TRISTRAM, H.B:

The Land of Israel; a Journal of Travels in Palestine, Undertaken with Special Reference to its Physical Character. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1865.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xx, 651. With 2 folding maps (of which one coloured of the Dead Sea), 12 full page plates (4 chromolithograph views), and many textual illustrations. Marginal stain to frontispiece and title, and some staining to a few plates. Original pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, somewhat rubbed. First edition of this well written acccount of the author's extensive travels in the Holy Land. He was particulary interested in the basin of the Dead Sea, the districts east of Jordan, as being the least accessible to travellers. "Sein werk ist für die naturgeschichte Palästinas unentbehrlich" Tobler p. 203.

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TROSTIUS, MARTIN:

Lexicon syriacum ex inductione omnium exemplorum novi testamenti syriaci adornatum; adjecta singulorum vocabulorum significatione latina & germanica, cum indice triplici. Cothenis Anhaltinorum, 1623.

. Thick 4to. Pp. (viii), 714. An interleaved copy. The second Index ("Verzeichnüss det teutschen Wörter") is missing (pp. 715-22). Contemporary vellum, title in ms on spine, worn. First edition. This is Martin Trostius' main work and it was the most complete Syriac lexicon published up to this time. He was the first to draw attention to Syriac phraesology on a larger scale. De Sacy, catalogue de Bibl. ii, 2702. Smitskamp PO 122. Zaunmüller 372.

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TROSTIUS, MARTIN:

Lexicon syriacum ex inductione omnium exemplorum novi testamenti syriaci adornatum; adjecta singulorum vocabulorum significatione latina & germanica, cum indice triplici. Cothenis Anhaltinorum, 1623.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), 714. In our copy the Index: "Verzeichnüss det teutschen Wörter" is missing (pp. 715-22), which often seems to be missing. First three leaves strenghtened at outer margin. Old ownership signatures on title page. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript on spine, stained. First edition. This is Trostius' main work and it was the most complete Syriac lexicon published up to this time. He was the first to draw attention to Syriac phraesology on a larger scale. De Sacy 2702. Zaunmüller 372. Smitskamp PO 122.

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TULLBERG, OTTO FREDRIK (Praeses):

De Chovarezmia Expugnata. Ex annalibus syriacis Abilpharagii sive Bar-Hebraei locus latine versus. Two parts. Upsala 1848.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 1-8; (ii), 9-14. Parallell text of Latin and Syriac. Disbound. Dissertations about the Mongol conquest of trh Khwarazmian empire 1219-22. Abulpharaii or Gregory Bar Hebraeus was a Chief bishop of Persia of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 13th century. Respondents: Carl Gustav Gellerstedt (part 1) and Johan Gustav Sjögren (part 2). Not in F. Diba.

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TULLBERG, OTTO FREDRIK (Editor):

Gregorii Bar Hebraei in Psalmos scholiorum specimen e codicibus Mss. syriacis Musei Brit. Londinensis et Bibliothecae Bodl. Oxoniensis editum latinae redditum et annotationibus illustratum. Dissertation. Parts i-ii in one volume. Upsala 1842.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 17; 10. With marginal staining throughout. Disbound. Marklin 162. Zenker BOii, 1901.

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UHLEMANN, MAXIMILIAN ADOLPH:

Linguae copticae grammatica in usum scholarum academicarum scripta cum chrestomathia et glossario. Insertae sunt observationes quaedam de veterum aegyptiorum grammatica. Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1853.

. Pp. viii, 167, errata (1). Contemporary (or slightly later) half morocco on marbled boards, corners rubbed. Spine with raised bands and title lettered in gilt. Some staining in the text. First edition of a Coptic grammar by the renowned German Egyptologist M. Uhlemann (1829-62). He published the third Latin translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic text of the Rosetta stone inscription. Thonnelier, Catalogue de Bibl. 1796. Zenker BO ii, 1614.

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VATER, JOHANN SEVERIN:

Hebräische Sprachlehre. Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1814.

. Pp. xxx, 398. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with title label, rubbed and back hinge cracked. Small part of front endpaper missing. Second improved and enlarged edition (first 1797). Vater (1771-1826) was professor in philology and theology at Halle. Vater p. 162.

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[MURTADA IBN AL-'AFIF] / VATTIER, PIERRE (Transl.):

L'Egypte de Murtadi fils du Gaphiphe, ou il est traité des pyramides, du débordement du Nil, & des autres merueilles de cette province, selon les opinions & traditions des Arabes. Paris, Lovys Billaine, 1666.

. 12mo. Pp. (lvi), 304. Modern paper covered boards. Title with small burn hole and some browning in parts. First edition which has been published many times in French and English. Another issue with imprint "chez Thomas Ioly Librairie Iuré" was published in the same year. Murtada ibn al-'Afif was an Islamic historian from Cairo who lived between 1154 and 1237. His account covers the history, antiquities, legends, etc. of Egypt and includes the stories of Noah, Joseph and Moses. The original Arabic manuscript (or a copy) was found in Cardinal Mazarin's library by the French Arabist Pierre Vattier (1623-67) who translated it into French. The work was translated into English in 1672. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p. 54.

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VçMBÉRY, HERMANN (çRMINIUS):

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der turko-tatarischen Sprachen. Ein Versuch zur Darstellung des Familienverhältnisses des turko-tatarischen Wortschatzes. Leipzig 1878.

. Pp. xvi, 228. Modern cloth. First edition. Armin Vâmbéry (1832-1913) was born as Hermann Vamberger of poor Orthodox parents on the island of Schütt in Hungary. Already at a young age he mastered several European languages and he then turned to Arabic, Turkish and Persian. He travelled extensively in Central Asia and became professor of oriental languages at the University of Budapest from 1865 to 1905. Zaunmüller p. 390.

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[VçMBÉRY, HERMANN (çRMINIUS) :

Das Türkenvolk in seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1885.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xx, 638. With 2 plates and illustrations in the text. Some light staining. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with two title labels. First edition of a scarce title. This comprehensive study on the Turkic peoples comprises five chapters; Siberian Turks (Yakuts); the Middle Asiatic Turks (nomads and half nomads of Kara-Kirgisthan); the Volga Turks (Kazan Tatars); Pontus Turks (Crimean Tatars); and the Western Turks (Iranian Turks and Ottomans). Jakushi V28. Mezhov, Sibiriskaia Bibliografiia 16586.

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VçMBÉRY, HERMANN (çRMINIUS):

Voyages d'un Faux Derviche dans l'Asie centrale de Téhéran a Khiva, Bokhara et Samarkand par le grand désert Turkoman. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette, 1865.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (vi), 402. With one double page map and 34 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary cloth, spine gilt with five raised bands and title printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed. Some marginal stain at the end otherwise a very clean and fine copy. The first French edition, translated from the English by E.D. Forgues. The original English edition (London 1863) has 12 illustrations only. Yakushi (1984) V 07b.

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Book number: 26098

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[PERSIAN - TURKISH DICTIONARY] / VEHBI, SÜNBÜL ZåDE:

Tuhfe-i Vehbi. Istanbul, Babiáli litografya memuru, 1275 H (1859).

. Pp. 91. Lithographed text by Es-Seyyid Mustafa efendi destgáhï. Contemporary red paper covered boards, cloth spine, rubbed. A Persian-Turkish dictionary arranged alphabetically according to rhyme published many times during the 19th century. Sunbul-zade Vehbi (1712-1809) was a famous Turkish poet and satirist. Özege 21252.

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VILLEHARDOUIN, GEOFFROI DE & DU CANGE, CHARLES DU FRESNE:

Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs francois, divisée en deux parties, dont la premiere Contient l'Histoire de la Conquête de la Ville Constantinople par les Francois & les Venitiens, écrite par Geoffroy de Ville-Hardouin Maréchal de Champagne & de Romani: ... La seconde Contient une Histoire Generale de ce que les Francois & les Latins ont fait de plus memorable dans l'Empire de Constantinople, depuis qu'ils s'en rendirent maitres, ... Two parts in one volume. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1657.

. Folio. Pp. (xxviii), 370, (7) table (1); (xii), 332 + recueil 86, (1). With engraved arms on titles and some engraved vignettes and initials. Half title and title to the first part with small repair (old signature or stamp erased). Partly with some minor browning. First collected edition. 18th century full calf, expertly rebacked, spine with six raised bands, richly gilt and with red morocco title label, covers rubbed. Half title and title have small repair. Partly with some minor browning. First collected edition. Du Cange is the editor of the first work and the author of the second. The first work contains Villehardouin's account of the Conquest of Constantinople which is the basic source for our knowledge of the sack of Constantinople by the French and Venetian crusader forces and the establishment of the Latin empire in the East. Geoffrei de Villehardouin (1160- ca 1212), a French knight and historian, participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade, which he began to write in 1207. It is one of the oldest books composed in French prose. The second work about the Latin empire in the Levant is by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1620-88), a distinguished French philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium. He is best known for his Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis (1678). Blackmer 501. Cf Atabey 1291 (Villehardouin 1585 ed.).

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VINCENT, WILLIAM (Ed.):

The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; Containing an Account of the First Navigation Attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean. London, printed for T. Cadell, jun, and W. Davies, 1797.

. 4to. Pp. xv, 530, errata (2). With engraved frontispiece (small marginal loss of outer front corner) and six engraved maps and charts (four large folding). A few illustrations in the text. Contemporary full calf, covers with decorated gilt borders, flat spine gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers with matching edges, rubbed and spine restored. One leaf with clean tear without loss. Some offsetting from maps to text, otherwise a clean and fresh copy with wide margins. First edition. This work comprises an English version of Arrian's account of the celebrated voyage of Nearchus of Crete from the Indus to the Tigris in 325 B.C. Nearchus, a commander of Alexander the Great's fleet, undertook several independent expeditions during Alexander's campaigns across Asia. Arrian, a Greek historian and statesman during the Roman period, wrote about events that had occurred several hundred years before his time. "My purpose was not to translate Arrian, but to make him intelligible to an English reader, and to investigate a variety of subjects, historical, geographical and commercial" (preface). Howgego N10.

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VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN-FRANCOIS CHASSEBOEUF:

L'alfabet européen appliqué aux langues asiatiques. Simplification des langues orientales. L'hébreu simplifié par le méthode alfabétique. Paris 1826.

. Pp. xx, 510. With 13 engraved plates (many folding and of which one with tear). Four plates belong to the Hebrew part. Uncut copy in contemporary boards, title labels. Second edition. Some minor foxing. Comte de Volney (1757-1820), a French historian and philosopher, got interested in ancient languages as a student. In 1783 he travelled to Egypt and the Near East, and while staying at a monastery on mount Lebanon he learned Arabic. Included in 'Oeuvres de C.F. Volney. tome viii'. De Sacy, Catalogue de Bibl. ii, 2605 (first edition 1820).

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