Obicini, Tommaso.MareMagnum
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8vo. (6), 447, (22) pp. Woodcut printer's device to title page. Contemp. vellum. First edition of this Syriac glossary (rather than a thesaurus proper), arranged by subject rather than by alphabet: "Neque vero thesaurus est, sed verius nomenclator, non quidem ordine alphabetico, sed per materias dispositus. Verus auctor est Elias Barsinaeus, Metropolita Sobae seu Nisibis, undecimo saeculo clarus" (Schnurrer). - Edited by Tommaso Obicini da Novara (1585-1632), "one of the figures at the background of the Propaganda Press, abbot of the Franciscan convent at Aleppo from 1613-16 and 1619-20, and in 1620 elected Custode di Terra Santa e Commissario Apostolico per tutto l’Oriente. In 1621 he returned to Rome, and became the first lector of Arabic in the St. Peter Convent at Rome" (Smitskamp 222). - Evenly browned throughout due to paper. Title page shows stamp of the Franciscan Convent of St. Anthony in Breslau-Karlowitz. BM-STC 624. Smitskamp 223. Schnurrer 63. Fück 77. Zaunmüller 372. Vater/Jülg 24. Graesse V, 1. Ebert 14920.
8vo (120 x 170 mm). (52) pp., 2 blank ff., (5), 48, (2), (2 blank), (80) pp. Black and red ink on polished paper. With numerous full-page colour diagrams (both in coloured ink and coloured pencil), one including a sketch of the Kaaba in Mekkah, and an inserted volvelle on cardboard. Bound in boards (ca. 1900) covered with waste paper printed in Arabic and Armenian. A manuscript on astronomy and its symbolism in Ottoman Turkish. - Various signs of damp- and waterstaining; a few leaves stuck together, damaged or illegible. Binding noticeably stained; spine chipped and frayed.
8vo. 2 vols. (8), 257, (5), 247, (3) pp. (III)-CXXIX, (3), 245, (7) pp. Original printed wrappers (professional repairs; 2nd vol. has facsimile front cover). First edition of this mediaeval Arabic treatise on chess, the manuscript of which (dated AH 655/AD 1257) is kept at the British Museum, offering the text together with a Spanish translation and commentary. Modern chess gradually developed from the Arabic game of "Shatranj", which had come to the Arabs from India via the Persian Empire; the first Arabic chess treatises appeared as early as the 10th century, a notable author being the poet as-Suli. - Bindings somewhat rough at the edges; interior well-preserved. GAL S I, p. 905, no. 1 b. OCLC 865325410.
Folio (ca. 260 x 320 mm). 2 vols. (instead of 9). (6), X, (2), 114, (4) pp. (2), 115-227, (5) pp. Contemporary unsophisticated wrappers with handwritten titles to upper covers. The first two parts of this chronicle by Paul Zaim of Aleppo (1627-69), an Ottoman Syrian Orthodox archdeacon. Son of Patriarch Macarios III Zaim, Paul accompanied his father in his travels throughout Constantinople, Wallachia, Moldavia, Ukraine and Russia, as an attempt to raise funds and support for their church. Paul's account of his visits, originally written in Arabic, is important as a source on Wallachia, as it documents the main events of Constantin Serban's rule and the Ottoman expedition of 1657. - Published for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great-Britain and Ireland, by R. Bentley, this copy with special half-titles printed for the subscriber Sir Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa (1770-1846), then styled the 12th Earl of Cassilis. Seven additional parts would appear by 1836. - Dedication-leaf waterstained. Bindings chipped, occasional light flaws to the wide margins. Old library stamp of the Community of the Resurrection. Untrimmed copy. OCLC 14123266.
8vo. pp. 169-191 with a folding colour map (entire volume: CLXXXVII, [1], 319, [1] pp. with 10 other folding colour maps and a photographic plate). General title mounted on stub. Modern red cloth with giltstamped black spine label. Only edition of Pelly's account of his visit to Riyadh and the interior of the Nejd. Pelly's journey took him from Kuwait to Sadus, and from there to Al Uyaynah, the birthplace of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, onward through Wadi Hanifa to Ad Diriyah ("picturesquely situated in a depression of the plateau leading down into the Wadi", with a discussion of the location's history as well as geography) and ultimately to Riyadh, where he met the ruler of the Nejd, Imam Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud (1785-1865). Pelly would return via El Hofuf, Bahrein and Bushire. His report is full of topographical detail on the interior of the Nejd, but also discusses subjects so diverse as the Bedouin traditions of breeding Arabian horses, the genealogy of the House of Sa'ud, and the local use of coffee (consumed in immoderate quantities) and tobacco (considered a mortal offence for a Wahhabi). - The remainder of the volume includes Sir Richard Francis Burton's article "On Lake Tanganyika" as well as features on Chinese Tartary, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Greenland, the North Pole, and north-west Australia. Very well preserved in a modern library binding. Rare. Macro 1754.
4to. (4), LV, (3), 1-312, 10, 312-316 pp. With lithogr. frontispiece and 27 plates. Marbled half calf with 5 raised bands and gilt label to giltstamped spine. First edition; very rare. Peters' work was published on the same day in English in London, in French in Paris, and in German in Frankfurt (cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, p. 306). In addition to treating the principles of riding, the work discusses horse grooming and the use of weapons on horseback. - Untrimmed copy, slightly browned, otherwise in excellent condition. Huth 127. OCLC 18787323. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance II, 305 (22 plates only, French ed.).
Oblong folio. 440 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in reproductions in colour of paintings by various artists, including paintings by Anthony M. Alonso and from the collection of the National Museum of Racing, Inc. Original calf-backed pictorial cloth, giltstamped spine. In original cloth drop-back box with colour illustration mounted on lid. Limited edition. The original publisher was unable to complete the full 100 copies; only four are reported in OCLC. Illustrated with paintings from the National Museum of Racing. A large tome on race horses in North America, including the history and evolution of the sport and stories of the famous racers and racetracks. "Extremely detailed, especially the pedigrees, racing records and index. I've come to rely on it daily as a valued reference" (John Prather, review in Bloodstock Advisory). "Everyone in the thoroughbred industry should have a copy. The colour plates alone are enough to justify buying it" (Dr. William Reed, review in Mare's Haven). - In excellent condition. OCLC 41093209.
8vo. (14), 194 pp. Modern marbled boards. Rare first edition: an interesting lexicon of Turkish and Persian words and phrases used in travel accounts and newspaper articles to describe court functionaries, decrees, and Ottoman and Muslim traditions. The notes provide valuable information on Turkish and Islamic customs, often running to short essays: the article on the Qur'an is more than four pages long, and that on the Prophet Muhammad five pages. The Atabey collection contained only the second edition, published at Weißenfels and Leipzig in 1793. - Cancelled old German library stamps. No copy in auction records. OCLC 312617599. Cf. Atabey 964. Not in Blackmer.
8vo (129 x 83 mm). Illuminated Arabic ms. on paper, 303 ff., 15 lines, Naskh script. Double-page 'unwan on first two pages shows elaborate gilt ornamentation; colophon shows coloured ornamentation. Text framed by three parallel golden, black and red wires. Gold discs between verses, sura headings written in gold. Contemporary blind- and giltstamped binding with fore-edge flap, decorated with borders and corner stamps. Some slight restoration to first leaves, otherwise in very good condition.
8vo (148 x 206 mm). 56 pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Omar Rakbani (1904-62), a professor at Ez-Zitouna University, was a Tunisian historian and tutor of Muslim girls. Fond of travelling, he published several accounts of his journeys through Europe, North Africa and the East in a series entitled "Summer Trips". This sixth booklet in the series is devoted to his visit to the Hejaz in 1947, when he performed the Hajj to Mecca. - Slight fraying to wrappers; slight waterstain. Extremely rare: a single copy in OCLC (National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat). OCLC 929787399.
8 engravings, 255 x 180 mm each. Attractive series of horses (and mules) used in Arabia, Germany, England, Spain, Tartary, Turkey, and Hungary. - Captions and four-line descriptions in German and French.
8vo. (2), VI, 154 pp. (error in paging: pp. 153-154 misnumbered 152-153). Contemporary boards. First French translation, from the second English edition (first published in English in 1784): an account of a journey made from Yemen to the Red Sea and Egypt and on to Europe. Rooke's narrative commentary on the expedition despatched in 1781 with the object of capturing the Cape provides descriptions of Mecca, Jeddah, and Cairo. Includes extensive notes by the translator. - Slight brownstaining; slight flaw to spine, otherwise in good condition. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1936. Aboussouan 797. Gay 116. Mendelssohn IV, 78. OCLC 4669621. Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 181 (Paris, Agasse, 1788). Not in Atabey or Blackmer.
Small 8vo. 8 parts in 2 vols. Egypt: VIII, 225, (1) pp.; (4), 163, (1) pp. With 11 plates and a folding map. Palestine: XII, 169, (1) pp.; VI, 194 pp. With 9 plates and a folding map. Persia: XII, 210, (2) pp.; (III)-VII, (1), 222 pp. With 12 plates, one text illustration and a folding map. Barbary: IX, (1), 160 pp.; VIII, 216 pp. With a frontispiece, 10 plates and a folding plate. Illustrations mostly counted in the pagination. Contemporary red marbled boards with giltstamped spine labels. Uncommon, profusely illustrated series of sketches of the Middle East and Muslim Northern Africa (Egypt, Palestine, Persia, and the Barbary Coast), each in two parts, with maps of the respective regions. Translated from English accounts by August Diezmann and Johann Sporschil. The illustrations include the famous portrait of Viceroy Muhammad Ali, after Forbin's 1818 drawing published in Mengin's "Histoire de l’Egypte". The map of Persia (bound head-over-heels) includes the northern coastline of the Arabian Peninsula, showing Bahrein and the Great Pearl Bank. - Some maps rather wrinkled. Occasional foxing due to paper, binding slightly bumped at extremeties, but well-preserved on the whole. From the Library of count Ferenc Széchényi (1835-1908), grandson of the founder of the Hungarian National Library and National Museum in Budapest, with his ownership on the title page; additional bookplate of the Swiss theologian and educator Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (1796-1865) on front pastedown. OCLC 744721949.
1906Watercolour and gouache on paper, signed. 23.8 x 34.8 cm. Rudolf Schima was a well-known Viennese cityscape painter, especially in watercolour. In 1906 he made a long trip to the Middle East, where he visited Egypt, Palestine, and the Islamic countries of North Africa.
8vo. XXI, (3), 529, (1) pp. and pp. 515a-518a. Modern red library cloth. First book edition; very rare. "The first and only comprehensive bibliography of Arabic texts and books on Arabic language and literature by European scholars, printed in Europe 1505-1810" (Breslauer-Folter). "Extremely diligent descriptions, for the most part based on autopsy" (cf. Fück). Dedicated to de Sacy, the bibliography was first published in 1799-1806 as a series of seven university programmes. - Some browning and brownstaining throughout as common, due to paper. Old shelfmark label to spine and title-page, with additional Canadian library stamp of the Ottawa Commissariatus, Terrae Sanctae. A good, tight copy of a standard work almost unobtainable in the original edition. Breslauer-Folter 119. Besterman 152. Breslaueriana 1090. Fück 146. Zenker I, 1755.
8vo. 2 vols. in one. (38), 373, (51) pp. (6), 338, (36) pp. With engr. t. p. (wants the table). Contemp. auburn morocco, richly gilt. All edges gilt. Third edition, the second edited by Andreas Beyer (first published in London in 1617). Selden (1584-1654) "first won fame in Europe as an orientalist by his treatise 'De Diis Syris', the first of his oriental studies [...] use was also made of it by Vossius in his great treatise on idiolatry" (DNB). - Elaborately bound gilt binding; insignificantly rubbed with minute restoration to upper spine-end. VD 17, 23:320175K. DNB 1161. Graesse VI/1, 343. Cf. STC S 1861.
8vo (164 x 244 mm). (2), XVIII, (2), 476 pp. (Includes, bound after the preliminaries:) Notice hydrographique No. 4 (1900). 14 pp., 1 blank f. Notice hydrographique No. 8 (1900). 15 pp., 1 blank p. Contemporary gilt half calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The French essential standard sailing directions for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as well as the entire south coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Comprises directions for the navigation of the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the central track for steam vessels through the Red Sea, Straits of Bab-al-Mandab, and Gulf of Aden; also, descriptions of the Gulf of 'Aqaba, the shores of the Red Sea, the inner channels, the Gulf of Aden, and the south-eastern coast of Arabia to Ras al Hadd, the coast of Africa from Ras Si Ane to Capo Guardafui, including the Gulf of Tadjoura, thence to Ras Hafun, Abd-al-Kuri, the Brothers, and Socotra. - Largely based on the relevant British counterpart, the "Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot"; the section on the Gulf of Tadjoura is entirely by the lieutenants of the French hydrographic ships Guillou and R. de Carfort. The book had appeared only once previously, in 1885, and the present copy includes not only the Supplements I and II published in 1900, but also extensive publisher's corrections that were issued to slips of paper and are here bound into the volume in their respective place. The flags and signals are partly printed in red and yellow. A rare and early edition in excellent condition. OCLC 460171378.
8vo. 372 pp. With frontispiece portrait, 4 maps (1 folding) & 17 plates. Publisher's gilt cloth with chipped and spotted dustjacket. First edition of this overview of Arab history and culture work that draws upon the author's own experience in the region and includes some of T. E. Lawrence's exploits. - Inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "To the Rt Hon and Mrs L.S. Amery, With respects, Bertram Thomas, May 1937". - Bertram Thomas's (1892-1950) "first crossing of the Empty Quarter, albeit by the shortest and easiest route, assured him a permanent place in the history of European exploration of Arabia. He was admired by T. E. Lawrence (who wrote a preface to one of his books) and by his successor Wilfred Thesiger, who found twenty years later that Thomas was remembered by the Bedouin as an honourable, brave, and tolerant man" (ODNB). Leopold Amery (1873-1955) served a Colonial Secretary as well as Secretary of State for India and Burma in Churchill's war ministry. - A few minor spots, but still a very good copy. Macro 2186.
Engraved map (43 x 53 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Rare chart of the southern coasts of Yemen and Oman, published in “The English Pilot... the Third Book”, engraved by Sutton Nichols. Tibbetts 177. Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
4to. 2 parts in one volume. (34), 50, (18), 223 pp. With engraved frontispiece, title vignette, portrait, and 9 vignettes. Contemporary vellum. Author's presentation copy, later in the Harting library. First Italian edition, including the Latin original and another instructional poem by P. A. Bargeo. "First and best Italian edition of de Thou's famous Latin poem on hawking with an Italian translation" (Schwerdt). - The famous statesman and bibliophile J. A. de Thou (1553-1617) was a great enthusiast of falconry. His poem, in hexameters, is based on his own observations; it was written during the author's travels through France, Italy, and Germany. Among the nine engraved vignettes are four large falconry-themed headpieces. The portrait shows Cardinal de Beauveau (engraved by R. Pozzi after A. David). Finely printed in two columns on untrimmed laid papier. - Provenance: James Edmund Harting (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown), "ex dono Auctoris" (contemporary ink inscription to first title). - Some waterstaining and foxing. Harting 284. Schwerdt p. 261. Thiébaud 898 ("Belle édition").
8vo. 144 (but: 150) pp. With a full-page woodcut (crucifixion) after the preface. Contemporary limp paper boards. Only edition of this life of the Saints Leontius and Carpophorus, Christians martyred under the Diocletianic Persecution early in the 4th century. Their relics where brought from Rome to Vicenza, where both are still revered. According to tradition, they were physicians of Arab extraction, their father having hailed from Syria. This account of their martyrdom and miracles also includes a life of their sisters Euphemia and Innocentia. - Some browning and waterstaining throughout. First quire loosened and reinforced in the gutter; several erroneous page numbers corrected by a contemporary hand. A hole in the upper board cover. Very rare: only two copies known in libraries (Montecassino and Bertoliana Vicenza). ICCU VIAE\002487.
4to. (6), 112 pp. (but: 108 pp.; pp. 61-64 skipped in pagination). With large engraved map of Vienna and its environs; wants an additional plan. Contemporary calf; spine repaired; leading edges gilt. All edges sprinkled in red. First English translation. The Imperial Councillor of War J. P. a Vaelckeren was sick in Vienna in 1683 when the Turks enclosed the capital. His report of the siege and liberation of the city quickly spread throughout Europe in numerous editions and translations. - Wants the map of Vienna; the corresponding "explanation of figures" is present in the preliminaries. Early 19th c. ownership "H. E. Somerville" to pastedown. A good copy of this rare English imprint. Sturminger 2953. Apponyi II, 1132. ESTC R28429. Gugitz I, 485. Cf. Kábdebo, p. 43f. Cf. Mayer 576ff. Cf. Jöcher IV, 1381.
8vo. (6), 647 pp. Modern half calf with giltstamped spine. First edition. - The Jesuit Jacques Villotte (1656-1743) was sent to China. Leaving Marseilles in 1688, he arrived in Isfahan in October 1689. His various attempts to penetrate China were unsuccessful, and he settled in Isfahan, where he remained for twelve years. He was not recalled to France until 1712. At Isfahan, he taught plainchant to the Persians and translated several works in Armenian. - Some staining. OCLC locates no copy in the U.S.; however, one copy in Princeton (the Atabey copy). Atabey 1294. De Backer/Sommervogel VIII, 789 (quoting a slightly different title, possibly in error).
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.
1807Folio. 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).
