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1809- Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809-1829, 53,5x71cm, une feuille. - Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the "Imperial edition" of the Description de l'Égypte, or 'Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'. Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image, otherwise in very fresh, fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte, one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799, the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates, of which 72 colored, as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The 'Egyptian campaign', militarily a disaster, demonstrates, through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte, the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte [Egyptian Institute] who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge, the chemist Berthollet, the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists, engineers, architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants. This edition, the so-called "Imperial" edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats, two of which were specially created for it and christened "Moyen-Egypte" and "Grand-Egypte". A special press was built to print it, the process extending over 20 years, from 1809 to 1829. The "Imperial" edition proved so popular that a second edition, this time in black and white and without the "Egypte ancienne et moderne" watermark - known as the "Royal Edition" - was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke (Paris). The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, illustrator, diplomat, collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon (the Louvre). His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there, thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte. Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51, reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte, the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté (brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, author of Roses), the mineralogist Dolomiue, and the draughtsman Joly, Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When, however, he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798, he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself, he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed "a country that is, apart from its name, entirely unknown to Europeans, and therefore everything was worth describing" (Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant
1868- J. Pougeois, Paris 1868, 15,5x24cm, relié. - Edition originale. Reliure en plein chagrin aubergine, dos à quatre fins nerfs sertis de filets dorés orné de triples caissons dorés agrémentés de motifs typographiques dorés, un petit manque en tête de la coiffe supérieure, encadrement d'un filet dorés sur les plats ornementés d'arabesques romantiques estampées à froid, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, tranches dorées, liserés dorés en tête et en pieds des coupes, élégante reliure romantique de l'époque. Etiquette de distribution de prix encollée sur un contreplat, rousseurs éparses affectant principalement les feuillets en tête. Exemplaire complet de sa carte dépliante in-fine. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1868Very Good English Original autograph letter signed (ALS) by Percy Smythe Strangford, (1825-1869), about Heinrich Julius Klaproth's manuscript, saying it was translated from a Russian book, "officially confided to him when at Turkestan in 1805 or thereabouts". 18x11,5 cm. In English. 30 lines in 2 p. Letterhead in Persian beneath a coronet, dated 19 November 1868. Heinrich Julius Klaproth, (1783-1835), was a German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, orientalist, and explorer. As a scholar, he is credited along with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, with being instrumental in turning East Asian Studies into scientific disciplines with critical methods. Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, (1825-1869), was a British nobleman and man of letters. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of the 6th Viscount Strangford, the British Ambassador, Ottoman Turkey, Sweden, and Portugal. During all his earlier years Percy Smythe was nearly blind, in consequence, it was believed, of his mother having suffered very great hardships on a journey up the Baltic Sea in wintry weather shortly before his birth. His education began at Harrow School, whence he went to Merton College, Oxford. He excelled as a linguist and was nominated by the vice-chancellor of Oxford in 1845 a student-attache at Constantinople. While at Constantinople, where he served under Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Smythe gained a mastery not only of Turkish and its dialects but of almost every form of modern Greek, from the language of the literati of Athens to the least Hellenized Romaic. He had already a large knowledge both of Persian and Arabic before going east, but until his duties led him to study the past, present, and future of the sultan's empire he had given no attention to the tongues which he well described as those of the international rabble in and around the Balkan peninsula. On succeeding his brother as Viscount Strangford in 1857 he continued to live in Constantinople, immersed in cultural studies. At length, however, he returned to England and wrote a good deal, sometimes in the Saturday Review, sometimes in the Quarterly Review, and much in the Pall Mall Gazette. A rather severe review in the first of these organs of the Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines of Emily Anne Beaufort (1826-1887) led to a result not very usual, the marriage of the reviewer and the author. Percy Smythe was president of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1861-64 and 1867-69.
1879Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original leather bdg. Missing last two pages of index. Large demy 8vo. (23 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script. 818 p. Nakd üt-tevârih. The chronological history of Rifat Efendi, from the Hidkat-i Adem Aleyhisselâm (Prophet Adam), to the end of the Hijri period of 1295 year. First and Only Edition. Özege 15019. Extremely rare.
1809réf. 23469Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 70 x 51.50 cm | une feuille
1975Very Good Turkish Original fine photograph. 55x54 cm. Framed. Signed by Kortan Tümerdem and Emine Öztekin on verso, on a card.
1779FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this important early work on Arabic grammar and comparative philology. 4, 140 pp. COPIOUS USE OF ELEGANT ARABIC TYPES THROUGHOUT. Printed with huge margins on fine laid paper. 4to. ENTIRELY UNCUT in recent unprinted wraps. Fore-edges of first and last leaves a bit dusty, otherwise internally clean. A pristine copy of a rare and important book.
Carolus Tauchnitz, Lipsiae. 1855. In-8 Carré. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Mors fendus. Intérieur acceptable. VIII + 529 pages (texte en arabe, sens de lecture droite-gauche). Texte encadré (filets rouges). Titre, filets et roulettes dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Epidermures sur le dos. Plats légèrement frottés. Annotations au crayon dans les marges (numérotations). Curavit Gustavus Mauritius REDSLOB. Editio Stereotypa, Novis Chartis Impressa.
1855réf. RO40251155Carolus Tauchnitz, Lipsiae. 1855. In-8. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Mors fendus, Intérieur acceptable. VIII + 529 pages (texte en arabe, sens de lecture droite-gauche). Texte encadré (filets rouges). Titre, filets et roulettes dorés sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Epidermures sur le dos. Plats légèrement frottés. Annotations au crayon dans les marges (numérotations).. . . . Classification Dewey : 492.7-Arabe
1735réf. PHO-2306Paris, Charles J.-B. Delespine fils, 1735. 5 (6) volumes in-12 (17,5x9,5cm), T1(4), xvi, (2), 470 pp., (22). T3(6), 558 pp., (17). T4(6), 572 pp., (16). T5 (5), 613 pp., (15). T6 (4) 615 pp., (17), veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges (Reliure de l'époque), différence de fleurons au tome 3, coins usés, coiffe abimée T5, manque le tome 2
1809réf. 23467Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 70 x 51.50 cm | une feuille
1809réf. 23425Imprimerie Impériale | Paris 1809-1829 | 70 x 51.50 cm | une feuille
1977réf. PHO-979Paris , Maisonneuve , 1977, 4 volumes in-4 , brochage éditeur , xxv-682pp-649pp-700pp-viii,676pp. , bon état
1896réf. 69877Alfred Mame & fils | Tours 1896 | 26 x 35.50 cm | relié
1961réf. 79463Les Editions de Minuit | Paris 1961 | 14 x 22.50 cm | broché
1840réf. 62125Louis Desessart | Paris 1840 | 13.50 x 22 cm | 2 volumes reliés
Fine French Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 10 p., 2 unnumbered b/w plates. Extremely rare early brief French edition of "Kitâb tu?fat al-zâ'ir fî târîkh al-Jazâ'ir wa-al-Amir 'Abd al-Qâdir" by Amir Abd al-Qadir's eldest son Mohammad Pasha, originally in Arabic in 1903 in 2 volumes, published for "the benefit of the national subscription of the Ottoman Fleet", including a brief biography of Abd al-Qadir, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century. This pamphlet including Amir Abd al-Qadir's biography written by his eldest son Mohammad Pasha has two b/w plates showing a photograph of al-Qadir and his medal that the municipality of Paris had struck in 1862, in memory of the banquet offered on behalf of the Parisian population to the Emir Abd-el-Kader. Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi (1808-1883), known as the Emir Abdelkader, Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century. As an Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly found himself leading a military campaign, he built up a collection of Algerian tribesmen that for many years successfully held out against one of the most advanced armies in Europe. His consistent regard for what would now be called "human rights", especially as regards his Christian opponents, drew widespread admiration, and a crucial intervention to save the Christian community of Damascus from a massacre in 1860 brought honors and awards from around the world. Within Algeria, his efforts to unite the country against French invaders saw him hailed as the "modern Jugurtha", and his ability to combine religious and political authority has led to his being acclaimed as the "Saint among the Princes, the Prince among the Saints". Amir Abd al-Qadir (Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi), (1808-1883), was a venerated Algerian Islamic scholar and a military leader who led a collective resistance against the mid-nineteenth century French colonial invasion of Algeria. He is remembered today as one of the nineteenth century's most inspiring leaders for his humane treatment of Christian opponents during Algeria's anti-colonial struggle and for leading an intervention to rescue the Christian community in Damascus from certain massacres in the midst of sectarian riots in 1860. Raised in his father's zawiya, he excelled as a student, memorizing the Qur'an by the age of 14, and studying the Islamic religious sciences as well as subjects such as philosophy, medicine, and mathematics. He was especially known as a gifted orator who outshone his peers in the recitation of poetry and in delivering religious talks. His father, a notable spiritual leader affiliated with the Qadiriyya order, recognized his son's precociousness and cast a leadership role upon him shortly after the invasion of Algeria by France in 1830. After his father, citing his old age, declined to lead a tribal campaign against the French in 1832, Abd al-Qadir found himself elected Emir, or Commander of the Faithful, to organize a resistance that, within a year under his leadership, would unite Algeria's western tribes. Emir Abd al-Qadir commenced a fifteen-year military struggle during which he often kept the French forces-which boasted one of the world's most advanced armies-at bay through skillful guerilla tactics, strategic negotiation and treaties, and visionary state-building. All the while, he demonstrated chivalry and compassion toward his opponents and allies alike, taking care, for instance, to respect the individual religious beliefs of his prisoners of war and also purposefully integrating Jews and Christians into his new state. At one point, he released his French prisoners because he did not have the means to feed them adequately. But, by 1847, partly due to ruthless scor
1864Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) ?Original decorative leather bdg. with five and four raised bands to spine. Seconds have lettering gilt. Traditional decorations on spines. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 volumes set: ([vi], 353 p.; [5], 361 p.). A well-preserved set. First Ottoman edition of the famous Khallikan's biographical dictionary, is a valuable source for his contemporaries and contains excerpts from earlier Middle Eastern biographies no longer extant, translated by Mehmed [or Muhammed] Rodosîzâde (?-1701), who was an Ottoman scholar from Ayasulug of Smyrna, and son of an Ottoman statesman from Rhodes. Muslim judge and author of a classic Arabic biographical dictionary. Ibn Khallikân studied in Irbîl, Aleppo, and Damascus. Ibn Khallikan was an assistant to the chief judge of Egypt until 1261 when he became "qâdî al-qudât" (i.e. chief judge) of Damascus. He adhered to the Shâfi'î branch of Muslim law, and for the first years had deputy judges of the other three main branches. In 1271 he was dismissed. He taught in Cairo until he regained his judgeship and returned to Damascus in 1278. Ibn Khallikân's fame rests on his biographical dictionary Wafayât al-a'yân wa-anbâ' abnâ' az-zamaân ('Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch'; trans. by Baron de Slane, Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, 1842-74). He began arranging material for it in 1256 and worked on it until 1274, continuing to improve it with marginal notes. He excluded the Prophet Muhammad, the caliphs, and other subjects about whom adequate information already existed. Ibn Khallikân selected factual material for his biographies with intelligence and scholarship and rounded them out with poetry and anecdotes. (Source: Encyclopediæ Britannica). Hegira: 1280. Gregorian: 1864. Not located in OCLC libraries outside Turkey.; Özege 20691.
1809- Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809-1829, 71x53,5cm, une feuille. - Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the "Imperial edition" of the Description de l'Égypte, or 'Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'. Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image, otherwise in very fresh, fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte, one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799, the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates, of which 72 colored, as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The 'Egyptian campaign', militarily a disaster, demonstrates, through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte, the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte [Egyptian Institute] who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge, the chemist Berthollet, the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists, engineers, architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants. This edition, the so-called "Imperial" edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats, two of which were specially created for it and christened "Moyen-Egypte" and "Grand-Egypte". A special press was built to print it, the process extending over 20 years, from 1809 to 1829. The "Imperial" edition proved so popular that a second edition, this time in black and white and without the "Egypte ancienne et moderne" watermark - known as the "Royal Edition" - was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke (Paris). The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, illustrator, diplomat, collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon (the Louvre). His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there, thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte. Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51, reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte, the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté (brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, author of Roses), the mineralogist Dolomiue, and the draughtsman Joly, Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When, however, he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798, he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself, he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed "a country that is, apart from its name, entirely unknown to Europeans, and therefore everything was worth describing" (Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant
1809- Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809-1829, 71x53,5cm, une feuille. - Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the "Imperial edition" of the Description de l'Égypte, or 'Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'. Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image, otherwise in very fresh, fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte, one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799, the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates, of which 72 colored, as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The 'Egyptian campaign', militarily a disaster, demonstrates, through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte, the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte [Egyptian Institute] who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge, the chemist Berthollet, the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists, engineers, architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants. This edition, the so-called "Imperial" edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats, two of which were specially created for it and christened "Moyen-Egypte" and "Grand-Egypte". A special press was built to print it, the process extending over 20 years, from 1809 to 1829. The "Imperial" edition proved so popular that a second edition, this time in black and white and without the "Egypte ancienne et moderne" watermark - known as the "Royal Edition" - was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke (Paris). The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, illustrator, diplomat, collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon (the Louvre). His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there, thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte. Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51, reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte, the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté (brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, author of Roses), the mineralogist Dolomiue, and the draughtsman Joly, Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When, however, he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798, he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself, he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed "a country that is, apart from its name, entirely unknown to Europeans, and therefore everything was worth describing" (Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant
1809- Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809-1829, 71x53,5cm, une feuille. - Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the "Imperial edition" of the Description de l'Égypte, or 'Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'. Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image, otherwise in very fresh, fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte, one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799, the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates, of which 72 colored, as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The 'Egyptian campaign', militarily a disaster, demonstrates, through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte, the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte [Egyptian Institute] who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge, the chemist Berthollet, the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists, engineers, architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants. This edition, the so-called "Imperial" edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats, two of which were specially created for it and christened "Moyen-Egypte" and "Grand-Egypte". A special press was built to print it, the process extending over 20 years, from 1809 to 1829. The "Imperial" edition proved so popular that a second edition, this time in black and white and without the "Egypte ancienne et moderne" watermark - known as the "Royal Edition" - was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke (Paris). The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, illustrator, diplomat, collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon (the Louvre). His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there, thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte. Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51, reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte, the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté (brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, author of Roses), the mineralogist Dolomiue, and the draughtsman Joly, Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When, however, he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798, he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself, he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed "a country that is, apart from its name, entirely unknown to Europeans, and therefore everything was worth describing" (Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant
1979- Editions Privat, Toulouse 1979, 16,5x24cm, agrafé. - Edition originale de ce tiré à part. Rare et émouvant envoi autographe daté et signé de Germaine Tillion sous son pseudonyme de résistante, Kouri, à son amie la résistante Denise Vernay, surnommée Myarka dans la Résistance, avec qui elle fut internée en camp de concentration : "Pour Myarka, le premier exemplaire en priorité. Kouri." Agréable exemplaire malgré une trace de pliure angulaire en tête du premier plat. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
réf. 23541My translator says the year 1797 appears in the script. I am obliged to a multi-lingual friend for the information I give. Eight pages pages 7/8 blank not paginated12mo unbound stains on title and its verso not affecting text. See images. Titled "This is the creed of sheikh al-Dardiri". Al-Dardiri was born in 1715 AD in Asyoot in Egypt. He's one of the imams of the Sunni Islam of Maliki school of thought. This document was written by Mohamed Ahmed Ibin Alhaj Mohamed Ahmed Abu Qaseesah in 1797. It discusses the twenty attributes in Sunni Islam that are obligatory for God Almighty according to Al-Dardiri. [My translator says the year 1797 appears in the script.] unknown
1754réf. AMO-2337A La Haye, 1754 2 parties en 1 volume in-12 (16 x 10 cm) de (2)-322-(6) pages. Reliure de l'époque pleine basane marbrée, dos à nerfs orné, tranches rouges. Usures aux coins et aux coiffes. Petits travaux de vers à la reliure, sans gravité. Intérieur frais avec de légères salissures à quelques feuillets. Complet. Édition originale. "J'ai eu l'honneur de vous parler d'un petit roman, Mirza et Fatmé, à qui la malignité du public a donné une sorte de vogue. Ce roman est encore dans le goût de ceux du comte d'Hamilton et de Crébillon : des fées, des génies, des enchantements, des allégories ; il y a très-longtemps qu'on est excédé de toutes ces choses-là. Cependant les applications très-satiriques qu'on n'a pas manqué de trouver dans plusieurs endroits de ce roman, lui ont fait une espèce de réputation qu'il ne mérite pas ; il n'est pas absolument mal écrit, mais on n'y trouve ni plan, ni conduite, ni intérêt. Je ne sais si j'ai tort d'être tant dégoûté des allégories que je le suis. Ce genre est si froid, si puéril, si insipide. Qu'est-ce que c'est, par exemple, que cette éducation de Mirza, que la fée du malheur a élevée dans l'île des Amis ? Peut-on se résoudre à travestir aussi puérilement une idée qui, quoique commune, ne laisse pas que d'être philosophique : voilà cependant une des plus ingénieuses allégories de ce roman ; ce n'est pas ainsi que nos maîtres en l'art d'écrire avaient de l'esprit. Voici quelques traits qui ont fait le plus de bruit : Le sultan est un prince imbécile, et par conséquent tyran, qui mesure le bonheur de son peuple au poids de son individu, qui veut un ministre qui le fasse rire, et qui prend dans ses titres de qualité de toujours gai, quoi qu'il soit le plus triste des sultans." (Correspondance de Grimm, janvier 1754). La Nouvelle Bibliothèque Universelle des Romans souligne le style vif et pur, et le but vraiment utile de cet ouvrage, puisqu'il tend à démontrer que le malheur est la plus utile des écoles pour tous les hommes, et surtout pour les souverains. Ce qui caractérise particulièrement cet ouvrage intéressant, est-il écrit, c'est la multitude des allégories ingénieuses, sous lesquelles l'auteur peint successivement le malheur, le despotisme, la superstition, le fanatisme, la volupté, l'avarice, l'amour, le désespoir, l'espérance, la terreur, l'amitié, la cour, le peuple, et la philosophie. Il n'est personne de sensé qui ne souscrive aux justes éloges qu'il prodigue à la dernière. "Au commencement du troisième [jour] il se trouve vis-à-vis d'un palais brillant. Le prince approcha, et lut fur le frontispice en gros caractère de diamant : Palais de l'espérance. Il avait été bâti par la Fée de l'Imagination ; on y était introduit par le Génie du Désir : on y attendait tous les jours l'Amour et la Fidélité pour les marier ensemble : le prince, après avoir traversé plusieurs cours, entra par un vestibule de marbre vert, dans un salon tout couvert de glaces de diamant, encadrées dans des bordures d'émeraude : il y avait au milieu un trône de même matière, sur lequel une jeune Fée était assise. [...]" (extrait, pp. 137-138. Où il est question de fées, d'enchanteurs, d'anneaux d'invisibilité ... L'auteur, Bernard-Joseph Saurin (1706-1781), tour à tour avocat, poète et chansonnier, était le fils du mathématicien Jospeh Saurin. Ses tragédies sont oubliées tout autant que ses comédies. S'il ne fallait retenir qu'une seule production de cet auteur ce serait certainement ce conte indien. Bon exemplaire de cet ouvrage peu commun.
1899réf. _202401103Paris, Éditions de la Revue Blanche, puis Eugène Fasquelle, Éditeur, 1899-1904 ; in-8 (148 x 234 mm), XXIV-[4°]-352 + 372 + [4]-320 + 336 + 304 + 306 + 276 + 356 + 336 + 328 + 348 + 324 + 332 + 336 + 332 + 292 pp., cartonnages d'éditeur, papier simili-toile, coloris vert clair, dos lisses, pièces de titre vert foncé, têtes rognées. Les 16 volumes. Éditions de la Revue Blanche (de 1899 à 1901) – [1902 ?] – Eugène Fasquelle, Éditeur (de 1903 à 1904). Traduction littérale et complète du texte arabe, par le Dr J.-C. MARDRUS.
