1940Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Beige buckram cloth covers with deep red lettering on cover and spine. Book contains over 90 black and white photo illustrations, usually full page, by the female author, who also authored a volume of photos Seen in the Hadhramaut and wrote Baghdad sketches, The Vallys of the assassins, The southern gates of Arabia and travelled extensively in the region. Three maps. 329 pages with index. Publisher's page reads "First Edition." Contents include: Mukalla, Kathiri, Wadi Amd, High Jol, Azzan, Naqb al Hajr, Jebel Kadur, Sultan's Caravan, Cana, etc. wtih an appendix of Arabic plants. Dust jacket is now wrapped in clear protective cover.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · États-Unis81,55 €

Morton, DesmondMareMagnum

Tarikh Kanada = Short History of Canada

2011Translated into Arabic by Mohammad Zahid.Ta'lif Dizmund Murtun ; tarjamah Muammad Zahid Bin Abd al-Fatta Abu Ghuddah. 648p.illus maps Book

Kalamos Books · Canada46,36 €

GUISE (Samuel)MareMagnum

A Catalogue and Detailed Account of the Very Valuable and Curious Collection of Manuscripts, Collected in Hindostan, By Samuel Guise, Esq. Late Head Surgeon to the General Hospital at Surat: Including all those that were procured by Monsieur Anquetill du Perron, Relative to the Religion and History of the Parsis, and many which he could not procure.

First edition, 4to, 15,[1]pp., purchase note in Sir Thomas' hand "Sotheby 66", orig. blue paper wrappers bound in, uncut, middle hill boards, spine chipped. A catalogue of 127 manuscripts rich in Arabic and Persian works, purchased by Guise between 1788 and 1795, at great personal expense, while he was Head Surgeon to the General Hospital. "His rarest manuscripts (according to his catalogue published in 1800) were purchased from the widow of Dastur Darab who between 1758 and 1760 had taught Avestan to Anquetil du Perron, the first translator of the Avesta into a European language."?British Library. ESTC locates copies at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Gottingen (Germany) & New York Public Library.

Forest Books William Laywood · Royaume-Uni849,74 €

KHOURI (Constantine E.)MareMagnum

Arabic Manual, containing Practical Rules for learning the English Language; with Vocabulary, Dialogues, Letters, Idioms and Proverbs, in Arabic and English.

Fourth edition, revised and enlarged with additional improvements, 12mo (168 x 105 mm), 418pp., text in English and Arabic, original blue cloth, spine slightly soiled.

Forest Books William Laywood · Royaume-Uni55,02 €

EL-SHIDIAC (Faris)MareMagnum

A Practical Grammar of the Arabic Language. With interlineal reading lessons, Dialogues and Vocabulary.

First edition, 8vo, [8], 148 pp., 4pp. of advertisements at end, with half-title, text in English and Arabic, original blue cloth, slightly worn at head and tail of spine, a good copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription from the publishers, early ownership signature to head of title page 'William J. Webster.'

Forest Books William Laywood · Royaume-Uni42,80 €

LUMSDEN (Matthew)MareMagnum

A Grammar of the Persian Language; Comprising a Portion of the Elements of Arabic Inflexion; together with some Observations on the Structure of either Language, Considered with Reference to the Principals of General Grammer.

2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.

Forest Books William Laywood · Royaume-Uni3 362,24 €

LUMSDEN (Matthew)MareMagnum

A Grammar of the Arabic Language, According to the Principles Taught and Maintained in the Schools of Arabia; Exhibiting a Complete Body of Elementary Information, Selected from the Works of the most Eminent Grammarians; together with Definitions of the Parts of Speech, and Observations on the Structure of the Language. In Two Volumes. Volume First: Comprising the System of Inflexion [All Published].

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.

Forest Books William Laywood · Royaume-Uni5 196,19 €

RISLER (Jacques C.)MareMagnum