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in-8, 250 p., broché, jaq. ill. [109B-19] La folle témérité de cette aristocrate anglaise, nièce de l’illustre Pitt, la fera surnommer « Reine de Palmyre » par les Arabes…
29 pages, including an in-text sketch map. Plus photographic plates, one of which is double-sided fold-out panoramas. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Stamp of the Royal Asiatic Society to front cover, otherwise this is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author's arduous journey, led him into the highlands of central Yemen, at altitudes of over 9,000 and sometimes up to 10,000 feet, known to very few Europeans and to only a handful of British at the time. The northernmost point reached was about 12 miles north of Sana and over 200 miles north of Aden. Originating in a desire to compare fauna and flora, Scott also harboured a geographical interest and the report also describes the mosques of Dhala, the characterisitcs of dress and customs of the Jewish communities in southern Arabia, the dhurra harvest procedure of the tribesmen of Jebel Jihaf, the most remarkable city of Ibb, and San'a, the then largest city in the south of Arabia. Featuring the first ever agricultural show to be held in the Aden Protectorate, in Dhala; the villagers of Al Muriah and the tomb of Weli Isma'il; discussion of the rise of the Zaidi sect, named from Zaid, descendant of Ali, son-in-law of the prophet; the hot springs of Huwemi; descriptions of Ta'izz, the most beautiful city in the Yemen; a meeting with the 'Amil of Yarim; vivid depictions of old San'a: houses, mosques; the Jews of south-western Arabia; a private audience with the Imam in San'a. The author illustrates his journey most impressively with sketch illustration and an abundance of plates, including one which is a double-sided fold-out of panoramic views. Also includes an appendix relaying information on general use of the drug, Qat.
Inscription on ffep. No other marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright boards and gilt lettering and with no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. The delightful slip-case with gilt English and Arabic writing and design on a dark green vellum-type background is in excellent condition. 256pp.
192pp., br.orig., 23cm., dans la série "Initiation à l'Islam" tome V, bon état, exemplaire de la bibliothèque de prof.Jacques Ryckmans
In questo avvincente volume Jean Sasson racconta la storia di Sultana, la principessa araba decisa a denunciare, a rischio della propria vita, la repressione e i soprusi patiti dalle donne nel suo Paese.
In questo avvincente volume Jean Sasson racconta la storia di Sultana, la principessa araba decisa a denunciare, a rischio della propria vita, la repressione e i soprusi patiti dalle donne nel suo Paese.
Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 178; 226 pages
8vo. 12 pages, plus a fold-out map and photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Together with a folding map delineating Libya's borders, Sandford discusses the conditions under which the Italian or German-Italian army were currently fighting against the Allies in North Africa, uniquely presenting the enemy's perspective in the early stages of the Western Desert Campaign in an attempt to surmise involvement and strategies of the Libyans, and to vehemently protect Britain's rule over Egypt. Details include political affiliation, climate, geology and topography, water supply, and limitations imposed on disposition of troops. He describes the eastern frontier of Libya as extending from the great mass of crystallined rocks known as 'Uweinat' to the Mediterranean, the Gilf Kebir, the highlands of Cyrenacia, and the southern and south-eastern frontiers in Tibesti.
IN 16°, P. 549+4. PERGAMENA COEVA. EDIZIONE FIGURATA DA 3 CARTE GEOGRAFICHE PIU' VOLTE RIPIEGATE E DA 20 TAVOLE F.T.
in-4. pp.16,358,4. Perg. Coeva. un legno nel testo con la sorgente del Nilo.
119 p.; 24 cm. Brossura editoriale. Molto buono
Folio 650p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
La pensée Moderne 1971, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette, 170 pages.
PRESENTAZIONE DI FULVIO TESSITORE GUIDA 2000 144 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: PARI AL NUOVO, PERFETTO E INTONSO. Il libro rappresenta un vero e proprio spartiacque nella bibliografia di Sabatino Moscati. Fin dagli inizi dei propri studi, osservatorio di Moscati fu il Mediterraneo, più specificamente la sponda sud la cui identità è data dagli incontri e dagli scontri di popoli e culture che in esso si affacciano. Da qui l'interesse dello studioso non solo per il mondo arabo ma anche per quello ebraico. Gli esiti dei suoi studi non furono però l'esemplificazione giornalistica di intricati problemi e di significative scoperte archeologiche, ma dimostrarono la sua particolare attenzione a quelle interpretazioni rinnovatrici di un ambito importante del conoscere storico, al fine di cogliere l'identità dell'oggetto storico indagato. Parole e frasi comuni Abbasidi Abu Hashim Abu Muslim al-Mukhtàr alcuni Alidi an/itutto Aqhat arabo archeologico Assiri Baal biblici califfo carattere carbonio 14 città civiltà conce/ione condi/ioni conoscen/e conseguen/a costituisce costru/ione creden/e cronologia cultura d'IsraeleDante dantesca data/ione defmire dell'antica dinastia divinità documenti ebraica antica egi/iani elementi essen/iale esso f1glio f1gura fmora fonti for/e fun/ione Gilgamesh giudi/io Hammurabi hittita Hurriti Hyksos importanti infme ini/io ione iscri/ioni islamicheIsraele Keret kharigita Khidàsh Khurasan Kufa l'atten/ione l'importan/a L'iscri/ione Lachish Libro della scala lingua Maometto Marib men/ione mente Mesopotamia millennio a.C. motivi Muhammad b na/ionale nome notevole noti/ie nuova luce orientale Oriente in nuovaostraca ostracon pagg pala//o Palestina Paradiso islamico periodo poema politica popolo poten/a problema profeta Ras Shamra recente regno rela/ioni religioso rilevato rinvenuti risultati rivolu/ione scavi scoperte secolo a.C. sembra semitica sen/asignif1ca storia storico studi successo sumerica tavoletta Tell testi tradi/ione tribù trova Ugarit umayyade Vicino Oriente Yaman
In-8° (cm. 23,8), pp. 52 (da p. 75 a p. 126) + 19 FOTO di ISCRIZIONI su monumenti e oggetti in 5 TAVOLE b.n. fuori testo e con moltissime ed ampie riproduzioni del testo originale e trascrizioni di EPIGRAFI nelle ultime 30 pagine. Brossura provvisoria riproducente la cop. della rivista, scritte a penna e ombre in cop., qualche foglio staccato, ma immacolato l'interno. RYKMANS, semitista, ubblicò centinaia di iscrizioni arabe preislamiche. Nelle province meridionali dell'Arabia Saudita, trovò iscrizioni rupestri dei re di Saba e oltre 12.000 graffiti sabei e tamudeni/">tamudeni. Scrisse: i voll. 5º-7º del Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique (1929-50); Les noms propres sud-sémitiques (3 voll., 1934-35, il 3º con il titolo Concordance générale des inscriptions sud-sémitiques, 1935); Les religions arabes préislamiques (1947; 3a ed. 1960); Inscriptiones safaiticae, nella 5a parte del Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (1951); L'Arabie antique et la Bible (1957). Esemplare da studio, ma ricco e dii eccelsa specializzazione.
16 pages, including a full-pages sketch map. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. In this fascinating report the author discusses the demarcation of the Turco-Persian Boundary and the three main efforts to settle it, which had each been interrupted by a great European war. Illustrations include the Karun, Kushk-I-Basri, North of Mohammerah, Proceeding to the First Boundary Pillar up River from Mohammerah, Crossing the Karha at Kut Saivid Ali, Commission searching for the Shatt Al Ama, Bakuba on the Diyala, Kurds and survey Khalassis, Commission crossing the Zab and Caravan on the March in the Tavila District.
xxiii + 368pp., dans la série "Bibliothèque du Muséon" volume 28, 27cm., brochure originale, non coupé, très bon état, X92214
13pp.geïll., 26cm., in de reeks "Mededeelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten van België. Klasse der Letteren" jg.3 no.5, originele omslag, goede staat, X73131
français In-8 paginé de 80 à 110 ; broché de l'éditeur. Oosters genootschap in Nederland, 4.
français In-8 paginé de 356 à 380 ; broché de l'éditeur. Orientala Lovaniensia Analecta, 55. Tiré à part.
18 pages. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Eight years had elapsed since the previous Mount Everest Expedition and a new generation of climbers, under the leadership of Hugh Ruttledge and including Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, Jack Longland, Eugene Birnie, Percy Wyn-Harris, Edward Shebbeare, Lawrence Wager, George Wood-Johnson, Hugh Boustead, Colin Crawford, Tom Brocklebank, E. Thompson and William Maclean, with Raymond Greene as senior doctor and William 'Smidge' Smyth-Windham as chief radio operator, together with a powerful and spirited team of Sherpa "Tigers" - constituted the Fourth British Everest Expedition attempt. The personnel for this attempt, which used the then-standard route of choice of the British via the North Col, was made up of a combination of military types and Oxbridge graduates, and included none of those who had been on the 1924 attempt. The highest point attained was 8,570 m, but the route was found to be extremely difficult and the vital camp V that should have been reached on a rare day with fair weather - 20 May - was, as a result of disagreements between team members, never established. It was also during this expedition that Wyn-Harris found the ice axe which belonged to Andrew Irvine, who had disappeared on the peak on the 1924 British expedition with George Mallory. Although not a success in terms of all objectives met, the expedition did mark the first oxygenless summit attempt by Wyn Harris and Wager who planned to reconnoiter Mallory's ridge route. The pair did traverse into and across the Great Couloir, and managed to reach Norton's high point before admitting defeat. On June 1st, Shipton and Smythe attempted another oxygenless ascent, following the same ascending line taken by Wyn Harris and Wager to the base of the First Step and thence along Norton's Great Couloir route. Shipton was forced to give up a little past the First Step, and Smythe continued alone, crossing the Great Couloir somewhat lower down than his predecessors where the ledges were more favorable, ultimately giving up at Norton's high point. Ruttledge's account of events includes details of preparation for the journey, diet, weather and Harris and Wager's summit assault, together with a summary of knowledge gleaned from the expedition. Photographs and a lively discussion between RGS members complete a well rounded and exciting paper.
13 pages, including 2 sketch-maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a captivating expedition account of the author's sojourn in Arabia, namely the Hejaz, at the time a forbidden country to unbelievers, concerning all aspects of the Hejaz, including its geographical features, the territorial disputes and tribal factions, as well as the population that inhabits this spectacular region steeped in history and bloody. Disguised as a Muhammadan, Mr. Rutter engaged himself in the Islamic rituals including daily prayers and the Muhamman Pilgrimage, also visited the Prophet's tomb. Mr. Rutter outlines his pilgrimage from Suez by sea to Massowa and Al Qahm, and thence, disguised as a Muhammadan pilgrim, by land through the Hejaz frontier at Halli - describing the place being an exceedingly dirty village of rush huts inhabited by slave traders - Al Qunfunda, Al Lith - village of mud houses and rush huts - and Wadi Yelamlam to the Holy City of Mecca where he stays for nine months visiting the great Mosque of Mecca, performing the rites of the Muhamman Pilgrimage for few days, and making an excursion to Al Taif, his final departure from Mecca and his journey through Rabigh to Medina, where he engages in the rites of visiting the Prophet's tomb, and his passage from Medina to Yenbo (El Yanbua). Also with remarks on Ibn Sa'ud and his control over the Hejaz and Mr. Rutter's interesting experience of mirage "I saw a river a head of us. On its banks were lines of trees, and their forms were reflected in the water. Then I saw the stone houses of a town, and among them were the forms of men...At last it dawned upon me that the whole spectacle was a mirage." An engaging travel account illustrated with a full-page sketch map of the Hejaz showing Mr. Rutter's route to Mecca and Medina, an in-text sketch diagram depicting his route from Mecca to At Taif, and several amazing photographic plates showing the Kaaba (the House of Allah), the Great Mosque of Mecca, the Prophet's tomb, at Medina, and Bab es Salaam in the Mosque of Medina. Followed by equally interesting 2-page discussion on the water of Zemzem (Zem Zem)- a sacred well in Mecca - Quraish tribe, the mysterious Black Stone of the Kaaba, and water supply of Mecca.
In-8, 2 volumi, tela editoriale con scritte in arabo al piatto, taglio super. dorato, pp. XV,302,(2); VII,287; con 2 tavole fotografiche in b.n. ai due frontespizi, protette da velina con didascalia e 8 piante e mappe f.t., alc. a doppia pagina, relative a: “Mekka - The road between Mekka and ‘Arafa - The Haram of Mekka - Roads connecting Mekka with Et-Taif - Et-Taif - El Medina - The Haram of El Medina - Arabia, showing author’s route”. "Prima edizione" di quest’opera di Rutter, definita dal "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies" come la migliore introduzione sull'Arabia mai scritta. Esemplare ben conservato.
8° leg. edit., pp.576
8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xii, 322 pp, double-page map showing author's route, photo plates, appendix of qat glossary and consumer's guide, index. original brown cloth, silver spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped), clean and fine, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A fascinating and dangerous journey through Ethiopia and Yemen, with an explanation of the rich and varied culture surrounding the drug qat, legal in UK but banned in US. 'Eating the Flowers of Paradise is an extraordinary journey in a corner of the earth which has eluded investigation by explorers until this time. It abounds with fascinating and exciting fresh material presented in a style comparable to the accepted classics of travel in Arabia and the Middle East' (Norman Lewis). Qat is legal in UK but not in US, experts claim its mild as tea or as addictive as cocaine, but Rushby explores its use which is central to life in Yemen.
