Folio (220 x 334 mm). 9-462, (2) pp. With 149 text woodcuts by Leonardo Parassole after Antonio Tempesta. Early 20th century half vellum. The first Gospel printing in the interlinear Arabic and Latin version, prepared at the same time and printed by the same press as the first Arabic-only Gospel. These were the first works ever produced by Ferdinando de' Medici's "Medicea" press, founded by Pope Gregory XIII to spread the word of Christ in the Orient. Supervised by the able scholar Giovambattista Raimondi (1536-1614), its strength lay in oriental, especially Arabic, printing. After Raimondi's death, the press relocated to Florence. - The Arabic text is printed in Robert Granjon's famous large fount, generally considered the first satisfactory Arabic printing type; as all early printed editions of the Arabic Gospels, it is based on the Alexandrian Vulgate (cf. Darlow/M. 1636). The Latin version is by Leonardo Sionita. The work begins with page 9, without a title page or any preliminary matter at all: "the intended prefatory matter was apparently never published" (Darlow/M.); these first eight pages were not supplied until the 1619 re-issue. - Light browning as common; a light waterstain to the margin of the first leaves, but a good, fairly wide-margined copy. Provenance: handwritten ownership "C. R. Lies" (?), dated Rome, 1931, on upper pastedown; later bookplate of Guy Evans. Darlow/Moule 1637. Mortimer 64 (note). Streit XVI, p. 866, no. 5138. Ebert 7198. Graesse II, 531. Nagler XX, 326. Not in Adams.
1948rif. 23816Collins 1948. 8vo. First Edition front endpapers lightly spotted neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; sand cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly spotted on predominantly white rear panel. Collins, hardcover
19488vo., First Edition, front endpapers lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; sand cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel.
1999Ex-library: plastic jacket; label on spine; barcode, return slip, writing on FEP. Contents otherwise clean, sound, bright. Ex-Library
2012No marks or inscriptions. No creasing covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright front cover, faint traces of storage, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 178pp. Performance car magazine 'The Thrill of Driving' with features on Mercedes A-Class AMG, 3.4-litre 911 Carrera, M3, XKR, Evora S, C63 AMG, GT-R, Vantage S, R8, M5, XKR-S, GranTurismo S, Audi A1 Quattro, Bentley GTC, V8 Conti cabrio, Clio 200 Raider, Golf GTI 35, restoring a Ferrari 355 plus road tests and pages of news, performance car listings/statistics, engineering matters and lots more.
2004No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, scratching to spine, minor rub to front and no bumping to corners. 202pp. Performance car magazine 'The Thrill of Driving' with features on new Porsche Boxter S, McLaren F1, Golf GTI, Ferrari F430, Zonda 12S, Zonda Roadster, buying Italian, HSV Monaro Coupe 4, Porsche 997, Caterham Seven CSR, Galleria Ferrari, Monaro VXR plus test drives in seven cars and pages of news, performance car listings/statistics, engineering matters and lots more.
2000No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright front cover, slight scratching to spine and no bumping to corners. 170pp. Performance car magazine with features on the BMW M3, 247bhp Impreza WRX, BMW 720bhp X5, Vauxhall Corsa SRi, Volvo S60 T5, Golf TDI, Overfinch Range Rover, Mercedes ML55 AMG, Cadillacs, Lotus Sport Elise, Mercedes 190E Cosworth, winning Mondeos, Porsche GT Road Racer, Bugatti V16, Aston Vanquish plus pages of news, performance car listings/statistics, engineering matters and lots more.
2010rif. Q-0615362761The Cookbook Marketplace 2010-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Cookbook Marketplace hardcover
4to. (24) pp. Numerous passages interspersed in Arabic and Hebrew characters. Papered spine. First edition. - Philosophical dissertation by the German theologian, linguist and oriental scholar Johann Frischmuth (1619-87) about various passages in the Christian Bible which are interpreted by Islam to contain references to the Prophet Muhammad: Deuteronomy 33:2; Psalm 50:2; Isaiah 21:7; Malachi 4:5-6; and John 16:7. - Slightly browned. VD 17, 3:009831S. Chauvin XII, 590. Arnold 277. Bibl. de Sacy I, 86f.
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1925rif. 87948[ca. 1925]. Auf glatt gestrichenem Papier. 7,2 x 9,9 cm.
480 x 680 mm. Fine handwritten, calligraphic description of a perfect horse's anatomy, explaining its ideal proportions. Located in the centre is a printed horse study taken from Bourgelat's "Treatise on the choice and care of horses they require" ("Traité du choix des chevaux et des soins qu'ils exigent", 1769). - The founder of veterinary colleges at Lyon in 1761, Claude Bourgelat, was as an oft-consulted authority on horse management. - Small defects to edges; some dust-staining on reverse.
Oblong folio (560 x 370 mm). 101 plates (72 lithophotographs "Procedé Poitevin", 2 lithographs, and 27 plans, of which 10 folding) and 4 leaves of letterpress text. Stored loosely in contemporary marbled boards with original printed cover label; cloth spine professionally renewed. Cloth ties. Rare, early photobook on the archaeological excavations in Turkey and the Levant during the 1850s, a work which assured the architect-explorer Pierre Tremaux (1818-95) an eminent place in the history of photography. Includes views of Aphrodisias, Corycus, Ephesus, Hierapolis, Jerusalem, Magnesia, Milet, Perga, Priene, Seleucia, Smyrna, Tarsus, etc. - The calotypes here reproduced are among the earliest photographs taken in Asia Minor and are thus of great documentary interest. They were lithographed using the process discovered in 1855 by Alphonse Poitevin (1811-82), later awarded the Grand Prix du Duc de Luynes; Trémaux's work was one of the first to use this method. - "Pierre Trémaux was an architect who trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He was also interested in travel, ethnology, architecture and geography. He is known for one epic series of voyages to Asia Minor, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The fruits of these travels were published in a series of books" (Jacobson). Having set out in 1847, Trémaux began taking photographs around 1853-54. While the results of his efforts were technically uneven, obliging him to substitute his salt prints with lithographs, the rare images that survive have ensured the photographer's lasting reputation. The entire subscription was announced for a series of 215 plates provisionally titled "Atlas de vues pittoresques, scenes des moeurs, types de vegetation remarquable", but the publication was interrupted in 1864, never to be completed. - Some edge flaws and duststaining to margins. Scattered foxing, more pronounced in some examples, others nearly flawless. Exceptionally rare: the work has appeared at auction only three times in 25 years; it was missing from the two great orientalist collections of Atabey and Blackmer. Provenance: from the collection of the French engineer and archaeologist Paul Gaudin (1858-1921), a major patron of the Asia Minor collections in the Louvre, the Istanbul Museum, British Museum, and other institutions. Ken Jacobson, Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925 (Quaritch, 2007), p. 273. Goldschmidt & Naef, The Truthful Lens: A Survey of the Photographically Illustrated Book 1844-1914 (New York, 1980), p. 225. Andre Jammes & Eugenia Parry Janis, The Art of French Calotype (Princeton, 1983), p. 251.
Folio. 11, (1) pp. Sewn. Contains an extensive discussion of the de jure and de facto status of navigation in the Arabian Gulf: legally, the "western and southern coasts are partially owned and partially claimed by Turkey, or are in the occupation of Arab tribes, who have entered into Treaty relationships of varying character, constituting a sort of veiled Protectorate with Great Britain. The islands in the Gulf are owned either by Persia or by Arab Chiefs (in the case of Bahrein under British protection) [...] The de facto position upon the waters and on the shores of the [...] Gulf refelcts a more positive British predominance than the preceding paragraph might indicate. In the early years of the [19th] century the Slave Trade was rapant in the Gulf [...] This conflict [...] resulted in the establishment of Treaty relations with the great majority of the Arab Chiefs, under which they bound themselves to observe perpetual peace, and to refer all disputes to the British Resident at Bushire [...]". - Slight duststaining to cover, but well preserved.
8vo. XLVIII, 582 pp. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. First edition of a work on Islamic texts about the Christian crusades, by the French orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (1795-1867). It gives a French translation of numerous texts and extracts relating to the crusades originally written in Arabic from the 11th to the 15th century by Arab historians, with occasionally some passages in Arabic in the notes. Most of the texts deal with major battles and sieges, Saladin, and victories and deaths of important leaders. The preliminaries include brief biographies of some of the major authors, including Ali ibn al-Athir, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Ibn al-Adim and many more. The texts are arranged into different chapters, each devoted to a different stage of the crusades. - The book is in fact the publication of a part of the extensive manuscript by Georges-François Berthereau (1732-94), who collected numerous Arab texts on the crusades, but the publication was prohibited during years following the French Revolution. The book was published as a part of the Biblithèque des croisades, as an addition to the well-known Histoire des croisades, written by Joseph François Michaud (1767-1839). - With a stain on the half-title and some staining throughout, otherwise in very good condition. Hage Chahine 3963. Not in Blackmer.
Folio (248 x 318 mm). 8 pp. With 8 phototypes (all with tissue guards). Original printed wrappers. Fine catalogue of Martin's collection of oriental artefacts as shown at the Swedish Industrial and Art Exhibition, mainly with Persian, Turkish and Egyptian provenance. Inscribed to the Swedish naturalist Professor G. Retsius. Slight nick to lower corner near end of volume, otherwise a fine, spotless copy. Rare. OCLC 7923951.
rif. 112618London War Office printed for D. Survey WO and AM by Balding and Mansell Ltd. 1957. . Coloured double-sided map of the Arabian Gulf on 1 sheet printed on silk; edition I-GSGS; sheet size: 64 x 72.5 cm; scale 1:1000000 text in English very slight fading to outer margin otherwise near fine. An excellent example of a double-sided coloured escape map of the Arabian Gulf showing the UAE and Oman to recto and Qatar to verso. With a key to topographical features railways main roads and important settlements including the tribal and official names of provinces and a useful Arabic-English glossary translating key terms such as 'Bir' for 'Well' 'Ain' for Spring' 'Qasr' for 'Fort/Castle'. The recto extends from Kumzat in the North to Hafit in the South and Abu Dhabi in the West to al-Qasbiyat in the East showing the six remaining emirates of Dibai Dubai Sharja Ajman Umm al-Qaiwan Ras al-Khaima and Fujaira. The verso runs South from Ras es Safaniya to Ei Abd and from Awania in the West to Rudaim in the East including the principal settlements of Jubail Bahrein Hofuf showing Doha Wakra and Lusail on the Qatar Peninsular. [London], War Office, printed for D. Survey (WO and AM) by Balding and Mansell Ltd., 1957. unknown
1957rif. 182684London: War Office; Printed for D. Survey WO and AM by Balding and Mansell Ltd 1957. A bright example of this detailed Gulf map Classified "restricted" and issued for military use at the time of the Jebel Akhdar War this double-sided sheet shows much of the modern-day UAE extending northwards from the latitude of Abu Dhabi and the Buraimi Oasis as well as the eastern Arabian Peninsula from the Trucial Coast to Jubail. As with other contemporary GSGS maps the sheet covers six degrees of longitude and highlights towns of significance and other standout features for example oil pipelines and wells water systems and roads and railways. Rayon sheet 630 x 710 mm printed both sides in colour folded as issued. A fine example. unknown
4to. (10), 102 pp. With woodcut title vignette to title page. Later half vellum (c. 1850). First edition. "Inscriptio fallax; Dictionarii haud quidpiam exhibet liber; Grammatica est, et quasi prolusio et praecursio Dictionarii, brevi post editi" (Schnurrer). First issue with Arabic letters from the printing office of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV. Not actually a dictionary, as the title suggests, but rather an introduction to vernacular Arabic. Three years later, the Franciscan Dominicus (1588-1670), known as Germanus (from Silesia), would publish an Arabic-Italian dictionary, entitled "Fabrica linguae Arabicae" - which has no connection with the present work, in spite of the similar title. - Old shelfmark on reverse of title page. Rare. STC 306. Smitskamp 224. Schnurrer 67.Brunet II, 1553. Ebert 8379. LThK III, 396. Zaunmüller 18 (imprecise).
1929rif. 010774Elmsford NY: Fairview Country Club 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ownership copy of George Harris President of the club from 1918 - 1920 with his holograph on pastedown. 8vo quarter orange cloth over oraneg and silver paper covered boars title pastedown front. 95 pages. Lots of photos of the Westchester County club whihc was incorporated in 1904 from what was the Tuckahoe Gold Course plus some pics of the original Decker Farm on which the course was constructed. Fairview Country Club hardcover
1929rif. 010774Elmsford NY: Fairview Country Club 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ownership copy of George Harris President of the club from 1918 - 1920 with his holograph on pastedown. 8vo quarter orange cloth over oraneg and silver paper covered boars title pastedown front. 95 pages. Lots of photos of the Westchester County club whihc was incorporated in 1904 from what was the Tuckahoe Gold Course plus some pics of the original Decker Farm on which the course was constructed. Fairview Country Club hardcover books
1994rif. 26770New York: Doubleday 1994. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue boards grey cloth spine fine in fine dust jacket. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Doubleday hardcover
