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1871- Imprimerie Mourès & Cie, Alexandrie , in-4, relié. - Edition originale. Reliure moderne en demi-basane bleu foncé, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, plats de la couverture conservés, couverture renforcée, traces de lavage. Ce projet de réforme du Code Civil égyptien fut élaboré pendant le règne d'Ismaïl-Pacha. Il parut peu après l'inauguration du Canal de Suez. Le vice-roi puis khédive d'Égypte, qui avait été formé en France, notamment à l'École d'État-major, manifestait un désir sincère d'ouvrir l'Égypte au progrès. Nombreuses annotations manuscrites au crayon en début de volume. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1931Very Good Arabic Original brown half leather bindings in Egyptian style, raised six bands to spine, title gilt on the second, volume nos on fourth, and alphabetical with the historical content of the volumes on sixth compartments and "Mahmoud Al-Tawawî" name. Minor foxing on some pages. Overall a very good set. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 14 books are complete set in 7 volumes. Extremely rare first printed edition of the most comprehensive and complete corpus on Baghdad city, which includes Al-Baghdadi's first-hand account of the collection of hadiths, biographies, and his travels in the 11th century Baghdad in traditional "al-râwî" style. Al-Baghdadi is known as a Muslim traveler in the pursuit of knowledge who compiled hadiths and traveled to many Islamic cities. He was born on the 24th ?jumada II, 392 (1002) at Darzidjan, a large village on the west bank of the Tigris below Baghdad. The son of a khatib [i.e. preacher], he began his studies very early and spent his youth traveling in search of ?adith. In this way, he visited Basra, Nishapur, I?fahân, Hamadân, and Damascus. Finally settling in Baghdâd, he held the office of a kha?îb and this was the origin of the name al-Khatîb al-Bag_dadi. After completing his education, he spent more than twenty years of his time writing "Tarikh Baghdad". He finished his corpus in 444 AH [1052-53]. He was a fellow student of Rîsürrüesâ Ibn al-Muslima who was the vizier of the Abbasid caliph Kâim-Biemrillâh. The vizier took Khatib, whom he appreciated in the science of hadith, under his patronage. The Abbasid caliph, therefore, ordered Khatib to be given permission to take hadith lessons from him. Khatib started to narrate hadiths from "Tarikh Baghdad" to his students here in his house near the Nizâmiya Madrasa, on the other hand, he started to read the books for which he had permission to narrate from many teachers, also write the books he planned. Several years after, the Turkish commander Besasiri (?-1060), who was a supporter of the Fatimid Caliph Mustansir-Billâh, entered Baghdad with the encouragement of the Fatimid caliph, deposed the caliph, and killed Ibn al-Muslima. Some members of the Hanbali sect, who had a grudge against Khatib because of what they wrote against some Hanbalis in Tarikh Baghdad, started to disturb him by taking the opportunity to kill the vizier. Therefore, he had to flee to Damascus. In his masterpiece, Khatibi, in addition to his account and descriptions of the city during his time in Baghdad, 7831 figures of people in total who lived or came in Baghdad before 450 (1058), statesmen such as caliphs, viziers, commanders, poets, judges, and other professions. This is an alphabetical work giving information about biographies of these figures, but it starts with the name "Muhammad" referring to the Muslim prophet. The first volume is about the establishment of Baghdad in the pre-Islamic period, its conquest by the Muslims, and its history. This masterpiece of him, published in fourteen volumes, is the most comprehensive corpus written on Baghdad in the Islamic world including the city's topography, history, et alli. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 401; Suppl., I, 563.; H. Gibb, "Islamic Biographical Literature".; F. Rosenthal, A History of Muslim Historiography, Leiden 1968, p. 14, 43. Only one set in OCLC in BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France): 1198963531.
1870réf. 73160Alger s. d. [circa 1870] | 13 x 17 cm | 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album
1870réf. 73485Alger s. d. [circa 1870] | 13 x 17 cm | 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album
1889réf. 84378Matbaa-i-Osmaniye | Istanbul 1889 | 13.20 x 18.80 cm | relié
1595réf. 0044291595 [Anvers], Ortelius, 1595. Deux cartes (51 X 39 cm) et (50 X 33 cm) sous cadres en pichepin.
1717In-8°, (30 cc) compreso ritratto, antiporta e frontespizio, pp. 272, 4 carte ripiegate, legatura in pelle con titolo al dorso. Prima edizione. La prima parte di questo lavoro, intitolata Compendium theologiae mohammedicae arabice et latine, è un'edizione in arabo, con traduzione, di una piccola opera simile al Mukhtasar di Abû Suj ed è probabilmente la prima edizione stampata di un'opera islamica così essenziale in Occidente . La seconda parte è il contributo più importante di Reelant per una migliore comprensione dell'Islam in cui si propone di correggere molte credenze popolari con citazioni dal Corano e da altre fonti arabe. In-8°, (30 cc) including portrait, frontispice and title page, pp. 272, 4 engraved folded plates, binding in calf with title at the spine. First edition.The first part of this work, entitled Compendium theologiae mohammedicae arabice et latine is an edition in Arabic, with translation, of a small work similar to Abû Sujâ s Mukhtasar and is probably the first printed edition of such an essential Islamic work in the West. The second part is Reelant’ s most important contribution towards a better understanding of Islam in which he sets out to rectify many popular misbeliefs with quotations from the Coran and other Arabic sources.
1947réf. 184799London: Geographical Section General Staff 1947. Arabic and military cartography Rare first and only edition of this Arabic glossary for use on foreign maps produced by the British War Office. It explains the use of Arabic terms on maps covering territories to the east of the Libyan-Egyptian border and was part of an extensive series published in the 1940s. The spelling and transliteration follow the RGS II System conventions devised by the Royal Geographical Society's Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in 1921 updating those used by the War Office and Admiralty after 1885. The introduction includes a survey of the history of the Arabic language its alphabet pronunciation and dialects in view of instructing soldiers pilots and surveyors on how to read and pronounce names on maps of the Middle East. "An Arabic word may appear on European maps in numerous transliterated forms each depending upon the national authority of the map and the principle of transliteration applied to the names on it" p. 2 due to the "considerable play" between a e and i and other such alternative renditions of specific letters and sounds. The four-column table provides abbreviations transliteration the Arabic-script version and the meaning of Arabic words commonly found on maps. For instance aqra' is rendered as "without vegetation" ashqar as "reddish" ghurd as "sand dune" and zallaq as "slippery place" specifying if a noun is a plural and/or in a different grammatical case. Words originating from other languages Berber Hebrew Greek Latin Turkish and Persian are also identified. Octavo 270 x 185 mm. pp. 28 2. Text in Arabic and English. Original printed brown paper wrappers three punch holes. Wrappers lightly waterstained along lower edge foot of spine rubbed traces of adhesive at foot of front wrapper contents toned but clean: a very good copy. unknown
1870- Alger s.d. (circa 1870), Album : 13x17cm / photographies : 6,3x10,4cm, 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album. - Photographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour Algiers [ca 1870] | Album: 13 x 17 cm / photographs: 6.3 x 10.4 cm | 28 carte de visite portraits in an album Photographic album comprising 28 photograph portraits, in contemporary albumen print, pasted on card in carte-de-visite format. These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility. Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing. Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European photographers established in Algeria. A Swiss expatriate in Algeria, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) was immersed in photography from childhood. In 1852, his mother joined forces with Antoine Alary, one of the pioneers of Algerian photography; together they founded a studio which lasted until 1867, when Jean Geiser took charge. Initially specialising in portraits of the city's European bourgeois, the photographer quickly understood the city's interest for folk images. These rare and magnificent "typical" portraits, depicting all the layers of the indigenous populations - from street children to caïd - are today sought after for their ethnographic value, testimony of an Algeria at the dawn of colonisation. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Album photographique constitué de 28 portraits photographiques, en tirage albuminé d'époque, contrecollés sur des cartons au format carte de visite. Ces photographies, bien contrastées et finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, sont d'une grande intensité : les modèles y fixent avec fierté et noblesse l'objectif du photographe. Reliure en plein cuir noir grainé, fermoir de métal, toutes tranches dorées. Frottements. Superbe témoignage photographique par l'un des premiers photographes européens établis en Algérie. Suisse expatrié en Algérie, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) a baigné dans la photographie depuis son enfance. En 1852, sa mère s'associe à Antoine Alary, l'un des pionniers de la photographie algérienne ; ensemble ils fondent un studio qui perdurera jusqu'en 1867 date à laquelle Jean Geiser prendra sa direction. D'abord spécialisé dans les portraits de bourgeois européens de la ville, le photographe comprend bien vite l'intérêt de la métropole pour les images folkloriques. Ces rares et magnifiques portraits « types », dépeignant toutes les couches de la population indigène - de l'enfant des rues au caïd - sont aujourd'hui recherchés pour leur valeur ethnographique, témoignage d'une Algérie à l'aube de la colonisation.
1870- Alger s.d. (circa 1870), Album : 13x17cm / photographies : 6,3x10,4cm, 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album. - Photographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour Algiers [ca 1870] | Album: 13 x 17 cm / photographs: 6.3 x 10.4 cm | 28 carte de visite portraits in an album Photographic album comprising 28 photograph portraits, in contemporary albumen print, pasted on card in carte-de-visite format. These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility. Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing. Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European photographers established in Algeria. A Swiss expatriate in Algeria, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) was immersed in photography from childhood. In 1852, his mother joined forces with Antoine Alary, one of the pioneers of Algerian photography; together they founded a studio which lasted until 1867, when Jean Geiser took charge. Initially specialising in portraits of the city's European bourgeois, the photographer quickly understood the city's interest for folk images. These rare and magnificent "typical" portraits, depicting all the layers of the indigenous populations - from street children to caïd - are today sought after for their ethnographic value, testimony of an Algeria at the dawn of colonisation. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Album photographique constitué de 28 portraits photographiques, en tirage albuminé d'époque, contrecollés sur des cartons au format carte de visite. Ces photographies, bien contrastées et finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, sont d'une grande intensité : les modèles y fixent avec fierté et noblesse l'objectif du photographe. Reliure en plein cuir noir grainé, fermoir de métal, toutes tranches dorées. Frottements. Superbe témoignage par l'un des premiers photographes européens établis en Algérie. Suisse expatrié en Algérie, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) a baigné dans la photographie depuis son enfance. En 1852, sa mère s'associe à Antoine Alary, l'un des pionniers de la photographie algérienne ; ensemble ils fondent un studio qui perdurera jusqu'en 1867 date à laquelle Jean Geiser prendra sa direction. D'abord spécialisé dans les portraits de bourgeois européens de la ville, le photographe comprend bien vite l'intérêt de la métropole pour les images folkloriques. Ces rares et magnifiques portraits « types », dépeignant toutes les couches de la population indigène - de l'enfant des rues au caïd - sont aujourd'hui recherchés pour leur valeur ethnographique, témoignage d'une Algérie à l'aube de la colonisation.
1833réf. 365677Ottoman lands 1833. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Leather wallet binding with fore edge guard boards decorated with a shamsa motif in blind top edge marked in ink "Sharh al-Shatibi". A bit shaken textblock loose in binding very good overall. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Ibn al-QÄsıh 1316-1399 C.E. an eminent scholar of Qira'at and Islamic textual transmission was born in Baghdad and studied in Egypt where he mastered the ten canonical recitations 'ashara. He later became a renowned instructor at Madânî Mosque where he taught many scholars. His works particularly Siraj al-QÄriʾal-mubtadî wa Tadhkar al-Muqriʾal-mutahi are critical to the tradition of Qira'at pedagogy. This manuscript is an early nineteenth-century copy of a standard work an extensive and detailed commentary on al-Shatıbi's Ḥırz al-Amani a foundational text in the science of Qur'anic recitation. While al-Shatıbi's work is a didactic poem that systematically presents the rules of Qira'at this commentary expands upon its meanings with in-depth linguistic grammatical and recitational analyses providing a comprehensive exegesis that was widely studied by advanced scholars. The presence of extensive marginal annotations suggests active scholarly engagement making this manuscript an invaluable resource for the study of classical Qira'at methodologies and textual transmission. A significant scholarly manuscript offering a deeply analytical and authoritative commentary on one of the most important texts in the Qira'at tradition. unknown
1833réf. 365677Ottoman lands 1833. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Leather wallet binding with fore edge guard boards decorated with a shamsa motif in blind top edge marked in ink "Sharh al-Shatibi". A bit shaken textblock loose in binding very good overall. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Ibn al-QÄsıh 1316-1399 C.E. an eminent scholar of Qira'at and Islamic textual transmission was born in Baghdad and studied in Egypt where he mastered the ten canonical recitations 'ashara. He later became a renowned instructor at Madânî Mosque where he taught many scholars. His works particularly Siraj al-QÄriʾal-mubtadî wa Tadhkar al-Muqriʾal-mutahi are critical to the tradition of Qira'at pedagogy. This manuscript is an early nineteenth-century copy of a standard work an extensive and detailed commentary on al-Shatıbi's Ḥırz al-Amani a foundational text in the science of Qur'anic recitation. While al-Shatıbi's work is a didactic poem that systematically presents the rules of Qira'at this commentary expands upon its meanings with in-depth linguistic grammatical and recitational analyses providing a comprehensive exegesis that was widely studied by advanced scholars. The presence of extensive marginal annotations suggests active scholarly engagement making this manuscript an invaluable resource for the study of classical Qira'at methodologies and textual transmission. A significant scholarly manuscript offering a deeply analytical and authoritative commentary on one of the most important texts in the Qira'at tradition. unknown books
1678in-4. pp.16,358,4. Perg. Coeva. un legno nel testo con la sorgente del Nilo.
réf. 37970London: H.S. Nichols Ltd. 1897. . Limited Library edition one of 570 sets and one of only a few sets issued in the publisher’s full morocco bindings set of twelve volumes full brown bevelled morocco with lavishly decorated boards in gilt gilt decorations to spine five raised bands inner dentelles gilt t.e.g. patterned endpapers b/w frontispiece portrait to first volume b/w plates with caption-sheets; neat ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper and to front free endpaper verso light wear to leather at extremities a very good set. London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1897. hardcover
réf. 66237Khenchara Lebanon: Monastery of St John the Baptist 1787. 8vo. 17 x 10 cm. pp. x735. Contemporary russet morocco binding floral decoration stamped in blind on back and front spine with raised bands manuscript title-label in Arabic stuck to the top of the spine. A number of small engravings including one of the nativity head- and tail-pieces. Edges and corners rubbed small area of water damage to back board; internally there is some occasional light water-staining and foxing. Generally very good. This is the second impression of a Horologion printed in Arabic at the press established in 1734 at the Monastery of St John the Baptist in Khenchara by Abdallah Zakhir. It contains the breviary hymns and prayers for the Byzantine rite printed in black and red Arabic script. Khenchara, Lebanon: Monastery of St John the Baptist, 1787. hardcover
1925réf. 000514Damascus: al- Matba'a al- Haditha 1925 Book. As New. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A comprehensive work by a well-known scholar and politician from Damasscus about the city including the political social and the other aspects during the Ottoman synasty in the last period. Six volumes 4to. in Arabic printed between 1343 and 1347 AH. 1925 and 1927 AD. in Damascus. 309 317 271 310 308 425 p. in later fine bindings. al- Matba'a al- Haditha hardcover
First and only edition, small folio (305 x 190 mm), [12], xix, [1], 705, [1]pp., woodcut title page vignette in Arabic, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, several leaves folding, a couple of minor repairs to inner margin of title, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a handsome copy with text clean and fresh. This volume 'forms a complete treatise in itself, since the it exhausts the Science of Arabic Inflexion'?Preface. All published, the intended second volume of Arabic "syntax" never made it to print.
1696réf. PHO-1981Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696 ; 5 parties en 2 vol. in-folio (37x23,5cm), veau marbré, dos à nerfs richement orné de motifs dorés avec tomaison et pièce de titre grenat, quelques frottements, charnières fendillées, manque au dos, coins usés, coiffes absentes, 8 feuillets détachés, rousseurs, qlqs feuillets brunis. L’illustration comporte de nombreuses gravures et illustrations dans et hors texte, 6 cartes dont la carte de l’Indostan, de la Colchide, du Japon (qui regarde l’Amérique), carte de la route du voyage de Canton à Péking, carte de l’Éthiopie, carte de l'Éthiopie ["Entrée de quelques ports…"]. Il manque la Carte de Bassorah, les 2 planches de caractères Chaldéens, la carte de l’Australie, la carte des côtes d’Arabie et d’Asie, la carte des Costes de Sierlionne, la carte des Philippines et Chine, la carte de Chine
1834réf. 372732Malta: press of the Anglican Church Missionary Society 1834. First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison 7 plates captioned in Arabic. 6 281 1 imprint 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Original silky cloth over boards twentieth-century binder's cloth spine. Joints crudely rehinged title leaf reinforced at gutter; binding cracked and a few leaves loosened. Contemporary presentation inscription on pastedown. Very good internally fine. First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison 7 plates captioned in Arabic. 6 281 1 imprint 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress translated into Arabic with a life of the author by Christoph Friedrich Schlienz. From the title page this is nominally the first volume but press marks are continuous and the text is complete: the end part twentieth sees the Pilgrim reach the Celestial City. Printed at Malta by the Anglican missionaries. William R. Whittingham 1805-1879 graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. This copy with his contemporary gift inscription to the GTS library "From the Rev. W.R. Whittingham 1834" RARE FIRST EDIITION IN ARABIC of a classic of English literature and of Christian devotion. Roper Arabic printing in Malta 1825-1845 56. OCLC: 57188645 Columbia Glasgow Tübingen 643954559 Manchester. Provenance: William R. Whittingham gif tinscription 1834; General Theological Seminary bookplates and inkstamps press of the Anglican Church Missionary Society unknown
1834réf. 372732Malta: press of the Anglican Church Missionary Society 1834. First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison 7 plates captioned in Arabic. 6 281 1 imprint 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Original silky cloth over boards twentieth-century binder's cloth spine. Joints crudely rehinged title leaf reinforced at gutter; binding cracked and a few leaves loosened. Contemporary presentation inscription on pastedown. Very good internally fine. First edition in Arabic. Title vignette of Bunyan in prison 7 plates captioned in Arabic. 6 281 1 imprint 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo in 6s. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress translated into Arabic with a life of the author by Christoph Friedrich Schlienz. From the title page this is nominally the first volume but press marks are continuous and the text is complete: the end part twentieth sees the Pilgrim reach the Celestial City. Printed at Malta by the Anglican missionaries. William R. Whittingham 1805-1879 graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. This copy with his contemporary gift inscription to the GTS library "From the Rev. W.R. Whittingham 1834" RARE FIRST EDIITION IN ARABIC of a classic of English literature and of Christian devotion. Roper Arabic printing in Malta 1825-1845 56. OCLC: 57188645 Columbia Glasgow Tübingen 643954559 Manchester. Provenance: William R. Whittingham gif tinscription 1834; General Theological Seminary bookplates and inkstamps press of the Anglican Church Missionary Society unknown books
1848réf. ST14540Leipsic Leipzig: Guillaume Vogel fils 1848. FIRST EDITION. 225 x 142 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". XXV pp. 4 p.l. 231 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE AND UNUSUAL CONTEMPORARY BLUE CLOTH BY F. J. CRUSIUS OF LEIPZIG his ticket on verso of front free endpaper WITH ORNATE STAMPED DECORATION IN THE ROMANTIC STYLE in gilt colors and blind covers with rocaille frame and large central arabesque in red and gilt smooth black roan spine with stylized gilt vine brown and tan lattice-work printed endpapers and edges. Text in French and Arabic on facing pages. Front flyleaf with AUTHOR'S INK PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION to Monsieur P. Desmaison see below. ◆One corner slightly bumped leaves lightly and uniformly browned due to paper quality a few other trivial imperfections but A NEARLY FINE AND VERY PLEASING COPY with few signs of wear inside or out. This is a beautifully preserved copy of a rare guide to spoken Arabic that features special provenance in an embossed and painted cloth binding that can almost pass as onlaid morocco. Our author Sheikh Mouhammad Ayaad El-Tantavy or al-Tantawi 1810-61 was an instructor of languages and literature at Al Azahr University in Egypt when he came to the attention of Russian diplomats in Cairo whose interpreter had attended his classes. The Russian consul to the Ottoman Empire which then occupied Egypt requested that El-Tantavy be lent to the Institute of Oriental Languages in the Russian foreign ministry and once he arrived in St. Petersburg in 1840 he never left. In addition to teaching languages at the school for Russian diplomats he was a professor of Arabic at St. Petersburg University eventually becoming the Chair of Arabic Studies. The present work is a guide to spoken Arabic for diplomats with the parallel texts in Arabic and French then the international language for diplomacy. France Russia and the Ottoman Empire had been engaged in a series of conflicts for some years so this tool would have had very practical application. It is recommended in the 1855 book "The Languages of the Seat of War in the East" by Friedrich Max Muller. The present copy is inscribed by the author to Jean-Jacques-Pierre Desmaisons 1807-73 the Franco-Russian director of training in Oriental languages in the Asiatic department of the Russian foreign ministry and El-Tantavy's supervisor there. The fact that Desmaisons would not have needed to make practical use of our volume goes some way to account for its fine condition. Binder F. J. Crusius developed machinery to facilitate the lavish decoration of bindings in innovative ways--like using paint to imitate leather as in the present example--achieving aesthetically pleasing results with far less labor and expense than would have been necessitated by hand work. The "Report of the Assessment Commission at the General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854" notes that Crusius displayed plan drawings of his invention at the fair. Copies of the first edition of this work are rare with OCLC finding just 12 in libraries worldwide and none in North America. We could find no copies recorded at auction. Guillaume Vogel fils unknown
1848réf. ST14540Leipsic Leipzig: Guillaume Vogel fils 1848. FIRST EDITION. 225 x 142 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". XXV pp. 4 p.l. 231 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE AND UNUSUAL CONTEMPORARY BLUE CLOTH BY F. J. CRUSIUS OF LEIPZIG his ticket on verso of front free endpaper WITH ORNATE STAMPED DECORATION IN THE ROMANTIC STYLE in gilt colors and blind covers with rocaille frame and large central arabesque in red and gilt smooth black roan spine with stylized gilt vine brown and tan lattice-work printed endpapers and edges. Text in French and Arabic on facing pages. Front flyleaf with AUTHOR'S INK PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION to Monsieur P. Desmaison see below. ◆One corner slightly bumped leaves lightly and uniformly browned due to paper quality a few other trivial imperfections but A NEARLY FINE AND VERY PLEASING COPY with few signs of wear inside or out. This is a beautifully preserved copy of a rare guide to spoken Arabic that features special provenance in an embossed and painted cloth binding that can almost pass as onlaid morocco. Our author Sheikh Mouhammad Ayaad El-Tantavy or al-Tantawi 1810-61 was an instructor of languages and literature at Al Azahr University in Egypt when he came to the attention of Russian diplomats in Cairo whose interpreter had attended his classes. The Russian consul to the Ottoman Empire which then occupied Egypt requested that El-Tantavy be lent to the Institute of Oriental Languages in the Russian foreign ministry and once he arrived in St. Petersburg in 1840 he never left. In addition to teaching languages at the school for Russian diplomats he was a professor of Arabic at St. Petersburg University eventually becoming the Chair of Arabic Studies. The present work is a guide to spoken Arabic for diplomats with the parallel texts in Arabic and French then the international language for diplomacy. France Russia and the Ottoman Empire had been engaged in a series of conflicts for some years so this tool would have had very practical application. It is recommended in the 1855 book "The Languages of the Seat of War in the East" by Friedrich Max Muller. The present copy is inscribed by the author to Jean-Jacques-Pierre Desmaisons 1807-73 the Franco-Russian director of training in Oriental languages in the Asiatic department of the Russian foreign ministry and El-Tantavy's supervisor there. The fact that Desmaisons would not have needed to make practical use of our volume goes some way to account for its fine condition. Binder F. J. Crusius developed machinery to facilitate the lavish decoration of bindings in innovative ways--like using paint to imitate leather as in the present example--achieving aesthetically pleasing results with far less labor and expense than would have been necessitated by hand work. The "Report of the Assessment Commission at the General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854" notes that Crusius displayed plan drawings of his invention at the fair. Copies of the first edition of this work are rare with OCLC finding just 12 in libraries worldwide and none in North America. We could find no copies recorded at auction. Guillaume Vogel fils unknown books
réf. 63499Romae Rome: Ex Typographia Medicea 1619. Folio 33.5x21 cm. pp. 4 9-462 2 with at recto the printer's letter repeated with the date of the 1591 original edition blank at verso. Contemporary green vellum spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments red Morocco label marbled endpapers edges dyed red. Title printed in red and black with Medici's woodcut coat-of-arms printer's advice "Typographus lectori". With 149 text woodcuts by Leonardo Parassole c.1570-c.1630 after Antonio Tempesta 1555-1630 their monograms appearing on a number of the illustrations. The woodcuts are remarkable examples of Tempesta's work notable for their clarity of composition and their didactic narrative of the episodes depicted. Ex libris Luigi Bossi Milan 1758-1835 with his engraved heraldic bookplate to front pastedown along with T. Fenteman & Sons Leeds booksellers label to upper corner. Title-page lightly browned boards faded and discoloured some occasional light toning generally a very good copy printed on thick paper the woodcuts in strong impressions throughout. Rare 1619 reissue or of the original 1591 stock of the Arabic Medicean Gospels. The text lines are almost identical with those of the Arabic issue but now have an interlinear Latin version added which was prepared by Antonius Sionita. In 1584 the last year of the papacy of Gregory XIII who had constantly endeavoured to effect a union between the Church of Rome and the eastern Christians Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici the brother and later the successor of the Grand Duke of Tuscany founded a printing press in Rome with a vast selection of oriental types cut by the French typographer Robert Granjon. Run by a versatile orientalist Giovan Battista Raimondi the press had various aims. One was to produce propaganda which would attract the eastern Christians to Roman Catholicism. Another was to corner the publishing market in an area where typography was prohibited and to make a financial profit from the sale in the east of books printed in Arabic. The third aim was to further European knowledge and to provide good editions of Arabic versions of certain standard non-religious texts. These included the writings of Avicenna al-Idrisi's geographical compendium al-Tusi's adaptation of Euclid's text on geometry and various works on Arabic grammar and syntax. The first major publication was the 1591 edition of the Gospels. This copy has an interlinear Latin translation but the work was also issued solely in Arabic. It contains 149 fine woodcut illustrations made by Leonardo Parasole mainly after designs by one of the best known Florentine artists of his day Antonio Tempesta who owed much of his fame to the frescoes he painted in the Vatican and in a number of Roman palaces. The woodcut in the Gospel of St Mark of the presentation of the head of John the Baptist to Salome Mark 6:28 by a man in Turkish dress reminds us of the common association between the great enemy of Christendom in the sixteenth century and the ancient heathens. 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. Darlow & Moule 1637 & 1643; Schnurrer Bibliotheca arabica 318; Brunet II 1122-23; Graesse II 531 Romae [Rome]: Ex Typographia Medicea, 1619. hardcover
1830réf. ABC_483971830. Contemporary navy blue morocco with the title lettered in gold on spine marbled endpapers. 4to 21.5 x 27 cm. With 2 folding tables 17 lines to the page written in red and black ink. A unique handwritten vocabulary and phrasebook of English and Arabic from the first half of the 19th century. This meticulously prepared manuscript is written in the fashion of a printed book opening with a title page and ending with an index of topics. It is divided into four main sections: nouns adjectives verbs and example sentences. The vocabulary especially in the nouns section is arranged by subjects which include such interesting headings as "Druggist" "Painter" "Merchant" "Cities" "the Bride's Paraphernalia" "Precious Jewels" "War" "The Church" "Clerical Vestments" "Ecclesiastical Degrees & Kinds of Sin" "Festivals" and "Monks their prayers and their dress". Presumably the dictionary was created to help a traveller or merchant who may have had an association with the Church. The final section offers an interesting selection of phrases and sheds some light on the experience of foreign language learning in the early 19th century. The phrases are a mixture of sentences that would be useful in daily life and such as would be included to practice the words from the vocabulary. Examples include: "We roasted a lamb and ate the whole of it and drank wine with it"; "I descended from above with the youth my enemy"; "I shot the bear in the water and he sank"; and "Why dost thou scratch thy head and spit in fire". As a cheat sheet for Arabic grammar the author includes two folding tables of Arabic verb tenses and conjugations. Overall a curious example of a 19th-century Arabic vocabulary and phrasebook.With a presentation note in English indicating it was a Christmas gift in 1881 presented by G. W. Bernard Esq. Binding and spine worn some browning and staining throughout. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1770réf. ABC_48344Probably Egypt 1770. Near-contemporary brown leather with a blind-stamped oriental rosette as a center piece and similar style corner pieces on both boards a partial manuscript title label on the spine. 4to ca. 17 x 22 cm. Arabic and Italian manuscript on paper 19 lines per extensum paginated throughout from right to left. Manuscript dictionary comprising some 9000 Arabic terms and their Italian translations. It was formerly owned by the German oriental scholar and Franciscan priest Arsenius Rehm 1738-1808 who lived in Cairo between 1769 and 1776 building a large collection of manuscripts which he brought with him when he worked for some time at the Franciscan abbey of Frauenberg at Fulda Hesse. After his death his collection remained at the monastery until it was purchased by the Benedictine Abbey of St Boniface Munich in 1852. The present volume which had not been part of the collection proper remained in Frauenberg whose library was dispersed in 2021 by the Franciscan Province. "The library includes a fairly extensive Arabic dictionary of his though not written by him. It offers only the Italian translation of the Arabic words. In the Arabic style it begins from our perspective at the end" cf. Bihl.With old stamps of the Frauenberg Abbey library on the final leaf with attribution to Arsenius Rehm in indelible pencil ca. 1900. The binding is somewhat rubbed and scuffed; remains of old spine labels. Interior shows only occasional light staining; very well preserved.l Michael Bihl Geschichte des Franziskanerklosters Frauenberg Fulda 1907 p. 137. hardcover
