 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Near East: Archaeology, Culture, History
Static list. All items are subject to availability. Prices are subject to change. Please enquire.
1 ARCHÄOLOGISCHE ENTDECKUNGEN. DIE FORSCHUNGEN DES DEUTSCHEN ARCHÄOLOGISCHEN INSTITUTS IM 20. JAHRHUNDERT. (ZABERNS BILDBÄNDE ZUR ARCHÄOLOGIE). MAINZ AM RHEIN, Philipp von Zabern, 2000.
Quarto. Pp. iv, 148. With 129 colour illustrations, 18 black & white, and 18 line-drawings. Endpaper maps. A most beautiful BRAND NEW copy.
- - One volume, complete in itself.
€ 30 --
2 LE FEU DANS LE PROCHE-ORIENT ANTIQUE. ASPECTS LINGUISTIQUES, archéologiques, technologiques, littéraires. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg (9 et 10 juin 1972). Leiden, Brill, 1973.Crown quarto. Pp. ix, 100. Plus photo plates. Text illustrations. Original printed stiff wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 25 --
3 SPLENDEUR DE L’ART TURC. (MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS). PARIS, Les Presses Artistiques, 1953.Octavo. Unpaginated text. Plus 69 full-page plates. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - Exhibition catalogue.
€ 20 --
4 AL-DUBAYAN, Ahmad M. Galen: “Über die Anatomie der Nerven”. Originalschrift und alexandrinisches Kompendium in arabischer Überlieferung. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 2000.Royal octavo. Pp. 294. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 228.
€ 120 --
5 AL-MUSTAUFI AL-QAZWINI, Hamdullah. Edited, Translated, and Annotated by Lieut.-Colonel John Stephenson. The Zoological Section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulub of Hamdullah Al-Mustaufi Al-Qazwini. London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1928.Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 100; 127 (Arabic). Two title-pages (one to the Arabic part). Zoological Index, Medical Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, blind-panelled boards, spine gilt, bit discoloured. Small ink stamp on first free endpaper, minute foxing to prelims. In a very good condition indeed, clean, tight, and well preserved. Overall an excellent copy.
- - First edition. Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, Vol. XXX. The volume comprises of two books in one, and includes the full original text in Arabic, bound opposite to the English. John Stephenson, 1870-1933. OCLC 2286492. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 1100 --
6 AL-QASIMI, Sultan Muhammad. The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf. London, Croom Helm, 1986.Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 244. Plus a suite of 20 colour plates. Two full-page maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 90 --
7 ALTHEIM, Franz, and Ruth Stiehl. Die Araber in der alten Welt. I: Bis zum Beginn der Kaiserzeit; II: Bis zur Reichstrennung; III: Anfänge der Dichtung - Der Sonnengott - Buchreligionen; IV: Neue Funde; V1: Weitere Neufunde. Nordafrika bis zur Einwanderung der Wandalen. Du Nuwas; V2: Nachträge. Das christliche Aksum. [FIVE PARTS IN SIX VOLUMES]. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1964-69.Five parts in six volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. (vi), 747; x, 631; x, 536; x, 738; x, 537; x, 666. Frontispieces, photo plates with numerous illustrations, tables, facsimiles, maps, some of which folding, all printed on fine paper. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt lettering, spines with gilt labels. In a very fine condition. Excellent set, beautifully preserved.
- - From the private library of R. M. Burrell, with his handsome bookplate to each volume.
€ 820 --
8 ANDRAE, W. Kultrelief aus dem Brunnen des Asurtempels zu Assur. Osnabrück, Otto Zeller, 1969.Royal quarto. Pp. 12. Plus 7 plates. With 6 illustrations to text. Original card wrappers, navy blue printed in gold. A BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Reprint of the 1931 edition. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Band 53.
€ 75 --
9 ARCHI, Alfonso, Paola Piacentini, Francesco Pomponio. I nomi di luogo dei testi di Ebla (Aret I-IV, VII-X e altri documenti editi e inediti). Ares II. (Archivi Reali di Ebla, Studi II). Roma, Missione Archeologica Italiana in Siria, 1993.Large quarto. Pp. 493. Bound in the original publisher’s brown stiff wrappers, with flaps. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Università Degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Archivi Reali di Ebla, Studi II.
€ 400 --
10 ASTOUR, Michael C. Hellenosemitica. An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece. Leiden, Brill, 1965.Royal octavo. Pp. xviii, (ii), 415. Plus 2 folding maps in rear pocket. Extended bibliography, Additions and Corrections, indices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 120 --
11 ATIL, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.Square Royal octavo. Pp. 286. Notes, bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous colour plates, many of which are full- or double-page. Original pictorial card wrappers. In about fine condition, excellent interior.
- - ISBN 0874742137
€ 20 --
12 AUBIN, Jean; Jacqueline Calmard (Editors). Européens en Orient au XVIIIe [XVIII] siècle. Paris, L’Harmattan, 1994.Royal octavo. Pp. 202. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 40 --
13 BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT, Jean-Louis. Les Ottomans, les Safavides et leurs voisins. Contribution à l’histoire des relations internationales dans l’orient islamique de 1514 à 1524. Istanbul, Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut, 1987.Quarto. Pp. xxii, 406. Plus large folding map bound at end. With 10 full-page portraits, facsimiles of original manuscripts, plates, text figures, tables. Bibliography. Bound in the original decorative stiff wrappers. In a very fine, FRESH-NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Publications de l’Institut historique et archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul, LVI.
€ 250 --
14 BAKER, Captain B. Granville. The Walls of Constantinople. London, John Milne, (1910).Small octavo. Pp. 262. Frontispiece and many other plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A very fine BRAND NEW copy.
- - Facsimile reprint, 1975, by AMS Press, New York.
€ 70 --
15 BECKA, Jiri, e.a. Yádnáme-ye Jan Rypka: Collection of Articles on Persian and tajik Literature. Prague, Academia; The Hague & Paris, Mouton, 1967.Crown quarto. Pp. 262. Portrait frontispiece. Half-title in Persian. Bound in the original decorative stiff wrappers. In fine condition (signature to title-page). Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Festschrift, dedicated to Jan Rypka, Professor of Iranology and Turkology at Charles University, Prague, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
€ 120 --
16 BECKA, Jiri, e.a. Yádnáme-ye Jan Rypka: Collection of Articles on Persian and tajik Literature. Prague, Academia; The Hague & Paris, Mouton, 1967.Crown quarto. Pp. 262. Portrait frontispiece. Half-title in Persian. Bound in the original decorative stiff wrappers, with (just good) dust-jacket. In a very good condition, fine interior.
- - First edition. Festschrift, dedicated to Jan Rypka, Professor of Iranology and Turkology at Charles University, Prague, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
€ 90 --
17 BELDICEANU, Nicoara; Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr. Recherches sur la province de Qaraman au XVIe Siècle. Étude et actes. Leiden, Brill, 1968.Quarto. Pp. 129. With facsimiles of original texts in Persian. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (ownership signature on title-page).
- - First edition thus. Extract Journal of the Economic and social History of the Orient, Vol. XI, 1968.
€ 60 --
18 BENDT, Walter. (Gerhard Kleiner, Hrsg.). Milet. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899. Band II, Heft 4: Topographische Karte von Milet (1:2000). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1968.Royal quarto. Pp. iv, 24. Plus 2, large folding maps, printed in colour, in rear pocket; large folding panoramic plate. With one text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, burgundy lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Facsimile reprint of the 1908 edition (Berlin, Georg Reimer).
€ 130 --
19 BERGSTRÄSSER [BERGSTRÄSSER], G. Nichtkanonische Koranlesarten im Muhtasab des ibn Ginni. München, Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei C. H. Beck, 1933.Royal octavo. Pp. 92. Original printed wrappers, worn. In good condition.
- - First edition. Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, Jahrgang 1933, Heft 2.
€ 35 --
20 BEYER, Hermann Wolgfang. Der syrische Kirchenbau. Mit 105 Abbildungen und 3 Tafeln. (Studien zur spätantiken Kunstgeschichte). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1925 (1978).Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 183. Plus 3 maps (2 folding) bound at end. With 105 fine illustrations to text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full green cloth, spine gilt. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - Reprint of the 1925 edition. Studien zur spätantiken Kunstgeschichte, 1.
€ 140 --
21 BILYAD, Maktub; Jan Bauwens. Maktub Bilyad: Arabische handschriften in de Albert I-Bibliotheek. Brussel, Albert I-Bibliotheek, 1968.Crown quarto. Pp. 67. Colour frontispiece. Plus 24 plates bound at end. Bound in the original illustrated stiff wrappers. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page).
- - First edition.
€ 25 --
22 BINGÖL, Orhan. Malerei und Mosaik der Antike in der Türkei. (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, Band 67). Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1997.BRAND NEW. Royal octavo. Pp. 147, (2). With 96 monochromatic illustrations and 32 colour plates with 59 illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pictorial boards. A very fine, fresh-new copy.
- - First edition. ISBN 3805318804 ISBN 3 8053 1880 4
€ 20 --
23 BITTEL, Kurt. Kleinasiatische Studien. Amsterdam, Adold M. Hakkert, 1967.Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 224. Plus 41 plates and 3 maps, all printed on fine paper, bound at end. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In mint condition. Excellent as-new copy, practically unused.
- - Reprint of the edition Istanbul, 1942.
€ 40 --
24 BITTEL, Kurt; Friedrich Cornelius. Grundzüge der vor- und Frühgeschichte Kleinasiens. [AND:] Geschichte der Hethiter. [TWO BOOKS]. Tübingen, Ernst Wasmuth, 1950.Royal octavo. Pp. 135. Plus over 50 illustrations on ca. 30 plates bound at end. Plus 7 folding maps at rear pocket. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth, with dust-jacket. In a very good condition.
- - Second edition. ADDED: Geschichte der Hethiter, by Friedrich Cornelius (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973). Pp. xviii, 378. Plus maps, some folding, and plates bound at end. Original limp boards. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
€ 25 --
25 BITTEL, Kurt; Rudolf Naumann, Sophie Ehrhardt, Richard Vogel. Bogazköy-Hattusa: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts und der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in den Jahren 1931-1939. I: Architektur, Topographie, Landeskunde und Siedlungsgeschichte. [Bogasköy Bogazköi Bogasköi Boghazköy Boghasköy Boghazköi Boghasköi] Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1952.Quarto. Pp. 184. Plus 64 photo plates, printed on different paper, bound at end. Plus 14 folding maps, printed on 13 sheets, placed in a rear pocket, including a large, coloured general map of Bogazköy at time of the 1939 excavations. Numerous text illustrations. In the original printed wrappers. A near fine copy with fine interior and crisp, bright set of maps. Overall excellent.
€ 320 --
26 BITTEL, Kurt; Rudolf Naumann, Sophie Ehrhardt, Richard Vogel. Bogazköy-Hattusa: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts und der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in den Jahren 1931-1939. I: Architektur, Topographie, Landeskunde und Siedlungsgeschichte. [Bogasköy Bogazköi Bogasköi Boghazköy Boghasköy Boghazköi Boghasköi] Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1952.Quarto. Pp. 184. Plus 64 photo plates, printed on different paper, bound at end. Plus 14 folding maps, printed on 13 sheets, placed in a rear pocket (inner hinges slightly cracked), including a large colour map of Bogazköy at time of the 1939 excavations. Numerous text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in half cloth and paper-covered boards, manuscript label to spine, old institutional stamps to title. A very good copy with rather fine interior and maps.
€ 320 --
27 BOGAERT, Raymond. Les origines antiques de la Banque de Dépôt. Une mise au point accompagnée d’une esquisse des opérations de banque en Mésopotamie. [The Ancient Origins of Deposit Banking]. Leyde, A. W. Sijthoff, 1966.Royal octavo. Pp. 185. Bibliography, addenda. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with (near-fine) dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. With a preface in English by Fritz M. Heichelheim. Raymond Leopold Joseph Bogaert (1920 -). Wrote also “Banques et banquiers dans les cites grecques” (Leiden, Sijthoff, I968). Scarce.
€ 220 --
28 BÖHL, F. M. Th. Mededeelingen uit de Leidsche verzameling van spijkerschrift-inscripties. III. Assyrische en Nieuw-Babylonische oorkonden (1100-91 v. Chr.). Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1936.Royal octavo. Pp. 145. original printed wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, adfeeling Letterkunde, deel 82, serie B, No. 2.
€ 80 --
29 BOLENS, Lucie. L’Andalousie du quotidien au sacré XIe-XIIIe [XI-XIII] siècles. Aldershot, Variorum, 1990.Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 282. Plates, text figures, maps, tables. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pale blue cloth, gilt cover and spine. In a very fine, fresh-new condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Collected Studies Series.
€ 320 --
30 BONEBAKKER, S. A. Some Early Definitions of the Tawriya and Safadi’s Fadd al-Xitam An At-Tawriya Wa-l-Istixdam. The Hague & Paris, Mouton, 1966.Royal octavo. Pp. 112. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, spine gilt. In fine, fresh-new condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 45 --
31 BOS, Gerrit. Qusta Ibn Luqa’s Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Risala fi tadbir safar al-hajj. Leiden, New York, Köln, Brill, 1992.Royal octavo. Pp. 184. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s forest-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine, with dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - With a hand-written letter by the author, signed, loosely inserted. First edition. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Text and Studies, XI.
€ 80 --
32 BOTTÉRO, Jean, Samuel Noah Kramer. Lorsque les dieux faisaient l’homme. Mythologie mésopotamienne. Paris, Gallimard, 1989.Thick octavo. Pp. 755, (6). Plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pale grey cloth, red lettering to spine, with dust-jacket; red ribbon marker. In fine, NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - With a card “Hommage de l’Auteur, absent de Paris” loosely inserted.
€ 80 --
33 BRETT, Gerard, W. J. Macaulay, Robert B. K. Stevenson. The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, Being a First Report on the Excavations Carried Out in Istanbul on Behalf of the Walker Trust (The University of St. Andrews) 1935-1938. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1947.Royal quarto. Collotype frontispiece with adjoining “Key to Frontispiece”. Pp. xv (verso blank), 108. Plus 65 illustrations, partly photographic, printed mostly in very fine collotype and in colour, also in halftone; and partly lithographic line-drawings; including 7 folding plans, one of which coloured, tipped-in at end. Addenda, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, bit faded, gilt lettering to spine, spine-ends bit bumped, endpapers foxed. In a very good condition (dedication to first free endpaper). A well preserved copy, neat interior with fine set of plates.
- - Beautifully illustrated. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. The beautifully reproduced early colour photographs were not printed in offset lithography but from relief metal blocks. A somewhat laborious process, it could yield exceptionally nice results if done with great attention to detail, and the plates here are a good example for such. Scarce.
€ 380 --
34 BRETT, Michael; Werner Forman. Bernard Lewis. The Moors: Islam in the West. (Echoes of the Ancient World). [AND:] The Muslim Discovery of Europe. [TWO BOOKS]. London, Orbis, 1980.Quarto. Pp. 128. profusely illustrated throughout. map endpapers. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, gilt spine, ownership signature to title-page. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Lot of 2 books. ADDED: “The Muslim Discovery of Europe”, by Bernard Lewis. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. As new.
€ 20 --
35 BRICE, William C. (Editor). The Environmental History of the Near and Middle East Since the Last Ice Age. London & New York, Academic Press, 1978.Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 384. illustrated with numerous photographs, maps, plans, charts, diagrams, and other text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt. Signature on title-page, else in a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 180 --
36 BRYER, Anthony, and David Winfield. With Maps and Plans by Richard Anderson, and Drawings by June Winfield. The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos. I: Text; II: Plates. [TWO VOLUMES]. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985.Two volumes. Crown quarto. Text Volume: Pp. li, 394, set in double columns. With 125 maps, plans, and drawings. Plate Volume: xv. Plus about 300 plates with a total of 534 photographs. Plus 3 folded, coloured maps in rear pocket. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, gilt lettering, spines gilt, with (very good) dust-jackets. In a very fine, fresh-new condition.
- - Dumbarton Oaks Studies 20.
€ 460 --
37 BÜRGEL, Johann Christoph. Averroes “contra Galenum”. Das kapitel von der Atmung im Colliget des Averroes als ein Zeugnis mittelalterlich-islamischer Kritik an Galen. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1968.Crown quarto. Pp. 266-340. Plus plates. Bound in the original wrappers. A very good copy in fine internal condition.
- - First edition. Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, I. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1967, Nr. 9. Averroes, Abul Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd (Cordoba, 1126 - Marrakech, 1198).
€ 60 --
38 BYVANCK, A. W. L’Art de Constantinople. Rome et Constantinople au 4e siècle. Les mosaïques impériales de Saint-Vital de Ravenne. Leiden, 1977.Crown quarto. Pp. xi, 59. Plus 12 plates bound at end. Illustrations to the text. Original embossed card wrappers. In a very fine, as-new condition. Excellent.
€ 20 --
39 CAVAIGNAC, Eugène. Subbiluliuma et son temps. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1932.Crown quarto. Pp. 108. Plus one plate and one folding map. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit discoloured. In fine condition. Practically unused, still entirely unopened!
- - First edition. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Strasbourg, Fascicule 58.
€ 25 --
40 CAVAIGNAC, Eugène. Subbiluliuma et son temps. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1932.Crown quarto. Pp. 108. Plus one plate and one folding map. Bound in the original printed wrappers (bit discoloured). In fine condition. Practically unused, entirely still unopened.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
41 CONTENAU, G. La magie chez les Assyriens et les Babyloniens. Paris, Payot, 1947.Octavo. Pp. 298. Plus 18 plates. With 25 figures to text. Bound in the original illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. In fine condition, partly still unopened.
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
42 CONTENAU, G. Le déluge Babylonien. Suivi de Ishtar aux enfers; La tour de Babel. Paris, Payot, 1941.Royal octavo. Pp. 295. Plus 8 plates, printed on different paper. With 52 illustration to text. Hardcover, beautifully bound in handsome quarter vellum and snake-skin pattern marbled boards, burgundy morocco lettering-piece in gilt, year of publication in gilt at foot of spine, marbled endpapers. With the original illustrated A three-colour cloth ribbon marker. In a very fine condition. Exquisite copy.
- - First edition.
€ 110 --
43 CONTENAU, Georges. L’Art de l’Asie occidentale ancienne. Paris & Bruxelles, G. van Oest, 1928.Crown quarto. Pp. 58, (2). Plus 64 full-page (helio)gravure plates, often tinted, often with multiple images to each plate, all printed on thick, uncut paper on recto only. Full-page map. Original printed card wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
€ 60 --
44 CONTI, Giovanni; Pelio Fronzaroli. Il sillabario della quarta fonte della lista lessicale bilingue Eblaita. (Miscellanea Eblaitica, 3). Firenze, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università di Firenze, 1990.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 220. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Quaderni di Semitistica 17; Miscellanea Eblaitica 3. Edited by Pelio Fronzaroli.
€ 320 --
45 CRAMER, J. A. A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, I-II. Amsterdam, Adold M. Hakkert, 1971.Two volumes bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. v, 474; iv, 424. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy, crisp interior.
- - Reprint of the edition Oxford, 1832.
€ 420 --
46 CRISAN, Ion Horatiu. Burebista and His Time. (Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae Monographs XX). Bucuresti, Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1978.Octavo. Pp. 253. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket. Fine.
- - Translated from the Romanian.
€ 35 --
47 DEFLO, Lionel (Editor). Moderne Arabische poëzie uit het Midden-Oosten. (Kreatief. Literair- en kunstkritisch tijdschrift, Jaargang 22, juni 1988, nummer 2/3). Antwerpen, Manteau, 1988.Crown quarto. Pp. 154. Plates. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition (signature to title-page).
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
48 DELITZSCH, Friedrich. Babel und Bibel: Vortrag gehalten am 13. Januar 1902 [Neu bearbeitete Ausgabe]. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1921.Octavo. Pp. 80. Plus 2 plates. With 59 colour, b&w, and line-drawn illustrations. Title printed in red and black. Set in Gothic type. Hardcover, original cloth-backed decorated golden-brown boards. In fine condition (signature erased from title-page).
- - New and revised edition, 1921.
€ 40 --
49 DELITZSCH, Friedrich. Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1914.Crown quarto. Pp. xxv, 158. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, these bit edge worn, discoloured, slightly soiled. Untrimmed. In a very good condition (signature on title-page). Fine interior.
- - First edition. Hilfsbücher zur Kunde des Alten Orients, 5. Friedrich Delitzsch published both his “Sumerisches Glossar” and “Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik” in 1914. Delitzsch’s student, Arno Poebel, published in 1923 a grammar with the same title, “Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik”, which for 50 years was the standard book for students studying Sumerian. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 600 --
50 DESHAYES, Jean. Les civilisations de l’Orient ancien. Paris, Arthaud, 1969.Thick octavo. Pp. 674. With 214 (helio)gravures, many of which are full-page, 8 colour plates, and 79 plans and maps, some folding. Indices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, upper cover embossed with illustration, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (near fine). Preserved in the original slipcase. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated.
€ 50 --
51 DIEHL, Charles, Georges Marçais. Histoire du Moyen Age. Tome III: Le Monde oriental de 395 à 1081. (Histoire générale publiée sous la direction de Gustave Glotz, membre de l’Institut). Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1936.Royal octavo. Pp. xxiii, 627. Footnotes, indices. Hardcover, half cloth and marbled paper over boards, spine gilt, sprinkled edges. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
€ 35 --
52 DOZY, R. Oosterlingen. Verklarende lijst der Nederlandsche woorden, die uit het Arabisch, Hebreeuwsch, Chaldeeuwsch, Perzisch en Turksch afkomstig zijn. ’s-Gravenhage, Leiden, Arnhem, Nijhoff, Sijthoff, Thieme, 1867.Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 97. In the original printed wrappers, bit worn. In a very good condition (signature on title-page). Excellent interior.
- - First edition.
€ 70 --
53 DRIVER, G. R.; John C. Miles. The Babylonian Laws. I. Legal Commentary. (Ancient Codes and Laws of the Near East). Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968.Royal octavo. Pp. xxxii, 517. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s black cloth, plasticized. In a very good condition (stamp, signature, first blank leaf removed). Else fine, bright copy.
- - Reprinted from corrected sheets of the first edition. Volume one of two. Edited With Translation and Commentary.
€ 60 --
54 DUCELLIER, Alain; Michel Kaplan, Bernadette Martin. Des Barbares aux Ottomans. Le Proche-Orient médiéval. Avec un fascicule de cartes. Paris, Hachette, 1978.Royal octavo. Pp. 271. Plus 23 maps in rear flap. Bound in the original stiff wrappers with. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 35 --
55 DUMONT, Paul; Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont; Irène Mélikoff (Editors). La Turquie et la France a l’époque d’Atatürk. (Collection Turcica, I). Paris, Association pour le Développement des Études Turques, 1981.Crown quarto. Pp. x, 320. Frontispiece. With facsimiles, diagrams tables. Bound in the original illustrated stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Collection Turcica, I. Préparé à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la naissance d’Atatürk.
€ 150 --
56 EBELING, Erich; Bruno Meissner. Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden, Dietz Otto Edzard. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgelehrten herausgegeben, I-XI/1-2. [ELEVEN VOLUMES]. Berlin, Leipzig, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1928-2006.Eleven volumes, I-XI/1-2. Royal octavo. Pp. xi, 483; 491; 722; xxiv, 549; xxiii, 631; xxvii, 650; xxvii, 631; xxiv, 589; xxii, 647; xxxv, 648; 170. Plus plates, some folding, some tipped-in onto text leaves, and with illustrations, maps, and diagrams to the text. Set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s grey buckram, black lettering to covers and spines. Volumes I-VI are bound; volumes VII-X are in fascicules as issued. Each in the original stiff yellow wrappers, every 4 fascicules are placed in the original grey buckram binder, identical to the binding above, lettered and numbered accordingly. The last issue is the first fascicule of Volume XI, in the original wrappers, ownership signature to title-page of each volume. The complete set is in a very fine, AS NEW condition, practically unused. Excellent.
- - First edition. Includes the very rare, original First Volume of the First Edition (1928, preserved as-new), authored by the Lexicon’s founders Erich Ebeling and Bruno Meissner. The Reallexikon, a multi-volumed work, is planned to appear in 16 volumes. The first volume appeared in 1928 and the work is still in progress. Volume II, reissued 1978.
€ 2300 --
57 EBERSOLT, Jean, Adolphe Thiers. Les églises de Constantinople. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1913.Folio. Pp. vii (verso blank), 294. With 123 illustrations to the text. Title printed in red and black, illustrated. Hardcover, beautifully bound in dark purple cloth and handsome marbled boards, gilt morocco label to spine, vellum-like endpapers, triple-colour ribbon marker, neat archival repair to half-title with no loss. A most beautiful copy in wonderful condition.
- - Text volume, without the plate volume. Monuments de l’Art Byzantin, III.
€ 450 --
58 EBERSOLT, Jean, Adolphe Thiers. Préface de Gilbert Dagron. Les églises de Constantinople. London, Dorian, 1979.Folio. Pp. iii, vii, 294. Plus 58 plates (numbered I-LVII), some of which folding, some tinted, bound at end. With 123 illustrations to the text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt. In excellent condition. Fine copy.
- - Reprint of the 1913, Paris edition. ISBN 0906175038 ISBN 0 906175 03 8
€ 350 --
59 EHRHARDT, Hartmut. Samothrake. Heiligtümer in ihrer Landschaft und Geschichte als Zeugen antiken Geisteslebens. Stuttgart, Urachhaus, 1985.Crown quarto. Pp. 402. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, original cloth, gilt label to spine, with pictorial dust-jacket. AS NEW.
€ 35 --
60 EL-WAILLY, Faisal (Editor). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XX, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1964.Quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 109; 326. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, bit discoloured, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 220 --
61 EL-WAILLY, Faisal (Editor). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXI, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1965.Quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 144; 323. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
62 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXIV, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1968.Quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 128; 256. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 220 --
63 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXVI, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1970.Thick quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 257; 428. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
64 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXVII, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1971.Thick quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 94; 327. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
65 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXVIII, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1972.Quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 97; 302. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges, stamps on cover. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
66 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXIX, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1973.Quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 126; 310. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly worn at edges, stamps on cover. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
67 EL-WAILLY, Faisal; Isa Salman. (Editors). Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq. Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq. Volume XXX, No. 1 & 2. Baghdad, Directorate General of Antiquities, Republic of Iraq, 1974.Thick quarto. Two parts in one volume. Pp. 218; 363. Plus numerous plates, plans, maps, and tables, many of which are folding. A title-page to each part. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly rubbed at edges. In fine condition.
- - First edition. In English and Arabic, respectively.
€ 280 --
68 ELIADE, Mircea. De Zalmoxis à Gengis-Khan. Études comparatives sur les religions et le folklore de la Dacie et de l’Europe orientale. Paris, Payot, 1970Royal octavo. Pp. 252. Footnotes, index. Original card wrappers, shelf label to spine, old institutional stamp and label to first blank. Interior in a very fine condition. Practically unused, the book is entirely still unopened.
€ 80 --
69 ELLERMEIER, Friedrich. Sumerisches Glossar. Band 1, Teil 1. Die sumerischen Lautwerte. Lieferung 1 & 2. I. Liste der Lautwerte; II. Nach “Zeichennamen” und Keilschriftzeichen geordnete Lautwertlisten. [TWO VOLUMES]. Nörten-Hardenberg bei Göttingen, Selbstverlag Dr. Friedrich Ellermeier, 1979-80.Two volumes. Tall quarto. Pp. xxxv, 432; xvii, 433-732. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s green leatherette, gilt lettering to cover and spine. A BRAND NEW set. Excellent.
- - First edition. Theologische und Orientalistische Arbeiten aus Göttingen, 4. ISBN 3921747082 3921747104
€ 320 --
70 EMLYN-JONES, C. J. The Ionians and Hellenism: A Study of the Cultural Achievement of the Early Greek Inhabitants of Asia Minor. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.Octavo. Pp. xiv, 236. Plus a suite of 18 plates, printed on different paper, bound in. One map. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, spine (bit faded) gilt. In fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
71 ENDRESS, Gerhard; Marita Schmeink (Editors). Symposium Graeco-Arabicum II. Akten des Zweiten Symposium Graeco-Arabicum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 3.-5. März 1987. Mit einer Synopse des Symposium Graeco-Arabicum I, Wassenaar, 19.-21. Februar 1985. Amsterdam, B. R. Grüner, 1989.Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 204. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, white lettering to cover and spine. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - A brand new copy of the First edition, published by Verlag Grüner. Archivum Graeco-Arabicum, I: Akten des Zweiten Symposium Graeco-Arabicum II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 3.-5. März 1987. Mit einer Synopse des Symposium Graeco-Arabicum I, Wassenaar, 19.-21. Februar 1985.
€ 220 --
72 ERDMANN, K. Ibn Bibi als Kunsthistorische Quelle. Istanbul, Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut in het Nabije Oosten, 1962.Crown quarto. Pp. 32, (2). Plus a suite of 10 plates with multiple images to each, printed on fine paper. Text illustrations. Bound in the original publisher’s stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Publication of the Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut, Istanbul, Vol. XIV.
€ 35 --
73 ESIN, Emel. Antecedents and Developments of Buddhist and Manichean Turkish Art in Eastern Turkestan and Kansu. (The Handbook of Turkish Culture, Supplement to Volume II, Section of the History of Art). Istanbul, Milli Egitim Basimevi, 1967.Crown quarto. Pp. 81.
Plus 7 full-page colour plates, and 34 monochromatic plates, with multiple illustrations. Fold-out map bound at end. Notes, bibliography, index. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition (signature to cover).- - First edition.
€ 45 --
74 ESS, Margarete van. Uruk. Architektur II. Von der Akkad- bis zur mittelbabylonischen Zeit. Teil 1: Das Enna-Heiligtum zur Ur III- und altbabylonischen Zeit. (Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Endberichte). [TWO VOLUMES]. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 2001.Two volumes. Folio. Text Volume: Pp. xv, 388. Plus 67 plates, printed in duotone with a varnish layer on fine paper, bound at end. With 53 illustrations to text and 55 tables. Set in double columns. Map Volume: 40 large folding maps and plans, placed in a luxe case. Hardcover, uniformly bound in green cloth, gilt lettering to covers and spines. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in immaculate condition.
€ 240 --
75 EWERT, C., A. v. Gladiss, K.-H. Golzio, J.-P. Wisshak. Denkmäler des Islam. Von den Anfängen bis zum 12. Jahrhundert. (Hispania Antiqua). Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1997.BRAND NEW. Thick quarto. Pp. vii, 215. With 11 maps, 8 plates in colour, and 126 monochromatic plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red cloth, pictorial endpapers, with heavy dust-jacket with flaps. A most beautiful, brand-new copy, not yet traded.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid. Hispania Antiqua.
€ 140 --
76 FEER, H. L. Les Ruines de Ninive, ou description des palais détruits des bords du Tigre, suivie d’une description du Musée assyrien du Louvre. Paris, Société des écoles du dimanche, 1864.Octavo. Pp. half-title, vii (verso blank), 319. Plus engraved frontispiece, protected by tissue-guard, and 4 other engraved plates, all printed on thick paper, bound-in. Plus 2 full-page maps; plus a full-page Plan de Musée assyrien du Louvre, with indications to artifacts’ display points. Many engraved illustrations to the text. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper over boards, spine gilt, inner hinges starting, neat repair to marginal tear in one leaf, sporadic foxing. In overall fine condition.
- - First edition. Léon Feer (1830-1902). Scarce. OCLC lists 6 copies only worldwide, two of which are in the Bibliotheque d’Art et d’Archeologie in Paris.
€ 375 --
77 FINET, A. Les pouvoirs locaux en Mesopotamie et dans les regions adjacentes. Bruxelles, l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique, 1982.Royal octavo. Pp. 155. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Colloque organisé par l’Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique, 28 et 29 janvier 1980.
€ 80 --
78 FISH, Thomas. Letters of the First Babylonian Dynasty in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Transliterated, Translated or Summarised, With Indices of Places, Personal Names, Ideograms, an Introduction and 18 Plates of Hand-Copies. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1936.Crown quarto. Pp. 54. Lists, indices, copies of original tablets. Bound in the original publisher’s printed wrappers, untrimmed. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. This, and “Catalogue of Sumerian Tablets in the John Rylands Library, Manchester” (1932) are Fish’s major publications. Very rare.
€ 600 --
79 GASTER, Theodor H. Thespis. Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East. New York, Henry Schuman, 1950.Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 498. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, gilt decoration, spine gilt. In a very good condition.
- - First edition.
€ 40 --
80 GAUDEFROY-DEMOMBYNES; PLATONOV. LE MONDE MUSULMAN ET BYZANTIN JUSQU’AUX CROISADES. PARIS, De Boccard, 1931.Royal octavo. Pp. 588. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page).
- - First edition.
€ 30 --
81 GAWLIKOWSKI, Michal. Palmyre VI. Le temple palmyrénien. Etude d’épigraphie et de topographie historique. Warszawa, Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1973.Crown quarto. Pp. 125. Plus photo plates bound-in. Text figures, plans. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s beige cloth, with (worn) good dust-jacket. In about fine condition.
- - Université de Varsovie Centre d’archéologie méditéranéenne, dans la République Arabe d’Égypte au Caire.
€ 50 --
82 GHIRSHMAN, R. Tchoga Zanbil (Dur-Untash). Volume I: La Ziggurat. (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran, Tome XXXIX. Mission de Susiane). Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1966.Quarto. Pp. (ii), 134. Frontispiece. Plus 100 plates bound at end, of which 64 are collotype, 36 are lithographic. Plus 3 (very) large folding plans in rear pocket. With 67 text figures. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and matching boards, black lettering. A most beautiful, very fine copy, crisp interior.
- - Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran, Tome XXXIX. Mission de Susiane. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
€ 280 --
83 GHIRSHMAN, R. Tchoga Zanbil (Dur-Untash). Volume II: Temenos, Temples, Palais, Tombes. (Mémoires. Tome XL Mission de Susiane). Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1968.Folio. Pp. (iv), 159. Plus 68 collotype plates with numerous images, bound at end. Plus 31 other plates with numerous line-drawn illustrations to each, bound at end. Plus 15 (very) large folding plans bound at end. With 47 figures to text, many of which are printed on fold-out sheets; marginal pencil annotations to text, decorative stamp to first paste-down. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and matching boards, black lettering, spine bit discoloured, corner-tips very slightly bumped. A very good copy with fine plates.
- - Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique en Iran, Tome XL, Mission de Susiane. Beautifully illustrated. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms.
€ 280 --
84 GIOVANNINI, Luciano. Arts de Cappadoce. Genève, Nagel, 1971.Royal quarto. Pp. 230. Profusely illustrated with colour and black & white plates, text illustrations, folding plans. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full orange buckram, gilt lettering embossed on cover cover and spine, with near fine pictorial dust-jacket. A spotless copy in a very fine condition. Excellent.
- - Istituto Internazionale di Arte Liturgica, Rome - Chicago.
€ 60 --
85 GOBINEAU, Joseph Arthur, Comte [Cte, Count] de. Traité des écritures cunéiformes, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1864.Crown quarto. Pp. 373, plus 16 folding plates; 378, plus 2 folding plates, small, expert repair at blank margin of two. Text figures. Both half-titles present, old ownership signature to each; slight sporadic foxing. Hardcover, uniformly bound in recent, most handsome half polished calf and linen-covered boards; large spine, extending over one-third of each board, beautifully roll-tooled in blind on sides, blind-tooled raised bands between gilt rules, large fleuron in each of 3 compartments, gilt lettering direct in remaining 2 compartments. With the original, printed wrappers, bound-in into each volume. A fine, wide-margined, untrimmed set. Excellent.
- - First edition. A most attractive set. Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau (1816-1882). Diplomat, orientalist, a novelist of distinction. While he is perhaps most known for arguing that racial composition determines the fate of civilization, being called the “intellectual father” of Nietzsche, Gobineau’s most concrete scholarly effort was in the field of cuneiform studies. In those years in which Hincks, Rawlinson, and Oppert were gradually realizing that the Akkadian language could not account for all ancient cuneiform texts and for the inner structure of cuneiform writing, Gobineau attacked the three of them in his essay on the Lecture des textes cuneiformes, which he expanded in the two volumes of “Traité des écritures cuneiformes”, which is presented here. Gobineau argued that cuneiform texts were sacred writings, written in a cryptic form for “talismanic” purposes, and that if one reads them with the system of transposition of letters employed by the Hebrew Cabbalists, they proved to be written in Arabic. He produced a marvel of combinatory devices by which the texts not only proved to be alliterative poetry conforming to strict rules of prosody, but also could be read backwards and forwards, so that what was a blessing read as a curse in the opposite direction. The present set contains: Tome I: Livre I. L’écriture cunéiforme assyrienne; Livre II. L’écriture cunéiforme zende; Livre III. L’écriture cunéiforme Huzwaresh. Tome II: Livre IV. Commentaire. Very rare. KVK locates 2 copies only (National Library of France and Library Network of Western Switzerland). COPAC locates copies in British Library, Cambridge, Oxford, University of London, and National Library of Scotland. No copy is listed in Germany. Not in Library of Congress, nor in European Register of Microform Masters.
€ 2200 --
86 GOMI, Tohru; Susumu Sato. Selected Neo-Sumerian Administrative Texts from the British Museum. Abiko, The research institute Chuo-Gakuin University, 1990.Royal octavo. Pp. 334. Bound in the original publisher’s decorative stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Cover title: Daiei Hakubutsukan no shin Shume¯ru jidai gyo¯sei bunsho. Two parts in one volume. First Part: “Autographed Copies of the Texts Nos. 1-258; Second Part: “Transliterations of Texts Nos. 259-541”. Exceedingly carce. COPAC locates just 2 copies, in Manchester and in Oxford School of Oriental & African Studies. Not in British Library.
€ 800 --
87 GOUILLY, Alphonse. R. H. Kiernan. L’Islam devant le monde moderne. [AND:] L’Exploration de l’Arabie depuis les temps anciens jusqu’à nos jours. [TWO BOOKS]. Paris, La Nouvelle Édition, 1945.Lot of 2 books. Royal octavo. Pp. 293. Original printed wrappers.
- - [AND:] L’Exploration de l’Arabie depuis les temps anciens jusqu’à nos jours, Paris, Payot, 1938. Pp. 356, with maps, original wrappers (strengthened). Both copies with ownership signature on title-page.
€ 20 --
88 GRABAR, Oleg; Gülru Necipoglu; Doris Behrens-Abouseif; Anna Contadini; Julia Bailey (Editors). Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Volumes I-XXIII. [TWENTY-THREE VOLUMES]. New Haven & London, Yale University Press; Leiden, Brill, 1983-2006.Twenty-three volumes. Quarto. Ca. 200-400 pp. per volume. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full crimson cloth, ownership signature on title-page of several volumes. The complete set is in a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent set, practically unused.
- - First edition. “Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World” is the major publication of The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which sponsors scholarly works on the history of Islamic art and architecture. “Muqarnas” has established itself as an indispensable forum of discussion among scholars and students in the West and in the Islamic world. Subjects covered in its pages include the history of Islamic art and architecture up to the present, aspects of Islamic culture, history, and learning. It is widely regarded as the foremost scholarly journal for historians of art and architecture who focus on the Islamic world. Annual volumes of “Muqarnas” are periodically accompanied by special research supplements. To date, twenty-three volumes of have been published. Volumes 1-12 are entitled “Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture”. The first two volumes were published by Yale University Press, the rest by E. J. Brill. Volumes I-IX were edited by Oleg Grabar; Volume X is a collection of essays in his honor, contributed by his students; Gülru Necipoglu continued editing the series from Volumes XI; Volume XXI is a collection of essays in honor of J. M. Rogers, edited by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Anna Contadini. This work is exceedingly scarce in its completeness.
€ 2600 --
89 GRÄF, Erwin (Editor). Festschrift Werner Caskel zum siebzigsten Geburtstag 5. März 1966. Gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern. Leiden, Brill, 1968.Quarto. Pp. vi, 359. Plus frontispiece portrait of Caskel, with his facsimile signature, 24 plates, and one folding map. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy blue cloth, gilt cover and spine. In a very fine, FRESH-NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 180 --
90 GROTEFEND, Georg Friedrich. Die Tributverzeichnisse des Obelisken aus Nimrud nebst Vorbemerkungen über den verschiedenen Ursprung und Charakter der persischen und assyrischen Keilschrift, und Zugaben über die babylonische Current- und medische Keilschrift. Göttingen, in der Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1852.Quarto. Pp. 94, (12) inc. blanks. Plus 2 folding lithographic plates bound at end. Wrappers. Poor copy, wraps worn, one leaf stained, but otherwise clean, wide-margined interior.
- - First edition. Aus dem fünften Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Among Georg Friedrich Grotefend’s (1775-1853) major works. The title-page refers to “drei gedruckten Tafeln” beside the 2 lithographs. We could not find any references to this elsewhere - all bibliographical data we have consulted refer to 94pp. As in this copy, the leaves which might have been printed with these plates, are left blank.
€ 220 --
91 GUILLEMIN, J. J. Histoire ancienne de l’orient. Paris, Hachette, 1869.Octavo. Pp. xviii, (ii), 613. Plus 8 hand-coloured maps, mostly folding, and one folding plan with 4 insets. Engraved illustrations throughout the text, some full-page. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter brown calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, patterned endpapers. Foxed, else a fine copy, with crisp maps, handsome binding.
- - Cinquième édition.
€ 90 --
92 HAARBRÜCKER, Theodor (Hrsg.). [Abu-’l-Fath‘ Muhammad asch-Schahrastâni]. Abu-’l-Fath‘ Muhammad asch-Schahrastâni’s Religionspartheien und Philosophenschulen [Philosophen-Schulen]. Zum ersten Male vollständig aus dem Arabischen übersetzt und mit erklärenden Anmerkungen versehen, I-II. Halle, C. A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1850-51.Two volumes bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. xx, 299; x, 464. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter pebble-grain cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, cloth French corners, some spotting and browning, else in a very good condition. Overall an excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 450 --
93 HAMAKER, Henrici [Hendrik] Arentii. Miscellanea Phoenicia, sive commentarii de rebus phoenicum, quibus inscriptiones multae lapidum ac nummorum, nominaque propria hominum et locorum, explicantur, item punicae gentis lingua et religiones passim illustrantur. Leiden, Luchtmans, 1828.Quarto. Pp. x, 368. Plus 5 folding (one large) engraved plates with tables and illustrations. Indices, concordance. Errata. Hebrew words explained and referred-to in the text. Printed on laid, wide-margined paper. Hardcover, original plain brown boards (lightly discoloured), gilt-stamped title label to spine (bit rubbed), shelf label. In fine condition (old institutional stamps and label to blank flyleaf). Excellent copy with bright interior.
- - First edition. The “Miscellanea Phoenicia” is Hamakar’s main work on the subject and reflects his profound knowledge of the Phoenician language and history.
€ 520 --
94 HAMILTON, Alastair. Arabische cultuur en Ottomaanse pracht in Antwerpens Gouden Eeuw. Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus, 2001.Large quarto. Pp. 132, plus pp. 40 in Arabic. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour, including numerous full- and double-page plates. Bound in the original pictorial stiff wrappers, with flaps. In a very fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Beautifully illustrated.
€ 80 --
95 HAMPARTUMIAN, Nubar. Moesia Inferior (Romanian Section) and Dacia. Corpus cultus equitis thracii (CCET), IV. (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l’Empire Romain). Leiden, Brill, 1979.Octavo. Pp. xviii, 128. Plus 123 plates bound at end; fold-out map. Bibliography, indices. hardcover, original green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. A very fine BRAND NEW copy.
€ 120 --
96 HEINE, Peter. Weinstudien. Untersuchungen zu Anbau, Produktion und Konsum des Weins im arabisch-islamischen Mittelalter. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1982.Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 134. With 7 illustrations on 2 plate. Appendix. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 110 --
97 HINDS, Martin; Victor Ménage. Qasr Ibrim in the Ottoman Period: Turkish and Further Arabic Documents. (Texts from Excavations, Eleventh Memoir). London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1991.Royal quarto. Pp. xiii, 134. Frontispiece. Plus a suite of 16 plates, printed on fine paper, bound at end. Three full-page maps. Glossary, indices, genealogical charts. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s olive-green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Texts from Excavations, Eleventh Memoir. Edited by W. J. Tait.
€ 180 --
98 HODGES, Richmond. Cory’s Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other Authors. A New and Enlarged Edition. The Translation Carefully Revised, and Enriched with Notes Critical and Explanatory, With Introductions to the Several Fragments. London, Reeves & Turner, 1876.Royal octavo. Pp. xxxvi, 214. Footnotes, index. Title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy-blue pebbled cloth, decoration embossed on both covers, spine gilt, chalked yellow endpapers, upper inner hinge split, lower cracked. Else in a very good internal condition with a rather bright and very nicely preserved interior.
- - New, enlarged edition.
€ 120 --
99 HOGARTH, D. G., C. Leonard Woolley, R. D. Barnett. Carchemish: Report on the Excavations at Jerablus [Djerabis] on behalf of the British Museum. I: Introductory; II: The Town Defences; III: The Excavations in the Inner Towns; The Hittite Inscriptions. [THREE VOLUMES]. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1969-78.Three volumes. Royal quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. viii, 29, frontispiece. Plus 2 plans, plates A.1-11, plates B.1-16. With 4 illustrations to text; xvi, 33-156. Plus plates 1-28 including a large folding panorama as frontispiece, plates A.12-18, plates B.17-32. With text illustrations 5-61; 157-290, frontispiece. Plus plates 29-71, plates AA-AC, plates A.19-33, plates B.33-70. With text illustrations 62-96. Hardcover, the first 2 volumes uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines, with very good, matching dust-jackets; the 3rd volume in original printed boards, all as issued. A very fine set in new condition. Excellent.
- - Photographic reprint of the 1914-52 edition. “The publication of the important excavations at Carchemish has proved to be one of the chief landmarks in the history and archaeology of ancient North Syria and Anatolia alike. The original stocks (...) have therefore now become exhausted by demands of the public, and the Trustees have accordingly authorized their reprinting without change, to form this present edition” R. D. Barnett, (Preface to Reprint).
€ 650 --
100 HOUWINK TEN CATE, Philo Hendrik Jan. The Luwian Population Groups of Lycia and Cilicia Aspera During the Hellenistic Period. Leiden, Brill, 1961.Quarto. Pp. xxv, 243. Plus folding map bound at end. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit age toned. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation. The copy includes the 4-page Thesis Statement, loosely inserted.
€ 120 --
101 HROZNY, Bedrich. Histoire de l’Asie Antérieure, de l’Inde et de la Crète, depuis les origines jusqu’au début du second millénaire. Avec 3 cartes dans le texte, 71 illustrations et 73 photographies hors texte. Paris, Payot, 1947.Royal octavo. Pp. 350. Plus 3 maps, 73 photo illustrations on plates, and 71 illustrations to the text. Indices. Original illustrated wrappers, some wear to spine panel. In a very good condition. Overall excellent copy, partly still unopened.
€ 30 --
102 HUZAYYIN, S. (Suliman) A. (Ahmad). Arabia and the Far East: Their Commercial and Cultural Relations in Graeco-Roman and Irano-Arabian Times. Cairo, Société de la géographie d’Egypte, 1942.Crown quarto. Pp. xxix, 319. Plus 12 folding maps printed with additional colours. Half-title present. Bibliography. Hardcover, bound in handsome three-quarters polished brown calf and matching marbled boards, spine with raised bands, direct gilt lettering between gilt rules, speckled edges, silken ribbon marker. With the original stiff wrappers bound in, bearing the Coat-of-Arms of the Kingdom of Egypt on the upper wrapper, and the emblem of the Société de la géographie d’Egypte on the lower wrapper. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition thus. Revised and enlarged edition of the Huzayyin’s thesis “The Arabian East and the Far East” (Liverpool, 1933). From the private library of noted collector A. Pascalis, with his charming bookplate.
€ 1800 --
103 IMMERZEEL, Mat. Syrian Icons/Syrische iconen. Collection/collectie Antoine Touma. Snoeck-Ducaju, 1997.Quarto. Pp. 135. Finely produced colour plates and text illustrations. Glossary, bibliography. Pictorial card wrappers. New.
- - Text in English and Dutch. published to coincide with the exhibition “Syrian Icons” in the Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam, 1977-78. Beautifully illustrated.
€ 46 --
104 JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. An Avesta Grammar in Comparison With Sanskrit. Part I: Phonology, Inflection, Word-Formation. With an Introduction on the Avesta. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1892.Royal octavo. Pp. xlviii, 273. Hardcover, bound in half pebbled cloth and attractive marbled boards, spine gilt, boards edges very moderately rubbed. In about fine condition (first and last leaves bit foxed). Handsome copy.
- - First edition. All published. Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1862-1937).
€ 280 --
105 JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. An Avesta Grammar in Comparison With Sanskrit. Part I: Phonology, Inflection, Word-Formation. With an Introduction on the Avesta. [All published]. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1892.Royal octavo. Pp. xlviii, 273. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit discoloured, very slightly edge frayed. In a very good condition. Overall an excellent copy in the original state, untrimmed.
- - First edition. All published. Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1862-1937). Copies of the first edition are scarce, particularly in the original state and in the original publisher’s wrappers.
€ 320 --
106 JAHN, Karl. Tarih-i-Mubarak-i-Gazani des Rasid al-Din Fadl Allah Abi-l-Hair. Geschichte der Ilhane Abaga bis Gaihatu (1265-1295). (Central Asiatic Studies). ’s-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1957.Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. 60; 107. Indices. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, bit discoloured. In overall fine condition (signature to title-page). Excellent interior.
- - facsimile reprint. Central Asiatic Studies, II. A monograph series, devoted to the culture, history and languages of Central Asia and its peoples. Edited by Karl Jahn and John R. Krueger.
€ 180 --
107 JANSEN, Johannes J. G. The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt. Leiden, Brill, 1980.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 111. Bibliography, indices. Bound in the original red stiff wrappers. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - Facsimile reprint. First published 1974. Professor Johannes J.G. Jansen (Amsterdam 1942) holds the Houtsma Chair for Contemporary Islamic Thought in the Department of Arabic, Persian and Turkish at the University of Utrecht.
€ 220 --
108 JERPHANION, Guillaume de. Une nouvelle province de l’art byzantin: Les églises rupestres de Cappadoce. Texte. [FOUR VOLUMES]. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925-42.Two volumes in four. Quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. lxiii, 294; viii, 297-611; viii, 388; viii, 389-535. With numerous text figures, often as handsome head- and tail-pieces; facsimiles, and inscriptions. Uniformly bound in the original stiff wrappers, each with different illustration, repeated on title-page. Partly still unopened. A most beautiful set in a very fine condition, wonderfully well preserved.
- - Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, V-VI. Scarce.
€ 1100 --
109 JESTIN, Raymond. Abrégé de grammaire Sumérienne. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1951.Octavo. Pp. 116. Appendix. Bound in the original wrappers, printed in red and black. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Collection Georges Ort-Geuthner.
€ 30 --
110 JOBST, Werner. Römische Mosaiken aus Ephesos I. Die Hanghäuser der Embolos. (Forschungen in Ephesos. Corpus der Antiken Mosaiken Kleinasiens). Wien, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1977.Folio. Pp. 118. With 219 plates, many of which in colour; several large folding plans, drawings. Original printed card wrappers with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, crisp interior.
- - Österreichischen Archäologischen Institut in Wien, Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/2. (Corpus der Antiken Mosaiken Kleinasiens, Band I).
€ 160 --
111 JOLIVET-LÉVY, Catherine. Les églises byzantines de Cappadoce. Le programme iconographique de l’abside et de ses abords. Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1991.Octavo. Pp. 391. Plus 185 plates, including some in colour, bound at end. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. A very fine NEW copy.
€ 240 --
112 JONES-BLEY, Karlene, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter (Editors). Proceedings of the Tenth (10th) Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, May 21-23, 1998. Washington, Institute for the Study of Man, 1999.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Octavo. Pp. vi, 289. Original card wrappers. In a very fine condition.
- - Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series No. 32.
€ 60 --
113 JUMAY, Ibn; Hartmut Fähndrich. Treatise to Salah Ad-Din on the Revival of the Art of Medicine. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner for Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1983.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 49. Plus 46 pp. in Arabic. Glossary, references. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. The treatise is an introductory and deontological work on medicine, written for Saladin in the 12th century.
€ 60 --
114 KÄRKI, Ilmari. Die Königsinschriften der dritten Dynastie von Ur. (Studia Orientalia 58). Helsinki, Finnish Oriental Society, 1986.Royal octavo. Pp. xix, 158. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Studia Orientalia 58. Edited by the Finnish Oriental Society.
€ 360 --
115 KÄRKI, Ilmari. Die sumerischen und akkadischen Königsinschriften der altbabylonischen Zeit. I. Isin, Larsa, Uruk. (Studia Orientalia, 49). Helsinki, Finnish Oriental Society, 1980.Crown quarto. Pp. xviii, 193. Bound in the original printed wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Studia Orientalia 49, Edited by the Finnish Oriental Society.
€ 360 --
116 KAWERAU, Georg, Albert Rehm. (Theodor Wiegand, Hrsg.). Milet. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899. III: Das Delphinion in Milet. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1967.Royal quarto. Pp. vi, 125-442. Plus 7 plates, some folding, printed on fine paper, bound at end; and one folding plan in text. With 101 text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, burgundy lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition (Berlin, Georg Reimer).
€ 280 --
117 KHALDUN, Ibn. José Khoury, Angelina Bierenbach Koury, Jamil Almansur Haddad. Os prolegômenos ou filosofia social. Tradução integral e direta do Arabe de José Khoury e Angelina Bierenbach Koury. Com introdução por Jamil Almansur Haddad. Em apêndice a Autobiografia de Ibn Khaldun, um planisfério e mapas de Idrissi e um vocabulário árabe-potuguês, I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. São Paulo, Editora Commercial Safady, 1958-60.Three volumes. Crown quarto Pp. (xvi) general index; xx, 568, including the original errata slip tipped-in; 443, (4); 463, xxxiii general index, (16), (20) general index. Hardcover, uniformly bound in handsome half cloth and matching boards, gilt spines, with the original wrappers, printed in red and black, bound in. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent set, practically unused.
- - First edition. Rare.
€ 900 --
118 KHALDUN, Ibn. Translated by Franz Rosenthal, abridged and edited by N. J. Dawood. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.Octavo. Pp. 465. Original stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
€ 15 --
119 KIST, Joost. Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist collection: Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 18). Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2003.Royal quarto. Pp. (vi), 237. with 464 photographs and illustrations of seals. Maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s illustrated boards. A BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition.
€ 320 --
120 KNACKFUSS, Hubert. (Theodor Wiegand, Hrsg.). Milet. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899. II: Das Rathaus von Milet. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1967.Royal quarto. Pp. ii, 25-124. Plus 20 plates, some folding, bound at end; 2 folding plates to text. With 107 text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, burgundy lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Facsimile reprint of the 1908 edition (Berlin, Georg Reimer).
€ 150 --
121 KÖCHER, Franz. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. I-IV: Keilschrifttexte aus Assur; V-VI: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive. [SIX VOLUMES]. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1963-80.Six volumes. Quarto. Pp. xxx, 100 leaves of plates; xxvi, 100 leaves of plates; xxxii, 100 leaves of plates; xxxvii, 116 leaves of plates; xliii, 123 leaves of plates; xl, 157 leaves of plates. All plates printed on recto only. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s mustard cloth, black lettering. In a very fine, as new condition. A most handsome set, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 1200 --
122 KOLDEWEY, Robert. Das wieder erstehende Babylon. Die bisherigen Ergebnisse der deutschen Ausgrabungen. Zürich, Olms, 1981.Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 334. Plus folding maps. Illustrated throughout, some plates in colour. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grey cloth, black lettering to cover and spine, with very good dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - 6. Sendschrift der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Nachdruck der Ausgabe Leipzig 1925.
€ 80 --
123 KONDAKOFF, N. Histoire de l’art byzantin considéré principalement dans les miniatures. Édition française originale, publiée par l’auteur, sur la traduction de M. Trawinski, et précédée d’une Préface de M. A. Springer, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE]. Paris, Librairie de l’Art, Jules Rouam & London, Gilbert Wood, 1886-91.Two volumes bound in one. Royal quarto. Pp. 202, (2), 8 publisher’s catalogue, plus 4 full- or double-page plates, 22 illustrations to text; 184, with 13 illustrations to text, some full-page. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces, large decorative initials. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter shagreen and marbled boards, spine in compartments between raised band, a little chafed, gilt lettering, French Vellum corners, cloth inner hinges, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, very few worm holes at foot of spine with some worming evidence at foot of inner hinge. Handsome, wide-margined copy, in overall fine condition.
- - First French edition. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 500 copies.
€ 500 --
124 KONDOLEON, Christine. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. Princeton, Princeton University Press in association with the Worcester Art Museum, 2000.Quarto. Pp. 253. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial card wrappers. In about fine condition.
€ 40 --
125 KRAUSS, Friedrich. (Theodor Wiegand, Hrsg.). Milet. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899. IV: Das Theater von Milet. Teil 1: Das hellenistische Theater. Der römische Zuschauerbau. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1973.Royal quarto. Pp. xii, 212. Plus 245 photographs printed on plates at end; 4 folding plans. With 6 text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, burgundy lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
€ 170 --
126 KREISER, Klaus, Hans-Georg Majer, Marcell Restle, Johanna Zick-Nissen (Editors). Ars Turcica. Akten des VI. internationalen Kongresses für Türkische Kunst, München vom 3. bis 7. September 1979. I. Architektur; II. Kunsthandwerk; III. Tafeln. [THREE VOLUMES]. München, Editio Maris, 1987.Three volumes. Quarto. Pp. 382; (4), 387-671; 677- 679, plus 128 plates with multiple images to each. Illustrated title-pages. Uniformly bound in the original illustrated green card wrappers. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - The first International Congress for Turkish Art was held in Ankara, in 1952. Contributions in English, French, German, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Includes bibliographical references. First and only edition of this important work on the subject of Turkish art: KVK locates copies in major collections (National Library of the Netherlands; Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries; Union Catalog Italy; Library of Congress; Union Catalog of Canada; French Union Catalog; British Union Catalog; Complete catalogue of Die Deutsche Bibliothek; Union Catalog Hesse; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Union Catalog Southwest Germany; Union Catalog Northern Germany; Union Catalog North Rhine-Westphalia; KOBV Berlin-Brandenburg). OCLC 19975690 adds another 23 major institutional libraries. Outside the academia, though, “Ars Turcica” is exceedingly scarce. ISBN 3925801006 ISBN 3 925801 00 6
€ 360 --
127 KREISER, Klaus, Hans-Georg Majer, Marcell Restle, Johanna Zick-Nissen (Editors). Ars Turcica. Akten des VI. internationalen Kongresses für Türkische Kunst, München vom 3. bis 7. September 1979. I. Architektur; II. Kunsthandwerk; III. Tafeln. [THREE VOLUMES]. München, Editio Maris, 1987.Three volumes. Quarto. Pp. 382; (4), 387-671; 677- 679, plus 128 plates with multiple images to each. Illustrated title-pages. Uniformly bound in the original illustrated green card wrappers. Crisp BRAND NEW set, not yet traded.
- - The first International Congress for Turkish Art was held in Ankara, in 1952. Contributions in English, French, German, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Includes bibliographical references. First and only edition of this important work on the subject of Turkish art. ISBN 3925801006 ISBN 3 925801 00 6
€ 260 --
128 KRINGS, Véronique; Isabelle Tassignon (Editors). Archéologie dans l’Empire ottoman autour de 1900: Entre politique, économie et science. Bruxelles & Rome, Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 2004.Crown quarto. Pp. 366. Plus an appendix of illustrations, comprising of photographic plates, facsimiles, and maps, some in colour, finely printed on thick, excellent paper, bound at end. Bound in the original red card wrappers. In a very fine, FRESH-NEW condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Institut Historique Belge de Rome. Etudes de philologie, d’architecture et d’histoire anciennes, XL.
€ 120 --
129 KURAN, Aptullah. Photographs by Ara Güler, Mustafa Niksarh. Sinan. The Grand Old Master of Ottoman Architecture. Washington, Institute of Turkish Studies & Istanbul, Ada Press, 1987.Royal quarto. Pp. 320. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous photo plates, many of which are full- or double-page, and architectural drawings. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s embossed grey cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First edition. ISBN 094146900X ISBN 0 941469 00 X
€ 90 --
130 LAFFIN, John. Albert Hourani. Edward W. Said. The Arab Mind Considered: A Need for Understanding. [AND:] Islam in European Thought. [AND:] Orientalism. [THREE BOOKS]. New York, Taplinger, 1975.Royal octavo. Pp. 190. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s quarter cloth and boards, with dust-jacket. Ex-lib U.S. Air Force base with stamps and pocket. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. TO THIS ARE ADDED: Albert Hourani: Islam in European Thought. (Cambridge University Press, reprinted 1993.) Pp. 199. A BRAND NEW copy. AND: Edward W. Said: Orientalism. (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.) Pp. xi, 368. Fine. Lot of 3 books.
€ 30 --
131 LANIER, L. L’Asie. Choix de lectures de géographie. Accompagnées de résumes, d’analyses, de notices historiques, de notes explicatives et bibliographiques, et ornées de 53 vignettes, de 9 cartes tirées en couleur et de 41 cartes intercalées dans le texte. Première partie: Asie russe, Turkestan, Asie ottomane, Iran. Neuvième Édition, revue et corrigée. Paris, Eugène Belin, 1906.Octavo. Pp. xi, 617. Folding maps, some in colour, plates, illustrations. Bound in the original printed wrappers, spine strengthened with matching paper. In a very good condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent interior.
- - New edition, revised and corrected. First part of two, complete in itself.
€ 40 --
132 LAWLESS, Richard. The Middle Eastern Village: Changing Economic and Social Relations. London & New York, Croom Helm, 1987.Octavo. Pp. ix, 304. Plus a suite of 20 plates. Text figures, maps, charts, plans, tables. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket. In fine condition (signature on title-page, stamp on verso). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 60 --
133 LAWRENCE, Bruce B. (Editor). Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology. Leiden, Brill, 1984.Royal octavo. Pp. 136. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Volume XL. General editor K. Ishwaran.
€ 120 --
134 LAYARD, Austen Henry. Nineveh and its Remains; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yesidis, or Devil Worshippers; and an Enquiry into the manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. [PARIS EDITION]. Paris, A & W. Galignani; Baudry’s European Library, 1850.Royal octavo. Pp. 266. half-title. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and matching marbled boards, spine gilt. In about fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent interior.
- - A copy of the scarce, Paris edition. Set in double columns it is complete in one volume. Most uncommon.
€ 180 --
135 LIAGRE BÖHL [BOEHL], F. M. Th. de; W. F. Leemans; J. J. A. van Dijk; William W. Hallo; R. Frankena. Tabulae cuneiformae/cuneiformes a F. M. Th. de Liagre Böhl [Boehl] collectae, Leidae conservatae. I. (TLB I): Old Babylonian Legal and Administrative Documents, Copied by W. F. Leemans; II. (TLB II): Textes divers, copiés par J. J. A. van Dijk; III. (TLB III): Sumerian Archival Texts, Copied by William W. Hallo; IV. (TAB IV): Altbabylonische Briefe, kopiert von R. Frankena. [FOUR VOLUMES]. Leiden, Nederlandsch Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1954-73.Four volumes. Quarto. I. LXXXI plates with 304 texts; II. XXV plates with 22 texts; III. LXVII plates with 175 texts; IV. LIII plates with 111 texts. Lists of contents, registers, concordances. Loose sheets as issued, 3 volumes are placed in the original portfolios, full mahogany cloth over boards, with gilt lettering and decoration; one volume in a plain portfolio. In fine condition. Excellent set.
- - Over 600 texts selected from the neo-Sumerian tablets in the Liagre Böhl Collection of the Netherlands Institution for the Near East. Scarce. (weight: 5kg).
€ 600 --
136 LLOYD, Seton. Die Archäologie Mesopotamiens. Von der Altsteinzeit bis zur persischen Eroberung. München, C. H. Beck, 1981.Royal octavo. Pp. 324. With 174 text figures, photographs, maps, etc. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, with (fine) dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First German edition. Translated from the English “The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest” (London, 1978).
€ 30 --
137 LLOYD, Seton. L’Art ancien du Proche-Orient. Paris, Larousse, 1964.Octavo. Pp. 302. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour and black & white (tinted) plates. Bibliography, indices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket (good). In fine condition. Excellent copy.
€ 55 --
138 LÖWENSTERN, Isidore. Exposé des éléments constitutifs du système de la troisième écriture cunéiforme de Persépolis. Paris & Leipzig, A. Franck, 1847.Quarto. Pp. 101. Engraved vignette on title-page, engraved illustration on first page. Bound in the original wrappers, browned and age worn, each cover with engraved illustration, spine replaced with black paper. Wide-margined, untrimmed, fine interior.
- - First edition.
€ 80 --
139 MAGEN, Ursula. Assyrische Königsdarstellungen - Aspekte der Herrschaft. Eine Typologie. (Baghader Forschungen 9). Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1986.Royal quarto. Pp. xv, 176. Plus 31 plates with a total of 137 photographic illustrations and 70 line-drawings. Numerous tables to text. Title printed in red and black; set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full orange cloth, lettering embossed onto cover and spine. A most beautiful BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Bahgdad; Baghader Forschungen, Band 9.
€ 250 --
140 MAINSTONE, Rowland J. Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church. London, Thames & Hudson, 1988.AS NEW. Quarto. Pp. 288. With 305 illustrations, 56 plans and drawings. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s light-grey cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First edition. ISBN 0500340986 ISBN 0 500 34098 6
€ 90 --
141 MANOUKIAN, Agopik and Armen (Editors). Documents of Armenian Architecture. Documenti di architettura Armena. I: Haghbat; II: Khatchkar; III: Sanahin; IV: S. Thadei Vank; V: Amberd; VI: G9h)eghard; VII: Goshavank; VIII: Aght’amar; IX: Ererouk; X: S. Stephanos. [TEN VOLUMES]. Milano, Ares, 1974-82.Ten volumes. Square crown quarto. Profusely illustrated with numerous colour and black & white plates, architectural plans. Bound in pictorial card wrappers, full-size flaps. Placed in the original slipcase, full black cloth, white lettering. Fine set.
- - Text both in English and Italian.
€ 250 --
142 MANTRAN, Robert. L’Empire ottoman du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Administration, économie, société. [XVI XVIII]. London, Variorum, 1984.Royal octavo. Pp. x, 340. Frontispiece portrait. Bound in the original publisher’s sky-blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In a very fine, fresh-new condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
€ 150 --
143 MASPERO, G. Edited by A. H. Sayce; Translated by M. L. McClure. The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria, and Assyria; [AND:] The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea; [AND:] The Passing of the Empires, 850 B.C. to 330 B.C. [LOT OF 3 BOOKS]. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896.Lot of 3 books. Thick crown quarto. Pp. xii, 794; xiv, 800; xii, 824. Coloured frontispiece to each volume. Plus coloured (folding) maps, coloured lithograph and collotype plates protected by tissue-guards, and over 1000 illustrations to text, many of which in the form of full-page plates. Coloured title vignette to each volume. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, matching cover illustration to each volume, this of the 3rd embossed in gilt, various age-related imperfections. Overall a very good set, with generally fine interiors.
- - The Struggle of the Nations, First Edition (1896); The Dawn of Civilization, Third Edition, revised and updated (1897); The Passing of the Empires, First Edition (1900). A very interesting lot of 3 works by Maspero, scarce in its completion.
€ 150 --
144 MAURICE, Rev. Thomas. (Claudius James Rich). Observations on the Ruins of Babylon, As Recently Visited and Described by Claudius James Rich, Esq. Resident for the East India Company at Bagdad [Baghdad]. With Illustrative Engravings. London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by John Murray, 1816.Octavo. Pp. (viii), 3-239 (verso blank), (2) postscript; directions to the binder. Plus 4 folding plates by J. Barlow, one of which is etched, the other three engraved, all protected by tissue guards. One plate is with 3 tinted impressions. With a full-page illustration to the text. Title-page illustration depicting Persepolitan characters, repeated inside. Half-title present, dedication leaf (verso blank), label to first paste-down, inscription to first free endpaper. Hardcover, bound in handsome prize binding of contemporary half calf and marbled boards, sides gilt-stamped with the armorial emblem of The Society of Writers to the Signet, calf blind tooled, spine moderately worn, lower corner-tips bit rubbed. Fine, crisp interior, exceptionally well preserved, excellent strikes of the plates.
- - First edition. Rich’s (1787-1821) “Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon” was first published in the “Fundgruben des Orients” in 1813, event which “marks the hour when Assyriology saw the light” (Pallis 51). Thomas Maurice (1754-1824), assistant librarian to the British Museum, dedicated his commentary “to the Right Honourable Charles Philip Yorke, in grateful testimony of accumulated favours, these pages, retrospective on the history, and early progress in science, of a most ancient people”.
€ 850 --
145 MEIJER, Diederik J. W. (Editor). Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction and Description in the Ancient Near East. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 306. Plates and text figures. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition. Proceedings of the Colloquium, Amsterdam, 6-8 July, 1989.
€ 220 --
146 MEUSZYNSKI, Janusz. Samuel M. Paley, Richard P. Sobolewski. Die Rekonstruktion der Reliefdarstellungen und ihrer Anordnung im Nordwestpalast von Kalhu (Nimrud) I. (Räume: B.C.D.E.F.G.H.L.N.P); [AND:] The Reconstruction of the Relief Representations and their Positions in the Northwest-Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud) II. (Rooms: I.S.T.Z, West-Wing); [AND:] The Reconstruction of the Relief... at Kalhu (Nimrud) III. (The Principal Entrances and Courtyards). (Baghader Forschungen 2, 10, 14). [THREE VOLUMES]. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1981-92.Three volumes. Royal quarto. Pp. xvi, 90, plus 17 plates and 11 plans, mostly folding, bound at end, with 3 text illustrations; xvii, 93, plus 6 folding plates, with a total of 36 illustrations, and 6 plans, bound at end; xx, 56, plus 11 photographic plates, 8 folding plates with a total of 46 illustrations, and 5 folding plans, all bound at end, with 1 text figure and one folding chart. Printed on fade resistant and archival quality; titles printed in red and black. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, the first 2 volumes uniformly bound in orange cloth, lettering embossed onto covers and spines; the 3rd volume bound in green cloth, gilt. A most beautiful BRAND NEW set in pristine condition.
- - In 1970 the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology arrived at Nimrud with a contract to excavate the area of the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III and the Northwest Palace. Janusz Meuszynski was the director of the Polish project. After his tragic death in May, 1976, the Polish work at Nimrud ceased. It was later continued by Richard Sobolewski and Samuel Paley. They also undertook the completion of the 3-volume “The Reconstruction...” which was started by Meuszynski. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Bahgdad; Baghader Forschungen, Band 2 (ISBN 3805304129); Band 10 (ISBN 3805308884); Band 14 (ISBN 3805313489).
€ 500 --
147 MEYER-PLATH, B.; A. M. Schneider. Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel. Zweiter Teil. Aufnahme, Beschreibung und Geschichte. (Denkmäler antiker Architektur). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1978.BRAND NEW. Folio. Pp. vii, 170. Plus 65 plates, many of which are folding, bound at end. Text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt illustration to cover. A most beautiful copy in exceptionally fine condition.
- - Reprint of the 1943, Berlin edition. Denkmäler antiker Architektur, Band 8. ISBN 3110049929
€ 190 --
148 MORET, Alexandre. Histoire Ancienne. Première Partie. Histoire de l’Orient. Tome I: Préhistoire IVe et IIIe millénaires; Tome II: IIe et Ier millénaires. (Histoire générale publiée sous la direction de Gustave Glotz, membre de l’Institut). [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1936.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxii, 479, viii; 480-872. Maps. Footnotes, indices. Volume I hardcover, full cloth, spine gilt, neat annotations in pencil throughout, numerous loosely inserted newspaper clips, photographs, etc.; Volume II printed wrappers. In overall very good condition.
€ 35 --
149 MORRISON, Martha A.; Ernest R. Lacheman, David I. Owen. The Eastern Archives of Nuzi; Excavations at Nuzi 9/2. (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, Volume 4) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1993.Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 420. With over 240 plates of hand copies of texts, many published for the first time. Figures and tables. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, spine gilt, illustrated endpapers, with (about fine) dust-jacket. In fine condition, practically unused.
- - First edition. Volume IV in the Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians Series, edited by David Owen and Martha Morrison.
€ 80 --
150 MÜLLER-WIENER, Wolfgang. Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls. Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen, Ernst Wasmuth, 1977.Quarto. Pp. 534. Plus a large folding map in rear pocket. With 631 illustrations, plans, photographs. With errata card loosely inserted. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s forest-green cloth, gilt lettering, with (good) dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, exceptionally well preserved.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. ISBN 3803010225 ISBN 3 8030 1022 5
€ 420 --
151 MÜLLER-WIENER, Wolfgang. Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls. Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen, Ernst Wasmuth, 1977.Quarto. Pp. 534. Plus a large folding map in rear pocket. With 631 illustrations, plans, photographs. With errata card loosely inserted. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s forest-green cloth, gilt lettering, with (repaired in places) dust-jacket. Book is in a very fine condition. Excellent copy, exceptionally well preserved.
- - First edition. (Note: a heavy item, over 3 KG).
€ 420 --
152 NASER-E KHOSRAW; WHEELER. M. THACKSTON, Jr. Naser-e Khosraw’s Book of Travels (Safarnama). New York, Persian Heritage Foundation, Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1986.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 135. With several maps in the text, some full-page. Glossaries, appendices, bibliographies. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition, first printing. Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, New York. Persian Studies Series, 36. Translated from Persin, with introduction and annotation by Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr.
€ 220 --
153 NAUMANN, Rudolf; Hans von Aulock. Der Zeustempel zu Aizanoi. Nach den Ausgrabungen von Daniel Krencker und Martin Schede bearbeitet und herausgegeben. (Denkmäler antiker Architektur). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1979.BRAND NEW. Folio. Pp. xii, 96. Plus 77 plates, including extending or folding plans and maps, some coloured, bound at end. With 53 figures and photographs to the text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt illustration to cover, spine gilt. A most beautiful, brand-new copy in superb condition. Not yet traded.
- - Denkmäler antiker Architektur, Band 12.
€ 180 --
154 NAVE, Francine de (Editor). Philologia Arabica. Arabische drukken in de Nederlanden in de 16de en 17de eeuw. Antwerpen, Museum Plantin-Moretus, 1986.Quarto. Pp. 236. Plates. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 60 --
155 NIJLAND, Cornelis. Mikha’il Nu‘Aymah [Mikhail NuAymah]: Promotor of the Arabic Literary Revival. N.p, n.p. (Belgium), 1975.Quarto. Pp. 131. Frontispiece. Bound in the original illustrated stiff wrappers. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation.
€ 40 --
156 OHLY, Dieter. Die Aegineten. Die Marmorskulpturen des Tempels der Aphaia auf Aegina. Ein Katalog der Glyptothek München, I-III. I: Die Ostgiebelgruppe; II: Die Westgiebelgruppe; III: Die Gruppen aud dem Altarplatz, Figürliche Bruchstücke, Akrotere, Aus der Tempelcella, Die klassizistische Restaurierung der Aegineten. [THREE VOLUMES]. München, C. H. Beck, 1976-2001.Three volumes bound in two. Thick, large quarto. Complete set, comprising of 2 text volumes; 250 plates; and 10 auxiliary plans. Volume I: Pp. xvi, 116. With 85 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Plus 76 single-sheet plates, printed on card, each measuring 325 x 255mm (numbered 1-76); 5 large folding plans. Volume II: Pp. (16). Original printed wrappers. Plus 86 plates (numbered 77-162); 5 large folding plans. Volume III: 88 plates (numbered 163-250). Hardcover, placed in two original luxe cases, matching cloth over pictorial boards, lettering embossed in black on spines. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW SET in pristine condition.
- - ISBN3406033334 ISBN3406062717 ISBN3406062725.
€ 680 --
157 OWEN, David I.; Ernest R. Lacheman General Studies; Excavations at Nuzi 9/3. (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, Volume 5) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1995.Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 357. With several hundreds plates of hand copies of texts, many published for the first time. Figures, photographs, plans, and tables. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s green cloth, spine gilt, illustrated endpapers, with dust-jacket. In fine condition, practically unused.
- - First edition. Volume V in the Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians Series, edited by David Owen.
€ 80 --
158 PANZAC, Daniel. La Peste dans l’Empire Ottoman, 1700-1850. Louvain, Peeters, 1985.Crown quarto. Pp. 659. including a large section of maps, diagrams, and figures. Extended bibliography. Bound in the original illustrated card wrappers, with (near fine) dust-jacket. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Collection Turcica V. Association pour le Développement des Études Turques; Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes d’Istanbul; Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
€ 120 --
159 PARROT, André. Assur. Paris, Gallimard, 1961.Exceptionally fine copy. Thick quarto. Pp. xvi, 384. Colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous monochromatic and colour (helio)gravure plates, some heightened with tinted varnish, many of which are full- or double-page, some fold-out panoramas. Plus fold-out map bound at end. Extended dictionary, index, and bibliography. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s red cloth, embossed in gilt, spine gilt, cloth ribbon marker; with dust-jacket (this very good). Book is in mint, fresh-new condition (ownership signature). Excellent copy, beautifully preserved.
- - First edition. A remarkable production with superb gravure reproductions. Interesting is the inclusion of the handsome colour plates. Colour gravure plates are much less common than monochromatic, much more complex to produce. The fine technique of gravure printing (Kupfertiefdruck, Rakeltiefdruck), developed by Karl Klic (1841-1927), is often referred to erratically as photogravure or heliogravure, terms which describe another process. Experiments in gravure printing began in the 1850s, and reproductions of rare prints by this method became common from the 1870s. It was not, however, until around 1880 that the development of this most brilliant and faithful monochrome reproductive technique yet known in the history of printing, began. Klic adapted the cross-line screen to the old hand photogravure process, but kept it secret rather than patenting it, and the technique was reinvented by others in the years afterwards.
€ 95 --
160 PETERS, Ludwig. Grammatik der türkischen Sprache. Berlin, Axel Juncker, 1947.Octavo. Pp. 244. Hardcover, bound in the original boards, first free endpaper clipped. In a very good condition.
- - First edition, 1st to 5th Thousand.
€ 15 --
161 PETTINATO, Giovanni. Catalogo dei testi cuneiformi di Tell Mardikh - Ebla. (Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla - 1). Napoli, Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1979.Large quarto. Pp. xlii, 292. Bound in the original publisher’s green stiff wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Seminario di Studi Asiatici, Series Maior I, Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla - 1.
€ 120 --
162 PETTINATO, Giovanni. Texte zur Verwaltung der Landwirtschaft in der Ur-III Zeit. “Die runden Tafeln”. (Analecta Orientalia 45). Roma, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969.Quarto. Pp. xv, 433. Plus 50 plates, printed on fine paper, and 17 charts, some folding, all bound at end. In the original printed stiff wrappers. In a very fine condition, still entirely unopened. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Analecta Orientalia 45.
€ 130 --
163 PIHAN, Antoine Paulin. Dictionnaire étymologique des mots de la langue française dérivés de l’Arabe, du Persan ou du Turc, avec leurs analogues grecs, latins, espagnols, portugais et italiens. Paris, Imprimé par autorisation de l’Empereur a l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1866.Crown quarto. Pp. xx, 400. With several tables. Publisher’s device on title-page, half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half green calf and matching cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt, extremities bit rubbed, corner-tips exposed, marbled endpapers, inner hinges about starting. Very neat contemporary inscriptions on first blank, signature on title-page, small round stamp and light evidence of a removed bookplate on verso. A very good copy with fine, bright interior.
- - Antoine Paulin Pihan (1810-1879). Rare.
€ 1100 --
164 PIOTROVSKIJ, B. B. Il Regno di Van Urartu. Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1966.Crown quarto. Pp. xi, 396. Plus a suite of 56 plates, printed on different paper, bound at the end. With 88 figures to the text. Title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grey boards, printed in red and black, with (good) dust-jacket. In a near fine condition.
- - First Italian edition. Centro di Studi Micenei, Universita di Roma. Icunabula Graeca, Volume XII. Translated by MIrjo Salvini.
€ 90 --
165 PIOTROVSKIJ, B. B. Il Regno di Van Urartu. Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1966.Crown quarto. Pp. xi, 396. Plus a suite of 56 plates, printed on different paper, bound at the end. With 88 figures to the text. Title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grey boards, printed in red and black, few small stains. Ex-lib copy in a very good condition.
- - First Italian edition. Centro di Studi Micenei, Universita di Roma. Icunabula Graeca, Volume XII. Translated by MIrjo Salvini.
€ 50 --
166 PISANI, Vittore. Geolinguistica e Indeuropeo. (Memoire della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche, Vol. IX, Serie VI). Roma, Giovanni Bardi, 1940.Crown quarto. Pp. (2), 113-378. Hardcover, recently bound in handsome quarter cloth over boards, spine gilt, original printed cover bound-in. In about fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 80 --
167 POTRATZ, J. A. H. Die menschliche rundskulptur in der Sumero-Akkadischen kunst. Istanbul, Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut in het Nabije Oosten, 1960.Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 28. plus 8 plates and a folding table, bound at end. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Publication of the Nederlands historisch-archaeologisch instituut, Istanbul, VI.
€ 20 --
168 POTRATZ, Johannes A. H. Luristanbronzen. Die einstmalige Sammlung Professor Sarre, Berlin. Istanbul, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, 1968.Crown quarto. Pp. 100. plus 289 illustrations on a suite of 48 plates, printed on different paper, bound at end. Full-page map. Bound in the original publisher’s stiff printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. ADDED: Offprint from Bibliotheca Orientalis, XXVI, No. 5/6, September-November 1969, containing a book review of Potratz’s “Luristanbronzen”, by P. Calmeyer (München, 1969).
€ 120 --
169 PREUSSER, Conrad. Die Paläste in Assur. (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gessellschaft in Assur). Berlin, Mann, (1955).Royal quarto. Pp. (iv), 67. Plus one plan and 26 plates, mostly large, folding, bound at end. Three text illustration. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, brown lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - 2nd edition. First published 1955. Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gessellschaft in Assur: A. Die Baudenkmäler aus Assyrischer Zeit. VIII.
€ 160 --
170 PREUSSER, Conrad. Die Wohnhäuser in Assur. (Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gessellschaft in Assur). Berlin, Mann, 1994.Royal quarto. Pp. (iv), 67. Plus one plan and 31 plates, some of which folding, bound at end. Text illustration. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, brown lettering to cover and spine. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy in pristine condition.
- - 2nd edition. First published 1954. Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gessellschaft in Assur: A. Die Baudenkmäler aus Assyrischer Zeit. VI.
€ 160 --
171 PRITCHARD, James B. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1955.Quarto. Pp. xxi, 544. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s mid brown cloth, spine gilt, with good dust-jacket. In a very good condition (light toning to endpapers). Overall an excellent copy, very clean and tight.
- - Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Third printing, 1966.
€ 90 --
172 PUCHSTEIN, Otto; Heinrich Kohl, Daniel Krencker. Boghasköi. Die Bauwerke. [Boghasköy Boghazköi Boghazköy Bogasköy Bogasköi Bogazköi Bogazköy] Osnabrück, Otto Zeller, 1984.BRAND NEW. Folio. Pp. 180. Plus 50 plates bound at end, including extending or folding plans and maps, bound at end. With 110 figures and photographs to the text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt lettering, spine gilt. A most beautiful, brand-new copy in superb condition. Not yet traded.
- - Reprint of the 1912, Leipzig edition.
€ 25 --
173 QUAEGEBEUR, Jan (Editor). Studia Paulo Naster Oblata. II: Orientalia Antiqua. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). Leuven, Departement Oriëntalistiek & Uitgeverij Peeters, 1982.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 343. Plus 19 plates. With text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s leaf green cloth, gilt. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Volume 13. ISBN 9070192101
€ 120 --
174 RAMPOLDI, Giovanni Battista. Annali musulmani dal 578 al 1453 dell’era volgare. Volumes I-XII. [COMPLETE]. Milano, Felice Rusconi, 1822-26.Twelve volumes. Complete. Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 536; 495; 512; 528; 534; 599; 582; 592; 552; 568; 568; viii, 150, (2). Tables. Hardcover, uniformly bound in full cloth (bit dusty), spines gilt, with cloth inner-hinges. All 12 original printed wrappers bound-in. Entirely uncut, partly still unopened. Formerly in the collection of the New York Historical Society, with stamp to that effect in each volume. In fine condition. Excellent set in exceptionally fine state of preservation.
- - Giovanni Battista Rampoldi’s (1761-1836) the Mohammedan Empire, 578-1453. Contains: Volume I: 578-632; Volume II: 632-661; Volume III: 661-750; Volume IV: 750-870; Volume V: 870-974; Volume VI: 974-1099; Volume VII: 1099-1187; Volume VIII: 1187-1258; Volume IX: 1258-1340; Volume X: 1340-1402; Volume XI: 1403-1453; Volume XII: Concordance. Exceedingly scarce. KVK locates one complete set in British Library and another in Austrian National Library only. Incomplete sets are in National Library of France; School of Oriental & African Studies, London; Cambridge University; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark; Staatsbibliothek Berlin. OCLC 41164815 lists New York Public Library; Chicago, Princeton, and Rutgers University Libraries; Public Library of Cincinnati. OCLC 47789903 locates another five sets, some of which are incomplete. Not in Union Catalog Italy.
€ 2600 --
175 RAVN, O. E. The So-Called Relative Clauses in Accadian, or the Accadian Particle Sa. Copenhagen, NYT Nordisk Forlag; Arnold Busck, 1941.Royal octavo. Pp. 120. Manuscript “Register” in a very neat contemporary hand on verso of title-page. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit edge worn, spine discoloured. In overall fine condition, crisp interior.
- - First edition. Rare.
€ 360 --
176 REINISCH, Leo. Der einheitliche Ursprung der Sprachen der alten Welt, nachgewiesen durch Vergleichung der afrikanischen, erythräischen und indogermanischen Sprachen mit Zugrundelegung des Teda. Erster Band. Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1873.Crown quarto. Pp. xviii, 408. With 4 woodcut illustrations. Hardcover, recently bound in modern full cloth, spine gilt, with original upper wrapper (professionally restored) bound-in, with Publisher’s “Prospect” printed on verso. In overall fine condition (light foxing to prelims). An excellent copy.
- - First edition, first volume (= all published). Despite the optimistic Publisher’s prospect “Da das Manuscript für die folgenden zwei Bände fast abgeschlossen ist, so dürfte das Erscheinen derselben innerhalb der nächsten 2 Jahre zugeischert werden können”, no further volumes were published. Simon Leo Reinisch (1832-1919), Austrian Egyptologist and Africanologist, known for his research of the languages of the peoples of north-east Africa. In 1865 he was sent by Emperor Maximilian to Egypt, to buy items for a projected Egyptian display at the newly founded Mexican National Museum. Exceedingly scarce. OCLC 4271932 locates just 9 copies worldwide. KVK adds copies in Austrian National Library and Die Österreichischen Landesbibliotheken; in British Union Catalog; National Library of France; Union Catalog Northern Germany, and Staatsbibliothek Berlin only. Other institutional libraries hold modern reprints only.
€ 1100 --
177 RIECK, Andreas. Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr. Unsere Wirtschaft. Eine gekürzte kommentierte Übersetzung des Buches Iqtisaduna von Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 1984.Thick octavo. Pp. iv, 747. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 93.
€ 260 --
178 RODLEY, Lyn. Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985.Crown quarto. Pp. xviii, 266. Frontispiece. With 188 plates; 59 text figures. Footnotes, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, original full black cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket. A very fine, NEW copy.
€ 300 --
179 RÖLLIG, Wolfgang. Altorientalische Literaturen. (Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, Band 1). Wiesbaden, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978.Crown quarto. Pp. 330, (2). Illustrated throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grass green cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (good). Book is in a very fine condition. Excellent, bright interior.
- - First edition.
€ 85 --
180 SALVINI, Mirjo. Nairi e Ur(u)atri. Contributo alla storia della formazione del regno di Urartu. Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1967.Royal octavo. Pp. 106. Plus a suite of 8 plates, printed on different paper. With several full-page maps to the text. Title printed in purple and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grey boards, printed in red and black, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. Centro di Studi Micenei, Universita di Roma. Icunabula Graeca, Volume XVI.
€ 60 --
181 SCHARFF, Alexander. Der Bericht über das Streitgespräch eines Lebensmüden mit seiner Seele. (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1937, Heft 9). München, Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1937.Royal octavo. Pp. 68. Original printed wrappers, corner chipped. Interior in fine condition, entirely still unopened.
- - First edition.
€ 38 --
182 SCHEERS, Simone (Editor). Studia Paulo Naster Oblata. I: Numismatica Antiqua. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). Leuven, Departement Oriëntalistiek & Uitgeverij Peeters, 1982.Royal octavo. Pp. xxxiii, 340. Plus frontispiece and 40 plates with multiple reproductions of coins to each. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s leaf green cloth, gilt. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Volume 12. ISBN 907019209X
€ 85 --
183 SCHLUMBERGER, Gustave. Un empereur Byzantin au dixième siècle Nicéphore Phocas. Ouvrage illustré de 4 chromolithographies, 3 cartes et 240 gravures. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1890.Quarto. Pp. 779, (2) corrections additions. Plus 4 superbly printed chromolithographs, of which one is a frontispiece, each protected with a tissue-guard and facing a caption leaf. Plus 3 maps, one of which is double-page, coloured in outlines. With 240 text illustrations, printed in various techniques. Both title-page and half-title printed in red and black. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s very handsome quarter crimson calf and matching cloth, extra decorated in gilt and black dye, spine richly decorated in gilt, back cover with large blind-tooled frame and a central gilt decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, split inner paper hinge, lower corner-tip slightly rubbed. In fine condition. Excellent, bright copy, exceptionally well preserved.
- - First edition.
€ 480 --
184 SCHMID, Hans Heinrich. Wesen und Geschichte der Weisheit. Eine Untersuchung zur altorientalischen und israelitischen Weisheitsliteratur. Berlin, Alfred Töpelmann, 1966.Royal octavo. Pp. 250, (2). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s buckram, brown lettering. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - First edition.
€ 45 --
185 SCHMIDT-COLINET, Andreas; Khaled Al-As‘ad, Carla Müting-Zimmer. Das Tempelgrab Nr. 36 in Palmyra. Studien zur Palmyrenischen Grabarchitektur und ihrer Ausstatung. (Damaszener Forschungen). I: Text; II: Tafeln, Beilagen und Pläne. [TWO VOLUMES]. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, 1992.Two volumes. Quarto. Text Volume: Pp. x, 213. With 65 illustrations to text. Plate Volume: iv, 76 plates with a total of 406 photo illustrations printed in duotone with varnish layer, 73 appendices with line drawings. Plus 20 plans, printed on 27 folding sheets, in rear cassette. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, gilt lettering, spines gilt. A most beautiful BRAND NEW set, not yet traded.
- - Very high quality photographs, printed in duotone with added varnish. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Station Damaskus. Damaszener Forschungen, Band 4.
€ 220 --
186 SCHMOELDERS [SCHMÖLDERS], August. Documenta philosophiae Arabum.
Quae pro dissertatione ad summos in philosophia honores ab amplissimo in Universitate Fridericia Wilhelmia Rhenana philosophorum ordine rite impetrandos. Ex codd. mss. primus edidit, latine vertit, commentario illustravit. Bonnae (Bonn), Typis Regiis Arabicis. In Officina Fr. Baadeni, 1836.Two parts in one volume. Octavo. Pp. (ii), iv, 134, 4; 33 in Arabic. Two title-pages including one to the Arabic part. Includes the 11-point Thesis Statement. Hardcover, bound in contemporary orange paper-covered boards, spine and corners worn; green endpapers, first paste-down lightly stained; all edges gilt; signature to title, split gutter after first blank. In a very good internal condition, interior rather clean and neat.
- - First edition. Very rare. Schmoelders’ pioneer work on Islamic philosophy. Containing: “Abu Nasr Alfarabii de rebus studio Aristotelicae philosophiae praemittendis commentatio”; “Abu Ali Ebn Sina, de logica poema”; and “Abu Nasr Alfarabii fontes quaestionum”. Added title-page in Arabic: “Rasa`il falsafiyah lilshaykh Abi Nasr al-Farabi wa-lil-shaykh al-ra`ieh Abi Ali ibn Sina”. Franciscus August Schmoelders (Schmölders) (1809-1880). Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi (ca. 870-950).
€ 1600 --
187 SCHULLER, Manfred. (Gottfried Gruben, Hrsg.) Der Artemistempel im Delion auf Paros. (Denkmäler Antiker Architektur). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1991.Royal quarto. Pp. xi, 140. Plus 102 plates, several of which are folding. The fine photographic plates are printed in duotone with varnish layer. With 58 illustrations to text. Set in double columns, printed on fine paper throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy-blue cloth, gilt decoration embossed on cover, spine gilt. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy.
- - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Denkmäler Antiker Architektur, Band 18,1 Architektur auf Naxos und Paros I.
€ 220 --
188 SCHWANDNER, Ernst-Ludwig. Der ältere Porostempel der Aphaia auf Aegina. (Denkmäler Antiker Architektur, 16). Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1985.Royal quarto. Pp. xi, 143. Colour frontispiece. Plus 35 plates. With 80 illustrations to text. Set in double columns, printed on fine paper throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full navy-blue cloth, gilt decoration embossed on cover, spine gilt. A most beautiful, BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Denkmäler Antiker Architektur, Band 16.
€ 220 --
189 SELMS, Adrianus van. De Babylonische termini voor zonde en hun beteekenis voor onze kennis van het Babylonische zondebesef. Wageningen, H. Veenman, 1933.Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 115. Plus a 4-page “Stellingen” loosely inserted. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Doctoral dissertation.
€ 30 --
190 SEZGIN, Fuat. Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums bis ca. 430 H. I: Qur’anwissenschaften, Hadit, Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik, Mystik; II: Poesie; III: Medizin - Pharmazie, Zoologie - Tierheilkunde; IV: Alchimie - Chemie, Botanik - Agrikultur; V: Mathematik; VI: Astronomie; VII: Astrologie - Meteorologie und Verwandtes; VIII: Lexigraphie; IX: Grammatik; X: Gesamtindices zu Band I-IX. [10 VOLUMES. COMPLETE SET]. Leiden, Brill, 1967-84.Ten volumes. Complete. Royal octavo. Pp. XIII, 935; xii, 807; XIX, 498; X, 398; XIV, 514; XV, 521; XIII, 486; XII, 389; XII, 406; 604. Last volume set in double columns. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s crimson cloth gilt, spines gilt. In as new condition (publisher’s stamp to blank prelim of one volume, paper flaw to margin of one leaf without loss of text, a signature neatly effaced with tipp-ex). A most beautiful, exceptionally fine set, most volumes are brand-new, the rest are practically unused.
- - First edition. The present set, exceedingly scarce in its completion, includes the General Index Volume, a concordance which was published in 1995 by the Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. Highly acclaimed work, “...the most important single Arabistic achievement for decades...”; “...monumental undertaking...”; “...a milestone in the development of Arabic studies...”; “...unter die klassischen Werke unserer Wissenschaft einzureihen...” With the original Publisher’s leaflet loosely inserted. (ISBN 90 04 04376 4 ISBN 90 04 05878 8 ISBN 90 04 06159 2 ISBN 90 04 06867 8 ISBN 90 04 07261 6 ISBN 9004043764 ISBN 9004058788 ISBN 9004061592 ISBN 9004068678 ISBN 9004072616).
€ 3600 --
191 SHIBLEY SADD, Gladys. The Middle East: Its Wisdoms-Wit and Culture. My Legacy. Santa Clarita, Glastebar, 1989.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 249. Illustrated. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt illustration on cover. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page, stamp on verso). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition. Arabic script by Salwa Ayoub.
€ 80 --
192 SINANOGLU, Suat. Visage de la Turquie. Ankara, Commission Nationale Turque pour l’UNESCO, 1979.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 199. Bound in the original card wrappers, with flaps. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
193 SINCLAIR, T. A. Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey. I-IV. [FOUR VOLUMES]. London, Pindar Press, 1987-90.Four volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 454, plus 118 plates; 533, plus 142 plates; 433, plus 156 plates; 490, plus 83 plates. Folding maps, plans, and text figures to each volume. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines, with dust-jackets. A most beautiful, very fine NEW set, pristine interiors.
- - ISBN 0907132324 ISBN 0907132332 ISBN 0907132340 ISBN 0907132529
€ 1200 --
194 SOURDEL, Dominique. Les cultes du Hauran. À l’époque Romaine. (Institut Français d’Archéologie de Beyrouth. Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, Tome LIII). Paris, Imprimerie nationale; Paul Geuthner, 1952.Royal octavo. Pp. xvi, 134. Plus 4 plates and 2 folding plans, all bound at rear. Original wrappers, these bit dusty. In fine internal condition.
€ 40 --
195 SPEK, Robartus Johannes van der. Grondbezit in het Seleucidische rijk. Amsterdam, VU, 1986.Crown quarto. Pp. x, 293. Notes, index. Original printed stiff wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - Doctoral dissertation. A 4-page “Stellingen” is loosely inserted.
€ 80 --
196 SPIES, Otto; Horst Müller-Bütow. (Ibn al-Quff). Anatomie und Chirurgie des Schädels, insbesondere der Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenkrankheiten nach Ibn al-Quff. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1971.Royal octavo. Pp. viii, 160. Plus 46 illustrations on 4 plates, bound at end. Bibliography. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s ochre cloth, green lettering to cover and spine. Placed in the original slipcase, with title-label. A very fine BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition. Ars Medica. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Quellenkunde der Alten Medizin. Schriftenreihe der Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Freien Universität Berlin. III. Abteilung: Arabische Medizin, Band 1.
€ 120 --
197 STARR, June. Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1992.Royal octavo. Pp. xli, 243. Four full-page maps, 11 tables. Appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s decorated boards. Ownership signature on title-page, stamps on prelims, else in fine condition, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 25 --
198 STEPPAN, Thomas. Die Athos-Lavra und der trikonchale Kuppelnaos in der byzantinischen Architektur. (Münchener Arbeiten zur Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie). München, Editio Maris, 1995.BRAND NEW. Quarto. Pp. 267. With a suite of 169 illustrations, printed on fine paper, bound at end. Hardcover, pictorial boards. A brand new copy.
- - First edition. Münchener Arbeiten zur Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie, Band 3, edited by Marcell Restle.
€ 120 --
199 STIERLIN, Henri. Cités du désert. Pétra, Palmyre, Hatra. L’Art antique au Proche-Orient. Fribourg, Office du Livre, 1987.BRAND NEW. Quarto. Pp. 224. with 189 colour photographs; text illustrations, plans, maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s mid-brown cloth, embossed lettering, with dust-jacket. A most beautiful, fresh-new copy, not yet traded.
€ 80 --
200 STROCKA, Volker Michael. Die Wandmalerei der Hanghäuser in Ephesos. I: Text; II: Abbildungen. (Forschungen in Ephesos). [TWO VOLUMES]. Wien, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1977.Two Volumes. Folio. Text Volume: Pp. 148. With 42 text figures, some printed on full-page insets; coloured double-page chart at end. Plate Volume: Pp, 12, plus 466 illustrations, of which 193 are in colour; large folding plan at end. Uniformly bound in original printed card wrappers, with (very good) pictorial dust-jackets. In overall fine condition. Excellent, crisp interiors.
- - Österreichischen Archäologischen Institut in Wien, Forschungen in Ephesos VIII/1.
€ 160 --
201 STROMMENGER, Eva. Die Neuassyrische Rundskulptur. Berlin, Mann, 1970.Royal quarto. Pp. 36, (4). Plus 21 plates, printed on fine paper, bound at end. Text figures. Set in double columns. Original card wrappers. A very fine copy in new condition.
- - Abhandlungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Nr. 15.
€ 75 --
202 STRONACH, David. Pasargadae: A Report on the Excavations Conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies From 1961 to 1963. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1978.Royal quarto. Pp. xii, (ii), 326. Plus 192 plates bound at end. Folding plans, numerous illustrations to text, often full-page. Bound in the original publisher’s full dark-gray cloth, gilt spine, with pictorial dust-jacket. Book is in fine condition. Excellent, crisp copy.
- - First edition. (Note: a heavy item, over 3 KG).
€ 600 --
203 TABARI; THEODOR NÖLDEKE. GESCHICHTE DER PERSER UND ARABER ZUR ZEIT DER SASANIDEN. AUS DER ARABISCHEN CHRONIK DES TABARI ÜBERSETZT UND MIT AUSFÜHRLICHEN ERLÄUTERUNGEN UND ERGÄNZUNGEN VERSEHN VON TH. NÖLDEKE. LEIDEN, Brill, 1973.Crown quarto. Pp. xxviii, 503. Plus folding table. Appendices. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt. In a very good condition.
- - Facsimile reprint of the 1879 edition.
€ 260 --
204 THIES, Dorothee. Die Lehren der arabischen Mediziner Tabari und Ibn Hubal über Herz, Lunge, Gallenblase und Milz. Bonn, Verlag für Orientkunde Dr. H. Vorndran, 1968.Octavo. Pp. 186. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - This is the FIRST edition of Thies’ work, published originally in 1968 as Volume 20 in the series Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients. A reprint appeared in 2003.
€ 120 --
205 TIELE, C. P. Babylonisch-assyrische Geschichte. 1. Teil: Von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum tode Sargons II; 2. Teil: Von der Thronbesteigung Sinacheribs bis zur eroberung Babels durch Cyrus. (Handbücher der Alten Geschichte). Gotha, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1888.Two parts in one volume. Royal octavo. paginated consecutively. Pp. xiii, 282; vi, 647. Two serial titles, 2 volume titles, and 2 half-titles present; ownership signature, minor underlining in pencil. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, head of spine bit worn. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Handbücher der Alten Geschichte. I. Seris, Vierte Abteilung.
€ 110 --
206 TILIA, Ann Britt. (Giuseppe Tucci, Editor). Studies and Restorations at Persepolis and Other Sites of Fars. (Reports and Memoirs). Rome, IsMEO, 1972.Royal quarto. Pp. xvii, 416. Plus 204 photographic plates; plus 7 additional plates, mostly in colour; with 26 full-page or fold-out drawings. Bibliography. Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers (trifle creased along extending edges). Excellent copy in fine condition, crisp interior.
- - Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Centro Studi e Scavi Archeologici in Asia. Reports and Memoirs, Volume XVI. A second volume appeared in 1978.
€ 300 --
207 TILIA, Ann Britt. (Giuseppe Tucci, Editor). Studies and Restorations at Persepolis and Other Sites of Fars. I-II. (Reports and Memoirs). [TWO VOLUMES]. Rome, IsMEO, 1972-78.Two volumes. Royal quarto. Pp. xvii, 416. Plus 204 photographic plates; plus 7 additional plates, mostly in colour; with 26 full-page or fold-out drawings. Bibliography; xv, 107. Plus 60 photographic plates; plus 4 additional plates in colour; with 26 drawings and text figures, some folding, some printed with additional colours. Uniformly bound in the original printed stiff wrappers (trifle creased along extending edges). Excellent set in fine condition, crisp interiors.
- - Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Centro Studi e Scavi Archeologici in Asia. Reports and Memoirs, Volumes XVI and XVIII.
€ 625 --
208 TOUMA, Toufic. Un village de montagne au Liban (Hadeth El-Jobbé). Paris & La Haye, Mouton, 1958.Royal octavo. Pp. 150. Plus 16 plates and maps, some folding, bound at end. Bound in the original decorative wrappers. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page).
- - First edition.
€ 40 --
209 TROUPEAU, Gérard. Études sur le christianisme arabe au Moyen Age. Aldershot, Variorum, 1995.Royal octavo. Pp. x, 290. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full pale blue cloth, gilt cover and spine. A BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition. Collected Studies Series.
€ 180 --
210 UNGNAD, Arthur. Lubor Matous. Grammatik des Akkadischen. Völlig neubearbeitet von Lubor Matous. Vierte Auflage der Babylonisch-Assyrischen grammatik. München, C. H. Beck, 1964.Crown octavo. Pp. xv, 202. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s crimson cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, with (fine) dust-jacket. In a very fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - Völlig neubearbeitet von Lubor Matous. Vierte Auflage der Babylonisch-Assyrischen grammatik.
€ 25 --
211 VEENHOF, K. R. Schrijvend verleden. Documenten uit het oude Nabije Oosten vertaald en toegelicht. Leiden, Ex Oriente Lux; Zutphen, Terra, 1983.Crown quarto. Pp. xiii, 438. With 25 plates and maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s full brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine. In fine condition (signature to title-page). Excellent copy.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
212 VILLETTES, Jacqueline. La vie des Femmes dans un village Maronite Libanais Aïn el Kharoubé. Tunis, l’Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes, Imprimerie Bascone & Muscat, 1964.Royal octavo. Pp. (iv), 140. Plates, full-page maps and diagrams. With ca. 30 photographic illustrations. Appendix. Bound in the original printed wrappers, bit faded, with manuscript title on spine. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Publications de l’Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes, 27. Illustrated with rare photographs.
€ 120 --
213 VOGT-GÖKNIL, Ulya. Drawings: Sema Miller-Çamurdan. Photographs: Eduard Widmer. Sinan. Tübingen & Berlin, Wasmuth, 1993.Royal quarto. Pp. 155. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous photo plates, many of which are full- or double-page, some in colour, and architectural drawings. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s light grey cloth, with pictorial dust-jacket. In a very fine, fresh-new condition. Excellent.
- - ISBN 3803001560 ISBN 3 8030 0156 0
€ 95 --
214 WATSON, Andrew M. Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700-1100. [FIRST EDITION]. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.Royal octavo. Pp. x, 260. With 8 full-page maps and many text illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s brown cloth, map endpapers. In fine condition (ownership signature on title-page). Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - The first edition in a book form of Watson’s groundbreaking 1974 Journal of Economic History’s article.
€ 80 --
215 WATSON, Gilbert. Theriac and Mithridatium. A Study in Therapeutics. London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966.Royal octavo. Pp. x, 165. Plus frontispiece and 2 plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s pale blue cloth, spine gilt, with (near fine) dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused.
- - First edition.
€ 60 --
216 WEIDNER, Ernst, Wolfram von Soden. Nach Erich Ebeling und Bruno Meissner. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Dritter Band: Fabel - Gyges, und Nachtrag. Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1957-71.Royal octavo. Pp. 722. Plus a large, folding chart. With figures to the text. Set in double columns. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s grey buckram, black lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition (ownership signature to first free endpaper).
- - The Reallexikon, a multi-volumed work, is planned to appear in 16 volumes. The first volume appeared in 1928 and the work is still in progress.
€ 320 --
217 WILL, Edouard; Claude Mossé, Paul Goukowsky. Le monde grec et l’orient. I. Le Ve siècle (510-403); II. Le IVe siècle et l’époque Hellénistique. [TWO VOLUMES]. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1972-(75).Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. 715; 678. Plus one folding map. Hardcover, bound in handsome full olive-green cloth, spines gilt. In fine condition (some underlining in pencil). Excellent set.
- - First edition.
€ 220 --
218 WITKAM, Jan Just. Van Leiden naar Damascus, en weer terug. Over vormen van islamitische lees- en leercultuur. Leiden, Legatum Warnerianum Universiteitsbibliotheek, 2003.Octavo. Pp. 142. Frontispiece, plates. Original illustrated wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
219 WOOLLEY, C. Leonard. Carchemish: Report on the Excavations at Jerablus [Djerabis] on behalf of the British Museum, Conducted by C. Leonard Woolley, M.A., with T. E. Lawrence, B.A., and P. L. O. Guy. Part II: The Town Defences. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1921.Royal quarto. Pp. xvi, 33-156. Plus 49 plates printed in collotype, including some folding lithographic line-drawing. Large folding panorama, printed in collotype, as frontispiece. With 57 text illustrations. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s printed boards, these worn, spine gone. Internally in general fine condition, fine plates.
- - First edition.
€ 1250 --
220 WRIGHT, G. R. H. Ancient Building in South Syria and Palestine. I. Text; II. Illustrations. (Handbuch der Orientalistik 7; Der Alte Vordere Orinet 1). [TWO VOLUMES]. Leiden & Köln, Brill, 1985.BRAND NEW. Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xxiii, 539; xv, and 367 illustrations accompanied by explanatory text, unpaginated. Including the Errata slip for both volumes. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s lime-green cloth, gilt covers and spines. A most beautiful, brand new set, not yet traded.
- - First edition. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Siebente Abteilung: Kunst und Archäologie. Erster Band. Der Alte Vordere Orient. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Denkmäler. B - Vorderasien. Lieferung 3, I-II. Edited by J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw. ISBN 9004070915 9004071709.
€ 800 --
221 ZADOKS-JOSEPHUS JITTA, Annie N.; R. Frankena. Catalogue sommaire des cylindres orientaux au cabinet royal des médailles à La Haye. La Haye, Imprimerie d’État, 1952.Octavo. Pp. 39. Plus 5 plates bound at end. In fine condition.
- - First edition. Scarce.
€ 80 --
Librarium Fine Books offers fine antiquarian, rare, and out-of-print books and prints on Military History, Militaria, War & Revolution, Tactics, Military Dress & Accouterments. Librarium Fine Books offers fine studies of the Holy Land and Palestine, with emphasis on illustrated works and travelogues of early travellers to the Holy Land, pilgrims, and researchers. Librarium Fine Books stocks a select list of books on History of Economic Thought, the Theory & History of Economics. Librarium Fine Books offers also books on Politics, International Relations, European History. Librarium Fine Books is a Registered Antiquarian Booksellers Business, entered in the Register of Companies at the Chamber of Commerce, The Hague. Librarium Fine Books has business terms which conform to the Trade Conditions of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of the Netherlands. Librarium Fine Books endorses the Code of Ethics of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Librarium Fine Books issues periodically printed subject-catalogues and book-lists which can be obtained, free of charge, upon request. You may contact us at: info@librarium.nl. Our spacious Book Room at the newly renovated 19th- Century Concordia Gebouw, situated at the old centre of The Hague, is opened for visitors by appointment. We sell and buy internationally.
