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Light wear to DJ; Photographs by Mohamed Amin; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 172 pages
222pp VG/Fair errata leaf included loose at p.13, illustrated pictorial dw with two tears on top with no loss, otherwise a very good copy. With many illustrations and photos in b/w and colour.
229 pagine con alcune tavole fuori testo; 20,5 cm. Tela editoriale. Tracce d'uso
10 pages. Plus a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 19.75 x 24.5 inches (50 x 62cm). 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 an exceptional report on the new updated Persia map created by the RGS and Lord Curzon. One of the major contributions to the study of Persian history. Curzon a most prolific writer and explorer is renowned for his committment to detail and exploration. Ghani writes that, "his powers of observation and analysis were extraordinary; no detail ever escaped him." (Ghani 87.) This was the first time this new Persia map was published, which also shows Afghanistan and Beluchistan. The information was pulled from all the important sources, both from British and Russian explorers. This makes this report a highly valuable important Primary Resource.
13 pages. 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 fascinating paper which pre-dates his book "The Merv Oasis. Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian during the Years 1879-80-81 including Five Months’ Residence among the Tekkés of Merv." Also published in 1882. O’Donovan, an Irish newspaper correspondent who had covered the Franc-Prussian war and the Russo-Turkish war, undertook his journey to Merv as a representative of the ‘Daily News’. In 1879 he travelled with two native servants from the Caspian Sea through Khorassan and at great risk reached Merv. Whilst en-route for Merv O’Donovan witnessed through binoculars from a hilltop the Destruction of Geok-Tepe and the massacre of the panic-stricken Turcomans ordered by Skobelev. Suspected by the Turcomans of being a Russian emissary, or perhaps believing he could gain them the protection of the British, he was kept captive for several months, eventually managing to extricate himself and returning to London. The Merv Oasis is a unique record of the Tekkes inhabiting the oasis of Merv and its ancient ruins while themselves awaiting the Russian onslaught. "A most daring, difficult, and hazardous feat, with which his name will always be associated." - DNB.
41p. Disbound Good condition Advocating Arabic self-rule without European influence.
in-8°, 189 pages, broche. Bel exemplaire. [PAY]
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…
Desclée de Brouwer 1990, In-8 broché, 262 pages. 34 illustrations d'après les photographies de l'auteur, certaines dépliantes. Postface de Guy Courtellemont. Bon état.
Very Good German Paperback. Some markings and highlights. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In German and Arabic. [16], 45 p. Morgenlandische Geheimsekten in abendlandischer Forschung und die handschrift Kiel Arab. 19. Oriental secret sects in occidental research and manuscript Kiel Arabic 19.
340 pages. Translated from the Hebrew. "Carries us into the strange and exciting world of the Yemenite Jews from Southern Arabia who have settled in contemporary Israel." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Slight wear, one small tear, and sticker residue to DJ; Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
8vo; 240 pages
viii + 234pp., 24cm., hardcover (black cloth), dustwrapper, very good condition, X79401
8vo. 29 pages. Text is in German. This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label. This issue contains a fascinating compendium on Persia, written during the Russo-Persian War and the brief Franco-Persian alliance. The author draws from and quotes passages of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's now extremely scarce title, the final volume of which had finally been published the same year in 1807, "Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse" [A Journey in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia]. An early nineteenth century account covering geography, natural history, commodities such as gold and silver, and social customs from various different ethnic groups. In this text Persians are ascribed attributes such as civilized, rich, polite, and hospitable, at the same time struggling with long-standing inter-racial conflicts between Arabs, Uzbeks, Kurds, Afghans, and Turkmen (Turkoman), the latter of which are described as warlike. Further topics of interest include practices of astrology, medicine, opium usages, and nomadic gypsies. A scarce dissertation and unique item to pair with the collector's volume. Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) was one of the great French naturalists and entomologists, who in 1796, together with physician and zoologist Jean-Guillaume Bruguières, travelled to Persia for six years on a major expedition, and returned to France in 1798 with substantial natural history specimens from Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia (Iran), Egypt, and some Mediterranean islands. His large collection is now mostly at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. These are the original pages printed in 1807, and NOT a reprint. This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816 and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy. Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important scientific journal.
pp. 33-77, 8 pls. of microphotos, 1 tab., 2 figs., refs. Offprint, orig. wrs.
London and Cambridge, MacMillan and Co., 1866, volumi 2, in-8, legatura editoriale in piena tela verde con figura di beduino che conduce un cammello impressa in oro al centro dei piatti anteriori, titolo e numero di volumi in oro ai dorsi, pp. XII, [2], 466, [2] - [8], 398, [2]. Con ritratto dell'autore in antiporta al primo volume, una grande carta geografica dell'Arabia più volte ripiegata e 4 piante ripiegate f.t. Esemplare più che buono: solo la cerniera del piatto anteriore del primo volume è usurata all'interno, nel punto di contatto fra la controguardia anteriore e la prima carta di guardia.
A colorful collection of costumes for your adopted kids. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 80 pages
Mm 130x185 Volume rilegato in tela bordeaux con titolo impresso in oro al dorso, sovraccoperta editoriale mancante, 633 pagine con illustrazioni in nero lungo l'intero testo. Firma di autentica dell'autore in antiporta. Qualche fisiologica fioritura alle carte, peraltro esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
23 pages. Plus a fold-out sketch map, measuring approximately 8 x 11 inches (20 x 28cm) 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 an exceptional expedition report on the tribal customs and peculiarities of the Kafirs and the Chugani, accompanied by a fold out map for illustration. Tanner was the only Englishman who had ever visited the Dra Nur and the country to the north, in the late 1800's, making this an outstanding primary resource.
20 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 10.5 x 8 inches (27 x 20cm). 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 most compelling report on an English political mission determined to establish military consulates in Asia Minor to watch the introduction of reforms under the Anglo - Turkish Convention. This mission was primarily installed in order to glean information. A fascinating read accompanied by a map of Asia Minor (Anatolia) and showing the Gulf of Scanderun. A fascinating geographical report on the picturesque valleys, mountain districts, large rivers, ruins and new discoveries in Asia Minor.
4 tiré-à-part reliés ensemble en 1 vol. in-8 reliure demie-percaline verte, Lettre à M. Abel-Rémusat sur la nature des formes grammaticales en général, et sur le génie de la langue chinoise en particulier, par M. G. de Humboldt ; Extrait du Journal des Savans, Février et mars 1828, A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale, Mars 1828, 40 pp. - Nouveaux aperçus sur l'Histoire de l'Ecriture chez les Arabes du Hedjaz, Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils, Paris, 1827, 27 pp. - Lettre à M. J. L. Burnouf sur l'Impératif latin, Imprimerie Panckoucke, Paris, Mars 1841, 31 pp. - Deuxième Lettre sur l'Impératif latin, Imprimerie de Paul Dupont et comp., Extrait du Journal Général de l'Instruction Publique, 1841, 4 pp. Bel exemplaire des ces quatres rares tirés à part, tous en édition originale. On y trouve la rare notice de Silvestre de Sacy consacrée à la controverse menées entre Abel-Rémusat et G. de Humboldt sur l'influence des formes grammaticales sur le développement des idées, et surtout l'introuvable notice du même auteur consacrée à l'histoire de l'Ecriture chez les arabes du Hedjaz : la découverte de papyrus en langue arabe permet à Silvestre de Sacy de confirmer son intuition, et l'autorise à affirmer que "le caractère neshki, dont on fixait l'invention à la fin du IIIe siècle de l'Hégire, existait, à peu près sous la forme actuelle, avant que les Arabes du Hedjaz reçussent d'Anbar ou de Hira celui qui a donné naissance au caractère coufique". Les deux tirés à part de Quicherat sont également en édition originale. Fine copy of the two very scarce original offprints by Silvestre de Sacy (OCLC records only two copies of the first one in the USA - Cornell and Standford according to OCLC, two copies in Cambridge and Manchester on COPAC -, no copy of the second one located in the USA, only one copy at Manchester University according to COPAC ). Français
1 vol. in-8 br., La Presse Coloniale Illustrée, Paris, 1931, 112 pp. Etat très satisfaisant (petits accrocs en dos, bon état par ailleurs) pour cette notice très complète, fournissant une foule de renseignements géographiques, économiques ou démographiques sur la région de Djibouti. Français
