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Spalding's Official Golf Guide
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Vg/VG internally no fault. octavo First edition.. not price-clipped. the dj has a short tear to the top rear corner - easily repairable. an investigation on what really happened on the mission that made mcnab wealthy from a best-selling account. The Bravo Two Zero SAS operation in the first Gulf War by patrol commander "Andy McNab" did not seem to tally with the events as described by other participants. some things just did not happen in real life. Michael Asher, who also served in the parachute regiment and the SAS, went to investigate on the ground, to see what really happened. Includes eight pages of black & white photographs
Vg/VG internally no fault. octavo First edition.. not price-clipped. the dj has a short tear to the top rear corner - easily repairable. an investigation on what really happened on the mission that made mcnab wealthy from a best-selling account. The Bravo Two Zero SAS operation in the first Gulf War by patrol commander "Andy McNab" did not seem to tally with the events as described by other participants. some things just did not happen in real life. Michael Asher, who also served in the parachute regiment and the SAS, went to investigate on the ground, to see what really happened. Includes eight pages of black & white photographs
Small folio (216 x 294 mm). (16), CCXIX, (9) pp. With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf with gilt spine and marbled covers. Only edition of this rare study decribing a celestial globe with Cufic lettering in the Borgia Museum at Velletri. The book also contains a dissertation on the astronomy of the Arabs, with Arabic excerpts from the works of Ahmed al-Farghani (Alfraganus; cf. GAL I, 221), one of the most famous mediaeval Muslim astronomers. Simone Assemani (1752-1821), a great-nephew of Joseph Assemani, the cataloguer of the oriental manuscripts in the Vatican library, is best known for his catalogue of the manuscripts and Cufic coins in the Naniana in Venice (cf. Fück 125). - Calf somewhat worn at spine-ends and hinges. Old library shelfmark label pasted on inside of upper cover. A fine copy. Brunet VI, 8185. DG 7.9265. M. H. Fikri, Treasures from the Arab Scientific Legacy in Europe, no. 13 (with full-page illustration).
4to. 12, CIII, (1) pp. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary grey wrappers. An account of the religion, literature, and manners of the Arabs before the Prophet. While largely compiled from European sources, Pococke, George Sale, Sir William Jones, and D'Herbelot in particular, the book includes extensive quotations in Arabic as well as details on Mecca, the Kaaba, and Muhammad. Assemani (1752-1821), a great-nephew of Joseph Assemani, the cataloguer of the oriental manuscripts in the Vatican library, is best known for his catalogue of the manuscripts and Cufic coins in the Naniana in Venice (cf. Fück 125). - Corner of lower free endpaper torn away, occasional light browning, wrappers a little frayed at the spine. Otherwise a good, wide-margined copy, untrimmed as issued. Brunet VI, 27994. Gay 3454. Cf. Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge III.2, 815.
réf. 46890215-nnew. unknown
1997réf. 29902Haren, ASTA-Wohnbau (Hg), 1997. 8°, 41 S., mit zahlreichen farbigen Abb. und Zeichnungen, Bezahlung per PayPal möglich, we accept PayPal, min. Gebr.sp., kartoniert
1940réf. 2092902137306519Shinkenchikusha 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shinkenchikusha paperback
réf. 1396758178.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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.
Folio (55 x 40 cm). Two parts in one volume. Engr. title printed in red and black, list of plates, 24 hand-coloured lithographs. Contemporary French red half roan by Meslant with his stamp at the spine foot, flat spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. First edition: the hand-coloured copy of the Duke of Orleans, in a signed binding by Meslant, celebrated court binder of the Empire period. The Duke is listed as co-publisher on the engraved title. - Some spotting to text leaves, one plate with old repair in the bottom margin, others repaired in the inside margin, some plates slightly and evenly yellowed. Extremities rubbed, corners scuffed with some surface loss. Provenance: Ferdinand Phillipe, Duke of Orleans (1810-42; title-stamp of his military library). Mennessier de la Lance I, 41. Huth 121.
8vo. (37)-84 pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title to upper cover and spine. Endpapers marbled. All edges gilt. Only edition. - Rare account, by the French physician Paul Aubry, of Turkish military and civil hospitals, describing in detail their design and medical capacities, including accurate numbers of beds. An exceptional documentation of health care infrastructure in the Ottoman Empire, mentioning the Yildiz Ambulance, the Haider Pacha military hospital and the Haseki Hospital in Istanbul. The present offprint also contains a medical bibliography of works in German, Danish and Swedish published in 1886-87 as well as several abstracts, including an article on gonorrhoea by the Ottowa physician Coyteux Prévost, published in the "Union Médicale du Canada" in the same year. - Inscribed and signed by Aubry to Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) on the front flyleaf. Binding slightly rubbed. Small marginal tears to pp. 39-42; last few pages somewhat creased. Library stamps erased from flyleaf and first page. From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to exert effective contol over the fracturing state and also remembered as a poet, translator and one of the dynasty's greatest bibliophiles. While his passion for books is memorialized by the many precious donations he gave to libraries all over the world and which mostly have remained intact to this day (including the 400-volume "Abdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials" gifted to the Library of Congress), his own library was dispersed in the years following his deposition in 1909: books were removed to other palaces and even sold to Western collectors, the greatest part of his collection is today preserved in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. U.S. Army, Index-catalogue of the library of the surgeon-general's office VII, 393. Wohnlich-Despaigne, Les Historiens Français de la Médecine au XIXe Siècle 59.
3 vols. Large folio (70 x 55 cm). With 150 striking coloured plates, all lithographed on stone, printed and coloured by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia, after drawings by John James and John Woodhouse Audubon, and the backgrounds after Victor Audubon. Each volume also with a title-page and a list of contents. Late 19th century black morocco, with gold-tooled spine, red cloth sides and marbled endpapers. First edition of the extraordinary coloured plates of quadrupeds by the world-famous French-American naturalist and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851), whose "Birds of America" was purchased at a Christie's auction for $11.5 million in March 2000, setting a world record for the most expensive book ever sold (surpassed only by the 1640 "Psalm Bay Book", sold for $14.2 million in November 2013). The plates in the present work are considered the finest animal prints ever published in America. Unlike the "Birds", it was produced entirely in the United States, making it the "largest successful color plate book project of 19th-century America" (Reese). - After the publication of his highly acclaimed "Birds of America", Audubon settled on the Hudson River and began working on the present series to document the animal life of North America. The plates were first published in 30 parts of 5 plates each, and three separately published accompanying text volumes, written by John Bachman, appeared between 1846 and 1854. A second edition was published in 1856, but "the first edition is by far the best" (Sabin). - Title-pages show some small scuff marks, a few plates with minor, unobtrusively repaired tears along the edges. Binding skillfully restored. A complete set, with most plates in fine condition. Nissen, ZBI 162. Buchanan, pp. 147-154. Reese 36. Sabin 2367. Cf. Howgego II, A19 (p. 15, 1846-54).
réf. 0470223324.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1978réf. 76031aozThe Augusta National Golf Club 1978. imitation_leather. Good/Missing. 0x0x0. Signed by Other. Signed and isncribed by golf course designer Fred Sparks. Oversized green hardbound without dust jacket. Apart from the inscription no text markings noted. The Augusta National Golf Club hardcover
1973réf. 26268Fribourg Office du Livre 1973 -in-4 bradel pleine percale un volume, reliure bradel pleine toile blanche in-quarto cartonnage illustré Editeur(bradel cloth-bound in-4 Editor)(28,4 x 21 cm), dos long (spine without raised band), titre imprimé en noir dans le sens de la hauteur, premier plat imprimé en noir et illustré d'un joueur de Golf en action en marron dans un encadrement en noir, (trés légères rousseurs sur la couverture mais l'intérieur est parfait), toutes tranches lisses (all smooth edges), Texte sur 2 colonnes, orné de 31 illustrations in-texte en noir par Anthony RAVIELLY, 128 pages, 1973 Fribourg Office du Livre Editeur,
réf. 82741Fribourg, Office du Livre 1973, 280x210mm, 128pages, reliure toile de l’éditeur. Bel exemplaire.
Hard Cover + DW 8vo, 160 pp, drawings.- SIGNED by Richard AULTMAN. Very Good++/Good+. [CA-12]
1987réf. 28371987 rel. pl. toil. gd. in-8 avec jaq. ill., dess. et clichés;, 160 p., 1987 hatier éd.,
195824 pages. Features: . Toronto's Great Battle of the Subway - write-up about the proposed north-south spur on University Ave., with twelve photos including Fred Gardiner and Allan A. Lamport; One-page colour-photo ad for Campbell's Chicken Gumbo soup; Page of five photos of hat designs by Toronto's Rosaleen Reid; One-page ad for Singer's $125,000 Sewing Contest, featuring photo of the 1957 winners including Mrs. C. Bishop, Mrs. M. Rasmussen and Mrs. H. Chooljian; Photo of U.S. gymnast Muriel Davis; Wedding photo of Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay; Photo of Robert Wagner carrying Natalie Wood from New York train; Colour-photo ad for Robin Hood "Deep Pudding" mixes; Feature article on Cowichan sweaters made by the Cowichan tribe near Duncan on Vancouver Island - article with seven photos, two in colour; Colour photos from B.C. as she enters her hundredth anniversary year; Mrs. Al Balding follows the sun with Canada's great golf shot-maker - article with eight photos; Nice colour ad for Sifto Salt features bear cub and bird; Wow!, large colour photos of Jacques Plante and Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens; Hard Luck Town Springhill, Nova Scotia Fights Back from devastating mine blast - text with eight photos; Photo of Mrs. Pansy Mae Stuttard, 84, of White Rock, B.C. and her pistol; Fantastic one-page colour-photo pin-up photo of Jimmy Dean and Jan Crockett; Two photos of Jimmy Dean and his young family; Nice back page colour ad for Crown Brand Corn Syrup on pancakes. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue.. Magazine
8vo. 2 vols. 310 pp., final blank f. 263, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over green and marbled boards with gilt spine and handwritten spine-labels. A guide to the Muslim monuments of Istanbul: perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic landmarks of the capital. Long recognized by Turkish scholars as a unique source for the city's architecture and urban form, the text, which was completed in 1195/1780 and revised and enlarged between 1248/1832-33 and 1253/1838 by Ali Sati, contains separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes, and other monuments. - From the library of John R. Walsh (1919-93), Professor of Turkish Studies at Edinburgh University, with many neat marginal notes, a few underlinings and a few notes loosely inserted or tipped in, most of which appear to be in his hand. A Turkish newspaper clipping from 1950 glued in vol. 1. - Covers rubbed and bumped at extremeties, but firm. Internally very good. Özege 6565. Cf. Faeuk Sumer, i. A. fas. 59, pp. 386-388.
8vo. (2), 332 pp. Original beige printed boards with red cloth spine. First edition of a rare survival, illustrating the development of language studies among the officers of the British military during colonial rule in India and the Middle East. The work was compiled by Rizkallah Azoo, the Arabic Instructor to the board of examiners under the supervision of the secretary board of examiners at Fort William, Calcutta. - The book is divided into two parts, the first containing fables, anecdotes and narratives, travels of famous explorers (including Ibn Battuta and Sinbad the Sailor), and a final section on the travels of Sadiq Pasha to the Great Desert of Africa. Part two covers an extract from Kitab-ul-Wasitah, a description of Malta, and an account of European arts and sciences by Ahmed Faris Effendi, the editor of Al-Jawib. It concludes with some curious descriptions of Paris and London. - The standard examination of Arabic was a serious matter, affecting officers' roles and promotions in overseas territories. Failure to pass the elementary Arabic examination could result in deferment of appointments, and even the withholding of portions of an officer's salary. - Light exterior wear, otherwise well preserved. Rare: OCLC locates copies at Oxford and SOAS, as well as at the University of California (Berkeley) and seven additional libraries. OCLC 417302837.
8vo. 302 pp. With photo illustrations in the text throughout. Red half morocco over cloth boards with giltstamped spine title. Top edge red. Marbled endpapers. Rare first edition of this important work on Arabian horses. "Spanish commission sent to observe Arabian horses in Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine [...] Used as a reference source by Gladys Brown Edwards in 'The Arabian: War Horse to Show Horse'" (Boyd/P., p. 11). An English translation ("In Search of the Arabian Horse") appeared in 2001; an Arabic one ("al-Bahth `an al-husan al-`Arabi") was published in Riyadh in 2007. A fine copy with the bookplate of José Luis Marín-Sánchez to half-title. Boyd/Paul 10. OCLC 49468733.
Large 8vo. 297, (7) pp. With photographic illustrations in the text throughout and a lithographed map showing the sailing route in blue. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Rare first edition in Spanish, in the original publisher's paper wrappers, of this important work on Arabian horses, describing a voyage made in 1904 of a Spanish commission to Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine, to observe thoroughbred Arabian horses. The party returned to Spain with 33 Percherons, of which 27 were considered to be first-class horses. In the present work, the Spanish cavalry commander Luis Azpeitia de Moros describes their journey, their contact and negotiations with the people there, and the horses they bought. Azpeitia's account is lavishly illustrated with photographs, all with Spanish captions printed below, of not only the areas they visited and their inhabitants, but also of the several horse specimens they bought, with their name and place of purchase in the printed captions. - The present work was used as reference source by Gladys Brown Edwards in her work on the history of the Arabian horse (The Arabian: War Horse to Show Horse) (Boyd/Paul, p. 11); an English translation of the work appeared in 2001 (In Search of the Arabian Horse), and an Arabic one was published in Riyadh in 2007 (Al-Bahth `an al-husan al-`Arabi). Altogether the very rare first edition of an important work on Arabian horses, even more rare when offered with its original wrappers, as the present copy, which are illustrated with drawings of scenes of the voyage. - Wrappers a little browned and somewhat foxed (including the edges), spine slightly damaged (especially at the head) and partly cracked. Some very minor foxing throughout, but otherwise still in good condition. A very rare work on Arabian horses.
8vo. 368 pp. With numerous illustrations in the text. Modern green half calf. First edition of this account of the author's pilgrimage to Mecca. The writer and Islamic scholar Abd al-Wahhab Azzam (1895-1959), nephew of the Pan-Arabist statesman Abd al-Rahman Azzam, was educated at London's School of Oriental Studies and at Cairo University, then taught at the latter institution, where he became dean in 1945. "Appointed Egypt's ambassador to Pakistan in 1950 and to Saudi Arabia in 1954, he founded King Saud University in Riyadh and in 1957 became its first director [...] Azzam was Egypt's foremost pan-Arab intellectual" (Goldschmidt, Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt, p. 29f.). - An excellent copy. Rare; OCLC lists only nine copies in libraries worldwide. OCLC 23512537.
2007réf. 24779Mainz : von Zabern 2007. XII, 287 S. : mit 315 Farb- und 10 Schwarzweißabb. ; 26 cm, mit Schutzumschlag Top Zustand, Pp., gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover/Pappeinband, Exemplar in sehr gutem Erhaltungszustand
