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21.5x28 cm. 411 pages. Hardcover. Top cover corner slightly chafed. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE comprehensive architectural and archaeological study of over forty Ayyubid monuments situated in and around the Old City of Jerusalem. The book comprises six chapters on the history and sources of the Ayyubid State, political context and architectural changes in Jerusalem under the Ayyubids, catalog of Ayyubid buildings in Jerusalem and Ayyubid architecture, as well as four appendices and numerous b&w photographs and drawings of plans, sections, elevations, etc. 295x210mm. XX+214 pages. Softcover. Text block edges slightly stained. Cover and spine slightly rubbed. Cover edges/corners and spine upper edge rubbed. Some pages bottom edge slightly bumped. Page XX bottom part wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare pioneering monograph on Ayyubid Jerusalem is in good condition.
In Hebrew. 215X280 mm. XVI+548 pages. Hardcover. Cover rubbed, front part with worms marks, corners bumped. Spine faded, edges slightly bumped. Inner cover with worms marks and age stains. Few firsts pages worms marked. First white page stamped. Pages yellowing. Otherwise the book is in good condition.
Signed by the artist. 250X345 mm. 16 unbound plates in a cardboard file. Cardboard slightly torn at the upper edge of spines, slightly yellowing with light age stains, worn at edges and corners. Pages slightly yellowing. In fair condition.
RARE comprehensive synthesis of all literary and archaeological data concerning biblical Jerusalem. Includes many b&w illustrations (33 plates and 64 figures, among them also fold-out plans/maps). 300x230mm. XVI+517 pages. Dark-blue cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover and spine dirty/slightly stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed. Cover edges and spine hinges rubbed. Pages slightly yellowing and slightly wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare monograph on biblical Jerusalem, covering all available ancient and modern literary sources and archaeological data published until the 1950s, is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
TWO VOLUME SET. RARE English translation in heroic couplets of 'Jerusalem Delivered' - an epic poem by the legendary 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), best known for this poem (in Italian - 'Gerusalemme liberata', first published in 1581). The poem is a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem. The translation is by the eminent English writer and translator John Hoole (1727-1803), best known for his translations of Torquato Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered', and Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso', as well as other works from the Italian. He was also the author of 'Cleonice, a Tragedy' and two other dramas, which failed. This edition contains two elegant b&w engravings as frontispieces. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 170x105mm. [305] + [263] pages (+ 56 unpaginated index pages). Brown leather contemporary Hardcover. Gilt cover and spine. Text block edge and endpapers marbled. Cover and cover edge heavily rubbed and slightly worn. Cover corner bumped and peeling. Cover and spine stained. Spine wrinkled and partly peeling. Spine upper edge peeling. Previous owner's name written in ink written on whitepages. Whitepages age-stained. Pages yellowing. [VOL.I]: Small stain on text block fore edge. Sticker on front inner cover upper corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and handsome edition of an exemplary English translation of an influential epic Renaissance poem is overall in good condition.
JERUSALEM VOLUME ONLY. RARE REPRINT EDITION of the complete account of researches conducted in Jerusalem in the years 1867-1879 by General Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), who was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount, and Claude Reignier Conder (1848-1910), an eminent English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. Contains numerous b&w illustrations. 240x180mm. 542 pages. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and spine yellowing and slightly stained. Rear cover upper edge slightly bumped. Binding coming loose and visible between front inner cover and whitepage. Text block edges dirty. Few pages fore edge or upper corner slightly wrinkled. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare reprint edition of the classic survey of Jerusalem by the leading 19th-century authorities in the field is otherwise in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 267 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1750-1778). Cilt 5.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1750-1778). Vol. 5.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1750-1778). Vol. 5. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 281 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1780-1799). Vol. 6.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1780-1799). Cilt 6.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1780-1799). Vol. 6. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 308 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1800-1809). Vol. 7.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1800-1809). Cilt 7.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1800-1809). Vol. 7. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 237 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1810-1829). Vol. 8.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1810-1829). Cilt 8.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1810-1829). Vol. 8. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 303 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1830-1905). Vol. 9.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1830-1905). Cilt. 9.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1830-1905). Vol. 9. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 385 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1545-1594). Vol. 1.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1545-1594). Cilt 1. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 263, [13] p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme Registers, (1601-1699). Vol. 2.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1601-1699). Cilt 2. Within the framework of a long-term research project on the history of Al-Quds, IRCICA produces a series of studies based on Ottoman official archive documents. Of particular importance are the Ottoman State's Muhimme Registers, where the decisions of the Ottoman Council of Ministers were recorded. Thus the registers contain information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural history and heritage of al-Quds. The publication contains reproductions of the originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries of each document in the Muhimme Registers. The series started with publication of documents dating from the 16th century. It will continue with studies on documents dating from subsequent periods.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 385 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1700-1719). Vol. 3.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1700-1719). Cilt 3.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1700-1719). Vol. 3. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Arabic. 385 p., Ottoman documents. Al Quds in muhimme registers, (1720-1749). Vol. 4.= Mühimme defterlerinde Kudüs, (1720-1749). Cilt 4.= Al-Quds al-Sharif fi dafatir al-muhimmah, (1720-1749). Vol. 4. IRCICA has long been aware of the importance of selecting, analyzing and publishing historical documents on Al Quds in order to overcome the major language barrier for Muslim and international researchers and facilitate efforts concerning the history and civilizational heritage of Al Quds. Therefore, IRCICA has started a long term project for the publication of documents in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives of the Turkish Republic concerning the history of Al Quds, and this book is the first outcome of the project. IRCICA has published the records on Al Quds in the Mühimme Registers which include the most important Ottoman documents containing Divan Al Humayun decisions as the first step of the project to publish documents in the archive concerning Al Quds. These documents which contain the decisions of the Council of Ministers at the time include the highest level decisions taken on the city by the Ottoman State. The First Volume of the Mühimme Registers include important information concerning the social, economic, cultural and architectural heritage of Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to highlight the history of Al Quds under Ottoman administration by presenting these documents to the attention of scholars and researchers in their originals, transcriptions, and English, Arabic and Turkish summaries. This book contains the documents in the Mühimme Registers concerning Al Quds in the 16th century. IRCICA aims to publish historical registers concerning the history of Al Quds under Ottoman rule from different centuries as soon as possible.
16mo., neat signature on front paste-down; original brown ribbed cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind, back with flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp of advertisements at front. A remarkably bright, clean copy in wholly unrestored RTS binding of the period. This is the more expensive of the several binding versions offered: 'Tenpence in cloth boards, gilt edges'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH. 29X29 cm. XIII+147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE monograph on Islamic activity and institutions in East Jerusalem under Jordanian and Israeli rule from 1948 until after the peace accords between Israel, the PLO and Jordan. The author - Yitzhak Reiter, professor of Middle East, Israel and Islamic Studies at the Department of Land-of-Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College and a senior researcher at both the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, also discusses the Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli competence over the holy places in Jerusalem and the waqf (pious endowments) institution, which is in decline in many Muslim countries, but has been revived under Israeli rule. 240x160mm. IX+114 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly dirty. Cover left edge near spine slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly worn, upper edge bumped. Front whitepage bottom edge slightly stained. Else in good condition.
New Turkish Paperback. Folio. (34 x 24 cm). In Turkish. [16], 178 p., 150 plans and photos. Sa'dabad. [REPRINT EDITION of 1977].
270X265 mm. Unnumbered pages. Soft cover. Contains photographs in black and white. Spine and cover slightly worn at edges. Yellowing pages. Else, book in good condition.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION in English to Nathan Schur (1923-2012) - an eminent historian of the Holy Land and Karaite Jews. RARE comprehensive monograph on various biblical and medieval sites in Jerusalem by an eminent authority in the field. Includes 9 maps (one fold-out). [CONTENTS]: Section A: The Early Watersources and -installations of Jerusalem - Their History and the History of their Names. / Section B: The Hasmonean Palace as a Focal Point in Hellenistic Jerusalem - The Story and its Sources. / Section C: The Creation of Aelia Capitolina, The Roman Substitute for Jerusalem. 275x215mm. 140 pages & 9 maps. Softcover. Text block edges age-stained. Cover age-stained and wrinkled/bumped near spine and rear bottom corner/edge. Spine wrinkled and slightly dirty. Spine edges bumped. Several first and last pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare study of Jerusalem topography, bearing the author's signed dedication and of interest to any biblical scholar and historian of ancient Jerusalem, is in good condition.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 24.5x17.5 cm. 148+48 pages. Hardcover slightly rubbed. Spine slightly faded. Else in good condition.
32X25 cm. XI+293 pages. Gilt hardcover in dust jacket. Spine edges slightly rubbed. Else in good conditions. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Contents: The position of mount Moriah, The walls of Jerusalem, The gates, The streets, The water supply. 18.5X13 cm. 153 pages. Gilt hardcover. Ex-library copy with the usual marks. Cover edges and corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Cover slightly faded. Spine slightly worn. First blank page detached. Few pages slightly age stained. Else in good condition.