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A unique work, 1977, acrylic on paper, signed and dated 'Frankenthaler '77' in pencil, 61 x 99 cm. (24 x 39 in.) Helen Frankenthaler came of age in the midst of the avant-garde art scene in New York in the 1950s. From an early age she had a profound interest in understanding how painting worked and delighted in deconstructing Old Masters, creating her own lyrical abstract responses to them. Frankenthaler became a leading member of the second generation Abstract-Expressionists and although influenced by first generation artists like Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and most significantly, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), her own painterly style was a departure from theirs, expanding the possibilities of abstraction and eventually transitioning into Colour Field painting. Orient Express #6 is exemplary of her individual approach to painting with the use of thinned paint applied to pastel coloured paper from all sides to create floating fields of colour with interjections of bright pigments and open surface space.

Folio (422 x 528 cm). Lithogr. t. p. and 60 lithogr. plates, all in original hand colour, captions often raised in gilt. With 10 leaves of letterpress text. 10 instalments in the original printed wrappers as issued. Stored in contemporary green half calf with giltstamped spine and cover label. Ties. - (Includes): Die Uebergangsländer von Asien und Afrika, begreifend: Arabien nebst Mesopotamien und Syrien und das Nilgebiet. Munich, C. Wenng, 1845. Engraved map with contemporary border colour. 640 x 544 mm. Scale 1:7,000,000. Only edition of the rare variant with all the plates and in their splendid original colour: the personal copy of Duke Maximilian in Bavaria. "Published in ten parts. The plates show costume of the period and also that of earlier times, taken from paintings" (Hiler). The picturesque views, which include Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, La Valletta, Luxor, and Thebes, genre scenes and landscapes, are all framed within a decorative border and arranged as a small painting. The Nuremberg artist Mayr, especially well-known for his depictions of battles scenes and horses, was personal painter to Duke Maximilian, whom he accompanied on his 1838 journey of the Orient. The group had departed from Munich on January 20 with a small entourage, travelling via Venice, Korfu, Patras, Athens, Alexandria, and Cairo to the Holy Land. They returned to Munich after eight months on 17 September 1838; the following year, Maximilian was made honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. - Some foxing to letterpress explanatory text, plates beautifully preserved with only the backing paper showing occasional duststaining. From the library of Duke Maximilian at Tegernsee Castle, retaining the original shelfmark label on the spine. - Includes the extremely rare map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East which was published only in 1845, at the instigation of the naturalist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860) and the geologist Joseph von Russegger (1802-63), to satisfy this frequently noted lack in Mayr's production (some foxing, but also finely preserved). - Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 26. Gay 90 (only 36 plates). Lipperheide Ma 22 (= 1589). Hiler 578. Tobler 161. Graesse IV, 457. Engelmann 124. Kainbacher 265 ("a rarity"). Thieme/Becker XXIV, 477. Nagler VIII, 498f. ("highly memorable drawings"). ADB XXI, 139ff. Not in Blackmer or Abbey (Travel). Not in Colas.

Folio (422 x 528 cm). Lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates, all in original hand colour, captions often raised in gilt. With 10 leaves of letterpress text. Half calf with giltstamped spine. (Includes): Die Uebergangsländer von Asien und Afrika, begreifend: Arabien nebst Mesopotamien und Syrien und das Nilgebiet. Munich, C. Wenng, 1845. Engraved map with contemporary border colour. 640 x 544 mm. Scale 1:7,000,000. Only edition of the rare variant with all the plates and in their splendid original colour: "Published in ten parts. The plates show costume of the period and also that of earlier times, taken from paintings" (Hiler). The picturesque views, which include Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, La Valletta, Luxor, and Thebes, genre scenes and landscapes, are all framed within a decorative border and arranged as a small painting. The Nuremberg artist Mayr, known especially for his depictions of battle scenes and horses, was personal painter to Duke Maximilian, whom he accompanied on his 1838 journey of the Orient. The group had departed from Munich on January 20 with a small entourage, travelling via Venice, Korfu, Patras, Athens, Alexandria, and Cairo to the Holy Land. They returned to Munich after eight months on 17 September 1838; the following year, Maximilian was made honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. - Some foxing, otherwise splendidly preserved. Includes the extremely rare map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East which was published only in 1845, at the instigation of the naturalist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860) and the geologist Joseph von Russegger (1802-63), to satisfy this frequently noted lack in Mayr's production (some foxing, but also finely preserved). - Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 26. Gay 90 (only 36 plates). Lipperheide Ma 22 (= 1589). Hiler 578. Tobler 161. Graesse IV, 457. Engelmann 124. Kainbacher 265 ("a rarity"). Thieme/Becker XXIV, 477. Nagler VIII, 498f. ("highly memorable drawings"). ADB XXI, 139ff. Not in Blackmer or Abbey (Travel). Not in Colas.

Imperial folio (360 x 490 mm). In the two original, matching decorative portfolios. Half cloth, boards with illustrated lithogr. title, inside covers and flaps with ornamental decoration printed in gold, green and blue. Green ties. I: 12 pp. 36 lithogr. plates in colour (of which 4 are double-page). II: 12 pp. 54 plates in colour (of which 2 are printed in gold on blue paper and 8 double-page sized). First edition of both parts, complete and not listed thus in library catalogues or auction records of the last decades. The first part was considered lost; indeed, its very existence was doubted ("apparently the first part was never published", Atabey Sale, Sotheby's 29 May 2002, lot 990, the second part alone fetching £22,000). Contains a finely chromolithographed selection of plates illustrating Islamic architecture and architectural details drawn from various mosques and numerous examples of ornamental decoration taken from Islamic fayences. - Some staining to upper covers of both portfolios; outer cloth of spines restored; mild foxing to margins of a few plates in part II; otherwise, plates clean and in good condition. - Atabey 1015 (part 2 only). Not in Blackmer.

Oblong folio (498 x 370 mm). Lithographed title-page, 29 chromolithographed plates, protected by tissue guards. Original green cloth with blind-ruled and ornamental borders to both covers and gilt Tughra of Sultan Abdulmejid I to the upper cover. First edition, second issue. - Complete suite comprising 29 chromolithographs with captions in French and English, depicting life scenes and views of Istanbul: a druggist's shop, Turkish ladies walking, a guard house, carriage, silk bazar, sweetmeat shop, water carrier, the Bosporus, a coffee house, whirling dervishes, etc. The Maltese painter Preziosi (1816-82) is known for his watercolours and prints of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and Romania. In 1842 he moved to Constantinople, where he remained until his death. - Some foxing, more extensive on title-page. Covers slightly rubbed, but generally in fine condition. - Provenance: The title-page bears a handwritten inscription in French from Catinca Nico de Catargi, a member of the notable Wallachian family Catargiu, to "la Comtesse Han" (i.e., the German writer Ida Countess von Hahn-Hahn, 1805-80), dated 16 April 1865. - Atabey 999. OCLC 70296476. Cf. Blackmer 1353 (1865 ed.); Colas 2422 (1858 ed.).

Second edition, folio (58 x 43.5 cm.), pictorial lithographed title printed in sepia, 28 chromo-lithographed plates, table of contents at end, original cloth gilt, spine faded, a very good example. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the city and its people in their distinctive costumes and attitudes was to be the focus for his artistic career thereafter. In the 1850s he worked for the Illustrated London News, Preziosi was invited in 1866 to paint the official portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz for the Turkish Pavilion of the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris. During his time in Constantinople which he made his home, Preziosi was the most popular painter in the city. Preziosi's gift for depicting people and costume, and free flowing lines, along with attention to small details, make his work particularly appealing, and inspired a school of followers. Blackmer 1353; cf. Atabey 999; Colas 2422.

[2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp.Ad 1: first edition of the account of Cailliaud's travels in the Oasis of Thebes and his expedition to locate the ancient emerald mines of the Red Sea coast. Together with an account of Drovetti's discovery of the Oasis of Dakel. The plates include a map of the Eastern Desert ("Déserts fréquentés par les Arabes A'babdeh") and plans and beautiful views of antiquities discovered.Ad 2: after Cailliaud returned to Paris in 1819 he went back to Egypt on an official mission to continue the exploration of Egypt and its monuments in areas where Napoleon's scholars had been unable to penetrate. He set out on a journey to the oasis of Siwa, where he studied the temple of Umm al-Ibeida. Afterwards he joined up with Drovetti, who was part of the Hasan Bey expedition, a military expedition to get control over the inhabitants of Siwa. The plates include a map of the Siwa Desert and plans and beautiful views of antiquities discovered.The journals and notes of Cailliaud and Drovetti were edited and published by Edme-François Jomard.Some foxing, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding also very good.l Howgego, 1800-1850, C1; ad 1: Blackmer 268; cf. Gay 1967 (1822 ed.); Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 113 (1822 ed.); not in Atabey; ad 2: Gay 2515; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 113.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 8 Blatt, 487 S., 27 Blatt, 1 unbedrucktes Blatt. Alter Pergamentband mit umgeschlagenen Vorderkanten. 4 Teile in einem Band. Mit 2 Titelvignetten in Holzschnitt und 42 ganzseitigen Pflanzenholzschnitten. Deutschsprachige Beschreibung von Rauwolfs Reise ins Heilige Land und den Vorderen Orient mit zahlreichen authentischen und zuverlässigen Beobachtungen. Graesse VI, 39; Brunet IV, 1122f.; Pritzel 7430; VD16: R 431; Short-Title Catalogue of German Books in the British Museum, p. 727. Die hier vorliegende zweite Auflage enthält erstmals den wichtigen vierten Teil mit den Pflanzenholzschnitten zuvor teils unbekannter orientalischer Gewächse (Nissen: Die botanische Buchillustration, Nr. 1587). Dem Autor zu Ehren wurde später die Gattung "Rauvolfia" der Pflanzenfamilie der Hundsgiftgewächse (Apocynaceae) benannt. "Mit besonderer Vorliebe hat Rauwolf alle medicinischen Dinge, Krankheiten, Heilmittel, Bäder, Speisen und Getränke und alle Industrien besprochen, nicht ohne daß durch Leichtgläubigkeit, wie sie der Zeit gegenüber den Erzählungen von fremden Ländern eigen war, auch manches Fabelhafte (s. die Schilderung des Greifes im 8. Capitel des 2. Buches) mit unterläuft. Rauwolf muß ein genaues Tagebuch geführt haben, er würde sonst nicht im Stande gewesen sein, eine solche Fülle einzelner genauer Angaben zu bieten" (F. Ratzel in ADB 27). In der Schilderung seiner dramatisch verlaufenen Reise gibt der Autor außerdem die erste Beschreibung des Kaffees und eines Kaffeehauses: "Under andern habens ein gut getränck / welliches sie hoch halten / Chaube von jnen genennet / das ist gar nahe wie Dinten so schwartz / vnnd in gebresten / sonderlich des Magens / gar dienstlich. Dises pflegens am Morgen frü / auch an offnen orten / vor jedermenigklich one alles abscheuen zutrincken / auß jrdinen vnnd Porcellanischen tieffen Schälein / so warm / alß sies können erleiden." (S. 102f.). Zwischen die 4 Teile des Textes hat der Buchbinder jeweils mehrere unbedruckte Leerseiten eingebunden. Der Vorderdeckel innen und das Titelblatt am oberen Rand mit handschriftlichen Vermerken von alter Hand zur Bedeutung des Buches. Der Rücken nachgedunkelt und der Vorderdeckel etwas fleckig, insgesamt handelt es sich jedoch um ein ordentliches, breitrandiges und weitgehend fleckenfreies Exemplar.

Oblong 1mo (48 x 63.5 cm). With 6 tinted lithographed plates by Frisch, with captions in German and French below. The first three in the deluxe issue printed by B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main, the last three in the regular issue printed by G. Küstner. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper. Extremely rare set of six beautifully lithographed plates showing scenes made on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms, by Friedrich Frisch (1813-86), court painter in Darmstadt. In 1840/41 he accompanied the Wuerttemberg chamberlain Wilhelm von Taubenheim (1805-94), the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-77) and the physician Karl Bopp (1817-47) on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms Weil and Marbach. They first went to Constantinople, where they were welcomed by Sultan Abdülmecid I, continuing to Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem. In Jaffa they met the Ottoman general Ibrahim Pasha. - The set was originally published in two instalments and available in two issues: a deluxe issue printed with a larger tinted background with white highlights (plates 1-3) and a regular issue (plates 4-6). They show: (1) a rider on a dromedary with a letter to Ibrahim Pasha; (2) the camp of Ibrahim Pasha; (3) three Bedouin horse riders; (4) another scene with Bedouins; (5) the group's passage through the Balkans; and (6) a Turkish courier. All views, except the first, include horses. - Hackländer wrote a short text to accompany the set, but it is not included. Two plates slightly soiled in the margins and some tiny tears along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition. - Engelmann, Bibliotheca geographica, p. 123. Thieme/Becker XII, p. 491. Not in Dejager; Huth; Mennessier de la Lance; Podeschi. WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 with text only).

Extremely rare set of 6 beautifully lithographed plates showing scenes made on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms Weil and Marbach, by Friedrich Frisch (1813-1886), court painter in Darmstadt. In 1840/41 he accompanied the Wuerttemberg chamberlain Wilhelm von Taubenheim (1805-1894), the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-1877) and the doctor Karl Bopp (1817-1847) on this journey, stopping first at Constantinople, where Sultan Abdülmecid I welcomed them. They continued to Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem, and in Jaffa they met the Ottoman general Ibrahim Pasha.The set was originally published in two instalments and available in two issues: a deluxe issue printed with a larger tinted background with white highlights (plates 1-3) and a regular issue (plates 4-6). They show: (1) a rider on a dromedary with a letter to Ibrahim Pasha; (2) the camp of Ibrahim Pasha; (3) three Bedouin horse riders; (4) another scene with Bedouins; (5) the group's passage through the Balkans; and (6) a Turkish courier. All views, except the first, include horses. Hackländer wrote a short text to accompany the set, but it is not included. Two plates slightly soiled in the margins and some tiny tears along the extremities, otherwise in very good condition.l Engelmann, Bibliotheca geographica, p. 123; Thieme & Becker XII, p. 491; WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 with text only); not in Dejager; Huth; Mennessier de la Lance; Podeschi.

Ingolstadt, David Sartorium 1586. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo. (6 2/8 x 3 6/8 inches). Title-page printed in red and black, (14), 191 pp., 524, (1) pp. (some marginal and persistant worming to early gatherings). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, brass catches, remnants of clasps (a bit rubbed). Selten! ? Erste deutsche Ausgabe. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Teil 1 mit 191 Seiten Umfang trägt auch die Seitenüberschrift: ?Bericht von Bekehrung der Indianer im Orient.? Allerdings werden nicht nur religiöse Themen angeschnitten, sondern Städte und Länder, sowie deren Menschen und Gebräuche beschrieben. Berichte gibt es zu Äthiopien, Amboinum (bei Malacca), Bazainum, Cochinum, Commorinu, Coulanum (Indien), Damanum, Goa, Inhambanum (Ostafrika), Macazar, Malaca, Malucum, Manomotapa (Ostafrika), Mauri, Ormutziu (Hormuz), Socotora (Sokotra), Solor und Tanaa. Teil 2 mit 524 Seiten enthält detailreiche Berichte und Sendbriefe aus Japan. Die Autoren Cosmus Turrianus, Emmanuel Nobrega, Ferdinandus Mendozius, Franciscus Xaverius, Gaspas Belga, Henricus Henriquez, Ioannes de Beyra, Ioannes Ferdinandez, Paulus Iaponius, and Petrus Alcaceuas berichten über die Menschen und die Kultur in Japan. Die Missionare berichten auch über den Buddhismus und finden durchaus Parallelen zu christlichen Religion, wie Himmel und Hölle. Sie beschreiben die Gewohnheiten und Sitten der Völker, sowie über den Handel. First edition in German, first translated from the manuscript entitled 'Historia dos Missiones de Oriente ate o anno de 1568' by the Portuguese Jesuit historian, Manuel Acosta (1540-1604), who taught at Coimbra, then translated into Latin and augmented by Maffei (1533-1603) and published in 1571. This edition has been translated into German by Johann Georg Götze, and includes accounts of Jesuit Missions in Etheopia, the East Indies, Goa, but mainly Japan, by Cosmus Turrianus, Emmanuel Nobrega, Ferdinandus Mendozius, Franciscus Xaverius, Gaspas Belga, Henricus Henriquez, Ioannes de Beyra, Ioannes Ferdinandez, Paulus Iaponius, and Petrus Alcaceuas. Cordier Japonica 60; Sabin 43781. Provenance: contemporary ownerhip inscription on the title-page, and one or two marginal notes; presented to the Long Island Historical Society by J. Carson Brevoort, with their bookplate recording the bequest on the front paste-down; with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz, on the front paste-down, his sale Important Voyages and Travels, 9th December 2009, lot 140.

Condition: Fine. Size: A4 size Number of books: 53 books.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First. First Paris edition; second edition. Ten volumes. Paris: Chez Gabriel Amaulry, 1723. Duodecimo (6 3/8" x 3 11/16", 162mm x 94mm). [Full collation available.] Title-pages in red-and-black. With 81 plates: an engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding two-leaf letterpress tables and 77 engraved plates, of which 30 are folding. The edition is sufficiently rare that no copy has been found for collation. Bound in contemporary red morocco. On the boards, a triple gilt fillet border with gilt bull's-eyes at the corners. Central (effaced, but once gilt) supralibros with a cipher surmounted by a ducal coronet. On the spine, five raised bands with dashed gilt roll. In the panels, a field of gilt scrollwork with gilt annulets. Title gilt to black morocco on the second panel. Number gilt to black morocco in the third panel. Dashed gilt roll to head- and tail-pieces. On the edges of the boards, a single gilt fillet. Gilt inside dentelle. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt; concealed marbling to the fore and bottom-edges. With two silk marking ribbons: orange and turquoise. The supralibros of each volume have been effaced, doubtless during the Revolution. A very little rubbing to the extremities, with little patches of wear to the fore-corners of voll. II, IV and VII. In vol. VII, preface mis-bound after the first two quires. Internally quite fresh, with the most occasional light foxing. Excellent margins, with several preserved fore-deckles and 25mm or more preserved at the lower edge. An utterly lovely set, the very picture of benign neglect. Jean Chardin (1643-1713) was a jeweler's son who first arrived in Persia in 1666, sojourned to India and returned to Paris in 1669; he returned and stayed from 1673 to 1677. There Shah Abbas II made him his agent for purchasing jewels; after Abbas's death he was embedded in the court of Suleiman I, having been present at his coronation. This gave him not only access to the highest circles of Persian society but also to the country and its monuments. Shortly after his return to France he fled, as he was Huguenot, to England, where he was made court jeweler and knighted by Charles II (such that he is known sometimes as Sir John Chardin). He was sent eventually as a trade agent to Holland, and so the first complete edition (early portions appeared as early as 1686) was published in Amsterdam in 1711 (as a quarto and as a duodecimo, as here; Brunet dismisses the 1723 editions as "mal exécutée," though clearly he never saw our magnificent copy). Although French travelers had been in Iran from the beginning of the XVIIc (Henri de Feynes passed through en route to China), Chardin's account is easily the most complete of the period. He also learned Persian, and so his explorations of texts (including several plates of facsimile text in vol. IX) are important integrations of primary Persian (including Avestan) source material into the Western scholarly world. His curiosity, true of the best travelers, was essentially boundless. History and modernity commingle, customs and manners as much the subject of his inquiry as the number of houses in a particular town or the nature of Persian religion or literature or music. Indeed, the Voyages is encyclopedic rather than plainly narrative. The set is rather exquisite, from its restrained integration of arabesques to the spine to the concealed edge-marbling of the text-block. The effacing of the supralibros is rather a shame, if at least a confirmation that the set was bound before the Revolution. The coronet is a duke's, the cipher based perhaps on the letter L; more than that one cannot say. Brunet I:1801-1802.

Couverture rigide. - Ferdinand Sartorius, Paris 1848, 13,5x22cm, relié. - Édition originale rare et très recherchée selon Clouzot. Précieux exemplaire avec la page de titre à la bonne date de 1848. Cet ouvrage est le premier publié relatant le séjour de Nerval en Égypte et sera suivi la même année des Femmes du Liban. Ces deux textes principaux formeront en 1851 le célèbre Voyage en Orient. Exemplaire exempt de rousseur, quelques feuillets comportent des marques de pliure angulaire. Reliure en demi chagrin vert, dos, à quatre nerfs réhaussés de pointillés dorés, orné de doubles caissons et fleurons dorés, de filets noirs, quelques traces de frottement, plats de papier à la cuve, deux coins restaurés, contreplats et gardes de papier jaspé, charmante reliure de l'époque. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'un reçu d'une somme de soixante-quinze francs signé par Gérard de Nerval et monté sur onglet. Extrêmement rare en belle condition, toujours selon Clouzot. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Ferdinand Sartorius | Paris 1848 | 13,5 x 22 cm | one volume bound in shagreen & one note First edition, rare and very sought after according to Clouzot. Precious copy with the title page having the correct date of 1848. This work is the first to be published recounting Nerval's stay in Egypt and will be followed the same year by Femmes du Liban. These two main texts will form the famous Voyage en Orient in 1851. Copy free from foxing, some leaves have angular fold marks. Binding in half green shagreen, spine in four compartments enhanced with gilt stipples, decorated with double gilt spine panels and fleurons, black fillets, some signs of rubbing, marbled paper boards, two corners restored, sprinkled paper endpapers, charming contemporary binding. Our copy is enriched with a receipt for the amount of seventy-five francs signed by Gérard de Nerval and mounted on the guards. Extremely rare in good condition according to Clouzot.

N/A. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Engraving with original line hand-color. Circa 1700. Image size: 22 x 32". Frame size: 30 1/4 x 40 3/4". Inventory#: p1988pfat. 0.

Kein Einband. Condition: Gut. CARTE PARTICULIERE DE VIRGINIE, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIE, La Nouvelle JARSEY Orient et Occidentale Publisher Pierre Mortier (1661-1711) Printed on thick paper, in very good condition, original publisher colours in outline. only little brownish, size of the sheet: 62 x 98 cm. The scale in the lower left corner reads: "Echelle/ Lieues de France et d'Angleterre./ Lieues d'Allemagne./ Lieues d'Espagne et de Portugal./ A Amsterdam Chez P. Mortier, Avec Privilege." This magnificent chart may have been intended more as a showpiece than as a working chart. This map appeared in Pierre Mortier's "Suite de Neptune Francois," 1700. This example is the first state of this map. This map is thought to be the work of either Nicholas Sanson or A.H. Jaillot. It is largely based on a very important and rare map of Virginia and Maryland by Augustine Herrman, published in 1673. The chart includes soundings in the bays and rivers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 49 x 33.5 cm. approx. Premiere Partie: Vieilles Faiences Turques en Asie-Mineure et a Constantinople,avec introduction et descriptions explicatives par Charles Wulzinger: 27 pp. including a bibliography + 40 colour plates (of which 4 are double-page), cloth backed decorative board, cover slightly soiled & rubbed at corners, new spine / Part II: 11 pp. [1], 11 pp, chromolithograph title page and leaf of dedication, 52 loose plates numbered 1-60, of which 9 on double page, numerous figures in text, original cover tipped-in on front & loer cover, decorative boards chromolithographed in green and gold, biblio, book plate of Comte Chandron de Briailles verso front endpaper, cover slightly rubbed round edges, otherwise a beautiful set published 1923-1924. First edition of both parts, complete and not listed thus in library catalogues. Until recently auction records used to consider the first part as being lost. A Part one edition was first located and listed by Librairie Soustiel, Paris. It illustrate numerous samples of Islamic ceramics and their different decoration, ornament and colour. A very attractive set illustrated with finely chromolithographed selection of plates. The second part depict Islamic architecture and architectural details drawn from numerous mosques including Konia, Brousse, Sivas, Constantinople, Yenicheir, and Iznik. It also depict Islamic calligraphy, domes on two spread sheets, doors, windows, wood carvings, and ornaments. Bibliographic References for part II only as follows: Atabey 1015; Creswell 445; not in Blackmer. #22477.

First American edition of this Hercule Poirot mystery, published in the UK under the title Murder on the Orient Express. Publisher's original tan cloth with titles in black to the upper board and spine, in the Clayton Rawson illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers, fore-edge untrimmed. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with minor darkening to the extremities and a couple of mild production creases to the upper board. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that has tiny chips at the head of the spine and is otherwise bright and without fading or tears. A scarce title in dustwrapper, especially so in this, original condition. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Folio. (8), 168, (2) pp. With 37 etched plates. Contemporary full calf with richly gilt front cover, label to spine, and gilt edges. First (and only) edition in French. - Archduke Rudolf set out on his tour of the Middle East in 1881, travelling first from Vienna to Miramar, Corfu, Alexandria, and Cairo. From there the group sailed up the Nile to Aswan and Memphis, then journeyed on to Port Said, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Holy Land, returning to Vienna from Haifa via Cattaro (Kotor), Ragusa (Dubrovnik), and Trieste. This is an outstanding and unique copy in a sumptous Viennese binding, in immaculate condition, was created for Anton Ritter von Beck (1812-95), then director of the government's Imperial printing office in Vienna. With a long inscription by the translator, the Baron de Montandin, to "Monsieur le Hof Rath Anton Chevalier Von Beck" on the flyleaf, dated Vienna, 28 February 1885. Some slight staining to the guards of the etchings, otherwise a very clean copy. - Hamann, Habsburger-Lexikon 415 ff. ÖBL IX, 315 ff. Wurzbach VII, 145 ff.

8vo. (37)-84 pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title to upper cover and spine. Endpapers marbled. All edges gilt. Only edition. - Rare account, by the French physician Paul Aubry, of Turkish military and civil hospitals, describing in detail their design and medical capacities, including accurate numbers of beds. An exceptional documentation of health care infrastructure in the Ottoman Empire, mentioning the Yildiz Ambulance, the Haider Pacha military hospital and the Haseki Hospital in Istanbul. The present offprint also contains a medical bibliography of works in German, Danish and Swedish published in 1886-87 as well as several abstracts, including an article on gonorrhoea by the Ottowa physician Coyteux Prévost, published in the "Union Médicale du Canada" in the same year. - Inscribed and signed by Aubry to Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) on the front flyleaf. Binding slightly rubbed. Small marginal tears to pp. 39-42; last few pages somewhat creased. Library stamps erased from flyleaf and first page. From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to exert effective contol over the fracturing state and also remembered as a poet, translator and one of the dynasty's greatest bibliophiles. While his passion for books is memorialized by the many precious donations he gave to libraries all over the world and which mostly have remained intact to this day (including the 400-volume "Abdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials" gifted to the Library of Congress), his own library was dispersed in the years following his deposition in 1909: books were removed to other palaces and even sold to Western collectors, the greatest part of his collection is today preserved in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. - U.S. Army, Index-catalogue of the library of the surgeon-general's office VII, 393. Wohnlich-Despaigne, Les Historiens Français de la Médecine au XIXe Siècle 59.

[8], 168, [2] pp.First (and only) edition in French. Archduke Rudolf set out on his tour of the Middle East in 1881, travelling first from Vienna to Miramar, Corfu, Alexandria and Cairo. From there the group sailed up the Nile to Aswan and Memphis, then journeyed on to Port Said, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Holy Land, returning to Vienna from Haifa via Cattaro (Kotor), Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Trieste. This outstanding and unique copy in a sumptuous Viennese binding, in immaculate condition, was created for Anton Ritter von Beck (1812-95), then director of the government s Imperial printing office in Vienna.With a long inscription by the translator, the Baron de Montandin, to "Monsieur le Hof Rath Anton Chevalier Von Beck" on the flyleaf, dated Vienna, 28 February 1885. Some slight stains in the guards of the etchings, otherwise a very clean copy.l Hamann, Habsburger-Lexikon, pp. 415 ff.; ÖBL IX, pp. 315 ff.; Wurzbach VII, pp. 145 ff.

Edition : New Edition, Atlas volume rebacked tastefully in half calf, saving the original marbled boards. Decorative red and gilt centerpiece on upper board with gilt title. Ten 8vo (216x135mm) text volumes with full brown cloth boards. With black calf labels with gilt text. , Text is in French. This 1811 edition is based on Chardin?s classic account of life and society in Persia, complete with new plates, coincided with renewed French imperial ambitions, aimed at rivaling the British possessions in India. Chardin a Frenchman was the son of a jeweller. He set out in company with a Lyon merchant named Raisin in 1665 for Persia and India. After a highly successful journey, during which he had received the patronage of Shah Abbas II of Persia, he returned to France in 1670. He set out again for Persia in August 1671. This second journey was much more adventurous than the first and did not reach Isfahan till June 1673. In Isfahan he was appointed the Shah's personal jeweler by Suleiman I. During this time he was allowed to engage in an extended tour through much of Persia. Through the course of this tour Chardain was able to study the culture, government and religion in detail. After four years spent in research throughout Persia, he again visited India, and returned to Europe. In 1681, he settled in London, where he was appointed jeweller to the court of Charles II. Sir John Chardin's narrative has received the highest praise from the most competent authorities for its fullness, comprehensiveness and fidelity; and it furnished Montesquieu, Rousseau, Gibbon and Helvétius with most important material., Size : Folio (338x510mm). , The atlas volume is illustrated with 65 sheets bearing 86 engravings which include: a frontis portrait of Chardin, two maps, of which one is a folding map of Persia and the other a map of the Black Sea, 9 additional folded sheets, 18 double plate sheets, 1 quadruple plate sheet, plus single plate sheets. , Volume : 11 vol.(10 text-1 atlas), References : Weber 381; Graesse II 13; Wilson 40 A fine example of this work. Plates and text are in very good condition; generally clean and crisp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In French. Short description: Prince E.E. Ukhtomsky. Voyage en Orient de son altesse imperiale le cesarevitch. [Voyage to the Orient of His Imperial Highness Caesarevich.] Greece, Egypt, India, 1890 - 1891. Indo-China, China-Japan, Siberia, 1890 - 1891. Paris, Charles Delagrave, 1893-1898. Two large volumes, full green percaline, ornate sides and back, gilt top. Publisher's binding. Translation in French by Louis Leger. Illustrated with 178+122 compositions by N.N. Karazine. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000472 kn_nat.

Folio. (23 x 15 1/2 inches). 40 chromolithographic plates. Unpaginated, 248 pp. Contemporary Morocco-backed mottled boards, spine with raised bands in six gilt-tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. A rare and gorgeously illustrated folio portraying 40 different species of Karl Kotschy's especial passion: oak trees. OCLC finds but one copy. Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was a botanist and explorer who was born in Austrian Silesia in what is today Poland. He was the son of Protestant theologian Carl Friedrich Kotschy (1789-1856), who was also a botanist. Kotschy the younger initially studied theology, like his father, before being asked to join the Austrian mining engineer Joseph von Russeger's geological expedition for the Egyptian government through the Middle East and North Africa over the course of 1836-1838. This expedition spurred further travels which lasted through 1862, including to Cyprus, Ethiopia, Syria, Kurdistan, Palestine, and Turkey, during which Kotschy collected over 300,000 plant specimens. On these travels he learned the Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Greek languages. In 1847, Kotschy started working at the Imperial Cabinet of Curiosities in Vienna, where he eventually became curator. The Kotschya genus of legumes, the lizard Cyrtopodion kotschyi, an orchid called Ophrys kotschyi, and the Crocus kotschyanus, are all named in Kotschy's honor. Kotschy wrote six botanical books between 1843 and 1867. This work describes forty species of European and Asian oak trees, a passion of Kotschy's, some of which were then new to science. Each of the forty species of oak has its own two page description, in both French and German, accompanied by a chromolithograph of the plant as it would appear in nature, and black and white illustrations of various aspects of the oak. Kotschy gives descriptions of each plant, its local usage and vernacular names, and indicates how it could perform in Western cultivation. The plates are by Carl Horegschj, a famous illustrator of the time in Vienna. Catalogue of the Collection of Books (1873), 190. Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (1917), 246. Stafleu TL2 3890.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Unpaginated, 200 phototyped views by F. and E. Thévoz, explanatory text by Philippe Bridel, each print accompanied by descriptive details opposite page, publisher's original plum-coloured percaline, title gilt on spines and upper covers, Ex-libris Fermaud, Bethel, Adelboden with their small stamp verso front endpapers, set in very good condition, 1888-89. Rare and fascinating early photographic work on Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Frédéric and his brother Ernest Thévoz, photographers from Geneva, travelled through Palestine in 1887 for 6 months. Descriptive text by Philippe Bridel, a pastor in Lausanne. The first volume goes from Jaffa to Jerusalem; the second, from Jerusalem to Hebron; the third, Samaria and the Sea Coast; the fourth, from Galilee to Lebanon. Very beautiful copies, whose 200 phototypes perfectly illustrate what Palestine was like at the time. The set is divided as follows: Volume I: De Jaffa a Jerusalem. Volume II: De Jerusalem a Hebron. Volume III: Samarie et Cote Maritime. Volume IV: Galillee et Liban #32172.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Chardin, Jean. Voyages de Monsieur le chevalier Chardin, en Perse et autres lieux de l Orient. Amsterdam, Jean-Louis de Lorme, 1711.  3 volumes in-4 de : I/(4) ff., 279 pp., 19 planches, (1) f. pour le frontispice ; II/ 454 pp., 16 planches ; III/ 254 pp., (13) ff. de table, 45 planches. Vélin à couture hollandaise de l époque, pièces de titre en maroquin brun, armoiries frappées or au centre des premiers plats, qq réparations marginales à 5 ff. sans atteinte au texte, infimes mouillures. Reliure de l époque. 234 X 190 mm. Première édition complète, en grande partie originale, de la meilleure description de la Perse du XVIIe siècle. Elle est illustrée d un superbe frontispice et de 78 belles planches et cartes dépliantes. Chadenat, 35 ; Brunet, I, 1802. « Le Voyage de Chardin en Perse est l un des voyages les plus intéressants publiés au XVIIIe siècle » (Brunet). La superbe illustration se compose  d un portrait frontispice en premier tirage par Thomassin daté 1710 et de 78 belles planches et cartes dépliantes gravées sur cuivre, ainsi que de 6 bandeaux gravés en tête des chapitres. Chardin était accompagné par un dessinateur, Grelot : Toutes les vues et scènes ont été réalisées d après nature. Jean Chardin (1643-1713) montra rapidement un goût prononcé pour les voyages. Il fit deux longs séjours au Moyen-Orient, de 1664 à 1670, puis de 1671 à 1677. En 1686, il publia à Londres le journal de son second voyage (dont Bayle fit un éloge appuyé), puis, en 1711, une édition plus complète qui comprend, outre le même journal, une présentation très fouillée de la Perse, avec des chapitres sur sa littérature, son histoire, sa religion et sa vie politique, une description particulière d Ispahan . Cette relation qu il fit de ses voyages reçut les éloges de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et de Voltaire et devint le livre de chevet de Montesquieu. Bel et précieux exemplaire de cette relation de voyages recherchée conservé dans son élégante reliure en vélin de l époque aux armes de Jean Van Volxem, échevin de Ruisbroek, en Flandres.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. Paris ,Imprimerie de L. Toinon et C ,1862 , in-folio (545x360) , sous portefeuille ,2ff.(faux-titre,titre)-V (avant-propos) -27pp. (explication , appendice) -20 planches (21) dont 4 en double pages et 9 en couleurs d époque , sous emboîtage moderne. rousseurs sur les planches en noir et blanc , mouillure angulaire au début et marginale en fin , petites déchirures en marge sur quelques feuillets , coin manquant faux-titre . RARISSIME deuxième partie de l ouvrage de Frédéric Cailliaud , imprimé 40 ans après par les soins de E. Fr. Jomard ,président de la Commission chargée de la rédaction et de la publication de la Description de l'Égypte,  qui considérait l oeuvre de Cailliaud comme une suite de la Description d Égypte , il s agit là de l explication des objets composant la collection rapportée par l auteur dont certains aidèrent Champollion à confirmer ses hypothèses sur les hiéroglyphes RARISSIME second part of the work of Frédéric Cailliaud, printed 40 years later by the care of E. Fr. Jomard, president of the Commission in charge of the drafting and publication of the Description of Egypt, which considered the work of Cailliaud as a continuation of the Description of Egypt, this is the explanation of the objects composing the collection reported by the author, some of which helped Champollion to confirm his hypotheses on the hieroglyphs.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Paris, Denys Horthemels, 1723 (tome 1), Amsterdam, Jean-Louis de Lorme, 1711 (les 9 autres tomes).10 tomes reliés en 11 volumes in-12 de :I/ (15) ff. avec le privilège, 254 pp., 1 portrait de l'auteur, 1 carte dépliante, 1 planche hors texte ;II/ 334 pp., 9 planches dépliantes;III/ 285 pp., 7 pl. dépl.;IV/ 280 pp., 6 pl. dépl.;V/ 312 pp., 4 pl. dépl. et 6 tableaux dépliants ;VI/ 328 pp., 5 pl. dépl.;VII/ 448 pp. ;VIII/ 255 pp., 16 pl. dépl.;IX/ (Volume de texte) 308 pp. / (Volume de planches) 29 pl. dépl. ;X/ 220 pp., (41) ff. de table.Seul le 1er volume est daté de 1723, les autres sont à la date de 1711. Très légère mouillure en tête du vol. 2, légère mouillure en marge int. du tome 3. Plein veau fauve écaille, triple filet doré autour des plats, dos à nerfs ornés de fleurons dorés à la toile d'araignée, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge et citron, filet doré sur les coupes, roulette intérieure dorée, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque.161 x 93 mm. --- Édition en grande partie originale, la première complète, de la meilleure description de la Perse du XVIIe siècle. Cette célèbre relation fut la première à fournir une connaissance exacte de l'état de cette région particulièrement à la mode au XVIIIe siècle.Brunet, I, 1802 ; Chadenat 547 ; Atabey 219. Pas dans Blackmer.« Ce voyage est un des plus intéressants que l'on ait publiés dans le siècle dernier. L'édition que nous citons est assez belle, et les exemplaires bien conditionnés en sont peu communs. » (Brunet)« Édition recherchée, ornée d'un portrait, d'une carte et de nombreuses figures repliées ». (Chadenat)Fils d'un bijoutier protestant de la place Dauphine à Paris, Jean Chardin (1643-1713) montra rapidement un goût prononcé pour les voyages, où se mêlaient curiosité des ailleurs et l'espoir d'y faire un fructueux commerce. Il fit deux longs séjours au Moyen-Orient. Le premier, de 1664 à 1670, le vit séjourner longtemps ? /// Paris, Denys Horthemels, 1723 (tome 1), Amsterdam, Jean-Louis de Lorme, 1711 (les 9 autres tomes).10 parts bound in 11 12mo volumes of:I/ (15) ll. with priviledge, 254 pp., 1 portrait of the author, 1 folding map, 1 plate;II/ 334 pp., 9 folding plates;III/ 285 pp. 7 fold. pl.;IV/ 280 pp. 6 fold. pl.;V/ 312 pp., 4 fold. pl. and 6 folding tables;VI/ 328 pp., 5 fold. pl.;VII/ 448 pp.;VIII/ 255 pp., 16 fold. pl.;IX/ (Volume of text) 308 pp. / (Volume of plates) 29 fold. pl.;X/ 20 pp., (41) ll. of table.Only the 1st volume is dated 1723, the others are dated 1711. Very slight waterstain at the head of vol. 2, slight waterstain in the inner margin of part 3. Full tawny mottled calf, triple gilt fillet around the covers, ribbed spines decorated with gilt cobwebs, lettering pieces in red and lemon yellow morocco, inner gilt border, red edges. Contemporary binding.161 x 93 mm. --- The first complete Edition, partly original, of the best description of Persia from the 17th century. This famous book of travels was the first to give an exact knowledge of the situation of this particularly popular region in the 18th century.Brunet, I, 1802 ; Chadenat 547 ; Atabey 219. Pas dans Blackmer.« This travel is one of the most interesting that was published during the last century. The edition we quote is quite beautiful, and the copies well bound are hard to find. » (Brunet)« A sought-after edition, illustrated with a portrait, a map and many folding illustrations. » (Chadenat) Son of a Protestant jeweler working on Place Dauphine in Paris, Jean Chardin (1643-1713) quickly showed a strong predilection for travels, where the attraction to new horizons combined with the hope of starting a profitable business. He took two long trips in Middle-East. During his first trip between 1664 and 1670, he long stayed in Isfahan, and was appointed as "the Shah's merchant". When he came back, he published a book of travels on Suleiman III's crowning (1671). His second trip to Middle-East t.

0. Quer-Folio. 10 Textblätter. Mit getöntem lithogr. Titel und 60 getönten lithogr. Tafeln(komplett), jeweils mit Seidenhemdchen OLwd., mit Goldprägung. Jede Lieferung mit einseitig bedrucktem Textblatt mit Inhaltsangabe (Deutsch und Französisch). Die Lithographien von F. Kaiser, gedruckt von Lacroix, dekotariv, ornamental eingefasst. 3-seitger Gold-Schnitt, Goldpräg. auf dem Deckel/Rücken, blindgepräg. Deckelornamentik, Einband mit Altersspuren, Ecken bestossen, Falz im oberen Drittel gebrochen, Textblätter/Tafeln leicht stockfleckig, kleiner Stempel auf Titellitho., die ersten 5 Tafeln leicht wasserrandig, insgesamt wohl erhaltenes, gutes Exemplar. Vues pittoresques de l'Orient recueillies dans le voyage de S. A. Monseigneur le Duc Maximilien de Bavière en Nubie, en Egypte, en Palestine, en Syrie et à Malta en MDCCCXXXVIII et publiées par Henri de Mayr. Sprache: Deutschu 5,000 gr.

An attractive copy of one of the best editions, celebrated for being the most complete and with the largest number of illustrations - here in excellent, strong impressions - of the "very adventurous account of his journey to the Far East" by the young German envoy Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo (van Strien, p. 30). Mandelslo (1616-1644) was a friend of the Dutch geographer Adam Olearius, "rightly considered one of the most versatile scholars and travellers of his time" (Speake, p. 885), and was a former page of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. "Together Mandelslo and Olearius were sent by the Duke on an embassy [1633-4] to the Russian Czar and to the Shah of Persia [for the purpose of initiating trade relations with Russia, Tartary and Persia]. Mandelslo was authorized to leave the embassy in Persia and to continue his travels to the Far East. He went to Surat, Agra, and Goa in India, where he received great kindness from the English merchants, and he also visited Ceylon. He gives long accounts of the other parts of the Far East, which he did not visit personally. His return was made to England by sea via the Cape of Good Hope, which he visited in 1639" (Hill). Following his early death at Paris during a smallpox epidemic, Mandelslo's itinerary was found among his effects. "Eventually Olearius edited it and added materials to it as he prepared it for publication. Certain writings by Mandelslo began to appear as early as 1645 as supplements to the report of Olearius on the embassy to Muscovy and Persia. In 1658 a greatly expanded version of this work was printed in Schleswig which includes at its end Mandelslo's augmented narrative with a separate title page. Dutch, French, and English translations quickly appeared. Like Olearius, the French translator Abraham de Wicquefort unhesitatingly added descriptive material from other writers, often without acknowledging fully the debt so incurred" (Lach and Van Kley, pp. 667-8). The present edition is a reissue, with a new title page, of the Leiden edition of 1719 published by Van der Aa; Cox notes that "the French translation of 1719 contain[s] material not found in the original German". The superb plates include views and plans, inter alia, of Cape Town, Goa, Surat, Visapur, Jedo (Tokyo), St. Helena, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, Java, the Dutch attack on Palembang (Philippines) in 1659, Bantam (Java), Makassar (South Sulawesi), Ambon Island (Maluku Islands, Indonesia), "Congo and Angola", the coast of Guinea, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Antwerp. Hill 1073; Howgego I M38; E. G. Cox, A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1949; Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe III: A Century of Advance, 1998; Jennifer Speake, ed., Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopaedia, II, 2003; C. D. van Strien, British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces, 1993. 2 parts in one volume, quarto (313 x 201 mm). Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine, early 19th century red and green twin labels, sides with border of blind triple fillets, paired gilt fillet edge roll, swirled Nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, 44 plans, views and maps (some double-page and folding) and 19 engraved illustrations in text; titles printed in red and black, letterpress printed in double columns. Binding sometime skilfully refurbished, some light browning and very occasional foxing. A handsome copy, complete with all illustrations and half-titles.