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Folio (213 x 330 mm). (9) pp. of text with an engraved headpiece, (27) pp. of engraved astrological charts, 80 pp. of text with 4 engravings in the text. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary unsophisticated boards. Only edition of this rare treatise on the astronomy, astrology and allied sciences of the Arabs, Persians and Turks. Once "said to be the first book printed with Persian characters" (Anderson, The library of the late George H. Hart of New York City, Part II [1922], no. 471), it remains an impressive achievement, even if the oriental languages are here in fact rendered in Hebrew letters, while the Persian specimens are engraved. (The first book in Persian characters was produced at Leiden more than a half-century earlier.) - The Swabian theologian Beck (1649-1701) studied history and oriental literature at Jena, soon surpassing his teachers. "The principal object of his studies always remained the oriental languages; and his great knowledge of Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldaic, Syriac, Ethiopian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish gained him such renown that he even drew a pension from the Prussian crown for them" (ADB II, 218). - Lacks the 12 double-page letterpress tables after the engraved astrological charts (which are bound out of sequence). First and last leaf somewhat browned, otherwise very clean. Stamp "Eigentum der Stadt Augsburg" to title-page. VD 17, 39:125183T. Caillet 901. Lalande p. 330. Gardner II, 102.
8vo. (4), VI, 299, (1) pp. With one folding map. Publisher's yellow printed wrappers. First edition of Bonet-Maury's study of Abrahamic religions in Africa, supporting both Christianity and Islam as superior alternatives to local beliefs. A protestant clergyman and academic, Gaston Bonet-Maury (1842-1919) wrote extensively on monotheistic faiths and their unity, proposing them as a significant factor in the development of Western civilisation. - Slight marginal toning, a few light marks, otherwise a very good copy. From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, with manuscript pencil poem to final blank and shelfmark label of the royal library to spine.
Large 8vo. VI, (2), 427, (1), (8, publisher's catalogue) pp. With photographic frontispiece and one folding map showing the itinerary of Casola's voyage. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. - The journal kept by Canon Pietro Casola during his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, started on the 15th of May 1494, which took him to Rhodes, Jaffa, Nablus, Ramallah, Lod, Bethlehem and Jericho, is an invaluable source of information on the economy, industries, food and culture of all the places of the Middle East he visited along the way. - Some minor discolouration to spine and rear board; foxing to title and endpapers. Bookseller's label "Ferd. Ongania - Libraio della Real Casa - Venezia" to lower outer corner of front pastedown; shelfmark label of the Italian royal library to spine, showing the Iron Crown of Lombardy. A beautiful copy. Cox I, 243. Cf. Weber II, 125. Röhricht 446.
4to. (10), 225, (1) pp. Contemporary black cloth boards over black leather spine with gilt decoration. Early Bulaq imprint; a translation of the French biography of Catherine the Great by Jean-Henri Castéra (1749-1838), "Vie de Catherine II, Impératrice de Russie", published in two volumes in Paris in 1797. It was exceedingly popular in Europe and saw translations into many languages. This was the first Western historical text translated into Ottoman Turkish and printed by the Bulaq press in Cairo, at the time of volatile relations between the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and Egypt. The first edition, comprising only 160 pages, was published by the Bulaq Press in 1244 (AD 1828). The present, enlarged second edition with annotations by the editor Sadullah Said Amedi was issued two years later. There appear to be two versions, differing in the pattern of the headpiece and numbering of the index pages; possibly the headpiece was replaced after the first printing plate broke (our copy seems to show broken lines in the upper part of the headpiece). The translator Iakovos Argyropoulos ("Yakovaki Efendi", 1776-1850) was a linguist and official translator of the Sultan, appointed as official dragoman in Vienna. - Light waterstaining throughout, mostly in the lower half; old tears and repairs to blank margins of first leaf. Old numbers written and stamped in blue ink to front endpaper; minute wormholes to blank inner margins of final leaves; a tear to p. 111. Özege 10359. OCLC 951557955. J. Strauss, "An den Ursprüngen des modernen politischen Wortschatzes des Osmanisch-Türkischen", in: Radoslav Katicic (ed.), "Herrschaft" und "Staat". Untersuchungen zum Zivilisationswortschatz im südosteuropäischen Raum 1840-1870. Eine erste Bilanz (Vienna 2004), pp. 197-256, here at p. 208.
8vo. XVI, 652 pp., publisher's catalogue. With engraved title-page and frontispiece, one folding engraved map of Arabia, and 5 engraved plates with tissue guards (including a view of Mecca). Publisher’s gilt-illustrated red cloth. Outstandingly preserved specimen of this account of Arabia and its inhabitants by the Scottish-born biographer and historian Crichton (1790-1855). Discusses the life and religion of Muhammad, the conquest, arts, and literature of the Saracens, the Caliphs of Damascus, Bagdad, Africa, and Spain, the modern Arabs, the Wahhabis, the Bedouins etc. Rare. An exceptional copy of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library new edition, the first single-volume edition (previously published 20 years earlier as two duodecimos). Entirely unread, the pages remaining mostly unopened, internally and externally crisp and bright. A stunning example of Victorian pictorial cloth with presentation inscription on the verso of the frontispiece: "Presented to William Hitchins on his leaving for Australia by Edward McNaughtan, 20th January 1853". - A trace of foxing to the fore-edge, occasional loosening to quires, otherwise flawless. Macro 781. OCLC 175544. Cf. Gay 3462 (1833 ed.). Brunet 27998 ("pourrait se placer plus haut"). DNB XIII, 86.
2 photos (ca. 85 x 110 mm) mounted on backing cardboard. In black picture frame (220 x 270 mm). Showing scenes from the camel market in Dubai, depicting resting camels on the ground as well as several customers and cameleers on foot or riding mules. - Rare.
Oblong 1mo (48 x 63.5 cm). With 6 tinted lithographed plates by Frisch, with captions in German and French below. The first three in the deluxe issue printed by B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main, the last three in the regular issue printed by G. Küstner. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper. Extremely rare set of six beautifully lithographed plates showing scenes made on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms, by Friedrich Frisch (1813-86), court painter in Darmstadt. In 1840/41 he accompanied the Wuerttemberg chamberlain Wilhelm von Taubenheim (1805-94), the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-77) and the physician Karl Bopp (1817-47) on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms Weil and Marbach. They first went to Constantinople, where they were welcomed by Sultan Abdülmecid I, continuing to Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem. In Jaffa they met the Ottoman general Ibrahim Pasha. - The set was originally published in two instalments and available in two issues: a deluxe issue printed with a larger tinted background with white highlights (plates 1-3) and a regular issue (plates 4-6). They show: (1) a rider on a dromedary with a letter to Ibrahim Pasha; (2) the camp of Ibrahim Pasha; (3) three Bedouin horse riders; (4) another scene with Bedouins; (5) the group's passage through the Balkans; and (6) a Turkish courier. All views, except the first, include horses. - Hackländer wrote a short text to accompany the set, but it is not included. Two plates slightly soiled in the margins and some tiny tears along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition. Engelmann, Bibliotheca geographica, p. 123. Thieme/Becker XII, p. 491. Not in Dejager; Huth; Mennessier de la Lance; Podeschi. WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 with text only).
8vo. Lithogr. title-page, 29, (1) pp., 1 blank fol. With 2 small illustrations on a lithogr. plate. Original grey lithogr. wrappers. First illustrated edition, previously published twice in Paris in 1828 as "Brosse hygiènique du Cheval" (with different page counts and without a plate). The present edition could be traced exclusively at the Biblioteca dell'Accademia delle scienze, Turin; the copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France appears to be a variant preserving the original title. In 1830 Baumgärtner in Leipzig published a somewhat more widely received German translation: "Der königl. privilegirte Gesundheits-Handschuh für die Behandlung des Pferdes. Oder arabische Bürste, genannt Kaffah, die Haut des Pferdes zu glätten" (31 pp., without a plate). A review, published in Prague in 1834, describes the author's patent: "This 'Kaffah' is a fabric of horsehair, in the shape of a long mitten into which the hand is stuck so as to groom, rub down, clean, and smoothen the horse without any danger of injury, so common in the use of a currycomb". This grooming mitt - "qafaz" in Arabic - supposedly was in wide use in the Middle East and offered numerous advantages in the army and cavalry, being exceedingly economical. - Untrimmed; occasional insignificant waterstains to the wide margins, otherwise very clean. The plate shows the "kaffah" rolled out for use and folded for travel. Very rare. Menessier de la Lance I, 560. ICCU TO0\1167471. Cf. Huth 113 (German edition only). OCLC 457984303.
8vo. (10), 259, (1) pp. Publisher's pink cloth with title to spine and printed red dustjacket. Expanded from the author's doctoral dissertation submitted to the Panjab University in 1961. Here, Ravinder Kumar (1933-2001) investigates British interests in the Gulf region during the second half of the 19th century, examining the Gulf within its international settings and seeking to explain the region's politics as being influenced by, and in turn influencing, the wider problems of international diplomacy. - Spine sunned; dustjacket a little chuooed along the edges. 1977 ownership of Sarah Talat to pastedown. OCLC 932291.
8vo. XI, (1), 257, (1), (2, advertisements) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt vignette of a dervish to front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of this study of Sufi practice in Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq and Cyprus. From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, extensively underlined and marked by the king with the inscription "Villa Savoia - 21.2.15" to last page; shelfmark label of the royal library to spine. The king terminated this book only three months before Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, de facto entering WWI. Villa Savoia was first purchased by the house of Savoy in 1872. Subsequently sold to count Telfner, the royal family's financial administrator, Villa Savoia, which in the meanwhile had been renamed Villa Ada (as it is still known today) after Telfner's wife, was purchased back in 1904 by Vittorio Emanuele III, who admired its vast park and secluded location, making it perfect as a private retreat within Rome for the royal family, as well as a safe refuge during WWII (an elaborate bunker was built within the estate). In 1946 King Umberto II gifted the villa to Egypt, as a symbol of gratitude for the hospitality received during his and his father's exile; the villa now hosts the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt. - Some very light scattered foxing, but a very good copy. Rare. OCLC 82156703.
8vo. 417, (5) pp. With a folding map. Publisher's boards with gilt title to spine. Reissue of this early work on the Saudi Kingdom, previously published by List in Leipzig the same year, in the midst of the Second World War and reflecting the National Socialist geopolitical perspective. Dagobert von Mikusch (1874-1950) wrote popular political biographies, often on Middle Eastern themes, and translated into German T. E. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert", as well as the memoirs of Churchill and Lloyd George. - Includes a bibliography, genealogical table, and a map of the Arabian Peninsula. OCLC 72277438. Not in Macro.
8vo. 254 pp. Publisher's black cloth with title to spine. First edition of this important survey of Britain's imperial policy in the Middle East. Includes copious bibliographical references. Published in the series "Britain in the World Today"; a new and revised edition was published as late as 1981. - Spine-ends rubbed. Formerly in the library of Westminster College, Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University, from which it was deaccessioned (their ownerships, library ticket and withdrawal stamp on the front endpapers; traces of shelfmarks on spine). OCLC 2170797.
Ca. 560 x 800 mm. Ottoman Turkish manuscript with large Tughra. 1 page. Black ink on single sheet of sturdy, polished laid paper. A scarce example of a Levantine manuscript firman granting permission to travel. In the lower corner of the verso are the words "Circassian" and "Black Sea Papers". The tughra appears to be that of Mehmed VI (ruled 1918-1922).
8vo. X, (2), 364 pp. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic plates and a full-page map in text. Original publisher's black cloth, with title in gold on spine. First edition, British issue, of a travelogue by the distinguished Lebanese Arab-American writer Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). Divided into five parts, it describes his time with King Husein in the Hijaz, the Idrisi in Asir, Aal Sabah, the sheiks of Kuwait, Aal Kalifah, the sheiks of Bahrein, and Aden and the protectorates. It is one of the most important sources for the historical background of the Idrisid Emirate of Asir. - Rihani, who moved to New York when he was twelve, is considered the founding father of Arab-American literature. His early English writings mark the beginning of a school of literature that is Arab in its concern, culture and characteristic, English in language, and American in spirit and platform. - A few occasional spots, but otherwise in very good condition.
8vo. XII, 400 pp. Contemporary full blue calf, the spine elaborately gilt, blue silk page-marker, all edges gilt. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free-endpaper. Second edition. "The author, a Christian Arab from Lebanon, gives a very interesting account of life among the native Christian population. The work consists of a mixture of autobiographical anecdotes, travels and information on Syria and Lebanon. There is also an amusing chapter on how a young Syrian sees England, plus a very interesting account of silk-worn culture" (Blackmer, 1427). - Minor wear to extremities of spine, corners slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Cf. Blackmer 1427 (first edition).
8vo. 6, (2) pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. A speech given by the British politician Samuel, appointed High Commissioner of Palestine in 1920, at a meeting led by the English Zionist Federation, celebrating the second anniversary of the Balfour declaration, "which stated that the Government favoured the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine". - Minor flaws to the edges, not touching text. OCLC 504623804.
8vo. (33)-47 pp. Original wrappers. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1951. Part 1 only, recounting the "Land Dispute". Part 2 (pp. 156-169, "Dispute over the Runaway Wife") would appear in the October issue. - An excellent copy. OCLC 77797713.
8vo. 323, (1) pp. With one folding map. In the publisher's grey printed wrappers. First French edition of Stoddard's "New World of Islam" of 1921. An important text by the American racial theorist Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950), "Le nouveau monde de l'Islam" explores the state of Islam in the early 20th century, shortly after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, but remains staunchly critical of the Islamic world and the declining power of colonial empires. - From the library of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, with his bookplate and shelfmark to flyleaf, ink underlining, marginal marks, and a correction in his hand on 18 pages. The present copy has marks of Vittorio Emanuele's engagement with the text, revealing an interest principally in the subject of nationalism. - A little toned, otherwise a very good copy.
Single folded sheet. Two red stamps to interior. A curious document, issued for the use of American servicemen in the Middle East during the Second World War. It was clearly meant to be employed when a soldier was lost or had been separated from his command, as it asks "Arab peoples" to help the bearer of the document. This plea, attributed to Roosevelt, is printed in Arabic, English and French. The back of the card also features seven useful words and phrases, in English and Arabic. - A touch worn, light staining to back of card.
8vo. 27, (1) pp. Contemporary blue printed wrappers. A speech by Weizmann, director of the British ammunition laboratory until 1919, who became president of the World Zionist Organization in 1921, given at a Zionist conference in London. Weizmann was elected the first president of the newly founded state of Israel in 1949. - Wrappers a little brownstained, paper slightly foxed in places. OCLC 12959743.
8vo. (2), 160 pp. With a portrait of Eduard Glaser, 8 numbered plates and 2 large folding maps. Later half cloth, with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. First separate publication (offprint) of "an extremely important article" (Smith) on the geography of north-west Yemen, based on the results of the unpublished journals of Eduard Glaser, who explored a region that still had to be visited by any other European. It includes a history of exploration of the region, a biography of Glaser, a description of the expedition of his expeditions and two large maps of region (the second a version of the same map in Arabic). The article was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte XX. - A very good copy. Smith, The Yemens 40. Cf. Macro 2288.
Folio (ca. 232 x 356 mm). Report 166 pp.; appendix 167-1002 pp. [With:] Glossary to the Fifth Report. Ordered to be printed 12th March 1830. IV, 5-50 pp. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Massive report detailing the revenue and judicial systems in British India from the 18th century onwards. It is accompanied by Charles Wilkins's important (and mostly missing) Glossary, an early attempt to systematize the etymologically complex terminology of Anglo-Indian rule. - The Fifth Report also led to the Charter Act of 1813, which compelled the East India Company to let missionaries preach to the masses in India. Previously, the Company had discouraged missionary work in the country, fearing that they might incite religious sentiments which would affect the Company's business policy and diplomatic role. - The Glossary aimed to demystify the myriad of Anglo-Indian terms used in the Report. In the Preface, the editor states: "The numerous oriental terms used in the Fifth Report and its Appendix have been adopted from most of the languages current throughout India: - from Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Hindustany, Bengaly, Telinga, Tamul, Canara and Malabar; and a few from Turkish and Malay [...]". It was issued separately from the Fifth Report and was very quickly sold out. This is the second edition dated 1830. Yule and Burnell note this in their "Hobson Jobson" of 1886 as the edition used. - Removed from London's Inner Temple Library with their stamps and bookplate.
Oblong folio (470 x 380 mm). (2), 32 pp. (text, bound in original wrappers) and 24 heliographic prints mounted on cardboard. Loosely inserted in illustrated and gilt green cloth portfolio. A set of heliotypes showing (mostly) sites in Upper Egypt: Luxor (4), Qurnah (1), Karnak (3), Thebes (5, including the Ramasseum, Medinet Habu and Deir el-Medina), Edfu (2), and Philae (4), but also including images of the local population: water carriers, workers at a shaduf, a family of Bisharis, as well as nomads with their camels and the Pyramids of Gizeh. The accompanying volume of text describes many of the places depicted, as well as several others. - Some images somewhat foxed, but mostly clean and well-preserved. OCLC 13925000.
Large 4to (186 x 280 mm). 58 pp. With 1 folding engraved plate containing 72 illustrations. Later black half calf with the original printed upper wrapper bound within. First separate publication of this study of Middle Eastern sphragistics (sigillography), a treatise submitted before the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1848. Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), a leading Austrian orientalist with an extensive knowledge of languages, took up a diplomatic position at the Austrian embassy in Constantinople in 1799 and remained in Turkey and the Middle East until 1807. One of the most prominent orientalists of the early 19th century, he is considered the first man to have initiated a genuine study of the Ottoman world based on the principles of critical scholarship. - Occasional light browning or very faint foxing. Original wrapper cover browned, with pasted bookseller's label: "In Commission bei C. Gerold & Sohn in Wien". Wurzbach VII, 274, I B b 9. Cf. Goedeke VII, 768, 120.
8vo. LX (including engraved title), IV, (5-)148 pp. With engraved title vignette. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped label to spine. Re-issue of a separate publication of Herder's translations of oriental poetry from the journal "Zerstreute Blätter". "This charming reprint appears to have been published as a separate edition and as volume 21 of the series 'Meisterwerke deutscher Dichter und Prosaisten' by Kaulfuß and Armbruster" (cf. Günther/V./S.). The title vignette, after Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, shows a Muslim in a garden during prayer. - Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Paper somewhat browned throughout. Günther/Volgina/Seifert 780 a. Cf. WG² 534, 82. Hirschberg I, 212. Goedeke IV, 1, 737.