the French consul at Alexandria intervened for him. In spite of this episode, he travelled the Ottoman Empire at a time of relative peace (the Long Turkish War with the Habsburgs would not break out until 1593), spending several months in Egypt, Constantinople and Palestine. His colourful account includes a description of desert sandstorms and the trade in Egyptian mummies (not all of them ancient) as well as extensive chapters on Constantinople, the Ottoman court, the ubiquitous baths, Turkish customs and manners, the Muslim faith, curses and magic, etc. Somer returned via then-Ottoman Greece and Hungary, which he also describes. An appendix (pp. 170ff.) contains A. Stockram's topical account of the voyage of the Dutch ship Arnheim, which foundered off Mauritius on the return from Batavia. The translation is credited to "Philemerus Irenicus Elisius" (i.e., Martin Meyer). Rare; the last copy in auction records sold in 1983 (Erasmushaus, an incomplete reissue with only 5 views). - Bound after this is the second edition of A. Wenner's narrative of the Imperial embassy to the Porte in 1616-18, to ratify the Treaty of Zsitvatorok. Wenner served as secretary to the embassy; his "book is a day-to-day account of the journey to Constantinople from Prague, and includes a list of all the entourage from nobles to the apothecary, goldsmith, musicians, tailors, cooks, and so on. A list of presents for the sultan, with their values, is also given" (Atabey). The Treaty of Zsitvatorok "was a landmark in Turkish-European diplomatic relations, when the Turks first began to observe the general principles and courtesies of international law, and to exchange special ambassadors on an equal footing with European nations" (Blackmer). - Some browning throughout due to paper, more pronounced in Somer's work, the title-page of which shows an unobtrusive tear in the upper edge. Contemporary handwritten ownership "Bocken" to recto of flyleaf; verso has stamp and 1978 ownership of the Viennese collector Werner Habel (1939-2015). I: VD 17, 23:231760C. Tobler 86. Röhricht p. 217, no. 820. Paulitschke 532; Ternaux-Compans, Bibliothèque asiatique et africaine, 1977 (both have "Nuremberg" in error for Frankfurt). Cf. Weber II, 216 (Amsterdam German ed.); Kat d. Scheepvart Mus. I, 254f. (Dutch eds.). Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Aboussouan, Howgego, Henze, Cox, or Chauvin. - II: VD 17, 23:234557B. Cf. Atabey 1326; Blackmer 1783; Brunet VI.2, 435 (all for the 1622 first edition). Not in Röhricht, Tobler, Aboussouan or Brunet.
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Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert.
Reisen in Ober- und Niederägypten. Aus dem Französischen. Mit Anmerkungen und einem Sachregister. Leipzig & Gera, Heinsius, 1800.
8vo. 2 vols. XXIV, 453, (3) pp. XXXVIII, 534, (2) pp. With 13 folding engr. plates and 2 folding tables. Contemp. marbled boards with giltstamped spine labels. First German edition of this account of travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated from the French original of the naturalist Charles Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), who had visited Egypt, Turkey, and Greece in 1777-78. The plates show landscapes, plants, fish, and antiquities. - Binding slightly bumped at extremeties; slight browning throughout. Titles stamped ("Institut für Grenz- und Auslandstudien"). Fromm 24495. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 245. Kainbacher 398. Cox I, 395. Graesse VI/1, 439. Cf. Gay 2250 (1799 French ed.).
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Sookhdeo, Patrick
Freedom to Believe: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law
USA: Isaac Publishing 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Isaac Publishing paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 038457 ISBN : 0978714199 9780978714192
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SORDI Maria (Livorno 1925 - Milano 2009)
GIUDEA - SIRIA PALESTINA - PALESTINA all'epoca di SETTIMIO SEVERO. Estr. orig. dal Bollettino di studi latini. Anno I, fasc. II, maggio-agosto 1971
In-8°, pp. 6. Bross. edit. SORDI, storica. Allieva di Silvio Accame, insegnò all'Università di Messina e poi di Bologna. Dal 1969 al 2001 insegnò Storia greca e romana all'Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore a Milano.
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Soren Bojholm, Jaafar Behbehani, Mia Staehr, Allan Staehr
Treatment of War Victims in the Middle East
Copenhagen: IRCT 1993. Paperback. Good/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book IRCT paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 059012 ISBN : 8788882381 9788788882384
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Sotheby's -
Books on the Middle East. The Library of Michael Burrell.
London, 1999, 4to brossura, cop. ill. pp. 162 con oltre 900 lotti prezzati.
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Soubhy, Saleh.
Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à Médine. Précédé d'un aperçu sur l'islamisme et suivi de considérations générales au point de vue sanitaire et d'un appendice sur la circoncision. Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 1894.
Large 8vo. 109 (instead of 129), (2) pp. With 16 (instead of 19) plates. Marbled half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Includes 4 photographic views of Mecca, 3 of Medina and 3 of Jeddah (after Sadiq Bey and others), wants only the ten-leaf appendix, 2 portraits and the plate showing the departure of the Mahmal in Cairo. - Salih Subhi, an Egyptian public health official, was commissioned by his government to undertake the Hajj in 1888 and 1894. Here he describes the eight-month journey in great detail. Muhammed Sadiq Bey was a major pioneer in the history of Arabian photography and the first person ever to photograph the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. - Browned throughout due to paper. Our copy without the ten-leaf appendix before the author's epilogue and portrait. - Rare, the last copy on the market fetched £27,500 (Christie's, April 13 2010, lot 276, with author's dedication), the Burrell copy fetched £8,000 in 1999 (complete, but in modern cloth). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2096. Auboyneau/Fevret 20. OCLC 7055812.
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SOUISSI (Ridha)
Al-Mu'tamid ibn 'Abbad et son oeuvre poétique.
Publications de l'Université de Tunis, 1977. In-8 br., 437 pp., index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 595558
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Sourbets, Georges / Saint-Marc, Camille de.
Précis de Fauconnerie [...] suivi de l'Éducation du Cormoran. Niort, L. Clouzot, 1887.
8vo. Half-title and title, (4), 123, (1) pp. With 4 lithographed plates. Contemporary red morocco-backed cloth. One of 150 copies, rare. "A neat summary of nearly all that is necessary to be known in order to tame, train, and fly a hawk successfully" (Harting). - Cloth rubbed, a very good copy. Harting 217. Schwerdt II, 168.
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SOURDEL (D.)
Le Livre des Secrétaires de 'Abd Allah Al-Bagdadi.
circa. 1954. In-4 br., pp [116-153].
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 595514
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SOURDEL (Dominique)
Inventaire des monnaies musulmanes du Musée de Caboul.
Institut Français de Damas, 1953. In-8 br., XXIII-144 pp., VI pl. en noir in fine, index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 593015
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SOURDEL (Dominique)
Les professeurs de madrasa à Alep aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles d'après ibn Saddâd.
Damas, Institut français, 1950. In-4 agrafé, pp.85-115.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 545111
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Sousa, João de.
Documentos arabicos para a historia portugueza copiados dos originaes de Torre do Tombo [...]. Lisbon, Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790.
4to. (8), 190, (4) pp. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena's owl and Hermes's staff). Set in roman, italic and Arabic types. Modern green morocco, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco spine label with title in gold and the imprint in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled endpapers. First and only edition of a collection of letters written in Arabic during the reigns of Kings Manuel I and João III of Portugal (numbered 1-58 in chronological order, the dated letters from 1503 to 1528), from the official Portuguese state correspondence, with the original Arabic and a parallel Portuguese translation. The letters came from North Africa, the Gulf, East Africa, India and the East Indies. The writers include kings, princes, governors, wazirs, sheikhs and noblemen, including Kings "Mahomed Xáh" and "Mir Abanasar" of Ormus, King "Azarkam" of Barus in Sumatra, and kings of Fez, Malindi and Calicut/Kozhikode. They are especially important for the light they shed on Portugal's East Indian trade, but also provide a rare primary source of information about Islamic leaders for whom little documentation has survived. The original Arabic appears in the inside columns with the Portuguese translation in the outside columns, and the apparatus and notes are in Portuguese. João de Sousa (1734-1812), born in Damascus, came to Portugal in 1750 and was appointed the first professor of Arabic at the University of Lisbon. - The Royal Printing Office in Lisbon had used the present Arabic type in 1774 for Antonio Baptista, Instituições da lingua Arabica. The form of the Arabic type may have been influenced by Robert Granjon's of this size, cut in 1586, his smallest Arabic, which was at this time in possession of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, but the direct model and the circumstances of the cutting remain unknown. The type here measures 96 mm/20 lines (14 point). It is not the Arabic type acquired by the Biblioteca Real in Madrid in 1751 for the 1760 Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, which came from the Voskens and Clerk foundry in Amsterdam. - The first page of the first letter is very slightly soiled, otherwise internally fine and clean. Overall in very good condition. A remarkable primary source for numerous Arabic-speaking leaders and their relations with Portugal in the early 1500s. Macro 2098. Palau 320779. Schnurrer 186. Innocêncio IV, 41-42. Palha 2777. Krek, Typographia Arabica, p. 36, no. 3. Streit XVII, 6441. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.
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Spahni ; Bruggmann
La route des épices
Silva 1992 In-4 reliure éditeur sous jaquette, 204 pp. Illustrations couleurs
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5744
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Sparvenfeld, Johann Gabriel.
Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit [...] Ioan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius. Uppsala, Johan Henrik Werner, 1706.
4to. (6), 74 pp. With woodcut title vignette. modern boards. Extensively annotated catalogue of 115 Arabic, Persian and Turkish works, mostly manuscripts which Sparvenveldt had acquired in Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia in 1691. Edited with the help of Erik Benzelius and Olof Celsius. The titles are rendered in the original languages in Kirsten's fine Arabic types, brought with him to Sweden from Breslau in 1636. - Insignificant edge staining to title page; reverse shows old library stamp of Upsala College, East Orange, NJ, dissolved in 1995. Untrimmed copy. Smitskamp, PO 113d. Schnurrer 17 & 25. Besterman 152. Warmholtz 9270.
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Sparwenfeld, Johan Gabriel, donor (Eric Benzelius & Olaus Celsius, comp.).
Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum, &c. Qua anno MDCCV bibliothecam publicam Academiae Upsalenis auxit & exornavit vir illustris & generossissimus Joan. Gabr. Sparvenfeldius, ... Uppsala, Johan Henrik Werner (printer to the University), 1706.
4to. [6], 74 pp. With a woodcut garland of fruits, leaves and nuts on the title-page, 1 woodcut headpiece and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Set in roman, italic, Arabic and Greek type. Later paper wrappers. Catalogue of the collection of 126 Persian, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, Latin and other books and manuscripts donated to the Library of the University of Uppsala by Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld (1655-1727). It was compiled by the Swedish scholars Eric Benzelius the younger (1670-1756) and Olaus Celsius the elder (1675-1743). The main series of manuscripts (items I-LXI), described in great detail, includes 41 in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, 8 in Greek (one dating back to the eighth century) and 12 in Latin and modern European languages. These are followed by 42 printed books (LXII-CIII) including 2 in Chinese, several in Arabic, the 1581 Ostrog Bible (the first Bible printed in Old Slavonic) and several other exotic languages, including Irish (set in Anglo-Saxon type). A few more manuscripts (mostly Arabic) are added at the end, numbered I-VI and I-XV, plus an unnumbered geographic manuscript in Chinese (3 volumes). This is the earliest catalogue of the Uppsala University Library's collections. The Arabic, Persian and Turkish titles are set in a large Arabic type cut for the physician and orientalist Peter Kirsten by the Swedish punchcutter Peter von Selow (who served his apprenticeship under Tycho Brahe) and first used at Breslau in 1608. Werner, printer to the university at Uppsala sice 1701, seems to have been the first Swedish printer to use types by Nicolaus Kis, two of his italics and one roman appearing in the present book, though not the roman used for the main text. - After finishing his studies at Uppsala, Sparwenfeld travelled throughout Europe and accompanied the Swedish ambassador to Moscow, where he took an interest in Slavonic languages. On his travels he collected many precious books and manuscripts. In 1687 he returned to Stockholm, where he carried out a study of manuscripts from the ancient Goths. He travelled to Holland, France and Spain, dealing with the Blaeu printing office and mediating in the production of Georgian type cut by Nicolaus Kis for the exiled King of Georgia. In 1691 he travelled to Egypt, Syria and Tunis. Though a Protestant, he presented the manuscript of his Slavonic lexicon to Pope Innocent XII, who granted him access to the Vatican library, a rare honour for a Protestant. He returned to Sweden in 1694. He continued to correspond with scholars throughout Europe even after he retired to his estate in 1712. He wrote and spoke 14 languages. - In very good condition, with only occasional very slight foxing, wholly untrimmed, preserving the deckles and point holes and with the bolts unopened. A remarkable catalogue of an extraordinary library, especially rich in Arabic manuscripts. Almqvist, Sveriges bibliogr. litteratur 2838. Smitskamp, PO 113 (note).
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Speakman, Harold.
Hilltops in Galilee.
London Methuen 1925. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 8vo. Pp. 259. Frontispiece and seven other plates in colour bound in. HARDCOVER original blue cloth spine gilt. In fine condition. ~ First British edition. Colour illustrations from paintings by the author. F-4 IN <br/> <br/> London, Methuen hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0898
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SPEISER (Ephraim A.)
Mesopotamian origins. The basic population of the Near East.
Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile brune, titre doré en long au dos, XIII-198 pp., bibliogr., index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 556281
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Spencer, Robert
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West
2003. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/Gd. condition/350 pages - How Jihad still threatens America and the West. K835HT9 hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : K835 ISBN : 0895261006 9780895261007
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Spencer, William
Global Studies: The Middle East Second Edition
Guilford: The Dushkin Publishing Group 1988. Bottom corners bumped with subsequent curling of page corner tips. Soft Cover. G-VG with Fault. Small Quarto. The Dushkin Publishing Group Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 01010539 ISBN : 0879677457 9780879677459
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Spencer-Smith, J[ohn].
Précis d'une dissertation sur un monument arabe du moyen age en Normandie. Seconde édition. Caen, Chalopin fils, [1827].
8vo. 27, (1) pp. With 5 engraved plates by F. Berthout, Caen, and woodcut vignette of the Académie de Caen on reverse of t. p. Original printed wrappers. Second edition (first printed in 1820), with several illustrations published here for the first time. No. 237 of 300 copies. Rare treatise by John Spencer Smith (1769-1845), an "extrait du procès-verbal de la séance du 14 avril 1820", about the famous Chasuble of Saint-Regnobert preserved at the Cathedral of Bayeux, and about the Cufic-inscribed ivory chest, supposedly part of the Saracen spoils taken by Charles Martel, in which it is stored. The engravings show the chasuble as well as the chest and many details of the inscriptions. The original edition, published by Le Roy in 1820, contained merely a frontispiece and a single text illustration. - Wrapper torn at upper spine end. Binding loosened; significant browning to final quires. With the errata slip bound at the end. OCLC 27973008.
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SPERCO Willy
Moustapha Kemal Ataturk créateur de la Turquie moderne 1882-1931
,Paris, Nouvelles Editions Latines 1958, 204 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br. couverture illustrée
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16524
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SPILLMANN COLONEL
L'Afrique du nord et la France
Editions Boursiac | Paris 1947 | 16.50 x 25 cm | broché
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32563
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Spilsbury, F[rancis] B.
Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. Second edition. London, B. R. Howlett for Thomas McLean, 1819.
Folio (500 x 350 mm). IV, 42 pp. With 19 aquatints by Edward Orme after sketches by Spilsbury in original hand colour. Contemporary half cloth with red boards and printed label to upper cover. Second edition of English naval surgeon Francis Spilsbury’s account of his travels in Palestine and Syria during the Napoleonic campaigns there, with 19 finely hand-coloured folio aquatint views. Spilsbury was surgeon on board HMS Tigre during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800. The Tigre brought Sir William Sidney Smith to defend Acre against Napoleon’s siege, and led a naval force in support of Turkish armies which finally relieved Acre, and his text gives some account of the military campaigns and the Turkish dignitaries. In his reminiscences Napoleon accused Smith of making him miss his destiny, as Smith’s timely appearance thwarted Napoleon’s drive to invade Syria and forced him to retreat to Egypt. The views are mostly connected with the coastal towns of modern Lebanon and Israel, though several are from Spilsbury’s travels inland to meet the Grand Vizier in charge of the Turkish army, Jezzar Pacha, and other dignitaries. First published in folio in 1803, with a mezzotint portrait of Sir William Sidney Smith that was not included in this second edition; a third followed in 1823. - Some staining to covers; aquatints are perfectly preserved. Tooley 464. Cf. Atabey 1168f. Blackmer 1585. Abbey, Travel 381. Colas 2788. Weber II, 835. Aboussouan 852.
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Spiro, Melford E.
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited
Durham North Carolina U.S.A.: Duke Univ Pr 1979. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Small ink mark on front free endpaper. <br/> <br/> Duke Univ Pr hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 320616 ISBN : 0822304279 9780822304272
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Sprenger, Aloys, orientalist scholar (1813-1893).
Autograph letter signed offering a translation from the Arabic of El Suyuti's History of the Khalifs. London, between 1836 and 1843.
Two and a half handwritten sides on 2 leaves. Signed "your most obedient humble servant Dr. Sprenger", and concerning various Arabic manuscripts which Sprenger is considering translating. The letter dates from Sprenger's relatively brief time in London (1836-43), and thus predates any of his published works. He decides that Ibn Kourdadbeh's 'Oriental Geography' (the earliest surviving Arabic book on administrative geography) is unsuitable as he can only locate one MS copy. Instead, he offers to produce a translation of Suyuti's famous 'History of the Caliphs', which he notes has been accounted the best of such histories by the Arab encylopaedist Haji Khalfa. Sprenger transcribes several names from English into Arabic for the benefit of his correspondent. - A well-preserved and early letter reflecting Sprenger's outstanding command of Arabic sources. The Austrian-born Sprenger became one of the most noted orientalists of the 19th century, producing a comprehensive 'Life of Mohammad from Original Sources' in 1851.
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SPULER (Bertold)
Gesammelte Aufsätze.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1980. In-8 rel. pleine toile bleue éditeur, titre doré au dos et plat sup., IX-415 pp., 1 carte dépliante en noir hors-texte, index.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 507125
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Staff
Museum of Islamic Art; State Museums of Berlin Prussian Cultural Property
Museum of Islamic Art. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 200 page museum guide with full color photos & prints of the features of the museum covering 661 -- 1922 with map at back. Book is sectioned by room including the Umayyads Abbasids Fatimids Samanids Seljuks Ayyubids Mamluks Arabs Berbers Mongols Timurids Spanish carpets Palace of Mshatta Sasanian art Safavids Mughals later Ottomans Aleppo room Keywords: Umayyads Abbasids Fatimids Samanids Seljuks Ayyubids Mamluks Arabs Berbers Mongols Timurids Spanish carpets Palace of Mshatta Sasanian art Safavids Mughals Later Ottomans Aleppo Room Middle East History Art Artifacts Carpets Museum of Islamic Art paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 143953
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Stallard, Mrs Arthur.
Questors in Palestine: A Travel Story.
Edinburgh Moray 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 8vo. Pp. vii 376. Frontispiece. Plus 11 halftone plates bound in. HARDCOVER original light blue cloth spine lettered in black. In fine condition. Private ownership stamp to front flyleaf blank. An excellent copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. A highly personal account of a journey to Palestine with visits to Egypt Jordan Lebanon and Syria. F-4 IN <br/> <br/> Edinburgh, Moray hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0901
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Standard Oil Company.
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1964 Annual Report. New York, [Standard Oil Company], 1964.
4to. 28 pp. With several photographic illustrations in colour. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated annual report of the Standard Oil Company. With handwritten inscription: "Herzliche Grüsse Henry". - The photographs display oil refineries and gas stations, but also illustrate the multi-purpose character of "Jersey" products, including gasoline used for outboard motors in Bangkok, liquefied petroleum for the operation of greenhouses in Belgium, and Esso asphalt laid in France - "a universal answer to building better highways". With a group portrait of three former and acting company presidents: M. J. Rathbone, Michael L. Haider and J. K. Jamieson.
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Standard Oil Company.
The Lamp. Vol. 35, No. 4. New York, Standard Oil Company, 1953.
Folio (231 x 308 mm). 24 pp. With numerous illustrations in colour and black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Illustrated corporate magazine of Standard Oil, celebrating the company's international activities. It includes reports on trade with European countries, the recently established Antwerp refinery, the kerosene-powered Seguin lighthouse in Maine, advancing infrastructure in North Africa, and the recycling of oil barrels as musical instruments in the Caribbean. The final three pages display sketched impressions of the Jersey Standard headquarters in New York by the artist Bettina Steinke. OCLC 1755500.
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Stanford, Edward.
Countries between Constantinople & Calcutta including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan & Turkestan. London, 1885.
Large folding map (64 x 86 cm), hand-coloured and mounted on linen. Scale 1:6,969,000. Alai, General maps E.323. Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
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STANLEY LANE POOLE.
Düvel-i Islamiye. Translator: Halil Edhem [Eldem]. [= The Mohammedan dynasties: Chronological and genealogical tables with historical introductions (1894)].
Very Good English Original 1/4 leather bound in Ottoman lettered gilt on spine. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script. [17], 640 p., 11 p. b/w plates. 1 genealogical tree. First Ottoman Turkish Edition of Poole's 'The Mohammedan dynasties: Chronological and genealogical tables with historical introductions' was printed in 1894. Ozege: 4502. Düvel-i Islamiye. Translator: Halil Edhem [Eldem]. [= The Mohammedan dynasties: Chronological and genealogical tables with historical introductions (1894)].
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Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.
Sinai and Palestine. In Connection With Their History. London, John Murray, 1860.
8vo (150 x 214 mm). (2), LVIII, 560 pp. With 7 folding chromolithographed maps (one bound as a frontispiece) and 5 woodcut maps and plans in the text (some in colour). Early 20th century library cloth with title lettered to spine in gilt. Fifth edition. Stanley (1815-81) was a progressive Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian who would go on to serve as Dean of Westminster from 1864 until his death. - "Stanley was able to make an extended tour of Egypt and the Holy Land in 1852 and 1853. Starting from Cairo he and his companions sailed up the Nile, which he found intolerably dull, but the great granite statues of Rameses and two other pharaohs at Thebes impressed him. They went as far south as Abu Simbel, but turned back to Cairo, climbed the pyramids, and then set out on camels for the Sinai peninsula, at that time visited only by the most intrepid of European travellers. In the monastery of St Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai they found the great German scholar Tischendorf, who on a previous visit had discovered there an important biblical manuscript, the Codex Sinaiticus. After moving on to the Gulf of 'Aqabah, they turned up the defile that led to Petra, which Stanley pronounced to be a city not of bright colours, but of dull crimson, indigo, yellow, and purple. They reached Jerusalem on Easter eve 1853, from where they made expeditions to Nazareth, Damascus, Jericho, and the Dead Sea. The tour led to the publication of 'Sinai and Palestine' in March 1856, Stanley's powers of observation and description, together with the unfamiliarity of the places that he had visited, making the book an instant success. It reached a fourth edition within a year, and as late as 1881 was still being reprinted" (ODNB). - Occasional slight browning, but very well preserved in a later library binding. OCLC 3044873. Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 257. Not in Gay.
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STARK Freya
The Minaret of Djam. An Excursion in Afghanistan. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
John Murray 1970. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece title-vignette plates and illustrations in the text and double-page map on green stock some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. John Murray, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 27258
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STARK Freya
A Peak in Darien. [Illustrated by Reynolds Stone]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and several engraved decorations in the text, title and for-edges lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STARK Freya
Alexander's Path from Caria to Cilicia. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in green and black, title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, numerous photographs and illustrations by the author, and large folding map (coloured in outline) at end; turquoise tweed cloth, upper and backstrip lettered in gilt, green top, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges.
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