GRÅBERG DI HEMSÖ (GRABERG DI HEMSO), JACOB:

Notizia intorno alla famosa opera istorica di A'bd-er-Rahhman Ibnu Khaldœn. Firenze, tipografia le Monnier, 1846.

. Pp. 43. Contemporary half red calf, gilt, lightly rubbed. Partly some staining. Second edition (first 1834) of this work about the famous Arabic historian Ibn Khaldün (1332-1406). Jacob Gråberg (1776-1847) was Swedish consul in Tangier, and later in Tripolis.

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N° du livre: 99617

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, arabian, arabe, arabic, near east, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

GRASSI, ALFIO:

Turkiska kartan eller Ottomanniska rikets religiösa, civila och militära organisation. Örebro, N.M. Lindh, 1833.

. Pp. (viii), 476, (4). With one engraved frontispiece of "Sultan Mahmud". Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, outer margin of front wrapper and spine ends slightly chipped. A Swedish translation by Gustaf Montgomery from the second French edition "Charte Turque ..." Paris 1826. Cf Atabey (Paris 1826). Cf Blackmer 724. Chadenat 4892.

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N° du livre: 100780

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, turkey, turkish, turkiet, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, voyage

GRASSI, ALFIO:

Turkiska kartan eller Ottomanniska rikets religiösa, civila och militära organisation. Örebro, N.M. Lindh, 1833.

. Pp. (viii), 476, (4). With one engraved frontispiece. Contemporary boards, cloth spine. A Swedish translation by Gustaf Montgomery from the French edition "Charte Turque ..." Paris 1825. Chadenat 4892.

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N° du livre: 777003

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, turkey, turkish, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, voyage

GREY, THERESA GEORGINA:

Dagbok under en resa till Egypten, Konstantinopel, Krim och Grekland, i prinsens och prinsessans af Wales suite. Stockholm 1870.

. Pp. (ii), vi, (2), 162. Contemporary half calf, spine (faded), decorated in gilt with title label. A Swedish edition translated from the English (London 1869). The author, Swedish born von Stedingk, accompanied the princess of Wales as her lady-in-waiting on a journey to to the Near East in 1869. They visit Alexandria, Cairo) Constantinople, Athens, Corfu and the Crimea. CfIbrahim-Hilmy I, p. 277.

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N° du livre: 120746

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, egypt, turkey, greece, levant, oriental, egyptian, turkish, greek, travel, exploration, grekland, egypten, resa

GROTHE, HUGO (Ed.):

Orientalisches Archiv. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kulturgeschichte und Völkerkunde der Länder des Ostens. Band I: 1910/1911; Band II: 1911/912; Band III: 1912/1913. Three volumes (all publ.). Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1910-13.

. 4to. Three volumes with 110 fullpage plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Original cloth stamped in black. A complete set of this early German journal which contains interesting articles on the Orient. Comprises studies about Islamic art and architecture; oriental carpets; Turkish architecture and Constantinople in the 17th century; Japanese culture including woodcuts; Chinese art including fans, ceramic, glass etc.; Korean works of art; North African architecture; Islamic shadowplays in Egypt; the German Turfan expedition; etc. etc.

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N° du livre: 99671

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, oriental, levant, near east, middle east, africa, afrika, african, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration, journal, art, turkey, islam, india, china, japan, japon, kina, chinese, persian, persia, korea

GUIGNARD, FRANCOIS-EMMANUEL, COMTE DE SAINT-PRIEST / SCHEFER, CHARLES (Ed.):

Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et sur le commerce des francais dans le Levant ... Suivis du texte des traductions originales des Capitulations et des Traités conclus avec la Sublime Porte ottomane. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1877.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), xiv, 542, (1). Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, extremities lightly frayed, partly unopened. Guignard (1735-1821), French politician and diplomat, was appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1768 and remained there until 1785 with the exemption of a short period (1776-78). His memoirs comprise a history of French relations with the Ottoman empire, biographies of previous French ambassadors and agents to the Porte and finally a history of French commerce and navigation in the Levant. Here for the first time published, included in "Publications de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes". Not in Atabey.

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N° du livre: 100009

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, turkey, turkish, turquie, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, journey, voyage, levant, ottoman,

GUYARD, STANISLAS:

Théorie nouvelle de la métrique arabe, précédée e considérations générales sur le rhythme naturel du langage. Extrait du journal asiatique. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1877.

. Pp. (vi), 350, 20. Contemporary marbled boards, red calf spine ruled in gilt and with title printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed.

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N° du livre: 28110

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, arabic, arabia, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asiatic, asien

GYLLIUS (GILLES), ANTONIUS S. PETRI:

De Bosporo thracio. Parts i-iii in one volume. Lugd. Bat., apud Elzevirios, 1632.

. 16mo. Pp. 379, (1), Index (4). With a beautiful engraved title by Duysend. Contemporary boards, rubbed, spine ruled in gilt and with title label, hinges cracked. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Gilles (1490-1555) was one of the earliest French natural historians and sent to the Levant by Francis i. He was usually called the founder of Byzantine archaeology and gives in this work a circumstantial account of the antiquities of Constantinople. The first Elzevir edition. Berghman 1895. Cox i, p. 222. Willems 366.

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N° du livre: 25065

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, near east, arabic, middle east, arabia, turkey, constantinople, levant, ottoman, turkish, travel, voyage, exploration, explore

VON HALLER, ALBRECHT:

Usong, histoire orientale. Paris & Frankfurt, Jean Georg Esslinger, 1772.

. Pp. (xii), 346. Later marbled boards, silk cloth spine lettered in gilt. A French edition translated from the German (Bern 1771). Baron Haller (1708-77) was a famous Swiss scientist and poet who published three philosophical romances, of which this is one. It is an utopian story taking place in a fictional Persia and Haller constructs an ideal system of political values based on eastern theories rather than typical western values. Diba p. 231 (another issue Lausanne 1772).

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N° du livre: 35068

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, persia

HASE, JOHANNES MATTHIAS:

Regni Davidici et Salmonaei descriptio geographica et historica, una cum delineatione Syriae et Aegypti ... juncta est huic operi Consideratio Urbium maximarum veterum et recentiorum. Two parts in one volume. Norimbergae, Officina Homanniana, 1739.

. Folio. Pp. (vi) + clns 320, pp. 4 appendix + (ii), + clns 132, pp. (2) adv. With title printed in red and black, 5 (of 6) folding engraved maps, coloured in outline and 14 engraved plates of which 13 hand-coloured plans of cities, temples and pyramids. Old inscription on title. Long chronogram ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Occasionally some light staining. Contemporary full calf, spine worn and joints weak. Hase (1684-1742), geographer and cartographer, compiled many geographical works and maps for the Homann company. First edition of this historical and geographical description of the kingdoms of David and Solomon. The second part contains a comparison of the greatest cities of the known world. Graesse iii,217. Röhricht 1403. Tobler p.214.

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N° du livre: 16051

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, syria, holy land, geography, egypt, palestine, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic

HASSAN, HAFIZ AHMED:

Pilgrimage to the Caaba and Charing Cross. London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1871.

. Pp. (viii), 174, adv. 10. With mounted portrait frontispiece of the author. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, red edges, very ligthly rubbed. First edition. The author Hafiz Ahmed Hassan was in the service of the Nawab (governor) of Tonk, a small kingdom in today's Rajastan. The account commences with a description of the Tonk state, it's administration and political intrigues. In 1870 the Nawab made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Hassan accompanied him. The journey starts from Bombay and continues via Aden and Jedda before reaching Mecca and Medina. Includes interesting information about Mecca and the proceedings of the Hajj at this time.

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N° du livre: 100909

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, mecca, arabia, arabien, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, mecca, hajji

HASSELQUIST, FREDRIC / VON LINNÉ, CARL (Editor):

Iter Palaestinium eller resa til Heliga Landet, förrättad ifrån år 1749 til 1752, med beskrifningar, rön, anmärkningar, öfver de märkvärdigaste naturalier. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1757.

. Pp. (xvi), 209, 230-619, (1). Contemporary half calf, worn. Several old ownersip signatures. Bookplate. Partly with some waterstaining. First edition of Hasselquist's voyage to Egypt and the Near East during the years 1749 to 1752. He died in 1752 at Smyrna and his work was posthumously published by Linné (his former teacher), who said: "So admirable a travel journal has never before appeared". Includes the important "Descriptiones Rerum Naturalium Praestantiorum" and also some letters from Hasselquist to Linneaus. It's the first systematic natural history of the Holy Land according to Blackmer. Blackmer 790. Cox i,230. Hulth p.105. Röhricht p.315. Soulsby 3577. Tobler p.130.

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N° du livre: 99746

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, holy land, palestine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, levant, natural history, travel, exploration, voyage, egypt,

HASSELQUIST, FREDRIK / LINNÉ, CARL VON (Editor):

Voyages and Travels in the Levant; In the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce. London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766.

. Pp. (viii), viii, 307, 380-456. With one folding engraved map. Contemporary calf, worn. Old inscriptions. First English edition translated from the original Swedish (1757) of "the first systematic natural history of the Holy Land" (Blackmer). Hasselquist, a student of Linné, travelled to the Near East to study the natural history of the countries he visited. He died in Smyrna in 1752 when he was about to return to Sweden. His journal with valuable observations and descriptions was posthumously edited by Linné. Cf Blackmer 792. Casey Wood p. 380. Hulth p. 106. Röhricht 1435. Soulsby 3582.

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N° du livre: 99540

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, levant, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, natural history, turkey, egypt, holy land, travel, exploration, cyprus, palestine,

HEDENBORG, JOHAN:

Turkiska nationens seder, bruk och klädedrägter. Stockholm, L. J. Hjerta, 1839 (-42).

. 4to. Pp. 216, content (2). With one lithographed map by Schultén and 47 lithographed plates of which 46 are beautiful hand-coloured costume plates. Two plates slightly smaller in size, probably added from another copy. This copy is without the portrait, which was published separately and only sometimes bound together with the work. Beautiful contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine decorated in gilt, top of spine with small repair. Bookplate (Tidö). First edition of this very attractive work on Turkey and its customs and manners. It was originally published in twelve separate parts, limited to about 525 copies. Compiled by Johan Hedenborg, a Swedish natural historian who in 1825 was appointed medical adviser to the Swedish Ambassador C.G. Löwenhielm in Constantinople. Atabey 567. Blackmer 800. Not in Colas or Lipperheide.

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N° du livre: 120273

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: Near East, turkey, turkish, turc, turkiet, turque, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, costume, costumes, levant, ottoman, illustration, illustrated, hand coloured,

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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N° du livre: 777032

Catalogue: Near East

Mots-clés: 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