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SKEELS (Frank), SKEELS (Laure)
Highways and byways of Lebanon.
Reading, Garnet, 2000. Grand in-8 cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur, XVII-504 pp., nombreuses ill. phot. en couleurs e cartes dans le texte, index.
Bookseller reference : 555614 ISBN : 1859641334
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Skinner, [Thomas].
Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, by Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land. London, Richard Bentley, 1836.
8vo. 2 vols. XI, (1), 324 pp. XI, (1), 291, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces (portrait and view of the Lake of Tiberias). Contemporary calf with triple giltstamped cover fillets and blindstamped ornamental borders, leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt, spines rebacked to style with giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. First edition. - An account of a journey made in 1833 through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia (Baghdad, Babylon and Basrah), Persia, down the Arabian Gulf (stopping at Muscat, "the hottest place on earth") and thence to India. - Corners bumped; frontispieces foxed. Attractively bound copy; armorial bookplates ("Gadsden", motto "decrevi") to pastedowns; contemporary ownership "C. J. Wilton" to flyleaf. Blackmer 1547. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 237. Röhricht 1808. OCLC 4255403. Cf. Atabey 1142 (1837 second ed.).
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Slater, Robert
Warrior Statesman: Life of Moshe Dayan
London: Robson Books Ltd 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Robson Books Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035982 ISBN : 0860517837 9780860517832
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Slatin-Pascha, Rudolf von, administrator in the Sudan, politician, and adventurer (1857-1932).
4 autograph letters signed ("R. Slatin"). [Probably Merano], 1930.
Large 4to. Altogether 6 pp. on 4 ff. In German, to a "dear doctor and friend": "[...] I should like to see you and your dear wife again before my departure [...]" (letter of 12 April; with punched holes in left margin [not touching text]). - "I arrived here 3 days ago after 4 weeks in Bad Hall - without any noticeable results [...]" (letter of 3 September). - "I took Anne Marie from Fetan, where she spent the summer, back to St. Blasien. She has not had the care she needs, but looks well altogether and is happy, though I am not [...]" (letter of 28 September). - "Thank you for your kind letter; I hope that you and your dear wife will do me the honour of dining with me on Saturday at 1 PM [...]" (letter of 6 October). - On stationery with printed address.
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Slatin-Pascha, Rudolf von, administrator in the Sudan, politician, and adventurer (1857-1932).
Archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha. Various places, ca. 1895.
Autograph document in Arabic. 8vo. 1 p. Accompanied by the first published account of Slatin's escape: 3 consecutive issues of the Pall Mall Gazette, 23-25 April 1895 (42 x 37 cm each). Wrapped as a parcel within a bifolium of the Times, inscribed "Slatin Bey's Escape" by Sir Reginald Wingate. An archive of first-hand contemporary documents concerning the escape of Slatin Pasha (Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, 1857-1932), who was held prisoner for eleven long years by the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad and his successor. The material was assembled by General Sir Reginald Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department, who facilitated the escape and assisted on the perilous three-week, thousand-kilometre journey across the Nubian desert to Aswan, Egypt. "Probably the most famous European in the history of the Sudan, this Austrian survived as a captive of the Mahdi from 1883 until his escape to Egypt in 1895. His knowledge of the Sudan and its people was unrivalled and after the re-conquest he was appointed Inspector-General, second in authority only to the Governor-General, Reginald Wingate, of whom he was a great personal friend" (H. Keown-Boyd, Soldiers of the Nile [1996], p. 174). - The archive includes an Arabic document presumed to be written by Slatin Pasha (1 p. on thick handmade paper, 16 x 25 cm). Any writing by Slatin Pasha in Arabic is exceedingly scarce. Also, Slatin Pasha's first published account of his captivity and escape in Sudan, in three consecutive "Special Edition" issues of London's Pall Mall Gazette newspapers, preceding his book "Fire and Sword in the Sudan" by an entire year. Dated 23, 24, 25 April 1895 respectively, each contains 1 of 3 parts of Slatin's account entitled "The Story of My Flight". Each issue measures 42 x 37 cm. Wear to extremities and folds, otherwise very good. A scarce contemporary report, complete and in original condition. - Wrapped together within contemporary leaves of the Times, forming a parcel and inscribed by Sir Reginald Wingate "Slatin Bey's Escape", addressed in his secretary's hand to "Miss Campbell, Cawley Priory" - evidently a close friend or relative of Slatin's who Wingate thought would appreciate knowledge of his safety as soon as possible.
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Slekow, Ria.
Flammen in Palästina Palaestina: Eine Urenkelin der Katharina von Bora zwischen Arabern und Juden.
Haag Van Stockum 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown octavo. Pp. viii 178. Plus a number of halftone illustrations printed on different paper bound in. HARDCOVER original pale yellow boards printed in green embossed endpapers with dust-jacket this defective; small rust stain to fore-edge of few consecutive leaves. Book is in a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Y-3 OUT <br/> <br/> Haag, Van Stockum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1068
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Smail R. C
Crusaders in Syria and the Holy Land (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Thames & Hudson Ltd 1973 232 pages 16 69x23 19x2 82cm. 1973. Cartonné jaquette. 232 pages.
Bookseller reference : 100125376 ISBN : 500020809
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Smith, Dan
State of the Middle East : An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution
2006. Soft Cover. Good. Gd. condition - Detailed maps of the conflicts and boundarys of the Middle East . KE97055z paperback
Bookseller reference : 7055z ISBN : 0520248686 9780520248687
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Smith, Harvey H.; Al-Any, Nancy W.; Bernier, Donald W.; Bunge, Frederica M.; et al.
AREA HANDBOOK FOR IRAQ -- DA PAM No. 550-31
Washington DC: US Government Printing Off 1969. HC. good brown cloth hardcover EX-LIB. 411pp. US Government Printing Off unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS055458I
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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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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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SOUISSI (Ridha)
Al-Mu'tamid ibn 'Abbad et son oeuvre poétique.
Publications de l'Université de Tunis, 1977. In-8 br., 437 pp., index.
Bookseller reference : 595558
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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.
Bookseller reference : 593015
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SOURDEL (D.)
Le Livre des Secrétaires de 'Abd Allah Al-Bagdadi.
circa. 1954. In-4 br., pp [116-153].
Bookseller reference : 595514
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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.
Bookseller reference : 545111
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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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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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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
Bookseller reference : 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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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.
Bookseller reference : 556281
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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
Bookseller reference : 16524
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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
Bookseller reference : 0898
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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
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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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SPILLMANN COLONEL
L'Afrique du nord et la France
Editions Boursiac | Paris 1947 | 16.50 x 25 cm | broché
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 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.
Bookseller reference : 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
Bookseller reference : 143953
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