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réf. 188014137X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19349" x 4" map folds out to 24" x 18". Printed in two colours - the traditional Gulf blue and orange. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage road map. Map
1997réf. 1302134PN. New. 1997. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
4to. (167) ff. on smoothed paper. With many magic squares containing letters and numbers. Somewhat damaged contemp. blindstamped calf with fore-edge flap. Unsophisticated manuscript for private practical use, showing signs of heavy wear and apparently continued until fairly recently (with several modern ballpoint entries). Many postscripts on the flyleaves and empty leaves at the beginning and end (7 and 5 ff., respectively) are written in Maghribi style, suggesting a northern African provenance, but the main text is written in a different style. Sprinkled throughout the ms. are numerous magical squares, some bearing numbers, others words (such as "Allah", "light", "earth", etc.), sometimes both combined. Many quotations from the Qur'an and Islamic scholars. Continued at the end by other hands, with many prayers and invocations. Occult manuscripts are rare in the Islamic tradition, as the official taboo against such items was very strong. - Incomplete, but supplemented by an early hand. Occasional loose leaves; frequent fingerstaining and browning; numerous marginalia; edge wear throughout.
1757réf. 20773Paris, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1757. 8vo. Mit 38 (statt 42) teils gef. Kupfertaf. XXXXI, 84 S. Pgt. d. Zeit m. hs. Rückentitel.
4to. 139, (5) pp. With folding engr. map. Later cloth. First edition. - Includes observations "on the Plague in Egypt", "on the Overflowing of the RIver Nile, and the Qualities of its Water", "on the Climate and Seasons of the Year in Egypt", and "on the Situation of Egypt relative toi commercial Advantages", as well as "A Specimen of Turkish Justice, or, rather, of that of the Mamelucks in Egypt". John Antes was a missionary of the Moravian Church resident in Egypt from 1770 to 1781. He "produced this work in answer to those of Savary and Volney" (Blackmer). - Some foxing to title page. This copy is from the collection of the author's descendants, with several inscriptions on the flyleaf. Later in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 25. Blackmer 36. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 38. Blake 16. OCLC 4415058.
Small 4to. (2), 112 pp., final blank leaf. Slightly later full cloth with giltstamped title to cover and spine. Re-issue of this important guide to falconry by the "grand old man of British falconry" (Gallagher), Ronald Stevens (d. 1994), first published in 1956. The book questions several age-old concepts of the sport, such as the attempt of teaching falcons to wait on through flying to the lure, and introduces methods of teaching the birds to home to the falconer's house, which "caused a great deal of rethinking among falconers" (Gallagher). - Stevens settled in the remote Fermoyle Lodge in Connemara in Ireland in the early 1960s, the place quickly turning into something of a Mecca for falconers from all across the world, his treatises inspiring generations of aspired falconers. - Handwritten ownership of Charles Garton, dated Wadeford House, December 1987, to front pastedown. A typescript letter signed by John Cox from The Clock House bookshop to Garton is loosely enclosed, regarding his order of "A Falcon in the Field" by Jack Mavrogordato (London, Knightly Vernon Ltd., 1966), which could not be fulfilled as the work was not to be reprinted due to the author's recent death, offering to send him Stevens's work instead. With Garton's autograph reply on the same sheet, accepting the offer, and asking Cox to refund him the difference. The Clock House's advertisement for "A Falcon in the Field", with handwritten notes by Garton, is stapled to the letter. - Occasional light foxing. A very good copy of this influential work. Gallagher, Falcon Fever 74. OCLC 974238561.
8vo. VIII, 351, (1) pp. Handsome period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and red gilt morocco label. Period ink inscription on the first page of the Preface: "G. Matcham". With an autograph letter signed from Colonel Francklin to Major Moor, dated 1835, attached to the front endpaper. 4to. 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper. Second edition, with an autograph letter signed by the author. While the writing is not particularly clear, the letter is in very good condition. Most likely from the library of English explorer and Officer of East India Company George Matcham (1753-1833). Being William Francklin's older contemporary, Matcham served in the Company in 1771-85 and extensively travelled across the Near East and the Red Sea on the way from India to England and back (cf. ODNB). William Francklin (1763-1839) was an Officer of the East India Company and a prominent orientalist; member, and in later years, librarian of the council, of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was also a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. "A distinguished officer, Francklin also enjoyed considerable reputation as an oriental scholar. In 1786 he made a tour of Persia, in the course of which he lived at Shiraz for eight months as the close friend of a Persian family, and was thus able to write a fuller account of Persian customs than had before appeared. This was published as 'Observations Made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia' (Calcutta, 1788) and was translated into French in 1797" (ODNB). Francklin's account was also published in German the same year as our English edition. The first edition was published in Calcutta in 1788. "An important book in the growing interest of 'Orientalism.' There are numerous references to Hafez. (Francklin's book was read by Byron, among others). The book is also important because of the retelling of comments the author had heard about Karim Khan Zand. The author states eye-witnesses had told him Karim Rhan always rode at the head of his troops; his soldiers liked him; there was nothing great in him but he was considered a just man even though during the last year of his reign he committed some cruel acts. We are also informed that Karim Khan was a 'debaucher.' The author saw a full cycle of Ta'zie during his stay in Shiraz" (Ghani). "Describes Cochin, Tellicherry, Anjengo, Goa, Bombay etc." (Kaul Travels 858). - A very good, handsome copy. Howgego I, E8. Ghani 138. Cox I, 257. Henze II, 165.
8vo. With 8 woodcut tailpieces. Later mottled calf, red spine labels, red edges. Rare edition of the collected works of Luis de Camões, including Os Lusiadas and three Rimas. In the same year, Antonio Craesbeeck published another edition with the same title but with less content and with a different frontispiece. This collection of works is made up of separate publications. - Os Lusiadas is the great epic poem of Portuguese exploration, in the original Portuguese, a monument of Portuguese literature that gave a Homeric aura to Renaissance voyages of discovery and colonial conquests, here together with the other works of Camões. Camões's work was first published in Portuguese at Lisbon in 1572. - In the early 1530s the great Portuguese historian, João de Barros, most famous for his Decadas de Asia, had called for an epic poem of Portuguese exploration and discovery. Luis de Camões (1524-80) answered that call four decades later. Camões was educated in a monastic school in Coimbra, and produced poetry and plays at an early age. In his early twenties he was banished from Lisbon after producing a play considered disparaging to the royal family. He served as a soldier in the Portuguese forces besieging Ceuta in North Africa, where he lost an eye. Camões returned to Lisbon in 1550, but found himself in more trouble, and was pardoned by the King on condition that he serve the Crown in India for five years. He arrived at Goa in late 1553 and stayed there briefly before joining an expedition to the Malabar Coast. Later he participated in a campaign against pirates on the shores of Arabia. In 1556 he left Goa again for the East Indies, taking part in the military occupation of Macao, where he remained for many months. On his return trip to India, he was shipwrecked off the Mekong and wandered in Cambodia before reaching Malacca and eventually returning to Goa. He did not return to Lisbon until 1570. The Lusiads gives a fine description not only of Portuguese exploits in the East, but also of the flora and fauna of Asia and India, the ethnographic details of the peoples there, and the geography of the region, informed by Camões's own experiences as well as his familiarity with Ptolemy and Barros. - With the bookplate of "Aulo-Gélio", 1961, with a view of Lisbon. The first few pages slightly worn with some repairs. Stained throughout. Some contemporary annotations in ink in the margins. Bibliotheca Lusitana p. 62. Inocêncio XIV, 78. José de Canto, 37.
12mo. (4), 292 pp. With woodcut vignette on title page, 13 plates and a folding map. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this account of a journey made from Port Said, down the Red Sea to Mascate, and then along the Arabian Gulf ending in Baghdad. - Some foxing. OCLC 254176761.
1990Illustrations de Ken Lewis.
1860545 x 165 mm. Watercolour on paper, signed at bottom right "Gab. Carelli". Carelli was a "watercolourist of great repute. His life was adventurous. He studied unter Leith, the Englishman, in Naples, then went to Rome; later, in Paris, he took commissions from the court and painted for the Versailles Gallery and the Palais Royal [...] For Napoleon III he designed an album of one hundred drawings, and Tsar Alexander III bought several of his works" (cf. Thieme/Becker V, 591).
réf. 116427aafno date ( early 60ties), sm. in-8vo, (15x10.5 cm), 30 p. with coloured Golf Corse sketches + folde plate at the end, text in japanese & english, illuistrated wrappers.
1780réf. 18804genève pellet 1780 -in-4 une carte ancienne gravée sur cuivre (Copper etching) en noir par André, gravée par Arrivet. Format : 31 x 20,5 cm, pour illustrer l'uvre de l'Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal intitulée "l'Histoire philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes", pli central horizontal normal venant d'un atlas( horizontal centerfold), 1780 Genève Pellet Editeur,
1780réf. 18813genève pellet 1780 -in-4 une carte ancienne gravée sur cuivre (Copper etching) en noir par André, gravée par Arrivet. Format : 31 x 20,5 cm, pour illustrer l'uvre de l'Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal intitulée "l'Histoire philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes", tache brune en bas de la carte, pli central horizontal normal venant d'un atlas( horizontal centerfold), 1780 Genève Pellet Editeur,
8vo (125 x 182 mm). (8), 80 pp. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt dentelle borders along both covers. Ottoman Turkish treatise on equestrian anatomy: a translation of the "Traité des articulations du Cheval" (Paris 1827) by the French veterinary surgeon Félix Rigot (1803-47), translated by Muhammad 'Abd al-Fattahh al-Misri and edited by Mustafa Hasan Kassab. - Old ticket inscribed in French "Arabe - Chirurgie" pasted to inside of lower cover. A very good, clean copy. OCLC 56713283.
1997Features: Small accomplishments - start the new year right!; The Joseph Addotta Collection - bronze casting at its best; Scott Hughes - Master of Miniature Lights; The Knowles Collection - Rachel and Wink; Floral Creations of Helen David - the Gulf Coast's resident florist; Let there be light - peruse our lighting shop; Show Scene - Chicago; Eliza Doolittle meets upstairs/downstairs; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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.
4to. (4) pp. With woodcut printer's device to t. p. Folded broadsheet. Rare contemporary news report about the victory of the Polish and Lithuanian army against the Ottoman troops at Kamianets and the fall of the Turkish-occupied fortress of Gyula to the Imperial troops in late 1694. Also published in German as "Umständliche Relation von dem herrlichen Sieg, welchen die polnische neben der litauischen Armee gegen die Türken und Tataren bei Kamieniec den 6. Oktober 1694 erhalten hat". In the Great Turkish War of 1683-99, the Holy League (Austria, Poland, Venice, and Russia) successfully defended Vienna, then re-conquered Hungary; the war ended with the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. Not in Italian libraries; not in OCLC.
2 text vols. (8vo) and 2 plate vols. (large folio). (2), 491, (1), (4) pp. 788, (6) pp. text. With engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco, sewn on 3 recessed cords (text vols.) and 4 tapes (plates vols.), "agate" chemical marbled sides. First edition of a beautiful series of illustrations of Egypt and classical Egyptian monuments, with the accompanying text volumes giving detailed information on each illustration. The illustrations show maps, costumes and views of both ancient and modern Egypt. The scientist and Egyptologist Girolamo Segato (1792-1836) began working on a new description and depiction of Egypt, selecting illustrations from the works of Denon, Grau and Rosellini, and also including his own original drawings. After his premature death his collaborator Domenico Valeriani finished the work and provided the accompanying texts. - Segato is best known for his technique similar to mummification, this technique of petrification remains mysterious, despite numerous studies and attempts to imitate, as he destroyed all his documentation before his death. - The text and plates volumes with marginal foxing throughout, minor except in the preliminary leaves. Otherwise in good condition. The binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, damage to the upper right corner of the first plates volume, resulting in a stain on the front endpapers, and the upper half of the sides on the second plate volume faded, otherwise good and structurally sound. Blackmer 1521 (plate volumes only, erroneously noting 159 plates). Blackmer sales cat. 984 (160 plates). Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 301. ICCU 0154707. For Segato: Almagia, "Segato, Girolamo" in: Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana (online ed.).
Hand-coloured engraved map (370 x 300 mm). Detailed map of the Kingdom of Persia, extending from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. Not in Tibbetts.
1960An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 70 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Bound For Illinois (story by E.V. Griffith); Allen Ginsberg - Prophet of the Beats; Lois Collins - Photo Feature; The Search For Annarette Monbarberg; Article on Golf by Rex Lardner; Photo feature and article on Jayne Mansfield; Working With Women (article); The Cannonball Adderly Quintet; Love Makes the Filly Go (horse race story); Stripper Libby Jones Talks Back; Fall Vest (Fashion) Lineup; The Death of Gachito - concerning 15 minutes in a bullring in Malaga and the making of a matador; Russ Meyer Describes his Favorite Model - article with color photos of Diane Webber; The Honeysuckle Jungle - story by Yewell Lybrand; and more. Unmarked with Average wear. This copy was fold in half vertically. A sound vintage copy. Book
1975réf. 004075Washington, American Enterprise Institute, 1975. -- Broschiert -- 8°
Large 4to. (8), 206, (4) pp. With 8 engraved plates. Contemp. full calf with giltstamped cover borders and giltstamped red label to gilt spine. Only edition. - The theologian J. G. Ch. Adler (1756-1834) had spent a long time in Rome and visited Europe's great libraries. During his scholarly journeys he had immersed himself in Greek and oriental manuscripts, studying especially the Syrian documents with a view to Biblical textual criticism. One of the scientific results of his labours is the present study: "notes regarding the manuscript Syriac translations so important for New Testament criticism" (cf. ADB). The plates show specimens from the Syrian manuscripts. - Evenly browned throughout with occasional insignificant staining. Appealingly bound. Hamberger/Meusel I, 29. ADB I, 86. Silvestre de Sacy 704. Darlow/Moule 8975 (note.). OCLC 5987315.
Large 4to. 55, (1) pp. With 3 engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary orange wrappers. First edition. - Rare numismatic treatise on Abbasid coins and their inscriptions in Kufic script. Separately pre-published from the "Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino", vol. 39 (1836). - Some duststaining; plates foxed, still a good, wide-margined copy. Not in Leitzmann.