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Visscher, Nicolaas.
Africae accurata tabula. [Amsterdam], Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1690?].
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Visscher.
Magni Turcarum Domini Imperium. Amsterdam, c. 1680.
Engraved map (51 x 84 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Large map of the Turkish Empire in original colour stretching from the Gulf of Oman to Morocco. Al-Qasimi 78; Tibbetts 154.
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Vogler, C. H.
Allgemeines Gestüt-Buch. Ein Verzeichniss der Vollblut-Pferde nebst ihrer Abstammung. Zweiter Band. Berlin, (Trowitsch & Sohn) for the author and Asher & Comp., 1852.
8vo. XXXIX, (1), 303, (1) pp. Contemporary full cloth with gilt title to spine and equestrian decoration on upper cover. The second volume of this highly scarce first German general stud-book, listing all thoroughbreds, with their lineage, owned in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Transylvania, and Galicia. The first volume had appeared in 1847; by 1861 the series would comprise six stud-books. - Old ownership in blue pencil to flyleaf; well preserved. Extremely rare.
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Vogüé, Melchior de.
Le Temple de Jerusalem. Monographie du Haram-ech-Chérif. Suivie d'un essai sur la topographie de la Ville-Sainte. Paris, Noblet & Baudry, 1864.
Large folio (330 x 448 mm). VIII, 142 pp. With 57 text illustrations, 37 numbered plates and a final extra heliogravure plate. Contemporary marbled half calf. Marbled endpapers. A study by Melchior, marquis de Vogüé (1829-1916), of the decorative interior art of the Mosque of Omar, with colour reproductions of details of painted entablements, cupolas, and other mural decorations, of the enameled porcelain ornament, and of stained glass windows. Also includes details of sculptured pilasters, capitals, entablements, etc. - Waterstained throughout. OCLC 2227954.
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Vogüé, Melchior de.
Syrie centrale. Architecture civile et religieuse du Ier au VIIe siècle. Paris, J. Baudry, 1865-1877.
Folio (285 x 358 mm). 2 volumes. (4), 12, 154, (6) pp. (8) pp. With a total of 3 maps (2 in colour) & 152 mostly full-page plates, several with tinted lithographed backgrounds. Later red half morocco with giltstamped spine titles. First edition of this detailed study of Syrian decorative architectural art. "De Vogüé travelled with William Waddington in 1853 and 1854, exploring the area from Aleppo to Damascus, Palmyra and Basra. It was an important expedition and much new material was uncovered. The author became ambassador to the Porte in 1871" (Blackmer). - Occasional foxing to plates, but a fine set. Blackmer 174. Not in Weber.
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VOISIN (Jean-Claude)
Fortifications du Moyen-Âge au Proche-Orient. De l'inventaire au relevé, géographie féodale, emprunts et échanges.
Beyrouth, PU Saint-Joseph, 2009. In-8 broché, couv. ill. en coul., 419 pp., très nb. ill. photogr. en n/b. et en coul. (planches in fine), fig., cartes, plans, courbes, bibliographie. Epuisé chez l'éditeur.
Référence libraire : 606156
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Vollmann, William T.
An Afghanistan Picture Show Or How I Saved the World
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1992. First Edition First Printing . Grey Boards. Near Fine/Fine Dustjacket. Drawings By The Author Maps. Near Fine Book With Slight Rubbing Along Bottom Edge Of Boards In A Fine Dj Not Price-Clipped. Signed By Author On Title Page. Vollman's Account Of His Travels In Afghanistan In 1982. Illuminating And Too Deep For Most. Immersion In A Conflict Where America Secretly Armed Muslim Fundamentalists To Successfully Overthrow Their Own Government Setting The Stage For America's "Endless War Against Muslim Fundamentalists There And Endlessly Frustrated By The Systemic Brutality Ignorance Prejudice And Opium-Production Of The Rule Of The Very People America Supported Is Best Explained By America's Familial Support Of The Lowest Class Of American Politicians Without Further Responsibility Or Rebuke No Matter What Genocidal And Ecocidal Idiocies They Engage In. In Other Words Afghanis Are Very Much Like Us In Fact Frighteningly So. <br/> <br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
Référence libraire : 024725 ISBN : 0233980229 9780233980225
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VOLNEY
Œuvres
précédées d’une notice sur la vie de l’auteur. Nouvelle édition. Les ruines, la loi naturelle, l’histoire de Samuel. In 8 demi-cuir marron, petit fer en long doré. Faux-titre, portait gravé de l’auteur, en frontispice, 224 pages, Une carte dépliante – un tableau du ciel, astrologie des anciens. La Loi naturelle, titre, 50 pages, Histoire de Samuel titre page 53 à la page 156. Renault libraire 1846. A la suite : HANNOTIN Emile Doctrine religieuse et philosophique fondée sur le témoignage de la conscience. Faux-titre, titre, 120 pages, 1 page de table des matières. Chez LADRANGE à Paris Alexandre Laguerre à Bar le Duc 1842 mors supérieur droit restauré.
Référence libraire : 9669
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Volney (Constantin-François Chassebeuf de)
Les Ruines ou méditation sur les révolutions des empires.
Bourg, Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon 1791 Petit in-4 demi-basane brune, dos à nerfs, fleurons et filets, couverture supérieure restaurée conservée, VIII - 242 pp. Deux planches dépliantes in-fine humidités sur la seconde. Restauration à la première couverture. Forte humidité angulaire et rousseurs éparses. Il manque le frontispice.
Référence libraire : 9471
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Volney (Constantin-François Chassebeuf de)
Les Ruines ou méditation sur les révolutions des empires.
Bourg, Louis Hyacinthe Goyffon 1791 Petit in-4 demi-toile muette post., VIII - 242 pp. Trois planches hors-texte dont un frontispice et deux in fine :carte du monde ancien brunissures, petit manque angulaire avec restauration et tableau du ciel astrologique des anciens repliée, petit manque en tête sans atteinte, lég. rousseurs. Humidité marginale en pied des 4 premiers ff. Quelques rousseurs en début d’ouvrage. Ex-libris manus. en page de garde.
Référence libraire : 62753
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Volney, C[onstantin] F[rançois Chasseboeuf, Comte de].
Simplification des langues orientales, ou méthode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues arabe, persane et turque, avec des caractères européens [...]. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an III [= 1794/95].
8vo. (4), 135, (3) pp. With 3 folding tables and 1 engraved plate. Later blue wrappers. Only edition of this introduction to Arabic, written by the Comte de Volney (1757-1820) as history professor at the newly-founded École normale, immediately after the end of the Terreur and his release from prison following the fall of Robespierre. In spite of its wide-ranging title, the book comprises essentially an Arabic grammar and a collection of Arabic proverbs; the long introductory chapter has been hailed a model of style. Volney had learned Arabic in 1782 in preparation of a long journey through Egypt and Syria. The work displays his ingenious method of simplifying the study of Arabic, Persian and Turkish by transliterating the alphabets into European characters. The tables give the Arabic alphabet, the conjugation of regular verbs, and instructions on how to write Arabic letters by hand, as well as the Arabic alphabet in European characters intended for merchants travelling to Asia and Africa. With a section of Arabian proverbs included as samples. - Pages 30-31 unopened. A good copy of this important work, untrimmed as issued. Gay 3429. Brunet V, 1351. Cioranescu 663767. Monglond III, 481. OCLC 21978700.
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Volney, C[onstantin] F[rançois Chasseboeuf, Comte de].
Simplification des langues orientales, ou méthode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues Arabe, Persane et Turque avec des caractères Européens. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an III [= 1794/95].
8vo. (2), 135, (3) pp. With 3 folding tables and 1 engraved plate. Contemporary wrappers with printed spine-label. Only edition of this introduction to Arabic, written by the Comte de Volney (1757-1820) as history professor at the newly-founded École normale, immediately after the end of the Terreur and his release from prison following the fall of Robespierre. In spite of its wide-ranging title, the book comprises essentially an Arabic grammar and a collection of Arabic proverbs; the long introductory chapter has been hailed a model of style. Volney had learned Arabic in 1782 in preparation of a long journey through Egypt and Syria. The work displays his ingenious method of simplifying the study of Arabic, Persian and Turkish by transliterating the alphabets into European characters. The tables give the Arabic alphabet, the conjugation of regular verbs, and instructions on how to write Arabic letters by hand, as well as the Arabic alphabet in European characters intended for merchants travelling to Asia and Africa. With a section of Arabian proverbs included as samples. - Untrimmed in the original grey temporary wrappers as issued; a few pages uncut. A good copy of this important work. Provenance: from the collection of the psychoanalyst and bibliophile Jacques Lacan (1901-81). Gay 3429. Brunet V, 1351. Cioranescu 663767. Monglond III, 481. OCLC 21978700.
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Volpi, Frederic
Islam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria 1988-2001
London: Pluto Press 2003. Paperback. Fine/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 168pp. Pluto Press paperback
Référence libraire : 033943 ISBN : 0745319769 9780745319766
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Vossius, Isaac.
De Nili et aliorum fluminum origine. Den Haag, Adrian Vlacq, 1666.
4to. (16), 170, (4) pp., final blank f. With 2 large folding maps. Contemporary vellum. First edition. - Early study on the sources of the Nile by the Dutch classicist and librarian Isaac Voss (1618-89). The maps show north-eastern Africa from Zanzibar to the Nile Delta (with large parts of the Arabian Peninsula) and a detail thereof, focusing on the tributary region of Lake Tana in Dembiya, Ethiopia. Also includes an "Appendix ad scriptum de natura et proprietate Lucis. Accedit epistola ad amicum, de potentiis quibusdam mechanicis" (p. 77-170), an early and little-received discussion of the nature of light, refraction, colours, optics, mechanics, and even comets (for a note on Voss's work on Snel's law of refraction of light rays, cf. DSB XII, 501). - Slight browning, spine defective. Early 19th c. title inked to corner of upper cover. Provenance: 1) in the collection of the cleric and abolitionist Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), later Archdeacon of the East Riding, with his 1804 ownership to t. p.; 2) in 1810/11 the book was in the collection of Percy B. Shelley's friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862), famously expelled from Oxford together with the young poet for having published the treatise, "The Necessity of Atheism" (his ownership "T. Jeff.n Hogg, Univ. Coll., Oxon." on pastedown); 3) in 1898 the volume passed into the library of the Swiss-born U.S. officer Edward Louis Berthoud (1828-1910), best known for his role as chief engineer and secretary of the Colorado Central Railroad during its expansion throughout Colorado in the 1870s (his stamp and ms. ownership to t. p. and the reverse of the plates); 4) acquired on 12 Feb. 1903 by the Colorado chemist Charles Skeele Palmer (1858-1939) (his ownership on t. p.); 5) Ida May Lewis (ownership, dated 1945, on pastedown). With irreverent ms. notes at the end of the dedication (to King Louis XIV) by either Berthoud or Palmer: "Vossius give us a rest"; under the author's signature: "A Brick". Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 312. OCLC 8556942. Cf. Gay 2317 (Paris ed.).
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VRYONIS (Speros)
Stanford J. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire, Vol. I, Empire of the Gazis : the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire (Cabridge Univ. Press, 1976).
Thessaloniki, Inst. for Balkan Studies, 1983. In-8 broché, 126 pp.
Référence libraire : 555553
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VS. Naipaul V. S.
An Area Of Darkness
New York: Macmillan 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo 281 pages brown cloth map endpapers top edge stained orange-brown; inch tear at top of fold of front flap both flaps creased. <br/><br/>The son of Indian parents Naipaul visits his ancestral nation and reports on it in this the first volume in his India trilogy: this one was promptly banned in India for its unflattering comments. He notes that India had rejected Mahatma Gandhi by making him a saint ! Macmillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 4588
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VS. Naipaul V. S.
Beyond Belief
New Delhi India: Viking Penguin India 1998. First Indian edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo 439 pages brown cloth; small green sticker on rear panel. Surprisingly Scarce in this edition which was <br/><br/>Dust jacket price is 500 rupees. DJ blurbs by V. S. Pritchett Elizabeth Hardwick Michael Ratcliffe. "Printed by PUSP Print Services" on last page. A companion volume to his AMONG THE BELIEVERS: this is his observations on his travels in Indonesia Iran Pakistan and Malaysia. "Beyond Belief is interesting and often perceptive and offers real insights into the lives and experiences of these people. As narrative it is an impressive achievement--but it is not only narrative. Despite Naipaul's surprising disclaimer that this is not "a book of opinion" or of "conclusions" it is very much both. Opinion and conclusion are reflected in the selection of stories and in their structure and tone; they are also evident in the editorial commentary scattered throughout. Naipaul repeatedly characterizes Islam as a fanatic missionary religion dedicated to erasing the histories and native cultures of convert peoples. Although all missionary religions are to some extent guilty of this Islam in his view is more single-minded and systematic in its effacement of the past - Choice Review". Viking Penguin India hardcover
Référence libraire : 4586 ISBN : 0670883344 9780670883349
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W. MONTGOMERY WATT.
Geçmisten günümüze Müslüman - Hristiyan diyalogu. Yanlis yaklasimlarin elestirisi. Translation and annotation: Fuat Aydin.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 221 p. Muslim Christrem encounters. Perceptions and misperceptions. Geçmisten günümüze Müslüman - Hristiyan diyalogu. Yanlis yaklasimlarin elestirisi. Translation and annotation: Fuat Aydin.
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WAARDENBURG (Jean-Jacques)
Les Universités dans le monde arabe actuel.
Paris, Mouton, 1966. 2 vol. in-8 br., 383, 184 pp., importante bibliographie, index.
Référence libraire : 595560
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Wagner, Johann Christoph.
Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente. Eine grundrichtige Beschreibung deß ganzen Aufgangs, sonderlich aber deß Hochlöblichen Königreichs Ungarn, und der ganzen Türckey, auch deren Völcker, welche selbigem Monarchen zinßbar, als Mohren, Arabern und Tartarn, von ihren grausamen Proceduren, gegen die Christenheit [...]. Augsburg, Jakob Koppmayer, 1684.
Small folio (206 x 324 mm). (8), 162, (6) [instead of 8] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With double-page-sized frontispiece, 39 (instead of 41) engr. plates and 2 engr. maps; numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemp. blindstamped leather over wooden boards with 2 clasps. First edition of this highly interesting, appealing work, a topical publication produced but a year after the 1683 Siege of Vienna. Four additional volumes would be prepared by 1689. The plates show views of Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Near and Middle East (Jerusalem, Egypt, Babylon, etc.), as well as Sultan Mehmet IV and the relief of Vienna. - Binding rubbed. Some brownstaining throughout with occasional waterstains. Several leaves rebacked or reinforced in the margins (occasional loss to text or image); wants the view of Ofen (Buda) and the "Crowning of the Empress" as well as one leaf of the index. VD 17, 23:300271C. Lipperheide LB 22. Nebehay/W. 794. Not in Apponyi.
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Wahl, S(amuel) F(riedrich) Günther.
[Dar Hawarnaq dar zemestan zaban tari]. Neue arabische Anthologie oder auserlesene Sammlung seltener und großentheils erst neu aus Handschriften ausgehobener Stükke aus verschiedenen Fächern der arabischen Litteratur. Eine Fortsezzung des Elementarbuchs für die arabische Sprache und Litteratur, die Sprache in doppeltem Gesichtspunkt, als Sprache der Schrift und als Sprache des Lebens betrachtet. Benebst einer Voreinleitung, einem Anhang für die Kenner der persischen Litteratur, und einem Glossarium. Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Junius, 1791.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. XVI, 124 (but: 224) pp. 328 pp. Contemporary marbled half-calf binding with giltstamped labels to spine. Only edition. Contains much previously unpublished manuscript material (cf. ADB). The German oriental scholar Samuel F. G. Wahl (1760-1834) was an extremely prolific author. His subjects include all aspects of oriental linguistics and literature, including Persia, China, and India, and he was one of the few scholars of his time to have a knowledge of Armenian. - Edges and corners slightly bumped; spine insignificantly rubbed. Interior clean and well-preserved. From the collection of the Swedish orientalist and bibliophile Henrik Gerhard Lindgren (1801-79) with his autogr. note of ownership on front pastedown; later in the collection of C. O. Nordgren (dated on flyleaf: Uppsala, 9 March 1880). ADB 40, 594. Neuer Nekrolog der Dt. (12/2), p. 1230. ALZ 332 (1791), vol. 4, p. 540-544. Schnurrer 92. OCLC 6867437.
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Wakin, Edward
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
New York: Facts On File. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0816031541 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings. Back endpaper is missing; Profiles eight Arab and Israeli leaders who have been instrumental in shaping the turbulent and sometimes triumphant histories of their lands.; Global Profiles; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 142 pages . Facts On File hardcover
Référence libraire : 62422 ISBN : 0816031541 9780816031542
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WALKER (Christopher J.)
Armenia. The survival of a nation.
London, Croom Helm, 1984. In-8 cartonnage violet éditeur, titre doré au dos, 446 pp., 12 cartes dans le texte, biblio., index.
Référence libraire : 555599 ISBN : 312049447
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Wallace, Lew
The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell--Vol II
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1906. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7" tall. Harper & Brothers Publishers 1906. Ex-Library Hardcover 1906 Retired Library Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. An older book nice worn small thick with a fascinating story. The author was a minister to Turkey thus his intimate knowledge of that part of the world. Brown cloth binding w/ gilt titles; panels and edges rubbed bottom front corner has dark smudge spine has slight lean. Corners rounded. Sewn binding tight and solid. Pages clean no underlining no highlighting no writing moderately toned. Brown endpapers book-taped reinforced at hinge. There is residue left on the back paste-down from a library pocket and a lib. number on spine. This is a lesser known work by the author of Ben-Hur; he served as governor of the territory of New Mexico and as a U.S. diplomat as minister to the Ottoman Empire. Lew Wallace 1827-1905. 578 pages w/index. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. 1906 Harper & Brothers New York and London. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 002626
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Wallach, Janet; Wallach, John
Still Small Voices
1989. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/Gd. condition/208 pages - The untold human stories behind the violence on the West Bank and Gaza. K703HT8 hardcover
Référence libraire : K703 ISBN : 0151849706 9780151849703
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Wallich, Johann Ulrich.
Religio Turcica et Mahometis vita. Das ist: Kurtze, warhafftige, gründ- und eigendliche Beschreibung türkischer Religion, Wie auch Leben, Wandel und Tod des Arabischen falschen Propheten Mahometis [...]. No place or printer, 1664.
4to. (14), 264 pp. With engraved illustrated title-page and 12 engraved plates; one line of musical notes showing the melody of the muezzin's call "la 'ilaha 'illa -llahu" (There is no deity but Allah). 19th century marbled half leather with giltstamped red spine label. Marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled red. Second edition of Wallich's account of Islam, written in 1659 following his mission to the Porte. "The first part is a description of Turkish religion and customs [...] together with seven of the plates. The second part is a life of Mohammed, and the third part is a comparison of Pope Alexander VII with Mehmed IV (the two antichrists, oriental and occidental)" (Blackmer). The biography of the Prophet includes a genealogy and an engraving showing Ali with the Zulfiqar presenting the written Qur'an to the faithful. - Johann Ulrich von Wallich (1624-73), a Thuringian jurist in Swedish services, participated in several diplomatic missions, including the Swedish embassy to Constantinople in 1657/58, where he got to know the Muslim religion. - Binding very insignificantly rubbed along the hinges, corners a little bumped. A fine copy bound for the Ottoman-Greek diplomat Stephanos Carathéodory (1834-1908), who served as secretary to the Ottoman delegation at the 1878 Congress of Berlin and as Ottoman ambassador to Brussels, with his printed bookplate and motto ("Meden agan" - "nothing in excess") to front pastedown and spine. VD 17, 39:134505B. Chauvin XI, p. 197, no. 720. Cf. Atabey 1761; Blackmer 1309.
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Wallin, Georg August (Yrjö Aukusti).
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Helsingfors (Helsinki), (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853.
8vo. VII, (1), 126 pp., final blank f. With lithogr. map at the end of the volume; printed notes of a Bedouin melody within the text. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine title and marbled sides, original printed yellow wrappers bound within with wood-engraved desert illustration on back cover. First edition, published posthumously. - Extremely rare account of Wallin's principal journey through Arabia, unknown to most bibliographers: "It was not until two years after his death", writes Henze, "that the report of his first (and most important) journey (performed in 1845, a year before the appearance of the first volume of Carl Ritter's 'Arabia') was published". This refers to the English "Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca", which was printed in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1854. In fact, an extensive account of the first leg of this highly significant journey was first given to the world in December 1853, but little more than a year after the author's passing. Of this Swedish-language book, edited by Berndt Otto Schauman, less than two dozen copies are known worldwide, 12 of which are in Finnish libraries (the remainder distributed throughout Sweden [4 copies], Germany [2 copies], Denmark, France, and the U.S.A. [a single copy each]). In contrast with the later JRGS publication, the present work includes an appendix rendering Arabic terms and phrases that occur throughout the text in the original language and script. - Like his more famous contemporary J. L. Burckhardt, Wallin was fluent in Arabic and, in local costume, was capable of passing for a scholarly sheikh. Indeed, the two explorers are often compared: "I see many points of resemblance between them, the same iron constitution, the same versatility, the same indomitable energy, the same imperturbable temper" (H. C. Rawlinson, quoted in Henze). Financially backed by his alma mater, the University of Helsinki, Wallin departed for the Middle East in 1843 and set out on his expeditions from Cairo under the name of Abd al-Wali. "In 1845, proceeding southeast across the wastelands of the Nafud Desert, he reached Ha'il then continued by force of circumstances southward to Medina and Mecca. From there he returned to Egypt" (Howgego). More precisely, he "moved eastwards from Wadi al-Araba, first touching upon the upper regions of Wadi Sirhan, then on to the oasis of Djuf ('Algawf') and crossed the central regions of Shammar, via Djobbah ('Gubbi'), the Great Nefud ('Nufood'), and Hail [...] Of Shammar and its inhabitants he provided the fullest account, unsurpassed by later travellers in its scholarly precision" (Henze). After his return to Europe in 1850, Wallin was made Professor of oriental languages at Helsingfors. His notes provide a detailed overview of the political and religious movements and the role of the different tribes in Palestine and especially in Saudi Arabia. - Occasional brownstaining; binding somewhat rubbed, but a fine copy on the whole. Provenance: contemp. ownership "Bergelin" to front wrapper cover; bookplate of the journalist Kurt Bergengren (1920-85) on pastedown. K.-E. Henriksson (A Wallin Bibliography), in: Studia orientalia 17 (1952), p. 13-16, at p. 13. OCLC 551923531. Cf. Macro 2262. Howgego II (1800-50), W12, p. 627. Henze V, 452 (all citing only the 1854 JRGS publication). Cf. Fück 198 (mentioning the journey). Not in Gay or Ibrahim-Hilmy.
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Wallin, Georg August (Yrjö Aukusti).
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Helsingfors (Helsinki), (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853.
8vo. VII, (1), 126 pp., final blank f. With lithographed map at the end of the volume; printed notes of a Bedouin melody within the text. Green half calf with contemporary marbled boards and giltstamped title to rebacked spine. First edition, published posthumously. - Extremely rare account of Wallin's principal journey through Arabia, unknown to most bibliographers: "It was not until two years after his death", writes Henze, "that the report of his first (and most important) journey (performed in 1845, a year before the appearance of the first volume of Carl Ritter's 'Arabia') was published". This refers to the English "Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca", which was printed in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1854. In fact, an extensive account of the first leg of this highly significant journey was first given to the world in December 1853, but little more than a year after the author's passing. Of this Swedish-language book, edited by Berndt Otto Schauman, fewer than two dozen copies are known worldwide, 12 of which are in Finnish libraries (the remainder distributed throughout Sweden [4 copies], Germany [2 copies], Denmark, France, and the U.S.A. [a single copy each]). In contrast with the later JRGS publication, the present work includes an appendix rendering Arabic terms and phrases that occur throughout the text in the original language and script. - Like his more famous contemporary J. L. Burckhardt, Wallin was fluent in Arabic and, in local costume, was capable of passing for a scholarly sheikh. Indeed, the two explorers are often compared: "I see many points of resemblance between them, the same iron constitution, the same versatility, the same indomitable energy, the same imperturbable temper" (H. C. Rawlinson, quoted in Henze). Financially backed by his alma mater, the University of Helsinki, Wallin departed for the Middle East in 1843 and set out on his expeditions from Cairo under the name of Abd al-Wali. "In 1845, proceeding southeast across the wastelands of the Nafud Desert, he reached Ha'il then continued by force of circumstances southward to Medina and Mecca. From there he returned to Egypt" (Howgego). More precisely, he "moved eastwards from Wadi al-Araba, first touching upon the upper regions of Wadi Sirhan, then on to the oasis of Djuf ('Algawf') and crossed the central regions of Shammar, via Djobbah ('Gubbi'), the Great Nefud ('Nufood'), and Hail [...] Of Shammar and its inhabitants he provided the fullest account, unsurpassed by later travellers in its scholarly precision" (Henze). After his return to Europe in 1850, Wallin was made Professor of oriental languages at Helsingfors. His notes provide a detailed overview of the political and religious movements and the role of the different tribes in Palestine and especially in Saudi Arabia. - Stamped ownership "L. L. Cygnaeus, Helsingfors" to flyleaf. A fine, largely unbrowned copy. K.-E. Henriksson (A Wallin Bibliography), in: Studia orientalia 17 (1952), p. 13-16, at p. 13. OCLC 551923531. Cf. Macro 2262. Howgego II (1800-50), W12, p. 627. Henze V, 452 (all citing only the 1854 JRGS publication). Cf. Fück 198 (mentioning the journey). Not in Gay or Ibrahim-Hilmy.
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Wallin, Georg.
[Qissat Yusuf an-Naggar] sive historia Josephi Fabri lignarii. Liber apocryphus ex codice manuscripto regiae bibliothecae Parisiensis. Leipzig, Andreas Zeidler, 1722.
4to. (16), 110, (2) pp. Contemporary full calf. First edition of the Arabic text of the "History of Joseph the Carpenter", one of the oldest New Testament Apocrypha. A compilation of traditions concerning Mary, Joseph, and the "holy family", it probably was composed in Byzantine Egypt in Greek in the late 6th or early 7th century but is preserved only in Coptic and Arabic versions. The Arabic text was edited by Georg Wallin (1686-1760), the learned Lutheran archbishop of Göteborg. - Some browning, more pronounced in margins of title-page. Binding lightly rubbed at extremeties. Old Swedish deaccessioning note ("Duplett") on pastedown. Wants first free endpaper. Rare. Schnurrer 413. OCLC 165689104.
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WALLS Neal
Desire Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth
Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0897570561 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . American Schools of Oriental Research hardcover
Référence libraire : 23369 ISBN : 0897570561 9780897570565
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WALLS Neal
Desire Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth
Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0897570561 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . American Schools of Oriental Research hardcover books
Référence libraire : 23369 ISBN : 0897570561 9780897570565
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Walls, Neal H.
Desire Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth
Atlanta Georgia U.S.A.: Amer School of Oriental Research 2001. Hardback. Fine/Fine. <br/> <br/> Amer School of Oriental Research hardcover
Référence libraire : 318945 ISBN : 0897570561 9780897570565
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Walsh, C. W. / Holton, G. F.
Views Around South Persia. A Selection of Camera Studies of Native Types and Views Around Southern Persia, Including the Abadan Refinery of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Bristol & London, Vandyck Printers, [mid 1920s].
Oblong 8vo. 53 printed photographs on 27 ff. printed in sepia to rectos only, contained in original printed card covers with oval window. A remarkable series of photographs of the peoples and places of South Persia (modern Iran and Iraq). The first leaf - which contains the title with a small portrait of a street seller - is followed by four leaves showing views of the Abadan Refinery. The remaining leaves show scenes in Mohammerah (now Khorramshahr), Shatt-el-Arab, Dizful (Dezful), Ahwaz (Ahvaz), as well as artistic views of the coast ("Moonlight on the Shatt-el-Arab", "Sunset in the Gulf"). There are also further portraits of street sellers and other local people (dervish, snake charmer, barber). The booklet closes with a view of the "Pumping Station, Tembi" which served the Abadan refinery, "The road up to the oil fields", and a view of the Ctesiphon Arch. An uncommon and nicely produced view-book of the area. - Minor spotting to first leaf, creasing to upper wrapper but contents generally in good, clean condition.
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WALTER (Christopher).
L’iconographie des Conciles dans la tradition byzantine.
Paris, Institut d’Etudes Byzantines, 1970, in-8, 299 pp., illustrations, broché.
Référence libraire : 200395
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Walter Reich
A Stranger In My House -
1984. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1984/Gd.condition/134 pages - Jews and Arabs in the West Bank are discussed in this text. TN136511 hardcover
Référence libraire : 36511
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WALTERS, MINETTE
THE ECHO
NY: G.P. PUTNAM'S & SONS. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1997. G.P. PUTNAM'S & SONS hardcover
Référence libraire : 002061 ISBN : 0399142517 9780399142512
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WALTZ (P.)
La Question d'Orient dans l'Antiquité.
Paris, Payot, 1942 in-8, 368 pp., demi-basane brune à coins, dos à nerfs (reliure de l'époque).
Référence libraire : 204364
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Waltz, Susan Eileen
Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics
Berkeley: Univ of California Pr 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. <br/> <br/> Univ of California Pr paperback
Référence libraire : 323154 ISBN : 0520202546 9780520202542
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Wamser; Weinke
Ehemals in Hamburg zu Hause: Judisches Leben am Grindel German Edition
VSA-Verlag 1991. TPB. G. 10x8x0. GOOD-PLUS TRADE-PAPERBACK. VERY-GOOD EXCEPT ROUGH SPOT ON SPINE WHICH IS MENDED. VSA-Verlag paperback
Référence libraire : 80532 ISBN : 3879755264 9783879755264
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WARDi (Ali)
A Study in the Society of Iraq.
University of Bagdad, 1960. Grand in-8 br., 378 pp. Texte en arabe.
Référence libraire : 595536
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Waring, Edward Scott.
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad; with various remarks on the manners, customs, laws, language, and literature of the Persians. London, W. Bulmer for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1807.
Folio. XIII, (3), 329, (1) pp. With engraved frontispiece (Fat'h-Ali Shah Qajar, King of Persia) and engr. portrait plate (Shaknubat, mistress of Kurim Khan), both after Persian originals. Later blue cloth with giltstamped spine title. First European-printed edition, following an error-ridden edition published at Bombay in 1804. Includes a chapter on Arabian horses, an early account of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and Wahhabi Islam, and passages on hawk-hunting and pearl fishing in the Arabian Gulf "from the 56th to the 48th degree east longitude", i. e., essentially the Gulf coast from Ras al-Khaimah to Qatar and Bahrain and on to Kuwait. Early attempt at an encompassing description of Persia, by the Bengal civil servant Edward W. H. Scott-Waring (1783-1821). "Very rare" (Allibone). - Bound without the half-title; bookplate and blindstamps of the City of Leeds Public Library. Diba Collection p. 139. Wilson p. 240. Henze IV, 461. Cf. Weber I, 3. Brunet V, 1416. Graesse VI/2, 420 (1st ed. Bombay, 1804).
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Warnery, [Charles-Emmanuel] de.
Remarques sur le militaire des Turcs et des Russes. Breslau, Wilhelm Theophil Korn, 1771.
8vo. 264 pp. With 3 folding engr. plates. Contemp. calf with giltstamped red label to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Second, enlarged edition, published a year after the first and now including "diverses observations sur les grandes actions qui se sont passées dans la dernière guerre d’Hongrie, et dans la présente en Moldavie". This is the first work of the Swiss-born De Warnery (1720-86), published in a German translation as early as 1766 (purportedly against his own wishes): according to the author, never one to eschew self-aggrandizement, he was the first to "unmask the Turks" and show that they did not warrant the fear with which they were usually viewed (cf. ADB XLI, 176). The plates show suggestions for battle arrays. - Unobtrusive repairs to lower cover of the appealing binding. Variously browned and brownstained due to paper. Rare. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Barbier IV, 257. Cf. Atabey 1321 (first ed. 1770). Not in Blackmer.
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Warren, Kathleen A.
Daring to Cross the Threshold: Francis of Assisi Encounters Sultan Malek al-Kamil
Rochester Minnesota: SIsters of Saint Francis 2003. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Study of Saint Francis of Assisi's encounters with Islam. ; 8.5" 18.5 cm tall; 151 pages. SIsters of Saint Francis unknown
Référence libraire : 4030037
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Wasser, Ben.
Nederlandse pelgrims naar het heilige land.
Zutphen Terra 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Crown quarto. Pp. 168. Illustrated maps. Index. HARDCOVER original cloth gilt with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy practically unused. ~ FIRST EDITION. Z-2 IN <br/> <br/> Zutphen, Terra hardcover
Référence libraire : 1961 ISBN : 9062551475 9789062551477
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Waterbury, John
Egypt: Burdens of the Past Options for the Future
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Trade soft cover. Published Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1978. 4to. x318 pages illustrated b/w photos tables maps. A very good copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1978. Indiana University Press paperback
Référence libraire : 002446 ISBN : 0253319439 9780253319432
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Watrigant, H. de.
La race pure Anglo-Arabe. Étalons et poulinières inscrits au stud-book Français (1820-1900) avec indication de leur degré de sang arabe. Pau, Garet, 1904.
VI, (8), 369, (3) pp. With numerous folding plates. Contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine and marbled boards. 8vo. First edition. - Indispensable French studbook of pure-bred Anglo-Arabian horses, indicating their percentage of Arabian blood. - Slight browning, but well preserved. Rare. Mennessier de la Lance 642. OCLC 843391487.
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Waugh, Evelyn
Tourist In Africa
Boston: Little Brown. First American Edition. Hard cover. Published Boston: Little Brown 1960 first printing. 12mo. 201 pp. illustrated with b/w plates map end papers. Very Good . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1960. Little Brown unknown
Référence libraire : 003216
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Waugh, Evelyn.
Waugh in Abyssinia. London, New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.
Small 4to. (8), 253, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped spine title. Top edge red. First edition. - In his fourth travel book the British writer Waugh (1903-66), who was commissioned by the Daily Mail to cover events in Ethiopia in August 1935, makes a case for the Italian intervention in the country, presenting "a lucid and interesting narrative of personal experience, and useful as a minority defense of Italian occupation and attack on British policy" (Morris/Dooley). Interestingly enough, a printed sheet of paper denying the oil magnate Francis William Rickett access to travel facilities to Persia and the states on the Persian Gulf is loosely enclosed. On the journey from Port Said, Waugh met Rickett, who was dispatched by the African Exploration & Development Company to conduct secret negotiations with the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in pursuit of a concession. While Waugh was up country, sidetracked by another story, Rickett was conferring with government officials in Addis Ababa at the dead of night. After a week of to-ing and fro-ing, papers were signed by which about half the nation's subsoil rights - an area of nearly 400,000 square km - was made over to Rickett for a period of 75 years. By the time he sailed into Suez, the story had made world headlines. Waugh, for his part, missed the scoop and was sacked. - A few marginal notes in pencil, some of them highlighting passages that also appear in Waugh's 1938 novel "Scoop", a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. Newspaper clipping with excerpts of a review of "Waugh in Abyssinia" from the Times Literary Supplement of 7 November 1936 is loosely enclosed. - Spine and lower inner hinges slightly worn. Still a good copy. Morris/Dooley, Evelyn Waugh: a reference guide 15. OCLC 807259442.
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Wavell, Arthur John Byng.
A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa. London, Constable & Co., 1913.
8vo. IX, (1 blank), 349, (1) pp. With a photo of the author as a frontispiece, 6 plates and 1 folding map of the Arabian Peninsula. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine, and blind-tooling on front cover. An account of the travels of an Englishman through Arabia, including an eye-witness account of the 1911 siege of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. This siege was one of the last big events in the Yemeni-Ottoman conflicts, which started with the first Ottoman attempt to conquer Yemen in 1538. In 1911 a treaty was signed, with which Yemen became a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire until the country could take advantage of the Empire's collapse during and after WWI to reclaim its independence. - Wavell did not intend to include a description of his journey to the holy city of Mecca, but apart from his accounts of Yemen he admits in the preface that the present work breaks no new ground. The places he visited had already been described, possibly more extensively, by other explorers and travellers, but a journey to Mecca and Medina was still quite out of the ordinary for Europeans, and thus a description of his experiences was added to the work. It was first published in 1912 and the present copy was a part of the second impression of that edition, which appeared in 1913. An edited, smaller and thus cheaper second edition appeared posthumously in 1918. The chapters on Wavell's travels in Yemen had been removed and an introduction by Major Leonard Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin, had been added. - Arthur John Byng Wavell (1882-1916) was an English army officer and traveller who was educated and trained at the Royal Military college Sandhurst. He was a cousin of the decorated field marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, who served in the Second Boer War, in other parts of Africa, and in India where he also served as the Viceroy. The author of the present work resigned his army commission in 1906 and went to Mombasa in British East Africa - modern Kenya - where he learnt Arabic and Swahili and where his desire to explore Arabia and even visit Mecca grew. After his travels in Arabia, described in "A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca", he returned to Africa. During the First World War he remained in Africa, where he founded a coastal defence force called the "Arab Rifles", active around Mombasa. Later he was sent to serve near the border of Kenya with Tanzania (then British East Africa and German East Africa), where he was killed in 1916 as a result of a German ambush. - Binding slightly rubbed, very slight foxing on the edges, some foxing on the first and last flyleaves. Small tear in the in the inner margin of the map, without affecting the map itself. Sharp folding lines in the plate of The Haram in Mecca (between pp. 152-152). With an ownership inscription: "R. S. Breene, 1 June, 1928" over the remnants of an erased inscription on the first flyleaf. Howgego IV, W13. Smith, The Yemens, 103. Cf. Macro 2266. Canton, From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia, pp. 161-165. Sotheby's, The library of Robert Michael Burrell, 858 (other ed.).
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WEATHERHEAD, Leslie D.:
It Happened in Palestine.
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1936. 1st edition."In this book I have tried to share with the reader the privilege of visiting Palestine. I have tried to share any psychological insight I may have gathered into the minds of those who came into contact with Jesus and to show some of the inner meanings of the things He said and did." Pp.xviii/289 sepia photo plates one loose owner's name to half-title page. typed letter from the author's secretary gifting the book to 'Miss Mildred Lawrence' book owner loosely enclosed. Cream cloth with blind-stamped illustration to front spotting to spine wear to base of spine. G. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. hardcover
Référence libraire : 50302
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