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Egyptian cities and their surroundings View picture(s) 1 BIDA, Alex. and Prosper BARBOT. Souvenirs d'Egypte. Paris, Lemercier, (1850). Large folio. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red title-label. Lithographed title and 24 tinted lithographs of which the first 12 depict costumes, designed and lithographed by Bida and the last 12 depict views, designed by Barbot and lithographed by Cicéri. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  Costumes  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Valuable account of the customs, natural history, politics and trade of India and Persia View picture(s) 2 FRYER, John. Negenjarige Reyse door Oostindien en Persien ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681. In acht brieven geschreven door d'Heer Johan Freyer. Uyt het Engels vertaalt. The Hague, A. de Hondt, etc. 1700. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red sprinkled edges. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding maps and 7 folding engraved plates and views. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Middle East  Voyages  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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First edition of a celebrated work on Persia in a splendid binding View picture(s) 4 HYDE, Thomas. Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum ubi etiam nova Abrahami, & Mithrae, & vestae, & Manetis, &c. Historia, atque Angelorum officia & praefecturae ex veterum parsarum sententia...Zoroastris vita, ejusque et aliorum vaticinia de Messiah Persarum aliorumque monumentis eruuntur...atque magorum liber Sad-der, (Zoroastris praecepta seu religionis canones continens,) e Persico traductus exhibetur...Dantur veterum Persarum scripturae & linguae... specimina... Oxford, E theatro Sheldoniano, 1700. 4to. Late 18th-century blue morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, of which 2 with title lettered in gold, on both covers a border of beautifully crafted flowers within double-lined borders, with shell-shaped ornament in every corner, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (BOZERIAN). 18 engraved plates, of which 1 double page and 3 folding. (30), 556 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Bindings  Cartography  History  Middle East  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The beginning of the renewed contacts between France and Persia View picture(s) 5 JAUBERT, Pierre-Amédée Emilien. Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806. Suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan, par M. le colonel Trezel. Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine with gilt ornaments and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821. (2), XII, 506, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armenia  Asia  Cartography  Middle East  Napoleon  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) 6 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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Mysterious Arabs View picture(s) 7 RICHARD, Charles. Les mystères du peuple Arabe. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1860. 12mo. Contemporary half citron morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with blue morocco title-label and 5 with gilt emblems of the Ottoman Empire, the crescent moon with the star, gilt upper edges (R. PETIT). XXIV (last blank), 242 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Arabia  Cartography  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A late 17th-century view on the Middle East View picture(s) 8 ROQUE, Jean de la Voyage de Syrie et du Mont-Liban: contenant la description de tout le pays compris sous le nom de Liban & d'anti-Liban, Kesroan, &c. ce qui concerne l'origine, la créance, & les moeurs des peuples qui habitent ce pays: la description des ruines d'Heliopolis, awjourd'huy Balbek, & une dissertation historique sur cette ville; avec un abregé de la vie de monsieur de Chasteüil, gentilhomme de Provence, solitaire du Mont-Liban; & l'histoire du prince Junès, Maronite, mort pour la religion dans ces derniers temps. Paris, André Cailleau, 1722. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with yellow & green morocco title labels lettered in gold, crest of H E B (tigerhead crossed with two swords) on a black label, gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. With 9 engraved plates (5 folding), depicting trees, a folding map of the course of the Orontes river, the temple at Baalbek, and medals and coins, and woodcut coat of arms above dedication to Monisieur De Fleury. (12), 347, (1 blank); (2), 321, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  French  Middle East  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six descriptions of the Arab world printed by Blaeu View picture(s) 9 SIONITA, Gabriele (a.o.). Arabia seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia. Accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Including: SIONITA, Gabriele & Johannes HESRONITA. De Nonnullis orientalium urbibus. And: RICHER, Christophe. De moribus atque institutis Turcarum Arabum, aliarumque, quae Mahumedem sequuntur gentium. And: COTWIJK, Johannes van. Itinerario Hierosolymitano et Syriaco, de sacris, ritibus, moribus & institutis Mahometaeorum, excerpta. And: GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig. Archontologia cosmica. And: ROMAIN, Adrien. Arabiae topographia & alia, ex Theatro Urbium excerpta. And: DRECHSLER, Wolfgang. Historia Arabum. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz & Joan (I) Blaeu, 1635. 16mo. Contemporary red morocco with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine richly gilt in compartments, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved title-page and woodcut initials and tailpiece. 247 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Arabia  Asia  Cartography  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to enter Mekka and Medina View picture(s) 10 VARTHEMA, Ludvico di. De uytnemende en seer vvonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, van Bononien, Ridder &c. Gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vrughtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere. Utrecht, Gerard Nieuwenhuysen & Willem Snellaert, 1654. 4to. Old vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates. [8], 56, 56 [= 60], 24, [2, 2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  East Indies  Islamitica  Middle East  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring the Middle East View picture(s) 11 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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Contemporary biography of one of the greatest rulers of Persia in a fine armorial binding View picture(s) 12 [CLAUSTRE, André de, or CERCEAU, Jean-Antoine du]. Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, nouveau Roi de Perse, ou histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse, arrivée en 1732. Paris, Briasson, 1742. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt coat of arms of Louis-Hilaire du Bouchet, comte de Sourches on covers, gilt fillet on binding edges, red painted edges. With beautifully engraved frontispiece of Thamas Kouli-Kan signed Mathey, with the inscription "Thamas Kouli Kan Roy de Perse Ce nouveau Tamerlan, quoi qu' il dise, ou qu' il faße D' un spectacle si grand etonne le Lecteur, Qu' il s' en faut peu qu' en lui le Monarque n' efface La honte de l' Usurpateur" by Pesselier and an engraved folding map (264 x 225 mm) of Persia and the states of the Mogol. (4), 455, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Asia  Cartography  History  Middle East  Persia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare history of Jerusalem with the description of the holy sites View picture(s) 13 [HOLY LAND]. Abregé de l'histoire de la ville de Jérusalem, où on expose succinctement  les états différens où s'est trouvée cette ville, depuis son origine avec les principales révolutions qui y sont arrivées: mais où on traite spécialement de la ville qui porte ce nom par rapport aux mystères de la loi nouvelle, & à l'état où elle se trouve aujourd'hui, &c. Avec l'ordinaire de la messe. Par un missionaire apostolique. Lille, Van Costenoble, 1769. 8vo. Marbled half calf, spine gilt, red morocco title label lettered in gold. With one folding engraved plate of a city plan of Jerusalem with a printed table of the 49 sites indicated and numbered on the plate, all places relating to the life of Jesus. Interesting engraved head- and tailpieces. (8), XVI, 5-203, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Holy Land  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The people of the world updated View picture(s) 14 [MOLHUYSEN, Philipp Christiaan]. Aardrijkskundig leesboek tot uitbreiding der kennis van verschillende volken op den aardbol. Tweede verbeterde druk. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, 1838. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. With large emblematic vignette on engraved title, and illustrations of the costumes of the main peoples of the world on 28 full-page engraved plates. (8), 412 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  China  Costumes  Geography  India  Japan  Middle East  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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