BLED DE BRAINE, J.F.:

Cours synthétique, analytique et practique de langue arabe, arrangé a l'usage des colléges et des écoles, ou les dialectes vulgaires africains d'Alger, de Maroc, de Tunis et d'Egypte, enseignés sans maitre. Ouvrage divisé en douze lecons. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1846.

. Pp. xxii, 536. Original cloth, spine damaged and back cover loose. First edition. Zenker BO ii, 194.

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BLUNT, LADY ANNE & BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (Ed.):

Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses, by W(ilfrid) S(cawen) B(lunt). Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1879.

. Pp. xviii, (3), 346; vii, (3), 283, adv. pp. 33. With one coloured folding map (two small tears in margin), twelve engraved plates and a folding chart of Arabian thoroughbreds. Contemporary half red cloth decorated in gilt and black, rebacked with red morocco, spines ruled in gilt with five raised bands and title-labels. Recased with new end-papers. Occasionally some staining and a few leaves with dog-ears. First edition.Lady Anne Blunt was the granddaughter of Lord Byron and the wife of the famous Arab scholar and poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. The couple travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East from the late 1870s normally mainly without guides or the usual caravans. During this period Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and she gained insights into the people and their customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life. Robinson p. 6.

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BLUNT, LADY ANNE (Baroness Wentworth):

Voyage en Arabie. Pèlerinage au Nedjed, berceau de la race arabe. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1882.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), lxviii, 447. With one map and 60 wood-engraved illustrations drawn by G. Vuillier after water colours by the author. Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands and title, g.e., lightly rubbed. First French edition translated from the English (1879) by L. Derome. Anne Blunt and her husband poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East between 1877 and 1897. They bought Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen and the Egyptian Pasha Sherif. Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and gained insights into the people's life and customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life. Robinson p. 6.

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BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire francais-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Troisième édition. Paris, Didot Frères, 1864.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), iv, 867. Slightly later half calf, spine with five raised bands and gilt monogram, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, upper edges gilt. Copy of Arconti-Visconti, wellknown Italian orientalist and traveller in the 19th century. Binding somewhat rubbed. Some light staining at beginning and end. The author, an Egyptian copt, became professor of Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Gay 3384. Zenker BOi, 59. (first edition 1828).

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BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire français-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Two volumes in one. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828-29.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 461, (1); (iv), 435. Text browned throughout, partly some marginal staining. Some scribbling to the front end-paper. Numerous marginal annotations in French and Arabic by a scholar. Contemporary marbled boards, new calf spine with old title label (worn) preserved. Scarce first edition of the first proper French- Arabic (Vulgar) dictionary compiled by two renowned Orientalists. Ellious Bocthor was an Egyptian Copt who left Egypt with the French army at the end of the Napoleon Bonaparte expedition (1798-1801) and became professor of Vulgar Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Bocthor died in 1821 at the young age of thirty-seven before the dictionary was finalised. It was completed by Caussin de Perceval, Bocthor's successor at the School of Modern Oriental Languages. Cf. Gay 3384 (third edition 1864). Bibl. de Silvestre de Sacy, no. 2859. Vater p. 457. Zenker BO i, 59.

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BOSKOVI'C [BOSCOVICH], RUDJER JOSIB:

Giornale di un viaggio da Constantinopoli in Polonia. Con una sua relazione delle Rovina de Troja. Bassano, a spese remondini di Venezia, 1784.

. Pp. xxiv, 231. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed, red edges. Bookplate (Library of Ericsberg castle, Sweden). First Italian edition of a travel account devoted to Turkey, Bulgaria and Moldavia, and includes a chapter about Troy based on Pietro Correr's report from his visit in 1761. Originally published in French at Lausanne in 1772, translated from Boscovich's manuscript by Pierre Henin. Rudjer Josib Boscovi'c was born in 1711 in Ragusa (Dalmatia) and became a Jesuit diplomat and polymath who made several scientific and diplomatic missions around the world. He joined the British Ambassador Sir James Porter to Constantinople in 1746. On his return journey he travelled through Bulgaria and Moldavia before he reached Warsaw where he stayed for several months. It's possible that his ms was translated during the time in Warsaw since his friend Pierre Henin served at the French embassy there. Cf Atabey 137. Whyte p. 220.

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BRANDEL, R.A.:

Om och ur den arabiske geografen Idrisi. Akademisk afhandling. Upsala 1894.

. Pp. (iv), vi, 40, (32), 114. Contemporary half morocco. With inscription by the author. A diss. about the Arabic geographer Idrisi.

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[ABU ABD ALLAH MUHAMMAD AL-IDRISI] / BRANDEL, R.A.:

Om och ur den arabiske geografen Idrîsî. Akademisk afhandling. Uppsala 1894.

. Pp. (iv), vi, 40, 32 (Arabic text), 114. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. Inscription by the author to his father. A dissertation in Swedish about the famous Muslim geographer al-Idrîsî and his momentous work "Nuzhat-al-mustaq" composed in 1154. He was born in Ceuta (north Africa) in 1099. As young he travelled extensively in Africa, Spain and Asia Minor before he settled down in Sicily and collaborated with king Roger II.

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BRENNER, HENRICH:

Epitome commentariorum Moysis Armeni, de origine & regibus armenorum et pathorum, item series principum Iberiae et Georgiae, cum notis & observationibus. Accessit ejusdem epistola ad plur. reverend. & celeberrim. Doct. Ericum Benzelium de praesenti statu quarundam gentium orientalium. Stockholm, J. L. Horrn, 1723.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 108. Modern brown-speckled paper boards, new endpapers. Some browning to the text. Outer corners of first few leaves lightly chipped. First edition which was compiled in Isfahan in 1699 with the assistance of an Italian Dominican monk Johannes Bartholomaeus.Comprises two parts, of which the first titled "Breve comment. de origine nationis Armenorum" is based on the writings of Movses Khorenatzi, known as the father of Armenian literature, believed to have lived in the 5th century. The second part "Series regum sive principum" is mainly based on Georgian manuscripts. Henrich Brenner, Finnish-born philosopher and diplomat who accompanied the Swedish envoy Ludvig Fabricius to Persia in 1697. The aim of the embassy was to establish trade relations between Persia and Sweden. Three years later on Brenner's return journey he was imprisoned in Russia.Due to the war between Charles XII and Peter I the Czar suspected that Brenner's mission might have secret political purposes and therefore had Brenner arrested at Moscow. He was imprisoned for twenty-one years until the conclusion of the Peace of Nystad. During his journey and the long imprisonment in Russia he had opportunity to study the languages and cultures of Armenia, Dagestan, Georgia and Circassia. Brenner's extensive commentary of the "Epitome com. Moysis Armeni" indicates his broad knowledge of classical and oriental literature. At end a letter to Erik Benzelius, Archbishop of Upsala at the time. Scarce. Zenker, BO ii, 2289. Svenskt Biografiskt Lexicon, 6.

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BRISSON, BARNABÉ:

De regio Persarum principatu libri tres. Heidelberg, Hieronymus Commelius, 1595.

. Pp. (xii), 378, one blank leaf. Printer's woodcut device on title page. Extensively indexed. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Some old scholarly annotations in the margins. Second, improved edition. Provenance: Hammer Library (Bookplate); Baron Germund Carl Cederhielm with his signature GCC on front endpaper; John Schander (1872-1937), Elleholm. Barnabé Brisson (1531-91), a distinguished French magistrate and politician whose talents won him great reputation. His principal work was a dictionary of Justinian legal terminology "De Verborum quae ad jus civile pertinent significatione" (1559) and he also compiled the first French codification of legislation "le code Henri III". This work was first published in 1590 from the author's notes. The first part deals with the Persian rulers and their history, the second is devoted to religion and social life. The last part describes with military organisation, both ancient and modern. A great copy of a significant work on the Persian empire. Adams B 2851. F.Diba 189. VD 16, B8335.

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BURTON, RICHARD F.:

[Arabic title]. The Kasîdah (Couplets) of Hájî Abdû Al-Yazdi. A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F.B. London, H.J. Cook, 1900.

. Small 4to. Lvs 6, (2); 42. Text printed on one side only. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, upper edges gilt, others untrimmed. Faint traces of erased signature on title. Third edition, limited to 250 copies. Sir Richard Burton wrote this highly praised Oriental poem already in 1857 under his nom-de-plume Hájî Abdû Al-Yazdi but it was not published until 1880 by Bernard Quaritch in London. Preface by Isabel Burton.

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BÜSCHING (BUSCHING, BUESCHING), J. Fr.:

Geographisk beskrifning oefwer Palaestina eller Juda-landet, samt Steniga Arabien saa ock oefwer aatskilliga i den heliga skrift naemde orter,... Sthlm, Grefingska Tryckeriet, 1770.

. (26), 234, 8 pp. With one large fold. map, coloured in outline (with one tear without loss) published by Johan Christoph, Harenberg (Nürnberg 1750). Cont. half calf, worn. Some minor foxing. A Swedish translation of Doctor Büsching's part of Palestine from "Erdbeschreibung 5:1". Includes an interesting introduction by the translator about some of the Swedes who visited the area in the 18th century, i.a. M. Eneman, Höpken and Carlesson. Tobler p.214.

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BUXTORF, JOHANNES:

De abbreviaturis hebraicis liber novus & copiosus: Operis talmudici brevis recensio, cum ejusdem librorum & capitum indice. Item Bibliotheca Rabbinica nova, ordine alphabethico disposita. Editione hac secunda. Omnia castigatoria & locupletiora. Basel, Ludv. Regis, 1640.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (xvi), 472, index (8). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, worn and stained. Internally fine. Second edition of a Latin reference work of abbreviations in Hebrew from the Talmud. (First published in 1613). This edition is dedicated by Johannes Buxtorf filius to l'Empereur ab Oppyck and à Diest. Includes at end a bibliography of Rabbinical literature (p. 433). Printed and published by Buxtorf's son-in-law Ludwig König (1572-1641). In 1615 he took over the printing office of Waldkirch together with a large stock of Hebrew types from the previous owner, the famous Froben family. Smitskamp PO 167. Silvestre De Sacy ii, 2581 (Two supplements were published in 1768 and 1769 by Tychsen).

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BUXTORF, JOHANNES:

Lexicon hebraicum et chaldaicum. Basel, In officina Episcopiana, 1735.

. Pp. (ii), 976, index (76). With engraved front portrait. Text partly stained. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, worn. Originally Johannes Buxtorf (1544-1629) anonymously published a short Hebrew dictionary entitled "Epitome radicum Hebraicarum" in Basel in 1600. A similar work but extended with Aramaic words and more references appeared in 1607 as "Epitome radicum hebraicarum et chaldaicarum". The second edition of this new version was entitled "Lexicon hebraicum et chaldaicum" and first published in 1615. See Smitskamp PO 149-154. See Fürst i, 138.

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CALLENBERG, JOHANN HEINRICH:

Prima rudimenta linguae arabicae. In usum scholae suae. Halle 1729.

. Pp. (8). Marbled paper covered boards, calf spine with title stamped in black. Some light browning. Callenberg, German orientalist and professor of theology and philology at the University of Halle. This is Callenberg's first work on the Arabic language. Later he made several translations of the Bible into Arabic. Scarce. Schnurrer p. 67. Zenker, Bibl. Orientalis, i, 207.

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