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Stories: Soloyi the Witch Doctor - a tale from the South African Bushveld; Midge - a story of an Australian Mare - will appeal to every lover of horses; Across North America in a Motor-Boat - The Story of a Record Voyage - many photos; A Day to Remember - A shooting trip to Ireland; The Colonel's Diamond; The Taming of 'Bear' Farrell - Part II - a quest for gold in New Guinea; Buried Treasure in the ruins of Carthage; My Wanderings in Africa - a cinematographer travels - many photos; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - the Contess Malmignati is the first European woman to penetrate to the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia; Two-Legged Contraband - The Men-Smugglers of the Mexican Border (from the days when the U.S. actually defended its southern border); a new chum in New Zealand - a story from a new farmer in New Zealand; An Evening Ashore - what happened one evening in Marseilles. Above-average wear. Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Covers not quite loose. Worthy copy. Book
1996X91166London, I.B. Tauris 1996 xiv + 162pp., 22cm., editor's hardcover, dustwrapper, very good condition, X91166
xiv + 162pp., 22cm., editor's hardcover, dustwrapper, very good condition, X91166
Light wear to DJ. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Profusely illustrated look at a still-mysterious country ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages
229 pagine con alcune tavole fuori testo; 20,5 cm. Tela editoriale. Tracce d'uso
Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 80 pages
Milano, dall'Oglio, 1967, in-8 picolo, brossura editoriale.
199397733Vienna: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1993. 24 cm ; kart.
Berlin, Wilhelm Borngräber, (1919), in-8, mz. tela, titolo oro, pp. 196, (9).
Small octavo, original pale green cloth. Very good condition in the rare dustjacket. First and only edition of this scarce guidebook to the Persian Gulf, illustrated with 16 half-tone plates from photographs by the author and three maps. This scarce guidebook was written shortly after the beginning of full-scale oil drilling in the region, and includes chapters on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial Coast (modern-day United Arab Emirates), and Muscat Oman, covering local history, society and culture, with a chapter on the pearl industry. Tweedy writes that Doha is "practically untouched by the progressive hands of the West and the camels and donkeys outnumber the motor-cars how long this simplicity will last is hard to say, for the enormous increase in oil revenues must inevitably affect the lives of all" (39-40).
3864Paris, chez J.B. Costard, 1773-79, reliure aux armes (non identifiées) plein cuir d'époque, dos à cinq nerfs, caissons dorés, pièce de titre et tomaison rouge, tranches rouges, 10x17,5 cm, 440+477+427 pages. (traces d'encre noire ? au bas du dos des trois volumes).
(Anello di Mobius). 8°, pp.60, con 68 ill. n.t., br. ed. ill.
65015aafParis, Paul Ollendorff, 1890, gr. in-8vo, frontispice gravé. + 545 p. / 507 p., brochures originales.
196961231Edité et traduit par Gérard Troupeau, Extrait de la revue Melto n°2, 1969, 1 brochure in-8, pp. 197-219
Edité et traduit par Gérard Troupeau, Extrait de la revue Melto n°2, 1969, 1 brochure in-8, pp. 197-219 Dans la littérature arabe chrétienne, certains ouvrages s'efforçaient de montrer l'accord des trois confessions principales de l'Orient : les nestoriens, les jacobite et les melkites. L'exemplaire est dédicacé au R.P. de Dainville. Bon état Français
1986Q-0333428897MacMillan 1986-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MacMillan hardcover
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original full leather bdg. in Islamic style with a flap. Demy 8vo. (22 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 285 p. Rebacked to spine, slight wear on binding. Overall a good copy. Early Turkish edition of the book of parrot (or the book of Humayun), which is a 14th-century series of 52 stories, originally written in Persian, translated by Sari Abdullah Efendi (1584-1660), who was an Ottoman mystic poet and scholar. The adventure stories narrated by a parrot, night after night, for 52 successive nights, are moralistic stories to persuade his female owner Khojasta not to commit any adulterous act with any lover, in the absence of her husband. She is always on the point of leaving the house to meet her lover until the loyal parrot detains her with a fascinating story. The authorship of the text of the Tutinama is credited to Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi or just Nakhshabi, an ethnic Persian physician and a Sufi saint who had migrated to Badayun, Uttar Pradesh in India in the 14th century, and wrote in the Persian language. He had translated and/or edited a classical Sanskrit version of the stories similar to Tutinama into Persian, around 1335 AD. It is conjectured that this small book of short stories, moralistic in theme, influenced Akbar during his formative years. It is also inferred that since Akbar had a harem (of women siblings, wives, and women servants), the moralistic stories had a specific orientation towards the control of women. The main narrator of the 52 stories of Tutinama is a parrot, who tells stories to his owner, a woman called Khojasta, in order to prevent her from committing any illicit affair while her husband (a merchant by the name Maimunis) is away on business. The merchant had gone on his business trip leaving behind his wife in the company of a mynah and a parrot. The wife strangles the mynah for advising her not to indulge in illicit affairs. The parrot, realizing the gravity of the situation, adopts a more indirect approach of narrating fascinating stories over the next fifty-two nights. The stories are narrated every successive night as an entertaining episode to keep Khojasta's attention and distract her from going out. The Persian text used was redacted in the 14th century AD from an earlier anthology 'Seventy Tales of the Parrot'in Sanskrit compiled under the title Sukasaptati (a part of katha literature) dated to the 12th century AD. In India, parrots (in light of their purported conversational abilities) are popular as storytellers in works of fiction. (Source: Wikipedia). Özege 21353., OCLC 165609299.
<p>24 cm, cartoncino editoriale con lievi bruniture; p. 383. Molto buono e intonso l'interno</p>
0666267944.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A9781168147387New. unknown
B9781168147387New. unknown
1979G56468Paris, P.U.F. 1979 128pp., br.orig., 18cm., dans la série "Que sais-je ?" vol.1025
128pp., br.orig., 18cm., dans la série "Que sais-je ?" vol.1025
179850673Eau-forte originale format 29,4 x 46 cm, dessinée par Louis-François Cassas, gravée par Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, s.d. [ 1798 ]
Eau-forte originale format 29,4 x 46 cm, dessinée par Louis-François Cassas, gravée par Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, s.d. [ 1798 ] Belle gravure originale des ruines de Palmyre, en Syrie. Etat satisfaisant (4 piqûres de vers sur la gravure, 3 petites taches en marge) pour cette planche numéro 87 tirée du "Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine et de la Basse Aegypte" de Louis François Cassas Français
