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188331399New York: John B. Alden 1883. Hardcover. Gift Edition. 5 x 7.5in. xii. 332pp. Publisher's cloth boards with stamped decoration and titling. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities boards lightly handled former owner name of the period at the front endpaper otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. John B. Alden hardcover
183724800Göttingen Germany: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1837. Aged and foxed textblock in very good condition overall with edges and corners worn and scuffed; Many uncut leaves; Re-bound in plain gray cardstock with green cloth spine; Former owner's decorative bookplate inside front cover; Original printed front and rear covers retained; 136p. plus 20 pages in Arabic. Old Parisian bookseller's ticket at bottom left corner of original front cover. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Good. 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Hardcover
188652630Leiden: E. J. Brill 1886. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half brown morocco. Bookplate of Max L. Margolis with his signature on title. Somewhat rubbed internally fine. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. On Aramaic loan words and phrases in classical Arabic.<br /> With the ownership signature of linguist and scholar of Jewish history Max L. Margolis. E. J. Brill unknown
1870351950Cairo 1870. Single sheet bifolium a proof of the last page of Galatians and first page of Ephesians marked with corrections in pencil. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Some paper flaws along gutter. Good. Single sheet bifolium a proof of the last page of Galatians and first page of Ephesians marked with corrections in pencil. 1 vols. 8vo. Proof sheet from an edition of the Arabic New Testament Galatians 6:7 to end and Ephesians 1:1-19 without full vowel markers with marginal references and notes.<br /> <br /> With a contemporary holograph note in English: "proof sheet corrected . given to me by the American Vice Consul at Cairo". See Darlow & Moule 1688 for Beirut edition 1860: "very many editions with or without the full vowel points have since been priinted unknown
186392359London: Samuel Bagster 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 118p. Original cloth. Titled in gilt on front cover. 16 cm. Modest fading on backstrip and around edges of front cover. Library stamping on front free endpaper indicating that this was owned and discarded by Redemptorist Communities in Ireland. Arabic text with Introduction in English. Ferrette identified on the title page as a missionary of the irish Presbyterian Church at Damascus believed that he had come up with a great typographic method for dealing with the vowel problem in Arabic type. Ferrette's suggested fix did not catch on and his suggested fix is now mostly forgotten. Most copies located by OCLC list W. M. Watts as publisher and are dated 1863 on the title-page. This copy with the same pagination lists Bagster as publisher and is undated. We suspect that Bagster persuaded the publisher or Ferrette to issue some copies with Bagster's name as publisher for sale in Bagster's theological bookstore. We doubt that it is a later or second edition. OCLC locates one copy Huntington with the Bagster imprint. It is dated as 1836 which seems likely to be an error in dating caused by transposing the last two numbers. Samuel Bagster hardcover
183333054Paris: Felix Locquin / Henri Dupuy. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1833-1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Arabian Nights; Short Stories; Plates; Woodcuts; Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 484 496 504 pages; MUHAMMAD AL-MAHDI AL-HAFNAWI attributed to. Contes du Cheykh El-Mohdy traduits de l'Arabe d'apres le Manuscrit Original par J. -J. Marcel. 25 woodcut plates and numerous decorations in text. Half-titles. 3 volumes ct. Contemporary cloth scattered minor foxing stains in outer margin of plate 21. Bookplates of S. P. Scott and Norman J. Sondheim. Collection of tales in the manner of the Arabian Nights. Color armorial bookplate. About 20 wood engraved plates. . Felix Locquin / Henri Dupuy, hardcover
18814680Madrid: Imprenta de La Iberia á cargo de J. Blasco 1881. Facsimile 1st Thus. Good. An 1881 facsimile of a 13th century medieval manuscript. Translated from the Arabic to early Spanish at the commission of King Alfonso X of Castile and by a Jewish scholar Yehuda ben Moshe. This represents one of the earliest examples of Spanish being used in the writing of manuscripts rather than Latin or Arabic. Regarding many topics including the magical properties of stones and talismans astronomy and philosophy. Complete with prologue facsimile letters dated to 1883 complete Lapidario in 236 actual sized color prints on strong paper a second manuscript in 28 actual sized color prints on strong paper and 76 pages of contemporary to the facsimile writings. The dates of the letters leads me to believe that this book was compiled after the initial run of the facsimile with the additional letters and manuscript added - I am unable to locate another copy stating that these pieces are present. Bound in brown buckram with a brown cloth spine. Paper label containing the title on spine along with a cataloguing number on bottom likely ex-library. Pasted description on front pastedown reads: "The Translation of the Celebrated Arabic Book was made in MS. by order of King Alfonso X in the year 1276 an exact facsimile of this splendid specimen of 13th century art reproduced in color with 353 beautiful initial letters 18 other full-page and smaller illuminations and 340 head-and-tail pieces with Introductory History and Transcript of the Text." All pages present some weakness at spine to some pages but all remain bound. Some scuffing to covers and rounding of corners. An exceptional and complete facsimile of one of the most important early commissions in Spanish and of medieval art. <br /> <br /> Pages: 20 12 236 28 76 Dimensions: 12⅜ x 9⅛ x 1½. Imprenta de La Iberia, á cargo de J. Blasco unknown
1855ABC_47909London: William Watts 1855. Original elaborately embossed brown calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine red edges. 8vo 22 x 14 cm. Rare edition of one of the best Arabic translations of the Bible. This work is based on the 1671 version from Rome which was the first printed edition of the complete Bible in Arabic. However the version from 1671 was not vocalised written with vowel points but the present edition from London is.The Arabic translation of the Bible from 1671 was done under the direction of Sergius Risi d. 1638 the archbischop of Damascus. It had been requested by the Archbischop of Aleppo and other important figures from the Eastern Church as manuscript copies had become rare and were often found to be incorrect. Risi and his team compared the Arabic manuscripts of the Bible they had access to with Hebrew and Latin versions and then composed their own translation. They first completed the Arabic Pentateuch. The Old and New Testament followed in 1647 and 1650 respectively after Risi's passing. These translations were revised and then finally published in 1671. It was the only Arabic translation of the complete Bible until 1811. Numerous new translations were made in 19th century. The present Catholic edition of the Arabic Bible translation existed alongside the 1860 Protestant translation by Cornelius van Alen van Dyck.According to the title-page this edition of the Old Testament was printed in 1855. However none of the relevant reference works mention an 1855 edition. Since the title-page of the New Testament bears the year 1857 it is possible that the Old Testament was also printed in that year and the date on the title-page is a printing mistake. The 1857 edition is also fairly rare on the market as we have only been able to find it in 1 sales record of the past 100 years.With the label of Watkins' bookbinding factory mounted on the front pastedown and a purple Spanish stamp from the library of someone with a law degree on the final leaf. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed the binding is rubbed with some loss of material on the spine. The leaves are somewhat browned mild foxing throughout the back pastedown has a tear in the gutter. Otherwise in good condition.l BM General catalogue vol 2 p. 1276-198/199 other eds.; Darlow & Moule 1684; WorldCat 1402269394 1 copy 1857 ed.; cf. Green Journeymen middlemen: travel transculture and technology in the origins of Muslim printing. In: International journal of Middle East studies vol. 41 2 2009 pp. 203-224. William Watts, unknown
1843000384Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland 1843. Hardcover. Fair/not applicable. Four volumes published in 1843 1843 1868 and 1871 respectively. - Quarto 28.5x23 cm. - 4 XL 688; XVI 697; 4 689; XVIV 616 pages. - In uniform 3/4 morocco spines with 5 bands and title in gilt. - Volumes I and IV: corners and edges quite worn else very good to fine; Volume III: covers and spine detached else fine; Volume IV; covers detached about 2/3 of detached spine present. - Interiors of Volumes I and IV are good.; Volume II: water spots on last 100-or-so pages; Volume III: lower left corner 9.5x9.5 cm of front free end-paper is gone last leaf with some folds and tears bit no loss of text. - With colorful bookplate of the now defunct"Samuel Ives Curtiss Library - Old Testament Theology" followedby that of the Chicago Theological Seminary with release stamp. - This monumental bibliography of IBN KHALLIKAN 1211-1282 was called by the British scholar Reynold A. Nicholson "the best general biography ever written" - It was translated by the Irish orientalist William McGuckin who later became a French national and was named Baron de Slane. - Very rare: WorldCat gives only 4 locations all of them in the Netherlands: den Haag Leiden Amsterdam Utrecht. <br/> <br/> Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland hardcover
1833365677Ottoman 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> A significant scholarly manuscript offering a deeply analytical and authoritative commentary on one of the most important texts in the Qira'at tradition. unknown
1834372732Malta: 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.<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> This copy with his contemporary gift inscription to the GTS library "From the Rev. W.R. Whittingham 1834"<br /> <br /> 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
1848ST14540Leipsic 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. <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
1830ABC_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
190055709Turkey 1900. Contemporary morocco. Very good. Small oblong folio 16 by 30 cm. 28 leaves. Quranic manuscript in Jali Diwani script; gilt text recto and verso 3 lines per page on polished cream paper interleaved with onionskin protective leaves. Contemporary deep brown paneled morocco wallet binding rubbed tooled in gilt and blind; decorative paper pastedowns. Binding skilfully rebacked to style; neat professional repair to tear at front cover panel. Light marginal tidemarks; notable old ink marks continuous line across two leaves; occasional small marginal perforations not affecting text. Very good.<br /> <br /> Rare example of a text from the Qur'an in the Jali Diwani script an elaborate intertwining Arabic cursive developed during the early Ottoman era in the sixteenth century. The text in the present manuscript is entirely in gilt and derives from Juz 29 entitled Tabaraka "Blessed is" after the opening word of the first sura. One of the thirty roughly equal portions into which the Qur'an is divided Juz 29 comprises four complete suras: Al-Mulk "The Dominion"; Nuh "Noah"; Al-Jinn "The Jinn"; Al-Mursalat "The Emissaries. Copies of the Qur'an found in mosques especially in earlier times when manuscripts where very costly were often bound into these thirty portions. According to Islamic tradition during the month of Ramadan the entire Qur'an is recited usually at the rate of one juz each evening. unknown
