SCHEIDIUS, JACOB:

Glossarium arabico - latinum manuale maximam partem e Lexico Goliano excerptum. Lugd. Bat., apud J. le Mair [Typis arabicis Everardi Scheidii excudit J. Mooien Acad. Gelro-Zutph. Typogr. Ordin.], 1769.

. 4to. (viii), 224 pp. Text in double columns, Arabic characters throughout. With a large engraved vignette on dedication leaf. Uncut, crisp copy in contemporary marbled wrappers, worn, most of spine detached, internally fine. First edition based on Jacob Golius famous "Lexicon Arabico-Latinum" (1653) which was the standard for 150 years until Freytag's dictionary appeared. Jacob's brother Everard Scheidius, professor of oriental languages at Harderwijk, assisted in this work and in 1768 acquired the Arabic types from Leiden. Schnurrer 107. Smitskamp PO 315. Zaunmüller p. 18 (second ed.). Zenker BO i, 52.

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Book number: 99256

Catalogue: Near East

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SCHERPING, JACOB:

Det är, nyckelen til förståndet, eller inledning til de fyra orientaliska språken, Hebraiskan, Chaldaiskan, Syriskan och Arabiskan, som wisar, huru på kort tid ... Skara, Sal. Direct. Mollers änka, 1754.

. Pp. (xvi), 104. With 4 folding tables. Uncut copy in wrappers, worn. Scarce, early Swedish "key" to Oriental languages, especially to the Arabic language. Zenker, BO ii,1518.

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Book number: 12077

Catalogue: Near East

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SEID MUSTAPHA / SPRINCHORN, GUSTAF (Transl.):

Kort afhandling om wetenskapernas, krigs- och ingenieur-konstens tillstånd i Constantinopel år 1803 af Séïd Mustapha Ingenieur. Öfwersättning ifrån det wid slutet af 1218, efter Hegiran, eller i början af år 1803, ifrån nya tryckeriet i Scutari utkomne originalet. Strängnäs, C.E. Ekmarck, 1813.

. Pp. 48. Later marbled paper covered boards, cloth spine. Scarce Swedish edition. Seid Mustapha (or Kücûk Seyyid Mustafa) was a Turkish engineer, employed by Selim III, in whose misfortunes he became involved, and perished in the rebellion of Constantinople in 1808. His work emphasis the need to learn military discipline and technology from Europe. It was first published in 1803 at the printing press established by the sultan Selim III which was destroyed by the insurgent Janizaries in 1808. A French edition appeared in 1810, translated by L.M. Langles. This Swedish translation by Gustaf Spinchorn, legation preacher at the Swedish mission in Constantinople, includes an interesting introduction and comments by him. Cf Atabey 664.

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Book number: 100468

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Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, turkiet, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, levant, history, historical

SHAW, THOMAS:

Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant. Oxford, printed at the Theatre, 1738.

. Folio. Pp, (viii), xvi, 442; (11), 60 + index (8). With 11 engraved maps and plans (of which 3 double page and 6 folding) and 21 engraved plates, of which one folding table. Title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette. Many engraved head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, decorated in blind, corners nicely restored, rebacked with five raised bands and title label. First edition. Thomas Shawn was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1722 to 1733. During this period he travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and around North Africa. "These travels have been universally esteemed, not only for their accuracy and fidelity, but on account of the illustrations they contain of natural history, of the classic authors, and especially of the Scriptures." (Lowndes). A supplement was published in 1746. Blackmer 1533. Lowndes ii,2372. Paulitschke 725. Röhricht 1352. Tobler p. 123.

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Book number: 32119

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SILVESTRE DE SACY, ANTOINE ISAAC BARON:

Mémoire sur deux provinces de la Perse orientale, le Gardjestan et le Djouzdjan. Paris, Fr. Buisson, 1813.

. Pp. 40 (corr. 44). Stamp on title (Vincentivs Colvmna). Modern wrappers. Some browning. "Afin de rectifier une erreur de géographie commise dans son 1er mémoire, d'après Guignes, l'auteur écrivit un second travail en se fondant sur d'Herbelot, Abul-Feda et Ebn-Haukul." (Schwab). Schwab 536. Wilson p. 197. ("Extrait du 59e Cahier des Annales des Voyages, etc").

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Book number: 100487

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, djouzdjan, gardjestan, garschestan, garestan, djordjan, jurjan, jawzjan, jozjan, persia, persian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

SJÖBRING, PEHR (SJOEBRING, PEHR, SJOBRING, PEHR) (Editor):

Carmen graecum, quod inscribitur: [Greek title], cum versione ejusdem arabica comparatum comparatum, notisque philologicis illustratus. Dissertation in three parts (all published). Upsala, Typis Edamnnianis, 1810.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 12; (ii), 13-24; (ii), 25-32. Disbound in two parts. Marklin 182.

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Book number: 34168

Catalogue: Near East

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SJÖBRING, PEHR (SJOEBRING, PEHR, SJOBRING, PEHR):

Hebreisk språklära. Fjerde upplagan, öfversedd och förbättrad. Upsala, Palmblad & Co., 1826.

. Pp. (vi), 164, xxii, (4). Contemporary half calf, worn.

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Book number: 34072

Catalogue: Near East

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SMITHERS, LEONARD C. (Ed.):

The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales). London, H.S. Nichols, 3 Soho Square W, 1894.

. Pp. (viii), 252, adv. (20). Publisher's cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Occasionally some very light spotting but overall a very fine copy. An English edition of "Les avantures merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam" by Thomas Guellete (Paris 1723). Limited edition of 680 copies. Comprises fairy tales from various countries in the east, most likely inspired by the Arabian nights.

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Book number: 100736

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, china, chine, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, oriental, tales, exploration, travels, persia, persian, india, indian,

SONNENFELS, ALOYSII DE:

... Prüf-Stein oder Unterricht der hebräischen Sprache, mit hierüber gegebenen Grund-Ursachen vorgetragen. 1757. / ... Lapis Lydius, seu institutiones hebraicae linguae methodo aetiologica propositae. 1756. Wien, Johann Thomas Trattner, 1757.

. Pp. (xxxii), 791, (1). With 2 folding tables. Contemporary boards, worn and stained, spine restored. With small library stamps. Some staining. The only edition of the first work and the second edition of the second work. Trattner, Royal court-painter in Austria, made his own types. See Mayer ii, 31ff. ADB xxxiv, 628.

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Book number: 28117

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, hebrew, holy land, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, language, langue, linguistic

DE SOUSA, JOAO:

Vestigios da lingua arabica em Portugal, ou, lexicon etymologico das palavras, e nomes portuguezes, que tem origem arabica, composto por ordem da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. Lisbon, Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1789.

. Small 4to. Pp. xx, 160. Later calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt and with red title label. First edition of the first etymological dictionary to record Portugese words derived from Arabic. De Sousa was born in Damascus, brought up by Syrian Capuchins, and later on became professor of Arabic at Lisabon. Through this work De Sousa wanted to clarify the roots of Portugese words. The dictionary lists alphabetically the Portugese word followed by their equivalent Arabic word or source, transliteration and definition. Palau 320777. Schnurrer 129. Vater p. 291. Zenker i, 55.

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Book number: 99312

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SPARWENFELD, JOHAN GABRIEL & (BENZELIUS,ERIK the younger & CELSIUS, OLAUS the older):

Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, arabicorum, persicorum, turcicorum, graecorum, latinorum, &c.. Upsala, Joh. Henr. Werner, 1706.

. 4to. Uncut copy in later wrappers. Pp. (iv), 74. Last leaf creased at upper right corner, and a small tear at the margin. An annotated collection of Oriental books and manuscripts donated by Sparwenfeld to the Library of the University of Upsala. Sparwenfeld (1655-1727) was a Swedish diplomat and linguist who is known to speak fourteen languages including Arabic. He acquired the collection during his travels in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia at the end of the 17th century. The collection comprises sixty-one manuscripts, of which forty-one in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Further it contains forty-two printed books in various languages, including several in Chinese. Three of the Chinese books were presented to Sparwenfeld by Philippe Couplet in 1690. At the end a few more manuscripts are described. This catalogue was compiled by the Swedish scholars Eric Benzelius t.y. and Olaus Celsius t.e. A crisp copy. Almquist, Sveriges Bibl.Lit. 2838. Schnurrer 17 & 25. Smitskamp PO 113 d.

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Book number: 121380

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SPIRO,S.:

An English, Arabic vocabulary of the modern and colloquial Arabic of Egypt. Cairo & London 1897.

. Pp. xvi, 552, (2). Contemporary calf worn. First edition. Partly stained.

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Book number: 19104

Catalogue: Near East

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SPRINCHORN, GUSTAF ERNST:

Osmanernas historia. Part I (all publ.). Stockholm, A. Gadelius, 1816.

. Pp. (viii), 246, errata (1). Modern marbled papercovered boards, red title label on spine. A rare Swedish historical account of the Ottoman empire. It starts with the founder Osman I (or Osman Gazi 1258-1326) and ends with Suleiman the Magnificent who died in 1566. Sprinchorn has partly based the account on works by Kantemir, Ricaut and D'Ohsson but supplemented with own material. Sprinchorn (1780-1823) served as a preacher at the Swedish legation in Constantinople for a period of six years. No library copies found except in Sweden.

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Book number: 100851

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, ottoman, turkey, turkish, levant, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, history

STARK, FREYA MADELINE:

Letters from Syria. London, John Murray, 1946.

. Pp. (x), 194. With front portrait, one map and 24 plates made from photographs. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped, chipped along edges. Third edition (first 1942). Dame Freya Stark was a Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. This book includes her letters from her first visit to Syria in 1928 including Brumana, Baalbek, Damascus, Bosra and Shahba.

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Book number: 120658

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syria, syrien, asia, asie, asiatic, arabia, travel, exploration, voyage, lady traveller,

STARK, FREYA MADELEINE:

The Lycian Shore. London, John Murray,1956.

. Pp. xii, 204. With one folding map and sixty-six illustrations of photographs taken by the author, and some woodcut drawings in the text by the author. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, spine and extremities slightly faded. Original decorated dust jacket, price-clipped, with some wear, chipped at spine ends. First edition of this account devoted to the history of the Lycian kingdom. Dame Freya Madeleine Stark (1893-1993) was a British-Italian explorer who wrote many books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan. She was inspired to travel by the copy of The Arabian Nights given to her as a child. During the Second World War she was a South Arab expert at the Ministry of Information in London. This is Stark's second narrative of her travels to Turkey, following her work "Iona". She travelled by sea along the Asia Minor coast. After the Second World War she travelled extensively to explore historical sites and learn about culture and tradition.

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Book number: 121468

Catalogue: Near East

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