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First edition of a work against all religions by 'L'une des figures les plus curieuses de la Révolution' View picture(s) 1 CLOOTS (or CLOOTZ), dit Ana(r)charsis, Jean Baptist de. La certitude des preuves du mahométisme, ou réfutation de l'examen critique des apologistes de la réligion mahométane. Par Ali-Gier-Ber, Alfaki. London (= Holland, probably Amsterdam), 1780. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with red title-label, gilt binding edges. (4), 1-336, 313*-336*, 313**-330**, 337-636 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Hebraica & Judaica  Islamitica  Philosophy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bethlehem in America and Bethlehem in Israel. Two very rare travelaccounts bound together View picture(s) 2 HECKEWELDER, Johann Gottlieb. Reise von Bethlehem in Pensilvanien bis zum Wabashflusz in nordwestlichen Gebiet der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika. Mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von M.C. Sprengel. Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1797. 8vo. Original marbled boards. 94 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Holy Land  Islamitica  Mission  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  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) 3 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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A ground-breaking account of Islam View picture(s) 4 HOTTINGER, Johann Heinrich. Historia Orientalis quae ex variis orientalium monumentis collecta ... Editio posterior & auctior, charactere novo Orientali nunc primùm vestita. Zurich, Johann Jacob Bodmer, 1660. 4to. Modern half calf. Text in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic. [20], 600], [24] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arabia  Islamitica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An interesting look inside the palaces of the North African Moorish rulers View picture(s) 5 TULLY, [Richard]. Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, esq. the British consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, Henry Colburn, 1817. Large 4to. Contemporary calf, spine with title lettered in gold, gilt fillet border on covers, marbled edges. Engraved coloured frontispiece of Sidy Hassan, late Bey of Tripoli, folding engraved map (220 x 390 mm) of the regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, signed "Neele scuplt. Strand", 6 full-page plates of the Triumphal Arch of Tripoli, Arabs recreating in the desert, a Bedouin woman, officers of the Grand Seraglio, a guard of Tripoli, and an Egyptian puppet- shew, all engraved by Hoovell & Son and beautifully coloured by hand. XIII, (2), 376 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Autographs, Letters & Documents  Cartography  Costumes  Islamitica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A richly illuminated manuscript of a Moroccan prayer book View picture(s) 6 [MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - ARABIC]. Dala'il Al-Hairat Wa-Sawariq Al-Anwar / Burda / Al-Husn Al-Hasin / etc. [Morocco, early 18th century]. Small 8vo (9.6 x 9.6 cm). Square calf binding over wooden boards with fore-edge flap; covers decorated with interlacing star design in gold and colours. All edges gilt and gauffered. Manuscript in Arabic script (Maghribi, with rubrications and embellishments in Thuluth) on paper. With six richly illuminated pages decorated in gold and colours. 214 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Islamitica  Manuscripts  Morocco  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Atheist publication based on a nonexistent treatise View picture(s) 7 [MERCIER, Claude François Xavier]. Traité des Trois Imposteurs, des Religion Dominantes  et du Culte, D'après l'analyse conforme à l'histoire:  Contenant Nombre d'observations morales, analogues à  celles mises à l'ordre du jour pour l'affermissement  de la République, sa gloire, et l'édification des peuples  de tous les pays. A Philadelphie, Sous les auspices du  général Washington. Et se trouve. Paris, London, Citoyen Mercier, M. Miller, 1796. 8vo. Orig. boards, uncut. With 3 full-page engraved portraits, of Moses, Pope Pius VI, and Mohamet. (4), 80 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book History  Catholicism  Islamitica  Judaica  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Dutch translation of the Koran, together with two other works, all crucial for the relations with Islam and the Ottoman Empire in seventeenth-century Holland View picture(s) 8 [QURAN]. De Arabische Alkoran, door de Zarazijnsche en de Turcksche prophete Mahometh. Hamburgh, for Barent Adriaensz. Berentsma, 1641. Sm. 4to. 18th century calf with gilt coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in centre of both sides, spine gilt in compartments. (8), 164 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Bookhistory, Bookcollecting & Collectors  Dutch  Islamitica  Netherlands  Ottoman Empire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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