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1952Features: Land of Nightmare - grim events in the conflict between French Troops and the Viet Minh rebels in the jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave'; Roles Reversed - a female climber aids her male guide to safety from a 9,000 foot peak; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with photos; The "Devil-Leopard"; Jumbies - a tale from Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a westerner has his eyes opened; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases involving the Boston police; Shore Gang - nerve-trying experiences for the author; A couple of Fools - demonstrates how easy it is to become bushed in Western Australia; What Happened at Makene - a very curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Book
1952Features: Land of Nightmare - savage war between French troops and Viet Minh rebels in the "Green Hell" jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave' creates problems for an Australian bushman; Roles Reversed - a female climber saves the life of her male guide in New Zealand, by Elsie Morton, with photos; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with many photos; The "Devil-Leopart"; Jumbies - an interesting experience in Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a foreigner gets a few surprises; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases in the history of the Boston police; Shore Gang; A couple of Fools - a story showing how easy it is to become 'bushed' in Western Australia; What happened at Makene - a curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
1825réf. PHO-1571Paris, Nepveu,1825.- XXXIV-233 pp., illustré d’une gravure en frontispice, relié demi basane époque, dos lisse orné avec titre, ex-libris, charnières fendues, frottements, rousseurs au titre.
réf. 42822646-nnew. unknown
LEGATURA EDITORIALE IN TUTTA TELA ROSSA CON TITOLI AL PIATTO IN ORO, TAGLI IN ORO. ALLA FINE DEL VOLUME UNA CARTA DELL'EGITTO PIU' VOLTE RIPIEGATA. OPERA A BENEFICIO DEGLI ASILI INFANTILI DI GENOVA numero pagine: 73 formato: 23.7X16.5 stato conservazione: BUONO
1744réf. PHO-2660Amsterdam, Aux dépends de la compagnie, 1744, veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches rouges. Charnière fendillée, coins usés, coiffes arasées. Illustré de 18 planches, dont 1 carte et nombreuses dépliantes, comprenant notamment la remarquable Marche de la Caravane du Grand Caire vers la Mecque, importante représentation du pèlerinage et de la procession du mahmal.
réf. RGW25802No Binding. Very good. Engraving with fine early hand-colouring plate XXI from Carsten Niebuhr "Voyage en Arabie & en d'autres Pays" No Jacket issued unknown
réf. BN327741Grupo Anaya Educacion. Softcover. Filosofía 1 Aprender es Crecer en Conexión - 9788469824870 Filosofía 1 Aprender es Crecer en Conexión - 9788469824870 Diego Sánchez Meca et Juan David Mateu Alonso Grupo Anaya Educacion paperback
2012réf. BN351363TOKYOPOP GmbH 2012. 2012. Faster than a Kiss 10 Faster than a Kiss 10 Meca Tanaka TOKYOPOP GmbH unknown
réf. 14422Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustration of a Bird's-Eye View of Mecca Saudi Arabia. This is is an original 1926 photogravure. Photogravure was made after a photograph by Karl Gröber. It was included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Sheet size is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 8.5" x 6.25". Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. unknown books
réf. 14623A set of original steel engravings of Medina and Mecca titled: "Medina et Sepulcre fu Prophete" & "Temple de la Mecque" from Picturesque Universe published by Firmin Didot in 1847. Overall size: 5" x 8.2." The first image captures a view from the hilltop looking out on Medina. In the center of the engraving sits a strikingly detailed view of Medina with 4 travelers approaching the city some riding on camels over a mountain road. The second engraving captures the very detailed architectural design and layout of the Temple of Mecca including the Kaaba and surrounding buildings. In the background are outlines of the surrounding city First image missing bottom right corner. Overall both in very good condition. unknown books
1986Includes the February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December issues. Topics include: Beginner's Snorkeling Guide - Part 1; Florida Wrecks; How to be a Commercial Diver; Buying a Buoyancy Compensator; Island Hopping in the Bahamas; Kingston's Brand New Shipwreck; Beginner's Guide to Snorkeling - Part 2; Fashion Wetsuits; Ghost Fleet - North Carolina; Monterey's Breakwater; Puget Sound Piling Dive; St. Lucia Retreat; Expo '86; China Rockfish; Exploring the Emerald Sea; King of the Mountain - the Cayman Islands; Inland Diving - Northwest Waters; Moray Eel; Diving Doctor; The Diamon Knot; Red Sea Mecca; Underwater Hockey; California Shipwrecks; the C-O Sole; Corsair; Florida Keys; Personality Profile - Peter Hughes; the Blue-Clawed Lithode Crab; Exploring West Coast Waters - Inside Passages of BC; Tobermory, Ontario. Light wear. Quality copies. Book
1962Features: Nice color Rambler car ad inside front cover; Who Says I'm Uncultured, by Frederick Breitenfeld Jr.; Confessions of a Block-Buster - Norris Vitchek is a Chicago real-estate agent who moves Negro families into all-white blocks - he reveals how he reaps enormous profits from racial prejudice; Riding the World's Wild Giants Waves - Great Color Photos; Brash and Rumpled Star - newcomer Warren Beatty demands superstar treatment from Hollywood; People on the Way Up - TV Emcee Nancy Clark, Grace Kelleher, Neal Williams of Go-Power Corporation; Tempest in a Riviera Teapot - a feud between De Gaulle and Prince Rainier threatens the continued independence of Monaco, the world's loveliest tax haven; How Your Children Grow - Wilton M. Krogman reveals new methods of predicting growth rates and warns parents against needless fears; Magic's Merry Mecca - avid conjurers throng to Colon, Michigan, America's capital of magic-making; Nice color Pepsi ad on page 61; Sandy Koufax, the Strikeout King; Farmer Khrushchev - ideology and climate snarl Russia's farm program. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1937Photos: The Nizan's jubilee (the ruler of Hyderabad); Hitler on parade in Berlin on the 'Day of Heroes'; Spain's trekking population, and other aspects of the long continued civil war; With the 'Rodney' on the spring cruise; Clear photo of a half-man, half-ape creature discovered in the Atlas mountains on the northern edge of the Sahara by Marcel Homet, a French explorer; Archduke Otto - the Austrian claimant in his Belgian home; Egypt again sends the Mahmal and the Kiswa to Mecca; Britain's 5-year 1.5 billion pound re-armament plan; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1928réf. 144851928. Varthema Ludovico di. The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508 1928. Limited first Argonaut Press edition of one of the earliest European firsthand accounts of Mecca and Medina originally published in Italian in 1510. Varthema an Italian traveler from Bologna entered the Islamic holy cities in 1503 after joining a pilgrim caravan from Damascus under the assumed Muslim name Yunus serving among its Mamluk military escort. His account is among the earliest recorded descriptions of the Hajj and Mecca by a European visitor who was not originally Muslim detailing pilgrimage ceremonies religious customs urban life and encounters with merchants and local authorities. His subsequent travels extended through Yemen the Persian Gulf Persia India and parts of Southeast Asia recording commercial networks religious practices military organization and maritime trade during the opening decades of Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean. The 1928 edition reproduces John Winter Jones's 1863 English translation prepared for the Hakluyt Society together with Sir Richard Carnac Temple's historical examination of Varthema's travels in southern Asia. Varthema Ludovico di. The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508. As Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510 by John Winter Jones F.S.A. in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society with A Discourse on Varthema and His Travels in Southern Asia by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. London: The Argonaut Press 1928. First Argonaut Press edition limited to 975 numbered copies printed on Japon vellum. One volume quarto 4to pp. lxxxvi 122 last blank 2 colophon blank. Illustrated with one plate five full-page maps within the pagination a facsimile of the original 1510 title page and a title-page vignette printed in blue and black; includes an index. Edited by N. M. Penzer. Original quarter vellum over blue-grey buckram boards spine lettered and ruled in gilt with rectangular gilt devices on both covers. Retains the original ribbon marker and an ownership bookplate centered on the front pastedown. Varthema's narrative follows his passage through Egypt and Syria to Medina and Mecca then southward through Yemen and Aden onward to Hormuz and Persia and across the Indian Ocean to India and Southeast Asia. His descriptions address the religious observances of the Muslim pilgrims Bedouin encounters regional customs and laws commercial products trading practices and methods of warfare. Varthema's travels took place during a period of increasing Portuguese intervention in Indian Ocean commerce shortly after Vasco da Gama's voyage around the Cape of Good Hope established a new maritime route between Europe and India. His account records the established Muslim trading networks connecting the Arabian Peninsula Persian Gulf Indian ports and Southeast Asian markets before Portuguese naval power substantially altered regional commerce. First printed in Rome in 1510 the narrative circulated in successive European editions and translations becoming an early source for European geographical knowledge of Arabia and the Indian Ocean. Sir Richard Carnac Temple's accompanying discourse examines the historical and geographical evidence for Varthema's itinerary distinguishing his observations from earlier travel accounts and evaluating his descriptions of southern Asia. The original vellum and buckram binding retains its gilt decoration ribbon marker and ownership bookplate. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1926réf. 144221926. Gröber Karl. Bird's Eye View of Mecca 1926. Original copperplate photogravure depicting Mecca Islam's holiest city and the destination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The elevated view records the historic urban setting of Mecca home to the Masjid al-Haram the Sacred or Grand Mosque and the Kaaba toward which Muslims worldwide direct their daily prayers. Published in 1926 the image dates from the early rule of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud over the Hejaz following his conquest of Mecca in 1924 and assumption of the title King of the Hejaz in 1926. The illustration preserves a photographic view of the holy city during a period of political transition decades before the extensive urban redevelopment and mosque expansions of the later twentieth century. Gröber Karl photographer. Bird's Eye View of Mecca. 1926. Original copperplate photogravure after a photograph by Gröber published as an illustration in the first edition of a 1926 book containing his text and photogravures. Sheet measures approximately 8.25" x 10.25" with a printed area of approximately 8.5" x 6.25". The elevated perspective presents a panoramic view of Mecca recording the city's buildings and urban topography. The copperplate photogravure process reproduces the tonal gradations and architectural detail of the original photograph. Mecca had been under Ottoman sovereignty until the Arab Revolt of 1916 after which it formed part of the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hejaz before coming under Saudi control in 1924. Gröber's 1926 publication belongs to this transitional period in the city's modern history. The original photogravure provides a contemporary visual record of Mecca before the major architectural alterations and expansions undertaken in subsequent decades. unknown
réf. 1484619th Century engraving of the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca. Image measures 5x7.5" on a 7x10.5". The engraving depicts a sweeping view of Mecca with the cityscape in the background. In the foreground are the thousands of pilgrims gathered to worship near the Kaaba which stands in the center of the court. With the caption "Mecca-Court of the Kaaba" at the bottom. In very good condition. unknown books
réf. 1484319th Century engraving of the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca. Image measures 5x7.5" on a 7x10.5" page 115 from volume 3 of Élisée Reclus' "Nouvelle géographie universelle" Hachette 1884. The engraving depicts a sweeping view of Mecca with the cityscape in the background. In the foreground are the thousands of pilgrims gathered to worship near the Kaaba which stands in the center of the court. In very good condition. unknown books
1916Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original photograph showing Fahreddin Pasha in Medina city with Ottoman soldiers and Arabian notables congratulating each other's bairam. His injured left leg is cast into plaster. 9x14 cm. Fakhri Pasha or Fahreddin Pasha, known as Ömer Fahrettin Türkkan after the Surname Law of 1934, was a Turkish career officer, who was the commander of the Ottoman Army and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919. He was nicknamed "The Lion of the Desert" and "The Tiger of the Desert" by the British and Arabs for his patriotism in Medina and is known for defending Medina in the Siege of Medina during World War I. In 1914 before the Ottoman Army was mobilized, Staff Colonel Fahreddin Bey was appointed the commander of the XII Corps stationed in Mosul. He was promoted to the rank of Mirliva on 12 November 1914 and appointed as the Deputy Commander of the Fourth Army stationed in Aleppo. During World War I, after Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, started preparing for a revolt against the Ottoman Empire, Fahreddin, upon the orders of Djemal Pasha on 23 May 1916 moved toward Medina in Hejaz to defend it; he was appointed the commander of the Hejaz Expeditionary Force on 17 July 1916. Medina was besieged by the Arab forces who revolted against the Ottoman Sultan and sided with the British against Fahreddin Pasha, but he stood his ground and defended the city. He also protected the single-track narrow-gauge Hejaz Railway from sabotage by the Hejazi army Turkish garrisons of the isolated small train stations withstood the continuous night attacks and secured the tracks against the increasing number of attacks (around 130 major attacks in 1917 and hundreds in 1918, including more than 300 bombs on April 30, 1918). With the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from the war with the Armistice of Mudros between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I on 30 October 1918, it was expected that Fahreddin would also surrender. But he refused to do so and rejected the armistice. During the siege of Medina, Fahreddin sent the sacred artifacts and manuscripts of Medina to Istanbul in order to protect them from seizure. Most of the manuscripts were returned to Medina by the Ottoman Empire and are now in libraries in the city, while the rest remain in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
réf. 47969254like new. unknown
réf. 47969254-nnew. unknown
2023réf. x-3030954536Palgrave Macmillan 2023. Paperback. New. 545 pages. 8.27x5.83x1.11 inches. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
1968réf. 015663Paris Georges Fall 1968 In-8 Broché, couverture illustrée Signé par l'illustrateur
réf. 14423Two Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustrations depicting a Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia. Both are original 1926 photogravures. Photogravure were made after photographs by Karl Gröber and were included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. The first photogravure presents a ground-level view of the Mosque. The second photogravure shows a birds-eye view of the Mosque. Sheet size for each is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 6.25" x 8.25". Exellent condition. unknown books
