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8vo. LXXII, 452 pp. Near-contemporary half cloth with giltstamped red spine label. Edges sprinkled in red and blue. First edition. - A rare and scholarly investigation of the Arabic origins of star names, incorporating the first edition (with a German translation) of the relevant part of the famous "Aja'ib al-makhluqat" by the astronomer Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-83), which contains a description of the 48 constellations of Ptolemy and is hailed by Brockelmann as "the most valuable cosmography in Islamic culture" (GAL). Taking Qazwini's text as his guideline, the Prussian astronomer Ideler (1766-1846) provides a detailed commentary elucidating the respective Greek, Latin, oriental, and modern names of the stars. The final chapter is an essay on the Arabic nomenclature of celestial bodies, tracing the names' origins to the ancient nomadic Arabs (Bedu). Although Ideler was not an orientalist and claimed merely a scholarly working knowledge of Arabic, he had the advice of Oluf Gerhard Tychsen and Georg Beigel. The resulting text edition, translation and critical study were highly praised by Fück, who called the annotations "excellent". - Some browning throughout as common; professional repairs to spine. Old stamp and shelfmark of the Boston Arts Academy Library to title; handwritten ownership "J. Johnson / Jan.y 1930" to pastedown. Schnurrer p. 466f., no. 404. Fück 160 ("1810" in error). Kayser III, 248. OCLC 11828254. Cf. GAL S I, 882.
8vo. IV, 46 ff., 70 pp. (= counted as a total of 116 pp.), 1 blank page. Original coloured paper boards with printed cover label. Only Geman edition (published in German and Arabic parallel text) of this brief catechism of the tenets of Islam, written by Sayyid Muhammad, professor of Arabic in Nazareth and first published in Cairo (al-Matba'ah al-Kubra al-Amiriyah) in 1911. The German translation and vocalisation as well as the word index are by Mohammed Ibn-Brugsch (1860-1929). Includes a preface by Sadr-ad-Din, the Imam of the mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. - Published as vol. 1/3 within the series "Der islamische Orient, 2e Abt.: Arabische Schriften, E. Religion und Ethik". Extremely rare: only two copies known in libraries internationally (Basel and Leiden universities). - Appealingly bound in the style of the famous Insel Bücherei. An immaculate copy from the collection of Friedrich Pfitzner with his exlibris stamp to the title-page. OCLC 604591995.
Folio (ca. 350 x 493 mm). 17 aquatint plates in original hand colour and one double-page-sized aquatint map of the Mediterranean in original hand colour, all with captions in English. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title and 2 floral ornaments to spine. Marbled endpapers. Collection of 18 of the 43 illustrations from the account of the voyage of HMS Swiftsure and the Battle of the Nile by the British clergyman and artist Willyams (1762-1816), who served as chaplain aboard the ship, a vessel of Admiral Nelson's squadron captained by Benjamin Hallowell Carew. The 17 plates in the present volume show views of the caves of Gibraltar and the Spanish Church in the city, the Bay of Fournelles, Ischia, a street in Caiffe at the foot of Mount Carmel featuring two dromedars, Aboukir castle, caverns near Syracuse and the Temple of Minerva, the Palermo Capuchin catacombs, and a view of Scylla on the coast of Calabria, as well as an attack on the French camp near Aboukir, an attack of Turkish gun boats on the castle of Aboukir, and a group of three Arabs aboard the Swiftsure. The aquatint map shows the Mediterranean Sea with the courses of the British and French fleets up to their encounter in the Bay of Aboukir in August 1798. Designed by Willyams, the illustrations were engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler. - Binding somewhat rubbed near extremities. Right margins of several plates brownstained or a little worn (not touching image); map brownstained on left and right margins and near the gutter (hardly touching image); the plate with the entrance into the Ear of Dionysius with traces of 2 folds near lower right corner (not touching image). An appealing compilation of decorative images documenting the route of the British fleet leading up to the Battle of the Nile. For the original publication cf. Abbey 196. Blackmer 1813. Atabey (2nd ed.) 1339. Graesse VII, 456.
Folio (ca. 27 x 36 cm). [255] ll. With 13 illustrations, mostly showing different soil profiles relating to the fossils, including 10 drawn by hand. In a pink cardboard portfolio entitled "Fossils Mesozoic-Age (secondary)", including another portfolio with blue paper wrappers. Extensive correspondence addressed to George Stanfield Blake, mainly from Leslie Reginald Cox, discussing fossil specimens. Blake's additional correspondents were, among others, the deputy director of the "laboratoire de paleontologie" of the French national museum of natural history J. Coltreau and the director of the British museum of natural history C. Tate Regan. - Blake (1876-1940) was a British mineral and mining geologist and was from 1922 to 1939 the geological advisor to the Mandatory Government of Palestine, in which capacity he wrote and received the letters collected in the present portfolio. His work was essential, according to Israeli geologist Picard and others, for the expansion of geological knowledge of Palestine and Transjordan and their natural assets. Cox (1897-1965) was a British palaeontologist and malacologist (a specialist in molluscs), who was attached to the British museum of natural history and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. - Most of the letters are typed copies of letters with autograph signatures, except for a few autograph letters. The collection also includes a few illustrations of soil profiles and even some notes of thanks from the trustees of the British museum of natural history addressed to Blake, thanking him for his donations of information on fossils and the specimens themselves. - Paper wrappers show signs of wear, wrappers and documents inside are very slightly discoloured, most leaves are slightly frayed around the edges. Most leaves are numbered in blue pencil and the numbers correspond with the overview of the contents typed on a separate leaf, pasted on the inside of the front pink wrapper.
3 booklets, a magazine, and a menu. (1) EL-KHATIB, M. Fatallah (foreword). Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. New York, Arab Information Center, June 1958. 8vo. 43 pp. Includes: the Proclamation of the United Arab Republic, the Proclamation of the Arab Union, the Provisional Constitution of the United Arab Republic, the Charter of the United Arab States and the Constitution of the Arab Union. - (2) OMRAN, Abdel-Rahim. Public Health & Welfare in the Arab States: Past, Present and Future. New York, Arab Information Center, November 1959. 8vo. 32 pp. The booklet opens with a history of the Arab contributions to medicine followed by modern statistics. - (3) WRIGHT, Esmond. The Arab World. Current Affairs no. 125. London, Bureau of Current Affairs, 3 February 1951. 8vo. 19, (1) pp. Short overview of the Arab world. - (4) [MENU]. P&O menu. On board the S.S. Arcadia, Sunday 25 March 1962. 8vo. Menu with on front a coloured illustration of a Dhow in the Arabian Sea. Probably offered during a cruise in the Gulf.
5 glass positive lantern slides (85 × 100 mm), each with a black paper mask, paper tape around the edges, a letterpress slip at the foot giving the publisher's name and city, and a slip at the head with the manuscript title. Stored in a contemporary purpose-made wooden box with brass fittings, with the word "Mekka" on the top of the hinged lid. Five of the earliest and best photographs of Mecca and Medina, beautifully preserved as silver gelatin glass plates, including the first photograph of the Ka'ba in Mecca's Masjid al-Haram (Great Mosque). Two of the photographs were taken by the first person to photograph Mecca and Medina, the Egyptian Colonel Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832-1902), who made them in 1880 for the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The others were taken by the first European to photograph Mecca, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffâr, who worked closely with him. Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), one of the greatest pioneering Dutch Arabists, converted to Islam and lived in Mecca from January to about July 1885. The photographs by these three men are best known and most frequently reproduced from the published collotype facsimiles, while the rare surviving early albumen prints are usually faded or otherwise in bad condition. The present five plates, sold as lantern slides for magic lantern presentations, are therefore of the greatest importance as well-preserved high quality specimens of these famous photographs, providing the best early images of the mosques of Mecca and Medina. - All five slides are in very good condition, with only a bit of dust and the occasional smudge on the glass. They show: 1) The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca (the Great Mosque); 2) a closer view of the Ka'ba in Mecca; 3) the portrait of an unidentified Mu'ezzin in Mecca; 4) a portrait of an unidentified East Indian pilgrim; 5) the al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina (the Prophet's Mosque). Cf. D. v.d. Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (2011); J. J. Witkam, new introduction to the 2007 reprint of the 1931 English translation of Hurgronje, Mekka.
Hard Cover + DW 8vo, 160 pp, drawings.- SIGNED by Richard AULTMAN. Very Good++/Good+. [CA-12]
2002réf. 51938Stuttgart-Mönsheim. Stuttgarter Golf-Club Solitude e.v. 2002. 106, (2) Seiten. Mit zahlreichen teils faks. u. teils farbigen Abbildungen. Farbig ill. OKart.-Einband. Gutes Exemplar. 27x22 cm
2001réf. 056701Braunschweig., 2001. 63 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Guter Zustand. 4°. OPappband.
1961réf. 200211Hamburg, Reinbek-Wohltorfer Golf-Club, 1961. 26 S. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 4°, OBrosch.
Mostly 4to, with one letter in-8vo. 17 pp. altogether: 1) Leiden, 29 December 1835. 4to. 3 pp. - 2) Leiden, 28 January 1838. 4to. 3 pp. - 3) Leiden, 19 February 1838. 4to. 3 pp. - 4) Leiden, 26 March 1838. 4to. 2 pp. - 5) Leiden 20 March 1843. 4to. 3 pp. - 6) Leiden, 20 May 1844. 8vo. 3 pp. To the antiquary and astronomer Dr John Lee (1783-1866) of Hartwell, concerning oriental manuscripts, the museum at Leiden, and other matters. Together six letters, the first in French, the remainder in English. They include discussion of a Coptic manuscript at Haarlem; Egyptian cylinders at Leiden; Leemans’ work at the Reuvens Library and his Leiden Museum responsibilities; Lee’s own museum and observatory at Hartwell; the recommendation of a language teacher seeking work in London named Abraham Claudius Verspyck and the sending of one of Lee’s manuscripts (82) to Leiden, amongst other matters. - Final page of each letter with penned address panel, postal markings and small tears from seal opening not affecting text, some negligible dusting along old folds, each with small "B.R.A" stamp (sold by British Records Association). In very good condition.
1978Fotografias en color. Texto bilingüe ingles-español.
1970Fotografias en color.
2007Tela rigida editoriale con sovracopertina, pp 273
(Oblong) 12mo to small 4to. Together 14 pp. on 6 bifolia and 2 single sheets. The programme of the golf banquet stapled. Small archive of Velma Thomas, a golf enthusiast and wife of the Aramco engineer Orlin Orace Thomas, based at Ras Tanura. The programme of the 1953 golf banquet lists the members of the Aramco golf team of Ras Tanura, including team captain and Aramco administrator Karl Deloian. The other items document Velma Thomas's membership in the Rahimah Hollow Country Club of the Ras Tanura Golf Association, the Ras Tanura Women's Group of the Federation of American Women's Clubs overseas, and the Ain Nakhl country club in Abqaiq. - Small marginal flaws; occasional light brownstaining. Interesting collection documenting the thriving expat golf scene of Saudi Arabia.
1999réf. 111205Schorndorf : Hofmann 1999. 230 S. : zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst. 14,5*21 cm. OBroschur.
réf. 63-7249Divonne-Les Bains France: Hotel Du Golf 1963. 12mo. Light Card Stock 4 pp. Color Illustration to cover printed menu. Very Good. Provenance: Michelin Archives. Collection Guy Legay. Clermont-Ferrand France. Divonne-Les Bains, France: Hotel Du Golf, 1963. unknown
Oblong 8vo. (4), 42 mounted colour printed plates, some of which heightened in gold, (4) pp. Each plate matted with the corresponding letterpress Qur'an verse with red border to versos opposite. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary green full calf with giltstamped title to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Original stapled plain card slipcase. Only edition. A collection of 42 exquisite illustrations for selected suras from the Qur'an inspired by Persian miniatures. One of the earliest works by the Austrian-born painter and illustrator Lydis (1887-1970), a self-taught artist influenced by Islamic art as well as by the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita. Lydis settled in Paris in 1926 and escaped the Nazis during the occupation, living briefly in England before emigrating to Buenos Aires. Today she is best known for her illustrations in de luxe editions of Boccaccio, Louÿs, Baudelaire, Mirbeau and Valéry. - The plates, in colours and gold, were printed by Ganymed in Berlin, the text by Proeschel & Trepte in Leipzig. - Extremities slightly rubbed. Interior in mint condition. Vollmer III, 278. OCLC 187048571.
42 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:100,000 and 1:253,440 (a quarter-inch to a mile). 680 x 505 mm and 600 x 470 mm. An impressive collection of Iraq maps compiled from the most current aerial photography and produced by the British Army for use in the Persian war theatre. Includes 'Ain Sifni, Aqra, Tel Afar, Salman Pak, Ba'Quba, Sumaika, Penjwin, Halabja, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Dulaim, Erbil and Mosul divisions. - Previously folded. Generally well-preserved.
Small 4to. Together 15 pp. In stapled wrappers with handdrawn cover designs showing two angels, a shepherd with a lamb, and Bethlehem's star. Programmes of the Ras Tanura Protestant Fellowship, an organisation frequented by Aramco employees. The set includes schedules of the Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and Christmas service. - Occasional small marginal flaws to wrappers.
Large 4to. Altogether 6 pp. on 4 ff. In German, to a "dear doctor and friend": "[...] I should like to see you and your dear wife again before my departure [...]" (letter of 12 April; with punched holes in left margin [not touching text]). - "I arrived here 3 days ago after 4 weeks in Bad Hall - without any noticeable results [...]" (letter of 3 September). - "I took Anne Marie from Fetan, where she spent the summer, back to St. Blasien. She has not had the care she needs, but looks well altogether and is happy, though I am not [...]" (letter of 28 September). - "Thank you for your kind letter; I hope that you and your dear wife will do me the honour of dining with me on Saturday at 1 PM [...]" (letter of 6 October). - On stationery with printed address.
4to. Together 3½ pp. One letter on Aramco stationery. With a black-and-white original portrait photograph loosely enclosed. A small collection of letters by the Aramco employee Paul Schwarzenau, who joined the Dhahran Camp in 1952. - 3 letters to his mother describe his life in the Middle East. About an invasion of locusts: "The past 10 days here witnessed a mild invasion of locusts or what we commonly call grasshoppers. A year ago, shortly before i arrived here, they swarmed into this area as uninvited and unwelcome visitors and didn't leave until they had eaten or destroyed practically every piece of green vegetation. They certainly can pick out the color green with their acute vision and i barely reached home to hide my dollar bills from their search-for-green! [...]" (3 May 1953). - About Ramadan: "Three days ago the arab month of Ramadhan began [...] It's quite a hardship on the arabs who work daytime shift since they aren't heavyweights to begin with and after a few hours without nourishment they are in no shape for work-exertion. The company should abolish all daytime work during this month but of course it is all a big question of $$$$$$'s and the oil has to be kept moving regardless of any attempts, man-made or god-made, to interrupt the flow. Soooooo the old routine keeps spinning at a slower pace but in the same system [...]" (16 May 1953). - Enjoying living alone: "The young man who was rooming with me left for home yesterday after finishing his two-year contract. Not many new employees have been hired in recent months so that means that i'll be enjoying complete ownership of the room for some time to come. How lucky can i get? All this and a salary too! Ah yes, this is real living although I still can't understand why it should happen to a bum like me! [...]" (no place or date). - To Ruth, about the language barrier: "Yesterday spent some time with a man who had gone to Mt Hermon graduated in '34 - Edwin Thompson. He is in Training Dept & speaks arabic - took us more into Arab world - not too many Americans get over various hurdles - language being one important one. Most of Saudis get a little English" (no place or date). - The typed letters show cuts in several places.
8vo. Altogether 6 pp. Each with envelope. Together with a calling card (also with envelope). 3 letters by the French jockey Charles Alfred Lord about his own horses and races performed: "J'ai lessé Landrail là [à Rochefort], ayant à la faire courir à Fontenay-le-Comte, Sables d'Olonne et Chalans. Mais il ses trouvé de bon chevaux engager dans les deux premières réunions et ayant lessé un garçon avec la jument, je m'atander qu'il aurais fait ce que je lui avais dit, de la promener matin et soir en main; comme il n'étais pas assez fort pour la tenir, je lui ais enlevez la selle afin qu'il ne la monte pas pour ne pas quelle s'emballe. Si il avez fait ce que je lui avais dit, elle aurais été prete à courir comme elle été assez prete lorsque je lais monté. Il ny avais qu'à la maintenir par des promenades. Faites en ce que vous voudrais. Elle s'atellera bien j'en suis sur. Faites en votre jument de service et lorsque je viendrai je vous aporterai selle et bride pour la monter et la tenir. Si je vais à Pau cet hivert, on la fera saillir par Lord-Sting pour faire un demi sang. Si non vous la ferais saillir par un troteur et comme elle a de bonne dispositions pour troter, cela vous fera un troteur [...]". - On headed paper.
4to. Altogether 2 pp. On various matters. Emil Brugsch is known as the official who "evacuated" the mummies from the Deir el-Bahri cache in 1881, and for serving as assistant curator of the Bulaq Museum - the nucleus of what is today the Egyptian Museum. - With punched holes. Two letters with French editiorial notes
Small 4to. Altogether 3 pp. 1. Birth certificate of the foal Tulip, born of a thoroughbred mare "d'espèce de Selle" and a royal stud of the same stud farm, Pompadour (document partly printed, signed by the domain administrator de Pompadour). 2. Certificate of Affiliation. 3. Document concerning the mare's sale.
