CAMPE, J.H.:

Nytt geografiskt bibliotek för ungdom, eller samling af intressanta resbeskrifningar,... IV. Örebro, Lindh, 1811.

. 12mo. (IV), 180 pp. Uncut copy in orig. wrs, worn. Contains Swedish versions of Thevenot's journey to Constantinople and Townson's journey to Hungary. Transl. by J.P. Wåhlin.

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CARDONNE, DENIS DOMINIQUE:

Mêlanges de littérature orientale, traduits de différens manuscrits turcs, arabes & persans de la Bibliotheque du Roi. Two volumes in one. Paris, chez Hérissant le Fils, 1770.

. 12mo. Pp. (xii), 314, (10); (iv), 293, (6). Old inscription on half-title to volume one. Volume one's title with small repairs without any loss of text, lower portion of margin to volume two's half-title cut out but no loss. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt, rubbed. First edition comprising an assortment of oriental manuscripts kept at the Royal Library in Paris. Cardonne, a French orientalist and translator resided in Constantinople for about twenty years. Cioranescu 15566.

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CASPARI, CARL PAUL:

Grammatik der arabischen Sprache für akademische Vorlesungen. Leipzig, C.L. Fritsche, 1859.

. Pp. xxv, (1) blank, 418,(tabels) xxiv, 411-414. Second, enlarged German edition. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt with red title label, somewhat rubbed. Cf Zenker ii,179. Cf Vater p.27 (first ed. Lpz 1844).

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CASTELL, EDMUND:

Lexicon syriacum ex eius lexico heptaglotto seorsim typis describi curavit, atque sua adnotata adiecit Joannes David Michaelis. Two volumes. Göttingen, Jo. Christ. Dieterich, 1788.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), viii, (ii), 476; (ii), 477-980. Uncut, interleaved copy with scholarly annotations by M. Jan De Goeje. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spines with title labels, worn and hinges weak. Internally clean and crisp. Second edition (first 1669) of this important oriental lexicon and first separate edition, edited by Johann David Michaelis. Edmund Castell (1606-86) was professor of Arabic at Cambridge and assisted Dr. Brian Walton in the preparation of his Polyglot Bible (1657). Castell's Lexicon took 18 years to complete and was specially prepared to supplement the Polyglot. Lowndes I, 386: "The work, embracing all the oriental languages in Walton's Polyglot, and designed to complete it, is, says Dr. A. Clarke, probably the greatest and most perfect work of the kind ever performed by human industry and learning." De Sacy ii, 2704. Thonnelier 1204. Zaunmüller 372. Zenker BO 1455. Provenance: Michail Jan De Goeje (1836-1909), Dutch orientalist and chief editor of Tabari's world history "Ta'rik al-rosol wa'l-moluk" (1879-1901).

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LE CHEVALIER, JEAN BAPTISTE / BERGSTEDT, ERIK (Transl.):

Resa till Propontiden och Svarta Havet. Three volumes. Stockholm 1802-05.

. Pp. (xx), 5-275; (vi), 256 (2); (ii), 329, (1). With seven engraved maps, of which one large of Constantinople, and seven aquatint engraved plates. Some staining, a few plates are soiled and some with tear at margin. Half calf, spines with four raised gilt bands and lettered in gilt. A Swedish version of "Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont Euxin" (Paris 1800), translated by Bergstedt and with his comments and addendum. Includes additional descriptions of Smyrna, the Troad, the islands of Zea, Tenedos, Myteline, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, etc, and the ruins of Miletus and Ephesus. Includes Dallaway's descriptions of the Bosporus and Constantinople and a translation of Orpheus' poem about "the Argonautic train". References from works by Peyssonnel, D'Ohsson and William Eton have been used. The translator, Bergstedt, was a Swedish diplomat who travelled extensively to Egypt, Constantinople and Greece between 1794 and 1797. The first part contains mainly his own travel account. Cf Atabey 697.

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CLENARDUS, NICOLAUS:

Lûah had-diqdûq. Tabula in grammaticen hebraem ... Accessere Iohannis Isaac et G. Genebrardi ad absolutiorem institutionem scholia. Paris, Martin Juvenem (Le Jeune), 1564.

. Pp. 231. Contemporary limp vellum. Small wormhole running through margin of first two leaves. This Hebrew grammar was first published in 1529 and reissued many times. Scarce, interesting edition with comments by Quinquarboreus (or Cinquarbres), notes by Isaac and Gilbert Génébrard and amendments by J. Mercerio (Jan Mercer). Clenardus was a Flemish Christian humanist, grammarian, orientalist and professor of Latin at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Clenardus' success was largely due to his methodical presentation of the contents and clear formulations of the grammatical rules. Both his Hebrew and Greek grammars became standards for several centuries. Cf Smitskamp PO 10. Bakelants 18. Index Aurel 141397.

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COLLINDER, B.:

Reichsturkische lautstudien. Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1939.

. Large 8vo. 104 pp. Sewn as issued, uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrs. (Uppsala Universitets Årsskrift 1939:1).

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CONDE, JOSÉ ANTONIO / LACROIX DE MARLES, JEAN (Editor & Transl.):

Histoire de la domination des Arabes et des Maures en Espagne et en Portugal, depuis l'invasion de ces peuples jusqu' a leur expulsion définitive; rédigée sur l'histoire traduite de l'arabe en espagnol. Three volumes. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1825.

. Pp. (iv), 504; (iv), 470; (iv), 412, xxxviii, vi. Uncut copy in original decorated boards, with some wear to spine ends. Housed in a special made cloth box. Partly with some light staining. First French edition of Conde's history of the Arab rule in Spain. José Antonio Conde (1766-1820) was educated at the university of Alcalâ and became a member of the Spanish Academy in 1802. This his most important work presents for the first time a complete version of the history of Islamic Spain covering the period from the Arab invasion of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the latter in 1492. It was posthumously published at Madrid during the years 1820-21. Unusual to find in the original boards. James Monroe: "Islam and the Arabs in Spanish scholarship", pp. 50-52. Palau 59020.

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[UGGLA, ALLAN] - O'CONNOR, FREDERICK:

On the Frontier and Beyond: A Record of Thirty Years' Service. [Together with hand written letters to and from Allan Uggla]. London, John Murray, 1931.

. Pp. xii, 355, (3). With one map and 22 illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth. Copy of Allan Uggla with his signature and bookplate (Ida and Allan Uggla). With some annotations in pencil by Allan Uggla. First edition. O'Connor spent thirty years in the service under the Government of India. After a few years in India he served in Tibet (was the first military attaché to Lhasa), and later on in Persia and Nepal. Enclosed to this work: 1. Letter to Allan Uggla from Sven Hedin dated 1922; 2. Letter from Ida to Allan Uggla dated Karakorum 1914; 3. The newspaper "Fars" in Persian dated 1914 with a poem by al-Molk (about the Swedes and Allan Uggla); 4. Postcard adressed to A. Uggla in Shiraz; 5. Letter in French to Ida Uggla (appeal for help of a person being in prison); 6. Thank you letter from Alf Åberg to Claes Uggla. Captain Allan Uggla was in charge of the Swedish gendarmerie in Persia. According to O'Connor: "Captain Uggla, who took over the command during the summer in 1913 made an admirable Commandant - tactful, suave, a good linguist, and a good organiser. He was the man for this difficult post." (pp. 200-01).

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CRONHOLM, ABRAHAM:

De cultu solis in Oriente. Parts i-iii in one volume. Lund 1830.

. 4to. Pp. 28. Disbound. Resp. Bernh. Aug. Cronholm. Marklin ii,29.

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DANZ, JOHANN ANDREAS:

Literator ebraeo-chaldaeus. Jena, Johan Félix Bielcke, 1715.

. Pp. (xiv), 502. Title printed in red and black. Third edition. BOUND WITH: Su manuductio, viam ostendes compendiosam ab ebraeae lingua analysin facilius instituenda, ejusque ritè applicandam syntaxin. Jena, Joh. Bielcke, 1702. Pp. (xii), 28. AND: Sive interpres ebraeo-chaldaeus, omnes vtriusque linguae idiotismos dexterè explicans; ... Jena, J. F. Bielcke, 1715. Third edition. Pp. (ii), 361, index (85). AND: Sev paradigmata nominum simplicium, ac verborum integra: quibus pro lingua intimius addiscenda, imperfecta qvaeqve ad analogiam prefectorum ... Editio iv. Jena, J.F. Bielcke, 1716. Pp. (xlvi), 130. AND: Sive rabbinismus enucleatus, qvoad ea, quae ebraeo-chaldaeis ... Third edition. Jena. J. F. Bielcke, 1714. Pp. (xii), 118, index (29). AND: Sive Aditus Syriae reclusus, compendiose ducens ad plenam lingua syriacae. Third edition. Zenker, BO ii, 1562. Jena 1715. Pp. (viii), 92. A collection of six linguistic works by the German theolog and orientalist Danz (1654-1727) who was professor in oriental languages at Jena. Bound in contemporary vellum, stained and spine defective.

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DELAPORTE, I. HONORAT:

Guide de la conversation francais-arabe ou dialogues avec le mot-a-mot et la prononciation interlinéaires figurés en caractères francais. Deuxième édition. Alger 1841.

. Oblong 8vo. Pp. viii, 178, (2). Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine with gilt decoration, rubbed. Partly with some browning. Comprising 23 chapters devoted to different subjects or occasions. The guide gives the French sentence, the translation in Arabic script followed by the phonetic transcription both in French and Arabic. Second edition, first was published in 1837. Zenker BO ii, 83.

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DELLA VALLE, PIETRO:

Les fameux voyages de Pietro Della Valle, gentil homme Romain, surnommé l'illustre voyageur, avec un denombrement tres-exact des choses les plus curieuses, & les plus remarquables qu'il a veuës dans la Turquie, l'Egypte, la Palestine, la Perse, & les Indes Orientales, & queles autheurs qui en ont oy deuant écrit, n'ont iamis obseruées, le tout ecrit en forme de lettres, addresses au Sieur Schipano son plus intime amy. Four volumes. Paris, Gervais Clovzier, 1664.

. 4to. Pp. (xxiv) including one blank leaf, 404, (ii), 97, 80-84, (29) table, (1); (x), 622, (49) table, (1); (xiv), 460, 553-649, (18) table, (1); (xii), 597, (12) table. With two engraved frontispieces, one engraved plate and four woodcut plates in the text (vol. iv). Numerous engraved initials and head-and-tail pieces. Partly some browning due to paper quality. Title pages and plates are narrowly cut. Title to second part of volume one with some minor loss at outer margin. Contemporary full mottled calf, spines with five raised bands richly decorated in gilt, title labels, rubbed and hinges cracked, spine ends worn. Volume one in a late issue of the first edition or maybe the second edition (?), the other volumes in first edition.French edition of one of the most famous and influential early European travel account to the Middle East, first published in Italian in 1650-63. In 1614 della Valle set out for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On his long journey he visited Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Persia and India before he returned home to Rome in 1626. His account is based on letters sent to his friend the Neapolitan physician Mario Schipano. Volume one contains letters from Constantinople where he spent 18 months, the second and third are devoted to Persia where he stayed for four years, and the fourth to India and his return journey via Basra, Aleppo, Cyprus, Sicily, Corsica and Malta. Della Valle spoke proficient Arabic, Persian and Turkish which ennabled him to understand more of the foreign cultures he visited than many of the other Western travellers at this time. "One of the finest works of travel literature" (Howgego). Atabey 1269. Cf Blackmer 1712. Röhricht 946.

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DE DIEU, LUDOVIC:

Grammatica linguarum orientalium hebraeorum, chaldaeorum et syrorum. Inter se collatarum. Ex recensione David Clodii. Frankfurt a. Main, Johann David Zunner, 1683.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 14, 424. Title printed in red and black. Small repair to title page. Contemporary half vellum, title in manuscript on spine, worn. Second edition, the first appeared in 1628. Dudovic de Dieu (1570-1642), a renowned orientalist at Leiden, based this grammar on earlier works by Buxtorf, Erpenius, Amira and Bertramus. Smitskamp PO 304.

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DE DIEU, LUDOVIC:

Rudimenta linguae persicae. Accedunt duo priora capita Geneseos, ex Persica translatione Iac. Tawusi. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1639.

. Small 4to. Pp. (viii), 95. Title printed in red and black. Title page stained and with small marginal repair. Marbled paper wrappers. First Persian grammar to be published, based on the work of Raymundus which only existed in manuscript form. According to different bibliographical sources it seems uncertain if Ludovic de Dieu was the real author. (Jean Eichmann has sometimes been suggested as the author). Berghman 694. Schwab ii,727. Smitskamp PO 310. Willems 447.

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