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A Dutch text with a famous English print series illustrating Biblical scenes View picture(s) 1 AMORIE VAN DER HOEVEN, Abraham des. Bijbelsche landschappen, naar afbeeldingen op de plaats zelve vervaardigd, met bijgevoegde tafereelen. Amsterdam, C.A. Spin for G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1836-) 1838-1839. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, raised bands. Two engraved frontispieces, 96 full-page steel-engraved plates, including the two frontispieces, by W. Finden after the drawings by C. Stanfield, J.M.W. Turner, J.D. Harding and others, of biblical locations in the Holy Land: the Death Sea, Ararat, Sinai, Jordan, Babylon, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Hebron, Petra, Libanon, Baalbec, Sidon, Patmos, Nile, etc. (8), VIII, (6), 96; (6), 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bibles  Egypt  Holy Land  Illustrated Books  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedication copy by the author View picture(s) 2 BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The sources of the Nile: being a general survey of the basin of that river, and of its head-streams; with the history of Nilotic discovery. London, James Madden, 1860. 8vo. Original purple blind stamped decorated cloth with gilt title on spine. With 5 maps and 3 plates (large folding general map by John Dower of the Basin of the Nile, full page map showing how the Atbara, the Nile of the Ethiopians, may be turned into the Red Sea, and a full page plate showing three maps of the Peninsula of Godjam in 1660, 1790 and 1843; folding plate of coastal views of the Nile, plate of Ptolemais Therön, full page plate of the sources of the Nile according to Claudius Ptolemy), some illustrations in text. XV, [4], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Egypt  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed description of many now destroyed Egyptian monuments View picture(s) 3 CAILLIAUD, Frédéric. Voyage a Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, par M. Frédéric Cailliaud, de Nantes, associé correspondant de la société académique de Marseille, membre de celle de la Loire-inférieure, et de la société de géographie. Accompagné de cartes géographiques, de planches représentant les monumens de ces contrées, avec des détails relatifs à l'état moderne et à l'histoire naturelle. Dédié au roi. Paris, Debure, Tillard & Treuttel et Wurtz, 1826. 4 text volumes in 8vo and 2 parts in 1 atlas volume in folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and blind-tooled, marbled edges. With woodcut vignette on titles and 12 full-page engravings, all coloured by hand, depicting costumes of different people, 4 in vol. 1, 4 in vol. 2, and 4 in vol. 3, 3 facsimile, 2 in vol. 3 and 1 in vol. 4, and 150 full-page lithographs with beautiful plates, maps, views, costumes, inscriptions and figures in the atlas volume, 75 in each part, made after drawings by the author. [4], XV, [1], 429 pp; [4], 442 pp; [4], 431, [1] pp; [4], 416 pp; [32], [150], [20], [150] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Egypt  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a history of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt with a collection of Turkish and Egyptian tales View picture(s) 4 DIGEON, [J.M.]. Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc. Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title labels, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Egypt  History  Literature  Ottoman Empire  Poetry  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From India overland to London, by the son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV View picture(s) 5 FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London, Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1819. 4to. Contemporary calf with blind-tooled border and gilt fillet along the edges, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. With a large folding partly coloured map of the seat of war in India, a full-page map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by Fitzclarence to reach Alexandria, 12 full-page aquatints (9 coloured, 2 uncoloured) and 5 full-page plans (4 partly coloured plans of battlefields in India; 1 of a temple). XXIV, 502 [including p. 168-169*] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Egypt  England  India  Militaria  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The primary source of information on the Islamic world untill well into the nineteenth century View picture(s) 6 HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, Bartholomé d'. Bibliotheque orientale ou dictionnaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions véritables ou fabuleuses; leurs religions, sectes et politique, leurs gouvernement, loix, coutumes, moeurs, guerres, & les revolutions de leurs empires; leurs sciences et leurs arts, leurs théologie, mythologie, magie, physique, morale, médicine, mathématiques, histoire naturelle, chronologie, géographie, observations astronomiques, grammaire & rhétorique; les vies et actions remarquables de tous leurs saints, docteurs, philosophes, historiens, poetes, capitaines, & de tous ceux qui se sont rendus illustres parmi eux, par leur vertu, ou par leur savoir; des jugements critiques, et des extraits de tous leurs ouvrages. De leurs Traités, traductions, commentaires, abrégés, recueils de fables, de sentences, de maximes, de proverbes, de contes, de bons mots, & de tous leurs livres écrits en Arabe, en Persan, ou en Turc, sur toutes sortes de sciences, d'arts, & de professions. Maastricht, Jean Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1776. Folio. Later half mottled calf, ribbed spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold, red painted edges. Title printed in red and black, with 3 folding printed tables and woodcut head- and tail pieces. (4), XXI, 22-26, 954 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Egypt  Encyclopædic Works  Islamitica  Middle East  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant View picture(s) 7 LUCAS, Paul. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine and white gilt title label, red edges. Two titles printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding engraved plates with a.o. pyramids, archeological findings and the Holy Grave and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps a.o.  of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, 8 full-page engraved plates. (30), 323; (10), 328 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Asia Minor  Egypt  Greece  Holy Land  Romania  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of Niebuhr's description of Arabia, with 25 plates View picture(s) 8 NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien. Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst gesammleten Nachrichten abgefasset. Copenhagen, printed by Nicolaus Möller for B.C Breitkopf und Sohn, Leipzig, 1772. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. With engraved vignette on title-page, 25 engraved and etched plates, maps, plans and views (10 folding, 2 plates showing Arabic text with handcolouring indicating vowel sounds, 1 map hand-coloured in outline), and 1 folding table. XLVII, [3], 431, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Arabia  Egypt  Islamitica  Quran  Yemen  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A contemporary glimpse of one of the most famous French 'Wunderkammer' View picture(s) 9 PETAU, Paul (Paulus PETAVIUS). Explication de plusieurs antiquités. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half vellum. With 47 full-page plates and a series of 21 plates, all engraved. The first 13 plates are coloured by a contemporary hand. 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Cabinet of Curiosities  Classical Antiquity  Egypt  Engravings  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First notable work on Egyptology View picture(s) 10 PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo). Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud Aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis aeneis simul exhibentur  & explicantur. - With separate title-page: IDEM. Magnae Deum matris idae ae & Attidis initia. Ex vetustis monumentis nuper Tornaci & Nerviorum erutis. Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1669-1670. 2 works in one (as published). 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text. (8), 96, (11); (8), 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Egypt  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Egypt and the Near East in the first Dutch translation View picture(s) 11 POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer. Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg, J. Bosch and R. Arrenberg, and M. de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 parts in 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines with 5 raised bands gilt ruled with green morocco title labels lettered in gold. With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Egypt  Greece  Middle East  Ottoman Empire  Syria  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of the most elaborately illustrated English book on the Levant View picture(s) 12 SANDYS, [George]. Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turckenrijcks: hare wetten, regeeringe, politie, krijghs-macht, hooven van justitie, ende koop-handel. Als mede, van Aegypten; d'antiquiteyt, verborgene characteren, ordinantien, costuymen, discipline, ende religie der Aegyptenaren: Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt; van de Jooden ende verscheydene secten der Christenen aldaer; van Jerusalem, het graff Christi, den tempel Salomons, nevens andere noterens weerdige antiquiteyten. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare naburige eylanden; als Cyprus, Creta, Malta, Sicilië, de Aeolische Eylanden; van Romen, Venetien, Napels, Syracuese, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, ende Charybdis, &c. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt, door J. G. Amsterdam, Baltes Boeckholt, 1665. 4to. 19th century half calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Wth an engraved title-page, 3 engraved plates and 26 engraved illustrations in text. 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cyprus  Egypt  Holy Land  Italy  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first monograph on the Ibis. With 6 hand-coloured plates after Redouté and Barraband View picture(s) 13 SAVIGNY, Marie Jules-César Lelorgue de. Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis. Paris, Allais, 1805. 8vo. 19th-century half roan. With 6 handcoloured engraved plates (2 folding) by Bouquet after Redouté and Barraband. XIII, [1], 224 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Egypt  Natural History  Ornithology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Middle East View picture(s) 14 WILSON, Charles. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E, C.B., F.R.S. formerly engineer to the Palestine exploration society. Assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers etc. With numerous engravings on steel and wood. London, Virtue and Co,. [ca.1870]. 4 volumes. Large 4to (33 x 25 cm). Contemporary half roan, buckram covers and gilt center piece on front cover. With the title-pages to each volume in red and black, 42 plates (incl. 4 different steel-engraved frontispieces and 4 different large steel-engraved title vignettes), and 2 double-page engraved maps of Egypt and Sinai, printed in brown. [2], X, 240; [2], VI, 240; [2], IV, 240; [2], IV, 236 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Egypt  Holy Land  Illustrated Books  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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