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VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBOEUF:
Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte, pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785. Second édition, revue et corrigée. Two volumes. Paris, Dessene & Volland, 1787.
. Pp. xvi, 383; iii-viii, 458, (4). Half title to volume two not present. With two folding engraved maps and 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards, calf spines decorated in gilt and with title labels, rubbed. Second and revised edition of this valuable account of Syria and Egypt. First published in 4to in the same year. Volney (1757-1820), a distinguished French historian and philosopher, spent three years of travelling within Syria and Egypt. His account contains information about the natural history, politics, commerce, customs and manners, etc. Includes an account of the Arabic press at the convent of Mrkhamra with a catalogue of books printed there. "One of the most exact and valuable works of its kind ever published" (Cox). Atabey 1302. Cf Blackmer 1748. Cox i, 235. Gay 2275. Ibrahim Hilmy i, 186. Tobler p. 135.
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Book number: 35133
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WAHLBERG, KARL FERDINAND IMMANUEL:
Anteckningar från Rysk-turkiska kriget 1877-1878. (Från en härfärd i Turkiet 1877-1878). Helsingfors, Hufvudstadsbladets Tryckeri, 1878.
. Pp. (x), 228. With 11 maps (of which one large coloured map and 10 hand coloured maps), one hand coloured plate and 50 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original half cloth, somewhat rubbed and spine faded. Bookplate. A narrative about the Russian-Turkish war 1877-78 by a Finnish battalion doctor.
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Book number: 15012
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WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST / TALLQVIST, KNUT (Ed.):
Bref och dagboksanteckningar af Georg August Wallin. Utgifna jämte en lefnadsteckning. Helsingfors 1905.
. Pp. (x), cxxxiv, 366. With one front portrait and one folding map. Text in Swedish. Contemporary cloth, gilt lettered calf spine, slightly faded. First edition. Wallin, a distinguished Finnish orientalist who made several journeys to the Middle East in the 1840's and was the first European with knowledge of Arabic to explore the Arabian peninsula. Disguised as a learned Moslem sheikh he visited Mecca and Medina. This work comprises a collection of his letters and diary notes as well as a biography. (Included in "Sv. Litteratursällskapet i Finland. LXX").
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 WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST & ELMGREN, S.G. (Ed.):, Reseanteckningar från Orienten åren 1843-1849. Dagbok och bref, efter resandens död utgifna. Four volumes. Helsingfors, Frenckell & Son, 1864 - 1866.
WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST & ELMGREN, S.G. (Ed.):
Reseanteckningar från Orienten åren 1843-1849. Dagbok och bref, efter resandens död utgifna. Four volumes. Helsingfors, Frenckell & Son, 1864 - 1866.
. Pp. xxxii, 407; (iv), 450; (iv), 510; (iv), 383. With one engraved portrait, two folding maps, one music plate and one folding plate of inscriptions. Original printed wrappers bound in. Later (first half of 20th century) marbled paper boards, flat calf spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Ragnar Dahlberg). A handsome copy.First edition, posthumously published, based on Wallin's diary and letters written during expeditions into the interior of Arabia. His first journey was made in 1845 to report on the political developments at a time when the region was striving for independence from Egyptian rule. Disguised as a horse trader, he travelled across the Nafud to the Jubbah, Ha'il and the Shammar Mountains. From Ha'il, Wallin joined a caravan of Persian Shia pilgrims to Mecca and Medina. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz Mountains to Tabuk in north-eastern Saudi Arabia. He continued to Tayma (oasis) on the edge of Wahhabi territory and became the first European to set foot there. His journey finally ended in Basra. In 1850 he returned to Finland, where he was appointed professor of oriental languages at the University of Helsinki. Aalto pp 37-40. Röhricht 2038.
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 WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST:,  G.A. Wallins Lefnad och Resor berättade för ungdom. Helsingfors, G.W. Edlunds Förlag, 1872.
WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST:
G.A. Wallins Lefnad och Resor berättade för ungdom. Helsingfors, G.W. Edlunds Förlag, 1872.
. Small 8vo. Pp. vi, 377. With one lithographed portrait. Original coloured pictorial paper boards, cloth spine. A biography about Wallin and his travels to the Middle East written for a young audience. In lovely condition.His first journey was made in 1845 and took him to Jubbah and Hail, and further to Mecca. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz mountains to Tabuk in the north-eastern part of Arabia, continuing on to Taima on the edge of Wahhabi territory and he became the first European to set foot there. In 1850 he returned to Finland where he was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Helsinki University.
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Book number: 120676
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 WANSLEBEN [VANSLEB], JOHANN MICHAEL:, Nouvelle relation, en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672 & 1673.  Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1677.
WANSLEBEN [VANSLEB], JOHANN MICHAEL:
Nouvelle relation, en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672 & 1673. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1677.
. Small 8vo. Pp. (xvi) including one blank leaf, 423, table (17). Old ownership signature on title. Contemporary calf, gilt spine and title label, expertly rebacked with original spine preserved. First edition of Wansleben's narrative of his second journey to Egypt. Johann Michael Wansleben was a German theologian and linguist. In 1670 in the service of Jean-Baptist Colbert he planned a new journey to Ethiopia, but once again went no further than Egypt. He travelled extensively in Egypt for about a year and came as far south as Sohag. His account is one of the earliest of Upper Egypt. In 1676 he returned to France and brought back a large collection of oriental manuscripts. Blackmer 1769. Gay 2269. Howgego W10. Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, 303.
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Book number: 99856
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Keywords: Near East, egypt, egyptian, africa, afrika, afrique, african, travel, exploration, voyage

 
WEIJERS (WEYERS), HENRIC ENGELIN.:
Nieuwe proeve om al de Arabische letters en verdere schrijfteekens door het gewoon europeesch karakter onderscheidenlijk uit te drukken. Leyden, S. & J. Luchtmans, 1840.
. 4to. Pp. 30, (2). Uncut copy in old boards, new cloth spine. Weyers was professor in oriental languages and publisher of Warner's legate at Leyden.
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Book number: 28107
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WESTERMAN [Ennobled LILJECRANTZ], JOHAN:
Tal, om Sveriges utrikes handel i allmänhet, och den Levantiska i synnerhet, hållet för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1770.
. Pp.78, (2). Including last blank leaf. With engraved vignette on title. Stamp (Sällskapet) on title page. Disbound. Minor staining to first four leaves. An oration presented at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science about Swedish foreign trade in general and especially with the Levant. Includes a description of different trading companies in Europe and their relationship with the Levant. Further it explains the different trading commodities, quantities, tariffs, etc.
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Book number: 14265
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WETTERGRUND, JONAS M.:
Lexidion arabico-latinum in fabulas Lokmani. Londini Gothotum, Litteris Berlingianis, 1806.
. 4to. Pp. (ii), 43. Uncut copy in contemporary wrappers. Contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. Some staining. Lokman is the most celebrated sage of the Eastern world. He is often confused with Aesop who lived about 500 years later. Not in Schnurrer, Zenker or Roediger.
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WORTLEY MONTAGU, LADY MARY:
Lettres, écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde. Traduits de l'anglois. Nouvelle édition. Beacoup plus correcte que les éditions qui viennent de paroître. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Duchesne, 1764.
. 12mo. Pp. viii, 240; (ii), 223. Contemporary calf, richly gilt, gilt inner dentelles, rubbed. Front cover and the first part of the book have small wormholes running through the text, more severe at pages 79-139 with slight loss of text. A French edition of Lady Wortley Montagu famous Letters first published in London the previous year. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the first lady to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake. In 1716 her husband was appointed Ambassador to the Porte and she decided to join him, which was considered a scandalous decision. They settled into a hilltop palace at Pera in Constantinople, which became their home for 18 months. Her letters (written after her return to England) provide an intriguing example of authorial selectivity. She treats the political, historical and social morals of the Germans, Austrian and Turkish courts. She became a great admirer of Turkish culture and her work includes insights that were exceptional for their time; the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture. Cf. Atabey 829-30. Cox p. 229. Robinson p. 32.
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ZANOLINI, ANTONIO:
[Syriac title] Lexicon syriacum. Pattavii (Padua), Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfrè, 1742.
. 4to. Pp. (x), xviii, 286 (err. 294). With woodcut vignettes and initials. Text in Latin and Syriac. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt in compartments and with red title label, some minor staining to the covers. First edition. Words in the New Testament translated into Syriac and the author's comments on the language and the different versions of Syriac. Antonio Zanolini (1693-1762) was a distinguished Italian orientalist and professor of oriental languages at Padua. A great copy. Vater p. 387. Zaunmüller 372. Zenker BO ii, 1459.
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 ZILBERTI, FRANCESCO:, [OTTOMAN TRADE OF ALUM IN THE 15TH CENTURY]. [Two autograph letters signed to Marco Bembo in Constantinople, concerning Venetian trading of Turkish alum mined at Foça in Anatolia]. Pera & Foça, March 1480.
ZILBERTI, FRANCESCO:
[OTTOMAN TRADE OF ALUM IN THE 15TH CENTURY]. [Two autograph letters signed to Marco Bembo in Constantinople, concerning Venetian trading of Turkish alum mined at Foça in Anatolia]. Pera & Foça, March 1480.
. Two hand-written letters (22 x 30 cm) written in Italian (mercantesca), ink on paper. The first is dated Pera, March 1480 (duplicating letter sent from [Foça February 29, 1480 ?]) comprising one and a quarter pages. The second is dated Foça March 5, 1480 comprising one page. Both on single sheets with manuscript address panels penned on verso, old folds, well preserved. Both letters were sent to Constantinople addressed to Marco Bembo, a Venetian nobleman and merchant who at the time was based in Pera, by his business partner Francesco Zilberti. The letters were written at Foça (close to today's Izmir) on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Zilberti reports about the negotiations for purchasing a cargo of alum, a valuable commodity used as a mordant for textile dyes which for centuries had been imported into Europe from the Byzantine Empire. After the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, alum became more difficult to acquire. A decade later large quantities of alum were found in the vicinity of Tolfa, a small town not far from Rome. The mines were owned by the Papacy which was determined to ensure maximum profits from this source. The Papacy formed cartels of miners, bankers, refiners, and traders, and thereby tried to create a monopoly on alum in Europe. However, the Venetians, having signed a peace treaty with Mehmet II in 1479, continued to trade in Turkish alum, ignoring threats of deportation. In the first letter Zilberti explains that a dispatch of a cargo of alum has been delayed because the local pasha is away observing a local religious holiday bayram. Zilberti describes in detail the negotiations concerning his differences of opinion with the pasha and various notaries on the weighing of the cargo, noting the variations between the Turkish, Venetian and Genoese cantara (a unit of weight). Further he informs Bembo about the qualities of sacks best suited for transporting alum, observing that those they brought with them were considered unsuitable, smaller half-size sacks of tight-woven cotton being better to prevent leakage through the cloth. He writes about the locusts having ruined the cotton crop in the three previous years, barter is being possible in the village below as there is no currency in circulation, etc. In the second letter Zilberti reports about the difficulties with delivering the required documentation to Gallipoli, with some further details about the cargo of alum, and that he has sold some scarlet yarn from Padua to the pilot of the ship, Nochin, who used it for the purpose of ransoming a local slave, etc. The papers provide a good insight into Venetian trade communication during the late 15th century, especially with regard to Ottoman alum imported from Anatolia.
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Keywords: Near East, elvant, tureky, turkish, constantinople, foca, commerce, trade, alum, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, venitian, italian,

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