HEDENSKOG, CARL AXEL:

Beraettelse om Alexander den Store, Oefversaettning fraan syriskan med anmaerkningar. Ett bidrag till Alexandersagan och dess historia. Academisk afhandling. Lund 1868.

. Pp. (iv), 74. Wrappers. A dissertation about Alexander the Great translated from the Syriac.

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Book number: 777032

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syria, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, islam, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, alexander, syrien, syrie, naher osten

HEDIN, SVEN:

Konung Oscars beskickning till Schahen af Persien år 1890. Stockholm 1891.

. Pp. xvi, 479. With front portrait of King Oscar II, 39 full page plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed, stamp on endpaper. Old ownership signature on title. Sven Hedin made the design of the binding himself, clearly inspired by Persian carpets. First edition of Hedin's narrative of his second journey to Persia in 1890 when he participated in a diplomatic mission to the Shah of Persia. Hess p.19.

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Book number: 100261

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Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, perse, east, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, voyage, exploration, explore, travels,

[OXENSTIERNA, BENGT BENGTSSON] / HEDIN, SVEN:

Resare-Bengt. En lefnadsteckning. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1921.

. Pp. xvi, 544, (1) + (2). With one large folding coloured map and one accompanied leaf with list of names in pocket at rear, and many illustrations throughout the text including two coloured and some after drawings by Hedin. Original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, with medaillon in silver on front cover. First edition of a biography of Hedin's predecessor Beng Gengtsson Oxenstierna (1591-1643). A mint copy. Hess p.42, no. 3.

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Book number: 100344

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HEDIN, SVEN:

Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien. Three volumes. Stockholm, Generalstabens Lit. Anstalt, 1918 & 1927.

. Atlas in folio and two text volumes in 4to, all in original printed wrappers. Pp. xii, 139; x, 548. With 11 coloured maps, mostly folded, 15 coloured folding panoramas, 66 plates made from photographs, another 43 folding plates and two plates with diagrams. The atlas folder contains 8 loose folding maps. As issued, entirely uncut. Volume one slightly shaken, small tear at foot of spine. First edition. During Sven Hedin's third expedition he travelled across Persia for some months at the end of 1905 and the beginning of 1906. The results of his cartographic work of Eastern Persia are to be found in this work. The text is richly illustrated with photographs, water colour panoramas, and maps. The maps in the folder were compiled from Hedin's sketches and summarized in eight sheets. The second volume includes " A Route Survey across Eastern Persia", a section on Persian place names giving their meaning in German. Hess pp. 51-2. Kish, To the Heart of Asia, pp. 79-80.

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Book number: 99914

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VON HELLWALD, FRIEDRICH ANTON HELLER & BECK, L.C. (Ed.):

Turkiet i våra dagar. Bilder och skildringar från alla delar af det osmanska riket. Two volumes. Stockholm, Central tryckeriet, 1878.

. Pp. (viii), 440; (iv), 441-952. With 2 folding coloured maps of the Ottoman Empire and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial red cloth richly decorated in gilt, upper part of hinge to voume two split. Translated from the German into Swedish by P.W. Thunman and O. W Ålund. Deals with the Ottoman Empire including Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, European Turkey, Asiatic Turkey and Arabia. A lovely, mint copy.

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Book number: 100694

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, turkiet, levant, ottoman, osmanska, rumania, montenegro, arabia, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, europe, european,

HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, BARTHÉLEMY D':

Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions veritables ou fabuleuses. Leurs religions, sectes et politique .... Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1697.

. Folio. Pp. (xxxvi), 1059, (1). With title printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary full calf, spine with six raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title label, worn and hinges cracked, spine ends and corners chipped. Bookplates (of Edouard Montet, French orientalist and Patrick Lort-Phillips) and old inscriptions on front paste down. With some staining and partly with tiny wormholes in the inner margin (no loss).First edition of one of the major European works on Orientalism compiled by d'Herbelot and completed and published by orientalist Antoine Galland after d'Herbelot's death. Herbelot spent thirty years working on this alphabeticallly arranged encyclopaedia of the Orient, including much information of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature and history. It is partly based on the extensive Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun) of Hadji Khalifa. A second edition was published in 1776 and a supplement by Claude de Visdelou in 1780. Cf Atabey 572. Graesse 1216. Sale 563. Zenker i, 1735.

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Book number: 120280

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HESSELGREN, ERIK & AURIVILLIUS, CARL:

Dissertatio de lingua aramaea. Part one & part two. Upsala, Joh, Edman, 1771 & 1773.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 25, (1); (ii), 25-40. Disbound.

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Book number: 34166

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syrien, syrie, aramaic, syria, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe os

HETZEL (HEZEL), WILHELM FRIEDRICH:

Erleichterte arabische grammatik, nebst einer kurzen arabischen chrestomathie, zur uebung im Lesen und Uebersetzen. Two parts in one volume. Jena, Felix Fickelscherr, 1776.