EUTING, JULIUS:

Sechs phönikische Inschriften aus Idalion. Strassburg & Leipzig, 1875.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 18. With 3 folding tables. Contemporary marbled boards, front printed wrapper pasted on upper cover, cloth spine, corners rubbed. Some minor staining. Idalium (Idalion) was one of 10 Cypriot kingdoms listed on the prism (many-sided tablet) of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (680-669 BC). Julis Euting(1839-1913) renowned German philosopher and orientalist was the head librarian at the University of Strassburg.

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Book number: 99385

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, cyprus, mesopotamia, assyria, babylon, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, language, langue, linguistic, phoenician,

HASSELQUIST, FREDRIK / LINNÉ, CARL VON (Editor):

Voyages and Travels in the Levant; In the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce. London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766.

. Pp. (viii), viii, 307, 380-456. With one folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, worn. Old inscriptions. First English edition translated from the original Swedish (1757) of "the first systematic natural history of the Holy Land" (Blackmer). Hasselquist, a student of Linné, travelled to the Near East to study the natural history of the countries he visited. He died in Smyrna in 1752 when he was about to return to Sweden. His journal with valuable observations and descriptions was posthumously edited by Linné. Cf Blackmer 792. Casey Wood p. 380. Hulth p. 106. Röhricht 1435. Soulsby 3582.

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Book number: 99540

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, levant, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, natural history, turkey, egypt, holy land, travel, exploration, cyprus, palestine,

PALMA DI CESNOLA, LOUIS:

Cypern, seine alten Städte, Gräber und Tempel. Bericht über zehnjährige Forschungen und Ausgrabungen auf der Insel. Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1879.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxii, (ii), 442, adv (2). With two maps, 108 full page plates (of archaeologic interest) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Original decorated cloth, richly gilt. Front hinge cracked, partly loose. Bookplate. First German edition translated by Ludwig Stern. Blackmer 1237.

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Book number: 27066

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, near east, middle east, asia, asie, orient, asiatica, arabic, travels, explore, exploring, voyage, europe, cyprus, cypern, greece, turkey, turkish, greek