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New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 23 cm). In English and Turkish. 2 volumes set: (410 p.; 416 p.), ills. International Symposium on Time in Islamic Civilization. 8-11 October 2015 Proceedings of the Symposium.= Uluslararasi Islam Medeniyetinde Zaman Sempozyumu. 8-11 Ekim 2015. Sempozyum Bildirileri. 2 volumes set.
117 x 78 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale: 1:5,000,000. Relief shown by hachures, contours, and spot heights. Depth shown by soundings. Loosely stored within printer wrappers. Third edition of this German wartime map of the Middle East, parts of Asia, and India, first published thus in 1940. Based on "Stielers Handatlas" and issued within Perthes' "Ubique terrarum" series (no. 20). - In excellent state of preservation, detached from its original wrappers. OCLC 164843864.
Collection of 4 press photos, c. 130 x 180 mm each. The Government building, palace, two minarets, and a downtown street scene. Hungarian press captions on reverse.
4to. 36 pp. With 5 black and white photographic plates in the text. Original printed wrappers. Rare issue of the periodical of the British Falconers' Club, the first issue of which appeared in 1937, including tributes to the late Vice-Presidents George Edward Lodge (1860-1954) and Guy Aylmer (1887-1954), as well as several book reviews. The contributors make observations on the Ovampo sparrowhawk, the African goshawk, and the red-headed merlin, as well as on partridge hawking, hacking, and the Dutch Falconers' Hut in "De Hoge Veluwe" National Park. The editorial discusses the 1954 Protection of Birds Act, which established the necessity of a licence when taking, selling, or importing live birds of prey for the purposes of falconry, stating that "it is most satisfactory that falconry has been recognised in this way, which gives it, potentially, a very much more favourable status than it has enjoyed for many years" (p. 10). The illustrations show the two former vice-presidents, G. E. Lodge painting, G. Aylmer with his hawk, hawks and merlins, and the Dutch Falconers' Hut surrounded by several hooded birds on perches. - Upper right corner of front cover slightly creased. A good copy. U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Special Bibliography Series 81, p. 91, 2. OCLC 52319876.
132 x 102 mm. Captioned on the reverse: "Holy Carpet + Tailors Who made it". - Traces of former mounting, but well preserved altogether.
4 picture postcards. A collection of vintage postcards showing the Ordnance Depot, Basra; the Mouth of the Ashar Creek, Basra; Qashla (Ashar Barracks) Basra; and View, Right Bank, Shatt-El-Arab. - All evenly browned a little; some foxing to view of the Ordnance Depot. The view of Ashar Creek is pre-printed with "Christmas Greetings and all Good Wishes for a Happy New Year".
4to. 161, (3) pp. With numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Report on the Danish archaeological expedition to Kuwait led by Peter Vilhelm Glob and Geoffrey Bibby. During five campaigns between 1958 and 1963 the tells on the south-western corner of Failaka Island became the focus of the expedition. The report describes and illustrates some of the major finds, including statues, pottery, lamps, coins, remnants of houses and temples, skeletons and weaponry. - Each campaign lasted 2½ to 3½ months, and the excavation teams consisted of between 5 and 14 Danes as well as 2 Kuwaitis from the Education Department, assisted by up to 185 labourers. At the end of each campaign the finds were packed down in large wooden crates and shipped to the museum in Aarhus for conservation and analysis. At that time there were no conservation and storing facilities in Kuwait, nor anywhere in the Arabian Gulf. - Wrappers have title in English and Arabic. The illustrations are captioned in English and Arabic as well; title-page and introductory text in Arabic only. - Occasional light foxing. OCLC 65798901.
8vo. 133, (1) pp. With frontispiece and 30 photo illustrations by Godfrey Argent on plates. Publisher's original giltstamped blue cloth with printed dustjacket. Lavishly illustrated account of the author's sojourn in Jordan, where she studied the royal horses and their training. - Well preserved. OCLC 2164501.
4to. 40 pp. Original printed wrappers. Stapled. Arabic edition of the leading English newspaper on oil matters. Founded in 1934, the Petroleum Press Service was one of the first reliable sources of information on all aspects of the petroleum industry and trade. The Arabic version, first issued in 1953, was published up to the 1970s. - Front cover slightly dampstained.
Oblong folio. (48) pp. of printed photographic illustrations with tissue guards. Original green printed cardboard. Fine collection of printed views of Tunis and its environs, depicting mosques, street scenes, palace interiors, landscapes, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 60 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from Tunisia. Depicts the cities and ports, the inhabitants, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Albumen print, 279 x 218 mm.
4to. X, 188 pp. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. Traces Arab awareness of the West, which began in embryonic form when the French forces under Napoleon occupied Egypt in 1798. Examines the works of Arab writers who helped to formulate a new image of the West and to shape Arab response to the challenge raised by cultural contact between disparate worlds. Treats developments up to 1870. - Excellent copy in very good price-clipped dustjacket.
Oblong 12mo (60 x 102 mm). 2 pp. Insurance ID for the Aramco employee Orlin Orace Thomas, verifying his claim to have medical expenses covered under the Aramco medical payment plan. - Right corners slightly worn.
560 x 430 mm. Folding poster with several black-and-white photographic illustrations. Aramco poster celebrating technological advances in the Arab world. Featuring pictures taken by Aramco employees, it presents the various modes of transportation in Saudi Arabia, emphasizing the symbiosis of progress and tradition: "Present-day Arabia is a meeting place of ancient and modern ways. Arab Bedouins and camels, reminiscent of Biblical days, are often seen side by side with modern airplanes and oil rigs". The images show pack animals, sail boats, cars, buses, tankers, trains and airplanes.
8vo. Vol. 23 (of 24) only. 557, (1) pp. Contemporary blue boards with handwritten spine title and library label. Trassler's reprint of Büsching's great geography: volume 23 only, dedicated to the Near and Middle East, i.e., the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia, Syria, and the Levant. - Occasional light browning due to paper; light staining to boards.
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 32 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from French Algeria (mosques, the ports of Oran and Algiers, Arabic villages, etc.). - Slight edge defects to wrapper covers, otherwise well preserved.
8vo. (6), 350 pp. With woodcut device to title-page. Contemporary full calf with gilt spine and spine-label. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Charming edition of the "Hezaryek-Rouz" or "Thousand and One Days", so called to "give the work an air of originality" (Chauvin IV, 124). The last tome of an original five-volume set of these oriental tales unfolding around the Kashmiri princess Farrukhnaz. - These tales are the translation of a manuscript that the oriental scholar François Pétis de la Croix is said to have received in Isfahan in 1675 from the dervish Moclès, the latter having translated and adapted into Persian the Indian tales known in Turkish as "al-Farage Bada Al-schidda". - Although the work enjoyed far fewer editions and translations than the "Alf layla wa-layla" and is commonly said to be an imitation of the same, it cannot, as Chauvin notes, be determined whether the "Thousand and One Days" or the "Thousand and One Nights" was composed first. Chauvin quotes one commentator who prefers the "Days" to the "Nights", declaring the former "much more ingenious and more realistic, as it sometimes includes marvels, following the taste of the Oriental" (Chauvin IV, 125). Nevertheless, to this day the "Hezaryek-Rouz" is much less known in the West. - Corners slightly rubbed; small portion at head of spine chipped away; binding minimally wormed; faint traces of glue to covers. Lower edges of a few pages torn without loss to text; pp. 126f. with a grayish mark, presumably left by a bookmark. Occasional light spotting; a few pages slightly creased. Chauvin IV, 312 B. Cf. Graesse IV, 525 (later eds.).
Oblong folio. (4) pp., 8 printed illustrations in colour after photographs. Original printed wrappers. Fascicule 18 from the "Autour de Monde. Aquarelles, Souvenirs, Voyages", showing eight views from the Red Sea. Depicts the wells of Aden, street scenes from Jeddah, the Arabic bazaar at Suakim, etc. - Slight edge defects, otherwise well preserved.
Large 8vo. X, 342 pp. With portrait frontispiece and 62 illustrations on 23 plates. Original red cloth. First edition. - "The travels (c. 1934) of an Arab girl in the Near and Middle East, including a journey with her brother through Lebanon, Iran and the Persian Gulf. The author, a feminist of sorts, visits Tehran, the Caspian region, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz and Bushehr. She views Reza Shah favorably, 'the roads are safe', modernization, industrial plants, etc." (Ghani). Also contains chapters on her sojourn in the "romantic pearl islands of Bahrein" (with an illustration of the author in local Bahraini costume, a gift of the ruler and his wife). - Occasional slight foxing, but well preserved. Ghani 208. OCLC 18175528. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
8vo. XXXII, 410 pp. Original half cloth with giltstamped spine title. All edges marbled. First edition of this collection of Ottoman fairy tales, translated and with an introduction by the Hungarian linguist, turkologist, and folklorist Ignác Kúnos (1860-1945).- Binding somewhat bumped at extremeties, inner hinges and first flyleaf cracked.
8vo. 66 SS. Halbleinenband der Zeit (Bibliotheksbindung). Ausführlicher Bericht über den mehrtägigen Orientalisten-Kongress an der Universität Wien. Lincke gibt die wissenschaftlichen Verhandlungen der einzelnen Sektionen wieder und beschreibt auch das gesellige Beisammensein im Anschluss. - Rundstempel des Orientalischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig (Arabisch-Islamische Abteilung) am Titel; alte Bibliothekssignaturen.
(2), 11, (1) SS., l. w. Bl. Marmorbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Aufsätze: "Das Auslaut- und Betonungsgesetz des Neupersischen"; "Über das Lautgesetz: altbaktr. sh = alteran. rt."; "dahân". "Aus dem Decemberhefte des Jahrganges 1870 der Sitzungsberichte der phil.-histor. Cl. der kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften [LXVI. Bd., S. 361] besonders abgedruckt." Im Rand etwas angestaubt. Mit Bibliotheksstempel des Indogermanischen Instituts der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig am Titelblatt sowie Ausscheidestempel.
per Henri Mignot- Grassart Lausanne- Paris 1893, in-4, cc. (11) VIII,IX,X, 189 (5), grande zincografia protetta da velina raffigurante "Le monte des Oliviers et les mosquèes vus de mont de Sion, sontuosa ed elegante legatura in cartone goffrato beige, titolo impresso in nero e rosso racchiuso in doppia cornice in oro, dorso liscio con ripetuto il titolo e fregi in oro. Eleganti carte di guardia decorate con piccoli motivi floreali su fondo oro, unghie incise in oro, dedica autografa alla prima carta bianca riportante la frase "Le don de Dieu c'est la vie eternelle, par Jèsu-Crist notre Signeur.. Rome VI,23" continua la dedica a" RaoulMontandon en suvenir du 10 mai 1894 de la part de son affetionnè cousin Eug Mittendorff pasteur" frontespizio in rosso e nero con elegante e delicato occhietto una rosa in rosso, Simpatica e interessante raccolta di appunti e schizzi di un pittore in Terra Santa stampata su carta forfe, dedicatoria a Monsieur Felix Bovet. Nove grandi xilografie, protette da velina, delle varie citta, Gerusalemme, Betlemme, il deserto di Juda e il Mar Saba, Jerico, il Mare Morto e la Giordania, la Samaria, la Galilea, Nazareth e il suo porto,il lago di Gènèzareth, Thabor,ogni viaggio viene descritto con minuziosa cura e abbellito da numerose decorazioni sempre in xilografia che riportano, paesaggi, pascoli, cavalcate nei deserti, bellissime donne con brocche e costumi del posto, chiude il viaggio un ultimo addio agli orizzonti infiniti che "non potranno mai più essere dimenticati". Opera veramente toccante curata nei minimi dettagli.
XI, (1), 143, (1) SS. Bedr. Originalbroschur. 8vo. Der erste von insgesamt acht Bänden des Katalogs der orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek Gotha und der einzige Band, der die persischen Werke verzeichnet. Den Katalog, der zwischen 1859 und 1893 erschien, verfasste der Bibliothekar und Orientalist Pertsch (1832-99), Beamter und ab 1879 Oberbibliothekar zu Gotha. Auf den Katalog der persischen Handschriften folgte jener der türkischen in einem Band, der arabischen in fünf Bänden und abschließend ein Band der übrigen orientalischen Handschriften. - Gering stockfleckig. Unbeschnittenes, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. Nicht bei Besterman.
