GEITLIN, GABRIEL (Editor):

Carminis epici Schahnameh. Fragmentum de Dario et Alexandro hexametris suethicics redditum. Dissertations. Four parts in two. Helsingfors, Ex typographica Frenckelliana, 1839.

. Pp. (ii), 16; (ii), 17-32; (ii), 37-48; (ii), 49-62. Uncut, sewn as issued. Some minor foxing. Geitlin (1804-71) was professor of Oriental languages at Helsinki University. Henriksson-Puupponen p. 28 (states wrongly six parts). Marklin 19.

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Book number: 34152

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persian, persia, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, arabe, persien, persie, naher osten, asia, east, orient, ori

GEITLIN, GABRIEL:

Principia grammatices neo-persicae cum metrorum doctrina et dialogis persicis. Helsingfors, Frenckelliana, 1845.

. Pp. (ii), 10, (8), 11-352. With one folding table. Partly some minor staining. Contemporary or slightly later red papercovered boards. First querie partly loose. Early Persian grammar, the first one to be published in Finland. It was originally published as dissertations (in 20 parts and 2 appendixes) defended by Geitlin's pupils at the Helsinki University between 1839 and 1845. See Marklin 20. It is printed with the nice Jena Arabic types. Schwab ii, 791. Zenker BO ii, 246.

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Book number: 34027

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, arabe, persien, persie, naher osten, asia, east, orient, ori

GIGANOV, IOSIF IVANOVIC & ATNOMETEV, NIYAT BAKA:

[TATAR]. [Russian title] Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskogo pis'ma (Primer of Tatar and Arabic). St. Petersburg, Imperatorskoi Akademi Nauk, 1802.

. 4to. Pp. 66. With text in Cyrillic and Arabic types. Later grey paper wrappers. Ownership signature (E. Henderson) on front pastedown. First edition of the first primer of the Tatar language, a Turkic language mainly spoken in modern Tatarstan (European Russia) and Siberia. (Not to be confused with Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar which are closely related but belong to different subgroups of the Kipchak languages). Rare.Compiled by Niyat Bka Atnometev a Siberian Tatar under the guidance of the priest Iosif Ivanovich Giganov (1764-1800?). Giganov was a teacher at the Tobolsk Seminar and is considered the founder of the modern Tatar dialectology school. He compiled the first Tatar grammar and Russian-Tatar dictionary, published in 1801 and 1804 respectively, posthumously.Provenance: We assume it has belonged to Ebenezer Henderson (1784-1858), Scottish minister and linguist who in 1822 was invited to assist the Russian Bible Society in translations of the Bible into different languages spoken in the Russian empire). Not in Loewenthal, The Turkic Languages of Central Asia.

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Book number: 121068

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, tatar, tatarstan, kazan, turkic language, language, langue, linguistic, russia, siberia, tartar, russia, russian,

GRÅBERG DI HEMSÖ (GRABERG DI HEMSO), JACOB:

Notizia intorno alla famosa opera istorica di A'bd-er-Rahhman Ibnu Khaldœn. Firenze, tipografia le Monnier, 1846.

. Pp. 43. Contemporary half red calf, gilt, lightly rubbed. Partly some staining. Second edition (first 1834) of this work about the famous Arabic historian Ibn Khaldün (1332-1406). Jacob Gråberg (1776-1847) was Swedish consul in Tangier, and later in Tripolis.

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Book number: 99617

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabian, arabe, arabic, near east, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

DE GRANDPRÉ, LOUIS MARIE JOSEPH O'HIER COMTE:

A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Years 1789 and 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale; the Character and Arts of the people of India; with some Remarkable Religious Rites of the Inhabitants of Bengal. To which is Added, a Voyage in the Red Sea; Including a Description of Mocha, and of the Trade of the Arabs of Yemen; ... Two volumes in one. London 1803.

. Pp. (ii), 273, (1); (ii), 303. With six engraved plates, of which two large folding views of Fort William and the monument Black-hole in Calcutta. Without half titles. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt dentelles on covers, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red title label, spine rubbed, skillfully rebacked with original spine preserved. Bookplate. First English edition translated from the French original (Paris 1801). In 1790 Grandpré started his voyage from ële de France (Mauritius) and travelled via the Maldives to the Seychelles, India, Cochin China, Yemen and Ceylon. This informative account describes the customs of the people along the route, commerce and navigation, and about the Arabic influence in India. Grandpré was also very much concerned with the European influence in the area, especially concerning the French at Pondichery, India. The part on the Red Sea and Yemen contains a.o. information about the cultivation, customs and trade of coffee. Hünersdorff, Coffee Bibliography, i, p. 600.

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Book number: 44032

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, bengal, bengalen, sechelles islands, sechelles, arabia, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, arabic

GUYARD, STANISLAS:

Théorie nouvelle de la métrique arabe, précédée e considérations générales sur le rhythme naturel du langage. Extrait du journal asiatique. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1877.

. Pp. (vi), 350, 20. Contemporary marbled boards, red calf spine ruled in gilt and with title printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed.

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Book number: 28110

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, arabia, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asiatic, asien

GYLLIUS (GILLES), ANTONIUS S. PETRI:

De Bosporo thracio. Parts i-iii in one volume. Lugd. Bat., apud Elzevirios, 1632.

. 16mo. Pp. 379, (1), Index (4). With a beautiful engraved title by Duysend. Contemporary boards, rubbed, spine ruled in gilt and with title label, hinges cracked. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Gilles (1490-1555) was one of the earliest French natural historians and sent to the Levant by Francis i. He was usually called the founder of Byzantine archaeology and gives in this work a circumstantial account of the antiquities of Constantinople. The first Elzevir edition. Berghman 1895. Cox i, p. 222. Willems 366.

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Book number: 25065

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, near east, arabic, middle east, arabia, turkey, constantinople, levant, ottoman, turkish, travel, voyage, exploration, explore

HEDENSKOG, CARL AXEL:

Beraettelse om Alexander den Store, Oefversaettning fraan syriskan med anmaerkningar. Ett bidrag till Alexandersagan och dess historia. Academisk afhandling. Lund 1868.

. Pp. (iv), 74. Wrappers. A dissertation about Alexander the Great translated from the Syriac.

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Book number: 777032

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syria, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, islam, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, alexander, syrien, syrie, naher osten

HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, BARTHÉLEMY D':

Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions veritables ou fabuleuses. Leurs religions, sectes et politique .... Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1697.

. Folio. Pp. (xxxvi), 1059, (1). With title printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary full calf, spine with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title label, worn and hinges cracked, spine ends and corners chipped. Bookplates (of Edouard Montet, French orientalist and Patrick Lort-Phillips) and old inscriptions on front paste down. With some staining and partly with tiny wormholes in the inner margin (no loss).First edition of one of the major European works on Orientalism compiled by d'Herbelot and completed and published by orientalist Antoine Galland after d'Herbelot's death. Herbelot spent thirty years working on this alphabeticallly arranged encyclopaedia of the Orient, including much information of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature and history. It is partly based on the extensive Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun) of Hadji Khalifa. A second edition was published in 1776 and a supplement by Claude de Visdelou in 1780. Cf Atabey 572. Graesse 1216. Sale 563. Zenker i, 1735.

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Book number: 120280

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, persian, turkish, orient, middle east, asia asie, asien , asiatic, dictionary, exploration, travel,

HESSELGREN, ERIK & AURIVILLIUS, CARL:

Dissertatio de lingua aramaea. Part one & part two. Upsala, Joh, Edman, 1771 & 1773.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 25, (1); (ii), 25-40. Disbound.

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Book number: 34166

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syrien, syrie, aramaic, syria, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe os

HETZEL (HEZEL), WILHELM FRIEDRICH:

Erleichterte arabische grammatik, nebst einer kurzen arabischen chrestomathie, zur uebung im Lesen und Uebersetzen. Two parts in one volume. Jena, Felix Fickelscherr, 1776.

. Pp. (xvi), 104, 48; 20 pp. With two folding tables. Library stamp. Contemporary half calf, worn, top of spine chipped. First edition. This grammar is based on the works by Erpenius, Hirtius and Michaelis. In 1801 Hetzel (or Hezel) was appointed the first professor of oriental languages at Dorpat. Schnurrer p. 82. Zenker, BO i, 220.

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Book number: 25009

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, near east, arabic, middle east, arabia, languages, linguistics, grammar

DELAPORTE. J.-HONORAT:

Principes de l'idiome arabe en usage a Alger suivis d'un conte arabe avec la prononciation et le mot-à-mot interlinéaires. Alger & Paris 1839.

. Pp. (viii), 163. With four folding tables. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, faded. Second edition. Cf Thonnelier 1334. Cf Vater p. 28 (first 1836). Zenker BO ii, 82 & 191 (later editions).

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Book number: 28075

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, arabia, arabic, algier, langue, language, lingusitic, africa, africana, african, afrique, afrika

HÖPKEN (HOPKEN), CARL FR. VON & CARLESON, EDUARD:

Relation om ... hafde audience wid Ottomanniske porten 8-19 julii 1740. Stockholm, Kongl. tryckeriet, Pet. Momma, 1740.

. 4to. Pp. (8). Wrappers. A nice and crisp copy. Deals with an audience by two Swedes to the Grand Visir in July 1740 regarding the ratification of the Treaty of Commerce between Sweden and Turkey. Only edition.A report by Höpken and Carleson, the first Swedish diplomats in Constantinople, of an audience with the Grand Visir regarding the ratification of a Treaty of Commerce between the countries in July 1740. Christian Callmer: In Orientem (1985) pp. 38-39.

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Book number: 14106

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, near east, middle east, arabic, arabes, turkey, turkish, travel, exploration

MOHAMMAD B. 'ALë B. M. AL-HOSEINë:

[Qu'ran studied in Persian].Tadjwîd - i - Qorán. Téhéran 1289H (1872).

. Folio. Lvs (8). Lithographed text. Contemporary Persian binding in full calf, rubbed, blue end papers. Binding shaken.BOUND TOGETHER WITH:1. Mehdi Safawî: Zyá 'Oyouno'n-Názirîn (Lumières des yeux qui voient) Talismans coraniques. Lvs (5). 2. Alcoran, with text in Arabic and Persian translation. Lvs 221.3. Glossary of the Koran. Lvs. 68. Alphabetical index systematically comparing all words with references to the sacred text.4. Mohammad- 'Ali da Sabzavár: Chadjará - i- Tayyiba. Lvs. 10.

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Book number: 100542

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, perse, persian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, koran, arabic,

IBRAHIM, MIRZA MUHAMMAD:

To which are Subjoined Several Dialogues; with an Alphabetical List of the English and Persian Terms of Grammar; and an Appendix, on the use of Arabic Words. London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1841.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (vi), 10, 268 + errata slip. Text in Persian and English. Contemporary half calf, worn with spine ends chipped. Some staining to endpapers. First edition. Muhammad Ibrahim (ca 1800-57) came to Britain in 1826. He was appointed professor of Arabic and Persian languages at the East-India Company's College in Haileybury. After his return to Persia in 1844 he became tutor to the future Shah. Schwab ii, 860 (London 1843). Zenker BO i, 264 (1843 edition). Vater p. 281.

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Book number: 31023

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, grammar, perse,