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Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 151 p., b/w ills., 1 folded b/w plate. Edirne rehnümasi (Edirne sehir kilavuzu).
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 109 monochrome plates on 64, a double-page map and endpaper maps; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's fine 'British Towns and Cities' series.
RARE monograph on the social and economic history of the western Anatolian city of Bursa in the 17th-century, when it was a major center of the Ottoman Empire. 225x160mm. 227 pages.Green cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Jacket edges rubbed/wrinkled. Cover corners and spine edges slightly bumped. Else in very good condition.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 23x16.5cm. 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cover bottom corners slightly bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Page 89/90 with print defect. Else in good condition.
285x220 mm. 522 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners and edges slightly bumped. Pen marks on front whitepage. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
FIRST EDITION of a RARE TWO VOLUME record of Sir Austen Henry Layard's first adventurous journey to the East and residence among different tribes of Persia in the years 1840-1842. This book mentioned by the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing in his diary as 'one of the most interesting books'. The author - Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894), was an eminent English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Contains two beautiful b&w illustrations, two frontispieces and three fold-out maps. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x140mm. 490+511 pages [+20]. Olive green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering and red and green patterns on front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained. Cover yellowing and dirty/stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and worn. Binding slightly visible on inner cover (but still intact). Small sticker on front whitepage. Illustrations and some pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a two-volume illustrated memoir of travels and residence in Persia by an illustrious Late Victorian England personality is in good condition.
Contains color plates. 240x165 mm. 35 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. In good condition.
Contains b&w plates. 24x17cm. 135 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
170X245 mm. 348 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine slightly bumped and slightly yellowing. Ex-Libris sticker on inner cover. Else in good condition.
IN HEBREW. 235x165 mm. XXX+312+395 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Library copy with usual marks. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine edges slightly stained. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
23.5x15.5 cm. 259 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.
17X24 cm. XXIII+332 pages. Softcover. Includes colorful maps and pictures. Front covers edges slightly folded. Spine's top and bottom slightly chafed. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
24.5x17cm. 311 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Cover corners slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Includes the following issues from 1992: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Holiday Diving on Fiji's Matagi Island; Skookumchuck Narrows; Heron Island, Australia; Slides from Prints; Bahamas - 500 years since Columbus; Bella Bella - in Remote B.C.; Red Sea; Fate of the Falconer; The sprightly Seasprint; Floriday Keys; Bonaire; RCMP's Regina; Whidbey Island; Sea Stars; Diving the Capilano; Shoot Like a Pro; The Straits of Mackinac; MCD Strobes; Raratonga; Sherkston Quarry; Georgian Bay Wreck Dive; Luxury Diving abour Truk Agressor; Sipadan Island; Lost Cities of Micronesia; Artificial Reefs of Porteau Cove, B.C.; The Manatee; Fraser River Wreck Dive; Guanaja; Cabo San Lucas; Lake Dive; Underwater Video; The Green Sea Urchin; Scotia Cape; Cayman Connection; 'City of Vienna' in Halifax; Alaska - an exotic dive; The Cunner; Queen Charlotte Islands; Gulf Islands - B.C.'s Playground; Calabogie; Cozumel; Behind the Dolphin Smile; Ucluelet, Vancouver Island; Nova Scotia Wreck Challenge; Canada's Ice Diving; Belize Resort; Alberta's Project Habakuk; Dodd Narrows - current-swept passage in B.C.; Bristleworm. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
265x210 mm. 117 pages. Softcover. Cover curved and yellowing. Cover edges and corners slightly worn. Spine wrinkled. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
N°156, d'Octobre-Décembre 1991 de la trimestrielle revue internationale des Sciences Humaines fondée et dirigée par Roger CAILLOIS puis par Jean d'Ormesson; au sommaire: "La Cosmologie de l'architecture des villes" par Tilo SCHABERT, "Conceptualiser l'émotion contextuelle: les raisons de la "suprarationalité"" par Barbara Gail HANSON, "La Texture de l'image: du calligramme au fractogramme" par Wolfgang WACKERNAGEL; puis 3 articles sur "Croyances et connaissance": "Le Rôle central de la bhakti dans les visions indiennes du monde" par Ravindra RAJ SINGH, "Regard sur la notion et la fonction de l'imagination créatrice dans la théosophie iranienne. Henry Corbin et l'Imaginal" par Ali SHARIAT, "Les Concepts éthiques du judaïsme et de la Grèce antique" par Mordecai ROSHWALD. Avec le bandeau éditeur illustré: "... d'une ville l'autre". Français
345x240 mm. 407 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket edges slightly worn. Pen inscription on front whitepage. Few page corners wrinkled. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
RARE collection of 23 papers in German and English from the international symposium on the christianization of cities in Late Antiquity. Copy from the library of an eminent Israeli archaeologist Yoram Tsafrir (1938-2015), who also contributed a paper included in this volume. Most papers are in German, three are in English. [LIST OF AUTHORS]: Gunnar Brands, Achim Arbeiter, Franz A. Bauer, Albrecht Berger, Robert Born, Beat Brenk, Ortwin Dally, Klaus S. Freyberger, Peter Grossmann, Andreas Gutsfeld, Wolfram Hoepfner, Kenneth Holum, Hans-Rudolf Meier, Karl Leo Noethlichs, Alexis Oepen, Ulrich Real, Klaus Rheidt, Hans-Georg Severin, Hilke Thür, Yoram Tsafrir Bryan Ward-Perkins, Rainer Warland, Ulrike Wulf. Includes 125 b&w full-page plates, several of them fold-out, and index of places (Orts- und Länderregister). 245x175mm. VIII+310 pages & 125 full-page plates. Illustrated Hardcover. Cover and spine rubbed. Cover edges and spine bottom edge bumped. Cover upper corners and spine upper edge rubbed. Previous owner's name (Yoram Tsafrir) written in Hebrew in pencil on front whitepage upper edge/corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare volume of conference proceedings, of immense interest to historians of urban development and Christianity in Late Antiquity, is in good condition.
30x21.5cm. 10+724 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Pen inscription on first whitepage. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
22x15.5cm. 235 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners bumped. Spine stained. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Binding partly visible between inner cover and pages. Few pages glued. Pages yellowing and slightly age-stained. In good reading condition.
24x20.5 cm. 49 pages. Softcover. In good condition.
RARE comprehensive monograph on the Madaba Map (also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map) which is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map dates to the 6th century AD and contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The author - Adolf Schulten (1870-1960) was an eminent German historian and archaeologist. Contains a reproduction of the Madaba map on two pages and full-page plate with 6 b&w figures. 270x210mm. 121 pages. Hardcover with cloth spine. Cover yellowing, stained/age-stained, somewhat curved and wrinkled. Wormholes on cover and spine. Cover edges and corners bumped and worn. Spine worn. Spine edges peeling. Spine hinges partly cracked and tattered. Sticker residues on spine bottom part. Ink writing on front inner cover, whitepage and title page. Ex-library copy with stamp on front and rear whitepages, and contents page. Wormholes on inner cover, whitepages and edges of all pages - NO damage to text. Wormholes on Madaba map with slight damage to middle part and hinge. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on the oldest map of the Holy Land and Jerusalem has sustained some damage, but is still in good reading condition.
Köln - Wien, Bohlau, 1975; in-8, 105 pp., broché. Très bon état.
New German Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In German. [5], 160 p. Die menschenliebe im dichtwerk Gertrud Von Le forts nach ihrer umwandlung.
