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1 vol. in-12 br., Librairie Plon, 1908, xiv-566 pp. avec 5 grandes cartes dépliantes Bien complet des cartes. Etat très satisfaisant (rouss. sur couv., fente partielle à un mors). Français
36 pages. With a full-page sketch map and photographic plates.Does not have the map whic hwas published at alater date (the following year). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. A complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Wilfred Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest of the British travellers among the Arabs, his narrative is vividly written. These papers cover the five years in which Thesiger spent in and around the Empty Quarter, the half million square miles of one of the cruellest deserts in the world. The 20th century was very fortunate in being able to have a record of some of the glory it lost as seen through the eyes and camera of this very remarkable explorer. He was born in the British Legation in Addis Ababa in 1910, an event that was to shape the life of this extraordinary man and spent his first nine years in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia as it was then called. By the time he accompanied his parents back to England in 1919, the sight, sounds, wildness and raw savagery of the land had been instilled in him and a traveller was born. His return to Ethiopia in 1930 for the crowning of HIM Haile Selassie marked the beginning of his first hunting and exploration adventures into this highly dangerous country. Wilfred Thesiger has an immense ability to describe very vividly the life and ways of the people of the desert, the Bedu, and his work shines with his clear attachment to them. After leaving Arabia he travelled extensively in the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush (the setting of his meeting with Eric Newby immortalised in Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush), the mountains of Kurdistan and the marshlands of Iraq. But he says that none of these places moved him as did the deserts of Arabia. He spent five years in the region travelling on camels and on foot across some ten thousand miles of a vast empty land. What he found, as in his time with the people of the Iraq marshes which he described in his book The Marsh Arabs, was a way on life on the threshold of destruction.
199pp.with 43 figures in-text + 40 illustrations out-of-text, 23cm., VG, text in german, in the series "Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik" Band XVI
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 191 p. Diktatörlük ile devrim arasinda Arap dünyasinin krizleri. Comp. and transl. by Zahide Tuba Kor.
in-16, pp. 271, leg. t. tela edit. Picc. dif. [N4-102]
in-8 gr., pp. VIII, 196, (4), bella leg. m. pelle coeva con nervi e tit. oro al d. Risguardi in carta color. Testo su due colonne. Macchia di circa 1 cm al margine bianco inf. interno. Belliss. esempl. su carta forte. [208]
Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1944. LVI, 251 pagine. 25x18 cm. Brossura editoriale molto ben conservata, con lievi e marginali bruniture. Una cartina a colori fuori testo e due ripiegate in fine. Lievi e brevi sottolineature sulle prime pagine. [M108]
In-8, tela moderna, tit. oro su tassello al dorso, pp. LVI,251, con una carta geografica dell’Impero Ottomano nel 1914, ripieg. Documenti: “Albori del nazionalismo arabo (1875-1914) - La guerra del 1914-1918. Promesse e inganni - L’immediato dopoguerra. Delusioni e tradimenti (1919-1921) - Lo stabilimento dei mandati e lo sviluppo dei paesi arabi tra il 1922 e il 1939 - La seconda guerra mondiale (1939-..)”. Con qualche arrossatura ma buon esemplare.
155 pages. Bilingual English-Arabic. "Reviews the huge positive development that has taken place in more than half a century... Shows the old simple ways of living, desert life, pasturing, pearl diving, irrigation and farming, sea trade through simple traditional ports - then moves to the period following the discovery of oil and the developments which followed the proper use of such natural resources making this Province a high-tech employment area and a place that the world looks up to." - from Publisher's Note. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Bonus: This copy belonged to the grandfather of a Canadian working in Saudi Arabia. Laid-in is a lengthy and interesting letter to the grandfather. Book
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.
iv + 216pp.+ 5 folding maps, in the series "Sammlung Eduard Glaser" volume I, text printed in 2 columns, bound in green cloth, 30cm., VG
Incisione, antica ed originale, raffigurante l'Egitto la Nubia e Sahara
In-8 gr., mz. pergam. con ang., tit. ms. al dorso, pp. (6),XXXVIII,449,(9), con un ritratto fotografico in b.n. all’antiporta e alc. figg. nel testo. “La création, Les forces cosmiques, Dieu et le diable, La science de la Vie, La Philosophie des Religions, Médecine, Magisme, L’art de connaitre le passé et l’avenir, etc.”. Firma e timbri d’appartenenza, ex-libris; alc. sottolineature a biro nera, pagine leggermente ingiallite per la qualità della carta, ma complessivamente esempl ben conservato.
New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 352 p. Emevîler'in sonuna kadar Islam cografyasinda Mecusîler. The Mazdaism in the Islamic geography until fall of the Umayyads.
Carte entoilée en couleur au format 94 x 68 cm, échelle 1 : 3500000, Maison Andriveau-Goujon, Henry Barrère, Paris, 1904 (mention rev. 1904), carte n° 15, atlas usuel n° 21 ; atlas universel n° 34, gravé : le trait par Smith, la topographie par Gérin, les Ecritures par Rousset, les Eaux par Mme Fontaine Belle grande carte entoilée de l'Empire ottoman (petites usures aux pliures, une petite annotation marginale). Français
in-16, 351 p., carte, index, broché, couv. ill. Très bel exemplaire (250 gr.). [LP]
Some foxing to textblock. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a few small closed tears and chipping. ; German Edition; 332 pages
305p., illus. 12 col. plates Hardcover Good condition, some foxing, spine faded
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
1 vol. in-8 br., Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1883, 384 pp. Tome 2 seul. Etat très satisfaisant (petits frott. en coiffes, qq. rouss., deux petits accrocs à deux ff.) Français
viii + 234pp. avec ills. + portrait, 27cm., dans la série "Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain (PIOL)" volume 39, très bon état, X72358
