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1953New York, Simon & Schuster, 1953, 8vo (cm. 15 x 22,5) legatura editoriale con sovraccopertina illustra a a colori (con qualche strappetto ai margini) pp. 152 con molti disegni nel testo.
1966New York, Golf Digest book, 1966, 8vo (cm. 15,5 x 23) legatura editoriale con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 176 con decine di foto e illustrazioni nel testo.
Roma, ENIT, 8vo spillato, nella cop. lit. a colori, pp. (24) compl. ill. da foto in nero.
1990Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1990, 8vo tela editoriale con sovraccoperta a colori, pp. 204, interamente illustrato con foto in nero nel testo.
1955Roma, 1955 marzo 27, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo di pp. 24 de "La Tribuna illustrata" .
1986Milano, RCS Rizzoli, 1986, 8vo (cm. 27 x 19,5) legatura editoriale cartonato telato con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori (piccoli strappi) pp. 158 completamente illustrato in nero e a colori.
1985Bologna, Poligrafici Calderara, 1985, 8vo cartonato con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 159, numerosi disegni e foto a colori nel testo.
1930anni '30 circa (riproduzioni posteriori) gruppo di quattordici in marron e nove in nero, tutte circa cm. 25/28 x 21.
1989UK, Bracken Books, 1989, 4to legatura editoriale con sovraccopertina illustrata colori, pp. 174 compl. ill. a colori.
15558vo. (8), 183, (8) ff., last blank f. With woodcut printer's device on t. p. and three folding woodcut plates. - (Bound after) II: Bruto, Giovanni Michele. De rebus a Carolo V. caesare Romanorum imperatore gestis, oratio. Ibid., 1555. (48) ff. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and different, larger device on last f.; several woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum with ms label to spine. Traces of ties. Re-issue of the first edition, published the previous year. This documentation of the North African expeditions of Charles V against Tunis and the Arabian Coast was compiled by the Imperial envoy Scepper (d. 1554) from eyewitness accounts by Nicolas de Villegaignon and Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrelle, augmented by extracts from Giovio and others. The remarkable views of sieges show the environs of Tunis as well as Algiers and El Kef (Aphrodisium). - Bound at the beginning of the volume is the first edition of Bruto's first work, a polished prose encomium for Charles V, dedicated to his son, King Philip II of Spain. Giovanni Bruto (1515-94), a banished Italian scholar, spent a large part of his life travelling and served as court historian to Emperors Rudolph II and Maximilian II. - A very clean, practically spotless copy. Title page of Bruto stamped; final flyleaf replaced by five modern blank leaves. With fine, contemporary acquisition note by the Austrian statesman and military commander Count Georg von Helfenstein-Gundelfingen (1518-73) on the pastedown, dated London, 1559 ("Emptus Lundini Angliae Metropol."), from the time of his diplomatic mission in Great Britain. "In 1558 Helfenstein was Imperial Governor of Upper Austria, in 1559 Prefect of the Imperial Court. At this time he was sent to England by Emperor Ferdinand to pursue a marriage between Ferdinand's third son, Archduke Charles, with Queen Elizabeth" (cf. ADB XI, 687). Later in the Fürstenberg Library in Donaueschingen. I: BM-STC Dutch 183. Göllner 938. Paulitschke 355, Schottenloher 28.353. Graesse VI, 294. Palau 262.149. Gay 1376 ("précieux recueil"). Cf. Yerasimos 179. Not in Adams, Brunet or Kainbacher. - II: IA 126.080. Adams B 2973. BM-STC Dutch 43. Graesse I, 558. Palau 36.453. Brunet I, 1307 ("Peu commun").
17878vo. Vol. 23 (of 24) only. 557, (1) pp. Contemporary blue boards with handwritten spine title and library label. Trassler's reprint of Büsching's great geography: volume 23 only, dedicated to the Near and Middle East, i.e., the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia, Syria, and the Levant. - Occasional light browning due to paper; light staining to boards.
16998vo. 13, (1) pp., final blank f. Contemp. papered spine. One of several impressions of this pamphlet, all published simultaneously, about the Treaty of Karlowitz signed on 26 January 1699 in Sremski Karlovci (today in Serbia), which ended the Austro-Ottoman War of 1683-97 after the Ottoman side had been defeated at the Battle of Zenta. - Dated at the end: "Anno 1698 Mense Decembri Die 25." Rare. VD 17, 12:194179A.
1900Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 32 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from French Algeria (mosques, the ports of Oran and Algiers, Arabic villages, etc.). - Slight edge defects to wrapper covers, otherwise well preserved.
1935Folio (280 x 360 mm). 2 parts in 2 vols. (4), XVI, 262 pp. (2), 263-555, (1) pp. With large colour map, 169 plates (15 in colour, including 13 large portolan facsimiles) and 95 text illustrations. Contemporary half cloth with original printed covers and spines. Important study of Near-Eastern travel routes, also including Mecca and oriental cartography. Only vol. 2 (out of 3, published 1929-52), published as no. 16 in the series "Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte". Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author to the French psychiatrist Pierre Janet (1859-1947): "A Monsieur le Dr. Pierre Janet membre de l'Institut en témoinage de haute estime et d'admiration [...]" (Paris, 7 Nov. 1937); Janet's autograph ownership on front flyleaf. Janet, a great bibliophile, was a member of the Institut de France since 1913; he is credited with coining the words ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’ and was an important forerunner of Sigmund Freud. - Spine of the first volume beginning to split; covers show slight staining (more pronounced in second volume), with occasional browning to margins. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1339. Henze II, 315 (s. v. Estevâo da Gama). OCLC 2891592.
1935Large 8vo. X, 342 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 62 illustrations on 23 plates. Original red cloth. First edition. - "The travels (c. 1934) of an Arab girl in the Near and Middle East, including a journey with her brother through Lebanon, Iran and the Persian Gulf. The author, a feminist of sorts, visits Tehran, the Caspian region, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz and Bushehr. She views Reza Shah favorably, 'the roads are safe', modernization, industrial plants, etc." (Ghani). Also contains chapters on her sojourn in the "romantic pearl islands of Bahrein" (with an illustration of the author in local Bahraini costume, a gift of the ruler and his wife). - Occasional slight foxing, but well preserved. Ghani 208. OCLC 18175528. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
1852Folio. 2 vols. 503, (1) pp. 460 pp. Dark brown calf bindings with fore-edge flap; oxydized giltstamped cover decorations); wants upper cover of vol. 1.
1890Albumen prints on cardboard, mostly captioned on the reverse. Measurements c. 265 x 220 to 285 x 225 mm. The photographs depict the harbour of Port Said (6), ships on the Suez canal (3) and a lithograph of the canal (1), the shady oases of Ismailia halfway to Suez (2), the streets and harbour of Suez (2), the pyramids of Gisa (with tree-lined avenue beside the railroad and with four natives on camels; 2) and 3 photos of the Gezireh Palace Hotel near Cairo and of the splendid hotel fountain. To these are added 11 pictures of natives in traditional dress: 2 images of Bisharin warriors from northern Sudan, six natives capturing a ten-foot Nile crocodile, a Bedouin next to a resting camel, a Nubian from Khartum, the portrait of a "professeur arabe" (in semi-profile), 4 images of fellah women (some with little children), as well as the portrait of a semi-nude café waitress. The photographs, many of which bear captions and the name of the studio, are principally taken by the Greek photographer Zangaki; others are issued by Arnoux, G. Massaoud, Schroeder & Cie. in Zurich, Lekegian & Co., etc. Some fading.
1966V, (1), 51, (1), l. bl. f. With portrait frontispiece (HRH King Faisal) and 13 folding maps in pocket. Original printed green cloth binding. Rare Saudi government publication on iron ore deposits (mainly Goethite and Hematite) in Western Arabia. As stated in the foreword, "Bulletin 2 is the first geological report on an occurrence of a single metallic mineral to be published by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources". Wadi Fatima, east of Jiddah on the Arabian Red Sea coast, is a microcosm of the geology of the Jiddah area. Rocks ranging in age from 800-million-year-old metamorphic rocks to Tertiary lava flows are exposed, and illustrate the geological richness of western Saudi Arabia. "The Wadi Fatima ore deposits promise to become one of the main sources of iron for the developing steel industry of the Kingdom". Binding rubbed with some discoloration to spine, otherwise fine. OCLC 4053546.
1900Engraving, 252 x 308 mm. Matted. Hormuz Island, near Qeshm Island in the Arabian Gulf. Cf. Al-Quasimi 175.
1944707:601 mm. Photolithographed in 3 colours. Scale 1:1,000,000. Rare RAF map of central Arabia, showing Jebal Tuwaiq, the desert west, and Wadi ad-Dawasir south. Compiled by the R.G.S., drawn by the War Office, and photolithographed by the O.S. in 1943 for the Royal Air Force. The first edition was published in 1925. - Slightly wrinkled, but in good condition. OCLC 634949403.
1890Folio. (4), 392 pp. Original printed boards with later cloth spine. First edition of this Uyghur work ("Mémorial des Saints") by Farid al-Din `Attar (d. ca. 1230), preserved in a ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Printed in the language's characteristic Arabic-derived alphabet. - Edges rubbed and bumped; covers stained. Interior foxed throughout. An uncut, untrimmed copy. Collection orientale, tome 16: 2me série, tome II (wants the first volume containing the French translation). OCLC 7524145.
1907Small 8vo. VI, 443, (3) pp. With 2 folding maps. Contemp. half leather with giltstamped spine title. Only edition. The maps show Egypt and Abessinia with the Arabian Peninsula and Asia Minor with the Middle East and Iraq. - Some foxing throughout; slight worming to lower corner of preliminary matter. Corners rubbed and bumped. Sold at Sotheby's 2002 Travel Sale for 454 GBP (later half morocco). OCLC 252331293.
1732Folio. Four pts. in 1 vol. (30), 278 pp. (2), 64 pp. 26, (88, index) pp. T. p. printed in red and black, Arabic and Latin text in two columns. Contemp. blindstamped vellum on seven raised bands with faded ms. title to spine. First edition (reprinted in 1755). The eminent Arabian writer and statesman Bohaddin, better known in the East as Ibn-Sjeddad, "wrote several works on Jurisprudence and Moslem Divinity; but the only one that can be interesting to us is his 'Life and Actions of Saladin', which, with other pieces connected with the same subject, was published by Albert Schultens, at Leyden, in 1732, accompanied by a somewhat inelegant Latin translation, also by notes, and a Geographical Index. This work affords a favourable specimen of the historical compositions of the Arabs [...] The enthusiasm with which every thing about [Saladin] is narrated, and the anecdotes which the author, from his own personal knowledge, is able to communicate respecting that extraordinary character, give his work a great degree of interest" (Enc. Britannica, Suppl. II [1824], p. 352f). - An appealing copy in Dutch blindstamped vellum from the Berne Abbey, home of the Premonstratensians of Heeswijk, North Brabant, and the oldest extant religious community in the Netherlands (their stamp on t. p.). Modern protective flyleaves (but original pastedowns). Slight wrinkling to final pages; otherwise clean and unbrowned. Schnurrer 148, no. 175. Gay 2238. OCLC 21516733. Cf. Fück 107. Not in Smitskamp.
1900Grey wash on paper, signed. 15.3 x 31.7 cm. Anton Carl Bowarowski (1853-1927) began his studies at the Viennese Academy under Carl von Blaas, Eduard von Engerth, and Johann Nepomuk Geiger, then proceeded to study in Munich (where he later settled) under Ludwig von Loefftz and Wilhelm Duerr. He began as a painter of small historical scenes; from 1893 onwards, Bowarowski was also active as an illustrator for various magazines and publishing houses.
1893Photograph panorama, taken from the Austrian corvette "Fasana". Two conjoined albumen prints on backing cardboard, with Bublay's autogr. caption. 490 x 180 mm. Impressive view, photographed near the beginning of the two-year expedition of the Austrian "Fasana", in which the later Rear Admiral Bublay participated as ensign. This Austrian circumnavigation of the world, begun in Pola on Sept. 1, 1893, was completed in March 1895. - Includes a group photograph of the "Fasana" officers during a "Picknik im Middle-Harbour (Sydney) 9./5. 1894" (Bublay's caption).
