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Small 8vo. (8), 252 [but 254], (2) pp. (includes final leaf of ads). Contemporary calf, rebacked. First edition of this extraordinary account of an Englishman’s capture by Barbary pirates and subsequent adventures as a slave in Algeria. The narrative is framed as an authentic journal of a deceased traveller, prepared for the press by a friend of the departed. Through this mechanism the reader is taken into a proto-novelistic fantasy, albeit one that must have been informed by genuine experience of Eastern travel. As a slave under numerous masters the author tricks his way variously into employment as the cook to the King of Algiers, is then demoted to Keeper of the King’s Bath and secretly fathers a daughter with one of the King’s wives. After an unsuccessful stint as a gardener’s assistant he journeys in the service of an officer, collecting tribute money with the Algerian army and offers his services as an advisor to the Ottoman governor of Tlemcen. He recounts observations on the various peoples encountered and their customs and peculiarities, marvelling at flying serpents, lions and ostriches and skirmishing with an army of Arabs. Against a backdrop of mosques, minarets and palaces, the narrative is peppered with anecdotes of meetings with Barbary pirates, European renegados, and dalliances with alluring women of the Maghreb. - The author takes particular relish in recounting the details of his sexual adventures: "the women in this country keep much at home, but their minds and affections are more wandering abroad, because they are so recluse; whereas if they had as much liberty as in other countries they would not be so furiously debauch’d: their husbands keep strict guard over them, that when they can escape their eyes, they give the reins to their passion, and labour to satisfy themselves more abundantly; stolen waters are sweet: the more they are forbidden and hindered from variety, the more pleasure and satisfaction they fancy in it [...] had my design been to make conquests in the Empire of Love, I think none could have been more happy [...] this good opinion of my ability spread & increased wonderfully in the town [...]". A separate appended section offers directions for navigating the Barbary coast. The work is of value both as a travel narrative and as a proto-novel reflecting the European fascination with the Orient. This is one of four journeys undertaken by Englishmen in the Ottoman Mediterranean analysed recently by Gerald Maclean in his 2004 study "The rise of Oriental travel: English visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720". - Provenance: small stamp of Bibliothèque Generale, Rabat, to title, first leaf of dedication, and first leaf of text. Small ownership stamp of Alexander Gardyne, 1883, to verso of title. Manuscript bookplate of Henry White, Lichfield, 1820, to pastedown. A very good copy. Playfair, Morocco, 244. Playfair, Algeria, 155. Pforzheimer, 846. Wing S152. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.
Folio (330 x 413 mm). (2), 99, (1) pp. With 17 India-proof mounted engravings with tissue guards. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind-and gilt-tooled ornamentation, spine recently rebacked. First separate edition: the story of the Hunchback from "The Arabian Nights' Entertainment", in the translation by the Rev. Edward Foster initially published in 1802, with engravings by William Daniell (1769-1837) after paintings by Robert Smirke (1752-1845). "What Brian Alderson has called the 'cocoa-table book' formula was applied to the 'Nights' as early as 1814, when William Daniell's 'The Adventure of Hunch-back' appeared, a handsome selection from Forster's adult version (Wiliam Miller, 1802, repr. 1810) intended as a juvenile complement to the adult book. The latter was produced in a small as well as large format, but, with their magnificent engravings by, among others, William Daniell from Robert Smirke's paintings, all three publications must have been beyond the pocket of most readers" (Caracciolo). - Some brownstaining and foxing throughout. Chauvin V, p. 181 (& cf. IV, p. 92, no. 239). Caracciolo, Arabian Nights In English Literature (1988), p. 39, with illustration (fig. 3). OCLC 2925884.
2003Q-1579652379Artisan 2003-04-05. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Artisan paperback
200011GW22-791-094Artisan. Good in Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1579651623 . This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear scratching edge wear a few small corner tears. Inside pages are clean. ; 448 pages . Artisan hardcover
0364993073.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0656600764.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
193811080Houston Texas U. S. A.: Refiner and Natural Gasoline Manufacturer. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Wear to the spine ends & lower edge. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 448 pages . Refiner and Natural Gasoline Manufacturer hardcover
0365552518.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0365552720.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
196445289London: Frost & Reed 1964. Golf print after the watercolor by Arthur Weaver signed in pencil by the artist on the mount. 1 vols. 16-1/2" x 22" image size. Fine in simple black and gilt frame. Golf print after the watercolor by Arthur Weaver signed in pencil by the artist on the mount. 1 vols. 16-1/2" x 22" image size. With pencilled sketch of a man holding golf flag in lower margin. Frost & Reed unknown books
197327779Scotland: Open Golf Championship Commitee 1973. First edition. Paperback. Good . Stapled wrappers. 83 pp. The official programme guide for the 102nd Open Golf Championship which took place at Old Troon Golf Course in 1973. Booklet contains many details about the course the players and the history of the Open. Numerous photographs. A very good copy with one ad having been neatly snipped off of the first page. Otherwise unmarked. Open Golf Championship Commitee paperback books
197227778Scotland: Open Golf Championship Commitee 1972. First edition. Paperback. Good. Stapled wrappers. 83 pp. The official programme guide for the 101st Open Golf Championship which took place at Muirfield in 1972. Booklet contains many details about the course the players and the history of the Open. Numerous photographs. A good copy with one ad having been neatly snipped off of the first page. Otherwise unmarked. Open Golf Championship Commitee paperback books
4to. (2), LIV, 130, (2) pp. Title printed in red and black with engraved title vignette. 1 folding genealogical table. Contemporary half calf with gilt spine and spine label (chipped). First edition; "a groundbreaking achievement" (Fück, p. 111). Reiske's unvocalised edition of Tarafah's text, with a Latin translation on opposite pages and the commentary of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nahhas. "The appended notes trace the poet's chain of thought and elucidate the various themes with their poetic phraeseology by comparison with parallels in other works [...] A geneaological plate visualizes the kinship between Tarafah and other northern Arabian ports, facilitating the reader's checking the chronological approaches suggested in the prologue" (ibid.). In sharp contrast to his teacher Schultens, the brilliant scholar Reiske (1716-74) was one of the first Arabists whose work was fully independent of the constraints of Biblical exegesis. - The sixth century Arab poet Tarafah was the author of the longest of the seven odes in the celebrated collection of pre-Islamic poetry "al-Mu'allaqat" (Moallakah). Some critics judge him to be the greatest of the pre-Islamic poets, if not the greatest Arab poet. - Very rare. Schnurrer 202. Fück 110. Graesse IV, 554. Van der Aa VI, 69ff. Encyc. Britt. 26, 415. OCLC 22661575.
Folio. (4), 392 pp. Original printed boards with later cloth spine. First edition of this Uyghur work ("Mémorial des Saints") by Farid al-Din `Attar (d. ca. 1230), preserved in a ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Printed in the language's characteristic Arabic-derived alphabet. - Edges rubbed and bumped; covers stained. Interior foxed throughout. An uncut, untrimmed copy. Collection orientale, tome 16: 2me série, tome II (wants the first volume containing the French translation). OCLC 7524145.
19935328Lubbock: Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press 1993 1993. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paul Milosevich. Cloth. Fine. First Edition. Signed By Author & Illustrator. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xvi 152 pp. illus. w/ b&w drawings signed by both author & illustrator on the half-title page. D/w is very good with a couple of very small indentations on the front cosmetic only. <br/> <br/> Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1993 hardcover
Head-and-shoulders portrait. Chromolithograph. 60 x 44.6 cm. Very rare Weißenburg broadsheet showing the portrait of an oriental ruler: the last-but-one Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt, Tewfik Pasha (ruled 1879-1892). These oriental broadsheets were usually sold with the fictitious imprint of Hassan Auvès in Cairo; this one also states the actual publisher, Camille Burckardt's successors. - Slight horizontal crease; edges somewhat browned. All of these prints are very rare; a different print commanded £21,250 at Sotheby's in 2012.
2090502113707613Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
8vo (155 x 204 mm). Ottoman manuscript on laid paper. 134 pp. on 68 ff., written space ca. 90 x 140-145 mm. 15 lines, per extensum, written in a heavily Persian-influenced naskh style in black ink, gilt ("taddib") section titles, rubricated and sometimes written in gilt for emphasis, no catchwords, but extensively vocalized Turkish text with Arabic diacritics. Gilt gadval borders around introductory double page, remainder of text within double red rules. Frequent marginalia and occasional glosses, with some prayers and charms. Early full leather binding with fore-edge flap, spine and flap hinges reinforced with later leather. Complete Ottoman medical manuscript, copied by the scribe Celalu'd-din Mehmud al-'Ala'i in 1408 CE, still during the lifetime of the book's author, the Anatolian religious scholar and physician Haci Pasha (known in the Arabic tradition as Haggi Basha Galalu'd-Din al-Hidr bin 'Ali bin al-Hattab al-Aydini). - The introduction (1v-2r) sets out the work's content and structure, presented, with Arabic technical terms adopted into Turkish, as a compendium ("muhtasar") and facilitation ("teshil") of medical knowledge, offering a discussion of definitions, medical practices, the administration of solids and liquids, and a description of diseases with their symptoms and related therapies. The following sections treat dietary matters including regimens for exercise ("hereket"), meals ("gazalar"), hot baths ("hammamlar") and vomiting ("istifrag"), as well as self-medication (4v-15v), fevers ("buhran", 16r-17r), and the therapeutic and prophylactic properties of various foods (17v-26r). The third and by far the most extensive section (26r-67r) provides definitions and summary descriptions of the most common ailments with their aetiologies (proceeding from symptomological analysis, "alamet") and treatments. A single final page (67v) entitled "Kitabu'l-Ihtilac" ("Book of attraction or palpitations") contains apotropaic phrases to be pronounced over the patient and a short poem in 11 couplets, followed by the four-line colophon (68r). - Haci Pasha was a famous 14th century physician from Anatolia who moved to Cairo, then the thriving capital of Mamluk Egypt, to refine his medical knowledge during what is today regarded as the beginning of the most famous period of Ottoman medicine. The present treatise enjoyed significant success for many decades and directly influenced the work of one of the most renowned Ottoman physicians of the 15th century, Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385-1468), who composed the first surgical atlas in Ottoman Turkish. - Margins somewhat fingerstained in places with a light waterstain throughout, but generally very well preserved.
1991LFA-126724984Revue de 80 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
14503CARSTEN NIEBUHR Terrae YEMEN maxima Pars Seu Imperii Imani Principatus Kaukebân nec non dilionum Haschid U Bkîl, Nehhm Chaulân Abu Arîs Ch et Aden. Tabua ex pbservtionibus astronomicis et hodometricise jussu et sumtibus Potentisissim Danlae Regum. Friderici V et Christaini VII Autore C NIEBUHR Carte 520x 670 mm avec marges, 380x580mm à la cuvette. Gravure sur cuivre d’après CARSTEN NIEBUHR, vers 1771. Né à Altendorf , ingénieur, mathématicien, et astronome allemand, membre d’une expédition Danoise de la péninsule du Sinaï au Yemen 1761 1767 dont il fut le seul survivant.
199977390Augsburg, Weltbild Verlag, 1999.
8vo. 44 pp. Ottoman Turkish in Arabic type. Original red printed wrappers. First and only edition. - A rare copy of what likely is the only extant written record of the situation of Muslims in Brazil in the 19th century, a minority formed mostly by former African slaves and their descendants. Abdurrahman was a crew member of one of two Ottoman warships thrown off their course to Basra by a storm on the Atlantic near Cape Verde, which dragged them in the opposite direction, to Rio de Janeiro. While his companions continued their voyage to the Arabian Gulf, Abdurrahman remained in Brazil, and his account focuses entirely on his religious work there. He describes the lessons he gave and a Portuguese booklet he prepared to outline the basics of Islam, which was memorized by most of his students, and he criticizes their way of life, including their former religions, their practice of fasting in the month of Saban instead of Ramadan, and the frequent baptism of Muslim children. The book includes geographical descriptions of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro and mentions tropical fruits unfamiliar to the author, who finishes with the route he took home to Istanbul a few years later, including stops at Lisbon, Cordoba, Tangier, Mecca, and Damascus. - While it discusses the voyage to the New World only briefly, this is in fact the second of two known accounts of the first voyage ever made to the American continent by the Ottoman navy, published only three years after the other travelogue (by Faik Bey). Abdurrahman wrote his account in Arabic and had it translated into Ottoman Turkish by Antepli Mehmed Serif. - A small waqf stamp to the final page. Covers slightly faded, else very good. Several copies in libraries worldwide, mostly in the United States, but none in auction records. Özege 20671. Baysal, Osmanli türklerinin bastiklari kitaplar, 2641. OCLC 68231927. Cf. Snowden, Accidental Turks in Brazil and Beyond. Kabacali, Gezi edebiyati seçkisi (2004).
Milano, Sperling, 1939, 8vo br. (mancanza al dorso) cop. ill. pp. 147 con num. tav. f.t.
Opera con segni d'uso. Ultima pagina quasi completamente staccata. Stato discreto
Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1945. 8vo br. pp. 156 con fig. n.t. e tav. f.t.
