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Published by [Paris], J. Blondeau et Antonin, 1859-1860. 1860
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Add to basketOblong folio (593 × 460 mm). 6 albums in 5 volumes containing 218 (of 222) albumen prints from waxed paper negatives, including 23 panoramas, all mounted on cardboard on guards. Lithographed title pages. Publisher's uniform red cloth, gilt lettered upper boards, raised band spines. The exceptional, near-complete suite of Louis d…e Clercq's renowned photographs of the Middle East and Muslim Spain in five magnificent, original albums, all uniformly bound, rarely preserved as a set. This is without question the pre-eminent 19th century photobook of the Middle East. - The sequence is organized by region into six parts across five albums: two devoted to Syria; one to Palestine and Jerusalem; one to Egypt; and one to Spain. Vantage point city panoramas and close studies of monuments together document the mid 19th century state of sites later altered or lost. Among the places recorded are Tripoli, Beirut and Baalbek, Damascus, Nazareth, Jerusalem's churches, mosques and gates, Aswan and Karnak, and in Spain Cádiz, Seville and the Alhambra at Granada. - "Louis de Clercq's six-volume 'Voyage en orient' (Journey to the Orient) [.] can be said to be the culmination of a tradition, the last of the 'first generation' of travel photobooks, that is, the 'amateur' generation [.] Those who know these rare volumes [.] regard [de Clercq] as at least the equal of Du Camp, Salzmann, Teynard and other French pioneers of Middle Eastern photography using the paper negative. His vision is characterized by its precision and assuredness [.] And he stands out in another respect: he was an excellent maker of photographic panoramas. Using two or three negatives, he solved both the aesthetic and technical problems of the panorama, and his combination prints are remarkably seamless and artfully constructed" (Parr/Badger, p. 27). - This sumptuous set, in beautiful condition, is of the utmost rarity. Only fifty copies were produced under the direction of the artist, not for sale but to be presented to friends, acquaintances, and dignitaries. Several volumes have since been dispersed into single photographs which have repeatedly appeared at Sotheby's, Ader, and other auction houses. Complete institutional holdings of all five albums are scarce, and surviving market sets are exceptional. - Lacking four photographs: "Kalaat-el-Hosn vue générale" (vol. 2), "Jérusalem Mosquée d'Omar" (vol. 3, pl. 11), "Philae cour intérieure" (vol. 5, pl. 3), "Séville clocher de la cathédrale" (vol. 6, pl. 7), as well as the title-page of "Voyage en Espagne". Some plates detached; one photograph cut down with trimmed margins. Scattered foxing (chiefly to titles) and occasional marginal handling; binding rubbed and scratched, spine-ends and corners worn. - El-Hage, Damascus. A Photographic Journey 1840-1918, pp. 42f. and passim. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 27. Mayer, Louis De Clercq. S. Aubenas, La photographie en 100 chefs-d'uvre, exposition à la BnF (Paris, 2012). Voyage en Orient (facs. 1989). MET Museum, n° 2005.100.500.4. Cf. Sezer & Tartarin, Previously Unknown Photographs by Emmanuel-Guillaume Rey Syria, 1857-1859.
More imagesPublished by J. Blondeau et Antonin,, [Paris, France], 1860
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Add to basket6 volumes bound in 5 albums. Exceptional, tremendously rare series of Louis De Clercq's renowned (panorama) photos of the Middle East and Muslim Spain in 5 magnificent, uniformly bound, original albums. This is without question the pre-eminent 19th-century photobook of the Middle East. "Louis de Clercq's six-volume Voyage en ori…ent (Journey to the Orient), containing a grand total of no less than 222 prints, can be said to be the culmination of a tradition, the last of the 'first generation' of travel photobooks, that is, the 'amateur' generation. . Those who know these rare volumes, however, regard him [De Clercq] as at least the equal of Du Camp, Salzmann, Teynard and other French pioneers of Middle Eastern photography using the paper negative. His vision is characterized by its precision and assuredness. . And he stands out in another respect: he was an excellent maker of photographic panoramas. Using two or three negatives, he solved both the aesthetic and technical problems of the panorama, and his combination prints are remarkably seamless and artfully constructed." (Parr & Badger, p. 27).Several volumes have since been dispersed into single photographs which have repeatedly appeared at Sotheby's, Ader, and other auction houses, and separate volumes command record prices, while the 5 albums together in their original bindings are all the rarer.Much like the antiquarians of the Renaissance, 19th-century photographers developed a passion for the remains of ancient civilisations. Louis De Clercq (1836-1901) was capable of bringing this passion to life in his photographs, early examples of albumen prints. His oriental experience began with Emmanuel-Guillaume Rey, during his second archaeological expedition to Syria from August to December 1859. De Clercq left Rey's mission after photographing Jerusalem and continued his voyage in the Middle East by travelling to Egypt.Lacking 4 photographs ("Kalaat-el-Hosn general view" in volume 2; "Jerusalem Mosque of Omar" plate 11 in volume 3; "Philae inner courtyard" plate 3 in volume 5; "Seville cathedral bell tower" plate 7 in volume 6). The bindings have been professionally restored. Overall in very good condition.l Aubenas, La photographie en 100 chefs-d'oeuvre (Paris, BnF, 2012); El-Hage, Damascus. A photographic journey 1840-1918, pp. 42-43 and in passim; Mayer, Louis De Clercq. Voyage en Orient (fasc. 1989); Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, volume 1, p. 27. cf. Sezer & Tartarin, Previously unknown photographs by Emmanuel-Guillaume Rey Syria, 1857-1859. Uniform, original red leather-grained cloth with the title and name of the author lettered in gold on the front board. With 218 (of 222) photographs, albumen prints from waxed paper negative, including 23 panoramas, all mounted on cardboard, each plate with a lithographed number and caption. Album I contains photos of cities, monuments, and other picturesque views of Syria (49 prints including 11 panoramas); II: castles from the time of the Crusaders in Syria (36 (of 37) prints including 5 panoramas); III: views of Jerusalem and holy places in Palestine (29 (of 30) prints including 1 panorama); IV (bound together with III): the stations of the cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (14 prints); V: monuments and picturesque sites in Egypt (40 (of 41) prints including 1 panorama); VI: cities, monuments, and other picturesque views in Spain (50 (of 51) prints including 5 panoramas). The sizes of the albumen prints vary from ca. 20 x 27 cm. to ca. 112 x 20 cm.
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Published by The Crime Club, Collins, UK 1934
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1934. No previous owner's inscriptions or marks, contents clean throughout. A bright VG+ copy with no bumping or rubbing to edges or corners. In a VG dust jacket wi…th some minor tissue strengthening to verso (see image). No fading at all to spine. Publisher's printed price of 7/6. A scarce title.
More imagesPublished by München/Paris/Leipzig, Kaiser & Lacroix; Rittner & Goupil; Weigel, [1839-1840]. 1840
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Add to basketFolio (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 Uebergangsl…änder 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.
More imagesPublished by Munich/Paris/Leipzig, Kaiser & Lacroix; Rittner & Goupil; Weigel, [1839-1840]. 1840
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Add to basketFolio (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. Mu…nich, 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.
More imagesPublished by Cairo, [23 Sept. 1800 =] 1 Vendémaire an 9eme. 1800
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Add to basketFolio (205 x 320 mm). 22 ff., final blank leaf. French manuscript on paper. Fine clerk's script in black ink on paper with various watermarks. Hand-stitched with a patriotic tricolor ribbon, never bound. With two contemporary addenda. An internal report on Napoleon's invasion of Ottoman Syria and Egypt, evidently owned and used…by a high-ranking officer within Napoleon's Egyptian Army. This original French manuscript compiles crucial military information regarding the structure, casualties, and supply needs of the French Armée d'Orient. It was a war the French Army would lose less than a year later, after which the British - allied with the Ottomans against France in an effort to protect their own colonial interests in the Arabian Peninsula and India - would gain an imperial toehold in Egypt and Syria. - The manuscript was completed for the French District Office of Cairo, and presents a tightly organized, detailed breakdown of the crucial aspects of Napoleon's army and campaign. A subheading on the title-page reads: "La minute de cette situation existe; Elle a été établie au Ministère de la Guerre". This is, therefore, presumably a contemporary copy prepared in the Cairo District Office ("Quartier Général au Kaire"). The manuscript opens with an overview of the command structure of the Army, starting with General Jacques-François de Menou (later Abdullah Menou, 1750-1810), head of the Egyptian Campaign after the assassination of Kléber, and a convert to Islam. - Following the famous names is all that makes an Army move: how many horses each division has, and how many are assigned to artillery units or officers, who has enough gunpowder and who does not, and requests for siege artillery. Horses also feature on the casualty lists, which for soldiers and officers are organized by hospital and rank. Longer notes defend the reasoning behind supply and munitions requests: "Le Siège d'Aboukir, le blocus de Kaire, et l'expédition de Syrie tous voir qu'il est indispensible d'avoir un Equipage de Siège". - In fact, most military aims are towards siege warfare, providing a fascinating glimpse into the invasion of the Ottoman Empire which, with hindsight, was failing by the autumn of 1800. Soon, the generals who were proudly listed in the command structure would be facing the end: before the next Vendémaire, Belliard would surrender Cairo, and Menou would surrender Alexandria, thus ending the war. - Faint offsetting, a few minor smudges. Remarkably well preserved. - Includes two further handwritten leaves: a general table of the French troops embarked at Aboukir on 13 Thermidor an 9 (1 August 1801: handwritten document signed by general Augustin Daniel Belliard 1769-1832, 36 x 47 cm), and a short useful guideline titled "Sur l'histoire ou Annuaire des musulmans" (double-sided ms. sheet, 23 x 35 cm, ca. 1802), with notes on the conversions of Hijri and Gregorian dates.
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Add to basketLeipzig, Hinrichs; Berlin, Mann 1900 -1955 . 4to. Unterschiedliche Einbände, Original-Leinenbände, Halbleinen, Halblederbände der Zeit, durchwegs gute Erhaltung. Diese Reihe ist seit 1900 die wichtigste Publikation der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Bis 1941 erschienen 61 Publikationen, nach einer Pause wurde diese Reihe 1957 fo…rtgesetzt. Hier wurden die Ergebnisse und Forschungen der wichtigen deutschen, archäologischen Expeditionen und Funde publiziert. Zu den bedeutenden Ausgrabungen von Assur, Babylon, Habuba Kabira, Hattusa, Mumbaqat, Abusir und Tell el-Amarna wurden hier die wichtigsten Publikationen veröffentlicht. Die vorliegende Sammlung, zusammengesammelt von einem österreichischen Gentleman und Kleinasien-Forschers, enthält zahlreichte wichtige Werke aus dieser Reihe, betreffend v.a. den Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1941. Die Bände sind in Ihrer Erhaltung in gutem Zustand, sind entweder in den diversen Original-Einbänden oder neuen Einbänden gebunden und stellen auch in Ihrem Umfang eine großartige Sammlung dar. AUFLISTUNG: Band 1 Koldewey, Robert Die Hethitische Inschrift. Gefunden in der Königsburg von Babylon am 22.August 1899. Vorbemerkung von Friedrich Delitzsch. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1900. (Wissenschaftl. Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft Heft 1) Abb. auf drei Tafeln Seiten: 8 S. Orig.-Broschur. Band 2 Koldewey, Robert Die Pflastersteine von Aiburschabu in Babylon. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs 1901. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 2). 15 Seiten plus Tafeln. Orig.-Broschur. Band 3: Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von Der Timotheos-Papyrus: gefunden bei Abusir am 1. Februar 1902. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs 1903. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 3). 15 Seiten plus Tafeln. Orig.-Leinenband. Band 4 Weissbach, Franz Heinrich Babylonische Miscellen. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1903. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 4). v & 52 pages, 15 plates. Orig.-Broschur. (2.Ex.: neuer Halbleinenband). Band 5 Weissbach, Franz Heinrich Die Inschriften Nebukadnezars II im Wâdi Brisa und am Nahr el-Kelb. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1906. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 5). iv & 44 pages, 46 plates. Orig.-Broschur. (2.Ex.: Orig.-Leinenband). Band 8 Schäfer, Heinrich Priestergräber und andere Grabfunde vom Ende des alten Reiches bis zur griechischen Zeit vom Totentempel des Ne-User-Rê. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1908. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 8). Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 02 (1902-1904). Folio, viii & 185 pages, 13 plates. Halbleinenband der Zeit. Band 9 Andrae, Walter Hatra. 1.Teil. Nach Aufnahmen von Mitgliedern der Assur-Expedition der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. I. Teil: Allgemeine Beschreibung der Ruinen. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1908. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 9). Halbleinenband der Zeit. Band 10 Andrae, Walter Der Anu-Adad-Tempel in Assur. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1909. Rare. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 10). Large in-4, 95 pages, 34 plates. Neuer Halblederband. Band 11 Borchardt, Ludwig Das Grabdenkmal des Königs Nefer-ir-ke-Re. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1909. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 11. Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 5). Folio, 91 pages, 10 plates. Halbleinenband der Zeit. Band 12 Hölscher, Uvo Das hohe Tor von Medinet Habu, eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1910. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 12) 68 Seiten, 10 Tafeln. Halblederband der Zeit. Band 13 Kohl, Heinrich: Kasr Firaun in Petra. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1910 (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 13). 4to. 43 S. mit 12 Tafeln und 39 Abbildungen im Text. Leinenband der Zeit, ein gutes Exemplar. Selten! ? Das Qasr Bint Firaun (?Palast der Pharaonentochter?) ist ein Tempel in der Felsenstadt Petra in Jordanien. Der Tempel war vermutlich den nabatäischen Hauptgöttern al Uzza und Duschara geweiht. Der Architekt und Bauforscher Heinrich Kohl begleitete Otto Puchstein bei seinen Ausgrabungen in Baalbek und führte auch die architektonischen Aufnahmen von Bogazköy durch. Die bislang unerforschte Ruine Qasr Bint Firaun mit ihren Stuckdekorationen wurde von Kohl untersucht und Kohl promovierte mit dieser Arbeit bei Carl Watzinger. Band 15 Koldewey, Robert Die Tempel von Babylon und Borsippa. Nach den Ausgrabungen durch die deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1911. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 15). 76 pages, 22 plates. Original-Leinenband. Band 16 Messerschmidt, Leopold Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts. Erster Teil. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1911. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 16). Halbleinenband der Zeit der Zeit, 78 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen beschrifteter Fundstücke, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; (Einband) leicht berieben und etwas fleckig, Papier leicht gebräunt. Band 18 Borchardt, Ludwig Der Porträtkopf der Königin Teje im Besitz von Dr James Simon in Berlin. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1911. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 18). Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Abusir 1 als Einleitung. Folio, 30 pages, 4 plates. Original-Leinen-Mappe. Band 19 Puchstein, Otto Boghasköi. Die Bauwerke. Leipzig, Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung 1912. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 19). 180 pages, 50 plates. Neuer Leinenband, orig.-Broschurdeckeln miteingebunden. Band 20 Reuther, Oskar Ocheidir. Nach Aufnahmen von Mitgliedern der Babylon-Expedition der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Leipzig, Hinrichs 1920. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Orient-Gesellschaft 20). Folio, IV, 52 S. mit 26 Tafeln und zahlreichen Abbildungen und Plänen. Dekorativer moderner Halblederband, Original-Broschurdeckeln miteingebunden, kleine Randläsuren, etwas ge.
More imagesPublished by 17the century. 1711
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Add to basketFirst complete edition, partly original, rare in this format, of one of the best ancient descriptions of Persia. It remains to this day an invaluable source for the knowledge of Persian culture and civilization at the end of the 17the century. A portrait, a map, 78 plates (views, costumes, ancient writings, antiquities, etc.) an…d 6 folding charts."Chardin's Journey to Persia is one of the most interesting voyages published in the 18the century". Brunet, I, 1802.Son of a Protestant jeweler from Place Dauphine in Paris, Jean Chardin (1643-1713) quickly showed a strong taste for travel, where curiosity about elsewhere was combined with the hope of fruitful trade. He made two long stays in the Middle East. The first, from 1664 to 1670, saw him stay in Isfahan for a long time, and be named "merchant of the shah". Upon his return, he published an account of the Coronation of Soliman iii (1671). His second stay in the Middle East took place from 1671 to 1677. In 1686, he published in London the journal of his second voyage to Isfahan (which Bayle lavishly praised), then, in 1711, a much more complete edition which includes, in addition to the same journal (forming volume i), a very detailed presentation of Persia (volume ii), a particular description of Isfahan and the account of a journey to Hormuz (volume iii). "His official position, his relationships with key figures, the knowledge he eagerly acquired of the country's idioms, allowed him to gather a wealth of information on the government, customs, antiquities, monuments, and history of Persia. A skilled draftsman, whom he had brought with him, accompanied him on all his explorations, and thus he could bring back accurate reproductions of monuments, costumes, the ruins of Persepolis, weapons, utensils… It has been claimed that the academic Charpentier assisted Chardin in drafting his book. Be that as it may, what indisputably belongs to the illustrious traveler are these precious materials gathered with such intelligence and courage, these deep researches, these observations, these curious and authentic insights into the history, administration, legislation, customs, sciences, arts, and practices of a country almost unknown until then." Chardin was accompanied by a draftsman,said Langlès». , who, since Chardin, have visited and described the same regions, has only served to confirm the accuracy, depth of his observations, the variety of his knowledge and his truthfulness The superb illustration, engraved on copper, includes a frontispiece portrait in the first edition by The superb illustration, engraved on copper, includes a frontispiece portrait in the first edition by dated 1710 and 78 large plates, engravings or maps, most of which are folding or double-page as well as 6 headpieces engraved at the beginnings of chapters. Grelot: all the views, scenes, and portraits were made from life. Precious copy of this rare quarto edition, preserved in its elegant black morocco binding of the time, a most rare condition for this voyage.
More imagesPublished by Prague, [1921-1924]. 1924
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Add to basketImperial 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 colou…r (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.
More imagesPublished by Paris, Chanlaire & Mentelle, 1798-1799. 1799
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Add to basketOriginal outline colour. Dissected and laid on linen in two sections, together 940 x 1540 mm. A two-sheet wall map showing Prussia, Turkey, Egypt and Abyssinia in the west, and the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, Persia, Arabia and Somalia in the east. Two inset maps show the routes from Siré to Gondar and from Gondar to the sources of…the Nile. According to the inscription, the map is based on that of "the late J. B. Laborde" (Jean-Benjamin de Laborde [1734-94], a traveller and musician), with amendments; however we have been unable to trace a map of the region by him. - The vast map was published to satisfy French interest when their seemingly-unstoppable General Bonaparte turned his attention to the conquest of Egypt in 1798. Napoleon had captured Malta en route to Egypt, and the oval title vignette shows him overseeing the burial of the French dead under Pompey's Pillar after the capture of the important port city of Alexandria (July 1798). - After the defeat of the Mameluk army at the Battle of the Pyramids it was Napoleon's intention to subdue the rest of the Ottoman Empire before moving to threaten British interests in India. However, as the political situation in Paris was deteriorating, Napoleon decided to leave his army in Egypt in 1799, returning to France to become First Consul. His army was less fortunate, surrendering to the British at Alexandria in 1801. - This map is very scarce: the French citizens' interest in maps of the Orient evaporated as quickly as Napoleon's.
More imagesPublished by Chanlaire & Mentelle,, Paris, 1789
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Add to basketA two-sheet wall map showing Prussia, Turkey, Egypt and Abyssinia in the west, and the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, Persia, Arabia and Somalia in the east. Two inset maps show the routes from Siré to Gondar and from Gondar to the sources of the Nile. According to the inscription, the map is based on that of "the late J. B. Laborde" (…Jean-Benjamin de Laborde [1734-94], a traveller and musician), with amendments; however we have been unable to trace a map of the region by him. - The vast map was published to satisfy French interest when their seemingly-unstoppable General Bonaparte turned his attention to the conquest of Egypt in 1798. Already Napoleon had captured Malta en route to Egypt, and the oval title vignette shows him overseeing the burial of the French dead under Pompey's Pillar after the capture of the important port city of Alexandria (July 1798). - After the defeat of the Mameluk army at the Battle of the Pyramids it was Napoleon's intention to subdue the rest of the Ottoman Empire before moving to threaten British interests in India. However,as the political situation in Paris was deteriorating, Napoleon decided to leave his army in Egypt in 1799, returning to France to become First Consul. His army was less fortunate, surrendering to the British at Alexandria in 1801. - This map is very scarce: the French citizens' interest in maps of the Orient evaporated as quickly as Napoleon's.l Not in Al Ankary; Atabey; Gulf in Historic Maps. Original outline colour. Dissected and laid on linen in two sections, 880 x 940 mm & 660 x 940 mm.
More imagesPublished by Paris, Imp. Lemercier, 1861. 1861
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Add to basketOblong 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 ca…ptions 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. - 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.).
More imagesPublished by imprimerie royale & imprimerie de L.Toinon
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: fine. first edition. 2 tomes en 1 volume grand in-folio (526 x 345 mm) d'un feuillet blanc, XVII, 120 pp., 24 planches gravées (dont 2 cartes, 1 planche en couleurs et une planche double) pour le tome I ; 2 ff.n.ch. V, 27 pp., 21 planches gravées, numérotées de 25 à 45 (dont 10 en couleurs, et 4 à d…ouble page) pour le tome II. Demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos lisse orné, tranches jaspées (reliure dans le style de l'époque). Blackmer, 269 ; Brunet, I, 1466 ; Quérard, II, 16 ; Numa Broc, 63Édition originale. Exemplaire complet de sa deuxième partie, publiée 41 ans après la première. Les exemplaires complets des 2 tomes sont de toute rareté.Frédéric Cailliaud (1787-1869), explorateur, participa à deux expéditions en Égypte, dont la première a eu lieu entre 1815 et 1819, et la suivante entre 1819 et 1822. Nommé minéralogiste officiel de Mehmet Ali en 1816, ce dernier le chargea d'explorer les déserts à l'est et à l'ouest du Nil. Il parcourut ensuite la Haute-Égypte avec Bernardino Drovetti (1776-1852), pénétra en Nubie, et explora les monuments situés vers les dernières cataractes du Nil. Il traversa une grande partie du désert pour arriver à la grande Oasis et à la ville de Thèbes où il séjourna durant neuf mois avant de rentrer en France en 1819.Retourné en Égypte en septembre 1819, Cailliaud voyagea de Fayun vers l'ouest jusqu'à Siwa, où il effectua d'importantes recherches qui furent à la base de la découverte scientifique et de l'exploration de l'oasis de Siwa. En 1820, Bernardino Drovetti arriva à Siwa avec l'expédition de Mehmed Ali. Accompagné de 2 dessinateurs et protégé par les troupes égyptiennes, Drovetti a pu explorer l'oasis et faire dessiner des plans et des vues. Il parvint ainsi à compléter l'image que Cailliaud avait donnée de Siwa auparavant. Les deux explorateurs envoyèrent ensuite leurs rapports que Jomard fit publier.Le récit du Voyage à l'oasis de Thèbes fut le premier à être publiée ; il sera suivi par le Voyage à Méroe (1823-1827), ainsi que le Voyage à l'oasis de Syouah (1823). Le Voyage à l'oasis de Thèbes est richement illustré de 45 grandes planches, y compris 2 cartes. Les planches montrent des vues ainsi que des vestiges et des objets trouvés lors des fouilles archéologiques."Volume II was published over 40 years after volume I and is scarce. Jomard edited this work from Cailliaud's notes and journal. Volume II contains a description of the objects which Cailliaud brought back to Paris with him. He had been travelling in the Levant ; in May, 1815 he left Constantinople for Egypt where he was well received by Mehmet Ali and engaged by him to explore the desert ad to search for the emerald mines of Mt. Zabarah known to the ancient Egyptians. He found the mines, which had been exhausted by previous workings and were no longer commercially viable. During this expedition he explored the grand oasis of Kargeh and found temples mentioned neither by Poncet nor Browne. When he returned to Paris in 1819 his collection was acquired by the ministry of public instruction and entrusted to Jomard, who was keeper of the geographical collection in the Imperial Library and had been a member of the scientific commission which accompanied Napoleon's Egyptian expedition" (Blackmer).Très bel exemplaire.
Published by Chicago 1931
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Add to basketNo binding. Condition: Very Good. Map of China and Japan, signed and inscribed "Lindbergh, Orient Flight, 1931 in pencil. 1 p., 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh planned this pathbreaking flight to chart a route for future Pan American flights to Japan and China. They flew by way of Canada, Alaska, and Siberi…a over the north Pacific.On July 27, 1931, they took off from New York, flying over Ontario and Canada's Northwest Territories, feasting during a stop in Barrow, Alaska, before flying over the Bering Sea. A month after departing, they arrived on Hokkaido Island, Japan, before continuing to China. From June through August 1931, catastrophic Yangtze-Huai River floods hit major cities in China including Wuhan and Nanjing, resulting in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou. The floods killed 150,000 people immediately, but more than a million ultimately died from the floods, resulting diseases, and starvation. The Lindberghs' first sight of the Chinese countryside revealed thousands of homeless people in need of medical supplies and food. Upon landing at Nanking, they offered to help, as their floatplane was able to land on the flooded fields to distribute supplies.When they moved on to survey the valley, the Yangtze River's currents were so strong, at Hankow, they decided to hoist their plane onto the deck of the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes anchored there. As they were hoisted, the current began to whip the aircraft around. As it began to flip over, they jumped into the river. Locals had said of the Yangtze, "No one who goes under its waters ever comes up again," but they both emerged uninjured.Pan Am decided that the best route to Asia was across the Pacific. Today, however, most flights from America's East Coast to Asia follow the northern great circle route that the Lindberghs charted for their 1931 flights. Signed Map.
More imagesPublished by Paris Lemercier 1865
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Add to basketSecond 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 atti…tudes 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.
More imagesPublished by Royal press,, Paris, 1821
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Add to basket2 works in 1 volume. 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 Ara…bes 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. Contemporary green goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, chemical-marbled sides, marbled edges. Ad 1: with 24 numbered engraved plates, including 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 1 plate coloured by hand and 1 double-page. Ad 2: with 20 numbered plates (1 engraved map and 19 lithographed plates). Pages: [2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp. With: (2) IDEM. Voyage a l'Oasis de Syouah pendant leurs voyages dans cette oasis, en 1819 et en 1820.Paris, Rignoux, 1823.
More imagesPublished by Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1735. 1735
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE First complete edition of Chardin's travels in Persia, enlarged with several extracts and with Suleiman III's coronation. Brunet, I, 1802; Chadenat, I, 1566; Schwab, Bibliographie de la Perse, n°87-88; Wilson p.40; Atabey 220; Diba p. 238. Sul…eiman III's Coronation gives a particular interest to this edition. "This relation, Boucher de la Richarderie says, hasn't been inserted in the editions of Chardin's travels in 1711 and 1723. It is only present in the last edition of his Travels, published after his death in 1735.- Very rare". (Bibliographie de la Perse). "The unanimous testimony of the travelers who have, since Chardin, visited and described the same countries, only helped to notice the accuracy, the depth of his observations, the variety of his knowledge and his truthfulness […] The first edition of his travels, published in London in 1686 folio, only encloses the travel from Paris to Isfahan; it hasn't been continued because the author left for Holland where he published 2 other editions, more or less complete of his Travel in Persia. We say more or less complete because the bookseller Delorme forced the author to suppress some passages likely to annoy the Roman clergy, and to prevent the debit of the work in France. These passages have been inserted again in the 1735 edition, 4 4to volumes". (Biographie universelle, VII, 506). This edition is illustrated with 79 engravings out of text including 51 folding and 4 head-pieces. The 2nd part presents folding tables up to 190 cm long and presenting the bas-relief of a temple in the ruins of Persepolis. Chadenat mentions concerning this edition: "79 beautiful folding plates: maps, views, scenes, etc." He specifies that he owns "a very beautiful edition, in a nice binding [in sprinkled calf with a part of light calf on the covers], of this esteemed work". Son of a jeweler Place Dauphine in Paris, Chardin left to India in 1665, secondarily in order to trade diamonds, but mostly driven by the passion of travels. He crossed Persia, visited Surate, Ormus, and came back to settle in Isfahan, where he stayed 6 years and where the Shah Abbas II appointed him as his "merchant". "His official position, his relations with the main characters, the knowledge he quickly got of the country's idioms, allowed him to gather many information about the government, the habits, the antiquities, the monuments and the history of Persia (…). It was claimed that the academician Charpentier had helped Chardin in writing his book. Be as it may, what truly belongs to this illustrious traveler, are the precious materials gathered with so many intelligence and courage, these searches, observations, these curious and authentic information about the history, the administration, the legislation, the habits, the sciences, the arts, the customs of a country almost unknown until then." "This travel is one of the most interesting published in the latest century. This edition is still quite sought-after […] and is rarely found" mentions Brunet. Beautiful wide-margined copy, illustrated with 79 superb full-page engravings, preserved in its elegant contemporary mosaic calf binding.
More imagesLanguage: German
Published by Leonhart Reinmichel für Georg Willers, Laugingen (d. i. Lauingen) 1583
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 zahlr…eichen 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.
More imagesPublished by Ernst Kern; Paris, H. Gache,, Darmstadt, 1843
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Add to basketExtremely 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. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper. 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.
More imagesPublished by Darmstadt, Verlag von Ernst Kern, 1843. 1843
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Add to basketOblong 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 a…nd 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).
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Add to basketIngolstadt, 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.
More imagesLes Dessins & Peintures d Extrême-Orient d Alexendre Iacovleff
IACOVLEFF (Alexandre). Le premier et rare recueil de dessins publié d'Alexandre Iacovleff.
Published by Paris, Aux Éditions Lucien Vogel, 1922. 1922
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. [1922]. ÉDITION ORIGINALE RARE éditée à 150 exemplaires seulement. In-folio chiffré 24 pages et 50 magnifiques planches tirées des ses dessins et peintures de son voyage en Chine, Mongolie et Japon ; des portraits saisissants, une magnifique série inspirée par le théâtre… chinois et japonais, grande passion du peintre, ainsi que de superbes vues toutes en clartés douces, chaudes et enveloppantes. Reliure souple à la chinoise accompagnée de 50 planches en couleur hors texte gravées en trichromie et tirées sur papier de Hollande, l'ensemble contenu dans un emboîtage en parchemin, un sinogramme est imprimé en rouge sur le premier plat [sceau de Alexandre Iacovleff], rabats, cordons de soie bleue absents, UN BEL EXEMPLAIRE COMPLET.
More imagesTürkei. - Im Renaissance Einband aus der Fugger-Bibliothek - Nicolay, N. de. Der erst (einzige) Theil. Von der Schiffart unnd Raisz in die Türckey unnd gegen Orient. Aus der frantzösischen Sprach inn die Teutsch gebracht. Nürnberg, D. Gerlach, 1572.
Türkei. - Im Renaissance Einband aus der Fugger-Bibliothek - Nicolay, N. de. Der erst (einzige) Theil. Von der Schiffart unnd Raisz in die Türckey unnd gegen Orient. Aus der frantzösischen Sprach inn die Teutsch gebracht. Nürnberg, D. Gerlach, 1572.
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Add to basketCondition: Gut bis sehr gut. Türkei. - Im Renaissance Einband aus der Fugger-Bibliothek - Nicolay, N. de. Der erst (einzige) Theil. Von der Schiffart unnd Raisz in die Türckey unnd gegen Orient. Aus der frantzösischen Sprach inn die Teutsch gebracht. Nürnberg, D. Gerlach, 1572. Fol. (32:21,5 cm). Mit gest. Titel in Rotdruck mit…breiter gest. Bordüre sowie 60 radierten Tafeln von Conrad Saldörffer. 4 Blatt, 108 Blatt. Flex. Prgt. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Deckelfileten, Eckfleurons u. Initialen "P E F" (Philipp Eduard Fugger); etwas angestaubt oder fleckig, Vergoldung oxydiert, ohne die Schließbänder. Sehr schönes Exemplar VD 16, ZV 25646; Göllner 1545 (59 Taf.); Lipperheide Lb 6; Colas 2206; Hiler 657; vgl. Atabey 870 ff. u. Blackmer 1196 (kennen beide nur die 2. deutsche Ausgabe von 1576) sowie Mortimer, French 386 (zum 2. Druck der französ. Originalausgabe von 1568). - Erste deutsche Ausgabe, selten. Zugleich die erste Übersetzung der 1567/68 erschienenen Originalausgabe, die ebenfalls mit Radierungen ausgestattet war. Eine von zwei Titelvarianten (die andere mit "Raysz", so bei Göllner, Lipperheide etc.). Die auf Nicolays eigenen Zeichnungen beruhenden Illustrationen liegen hier in den schönen Radierungen von Saldörffer vor, während die Antwerpener Ausgaben von 1576 in französischer, deutscher, italienischer und niederländischer Sprache mit Holzschnitten ausgestattet sind. Mit prachtvollen Trachten von Janitscharen, Kaufleuten, Mekkapilgern, Bauern, Geistlichen, türkischen und griechischen Damen etc. Nicolay begleitete 1551 als königlicher Geograph den französischen Botschafter Gabriel d'Aramamont nach Konstantinopel und hatte dort die Möglichkeit, Land und Leute zu studieren. "Nicolay's illustrations, the first to represent the costume of the Near East in detail, were widely copied in the sixteenth century" (Mortimer). Aus der Bibliothek von Philipp Eduard Fugger v. Kirchberg auf Weißenhorn (1546-1618), Sohn von Georg Fugger, mit seinen Initialen auf dem Vorderdeckel. "Philipp Eduard (war) der würdige Erbe der väterlichen Bibliothek und, was Ausstattung seiner Bücher betrifft, einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Bibliophilen des 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhunderts . Abgesehen von Marcus Fugger (1529-1597) hat kein Angehöriger des bücherfreundlichen Hauses so zahlreiche Bücher so prunkvoll binden und sie auch durch Supralibros und Aufdruck der Initialen als sein Eigentum bezeichnen lassen wie Philipp Eduard. Auf den Prunkbänden finden wir das Wappen . auf den einfacheren Bänden nur die Initialen 'P E F'" (Geldner, Unbekannte Fuggerbände, in: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens XL, 1964, S. 1538). - Vereinzelt etwas stock- oder braunfleckig, 1 Tafel ("Türckin in Sirischer Tracht") mit kleinem Verklebungsschaden im Bild. With engraved title and 60 engraved plates. First German edition of Nicolay's famous work illustrating the costumes of Turkey, Greece, and the Eastern Mediterranean. - Some foxing or brownstaining here and there, small flaw affecting engraved image to 1 plate. Contemporary limp vellum with the initials of Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618); gilding oxidised; some soiling and staining, without the ties. Beautiful.
More imagesPublished by Ferdinand Sartorius 1848
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Ferdinand Sartorius | Paris 1848 | 13.50 x 22 cm | 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 de…ux 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 DESCRIPTION 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. *.
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Add to basketKein 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 lef…t 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.
More imagesPublished by Imprimerie Royale et Imprimerie de L. Toinon et C 1821
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Paris, Imprimerie Royale et Imprimerie de L. Toinon et C ,1821-1862, 2 volumes in-folio. 1ère Partie, brochage papier bleu avec étiquette de titre sous coffret moderne, vieille mouillure, papier gondolé, quelques rousseurs. 2nde Partie, sous coffret moderne, rousseurs sur les planches en noir e…t blanc, mouillure angulaire au début et marginale en fin, petites déchirures en marge sur quelques feuillets, coin manquant faux-titre. XVII-120pp., 24 planches sous serpentes dont 2 cartes et une planche en couleur d'époque et 2ff. (faux-titre, titre)-V (avant-propos) -27pp. (explication , appendice) -20 planches (21) dont 4 en double pages et 9 en couleurs d'époque . RARISSIME ensemble comprenant la 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'uvre 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 Né à Nantes en 1787, Frédéric Cailliaud parti pour l''Orient en 1815. Il atteignit Constantinople où il mit ses talents de bijoutier au service du sultan Mahmoud II, puis décida de poursuivre sa route Jusqu'en Égypte. Ou il fit la connaissance de Bernardino Drovetti, vice-consul de France en Égypte, Après un voyage en Nubie (janvier-avril 1816) en sa compagnie, Drovetti le présenta au vice- Roi d'Égypte Méhémet Ali. Ce dernier nomma Frédéric Cailliaud minéralogiste officiel et lui Confia pour mission de retrouver les mines d'émeraudes du Gebel Zubarah, situé dans le désert Oriental, durant cette expédition, Cailliaud découvrit le temple de Redessieh, les ruines de Sekket, L'antique route de Coptos à Bérénice et rapporta des mines dix livres d'émeraudes au Pacha. Au cours de l'été 1818, il entreprit un voyage dans le désert de l'Ouest et fut l'un des premiers Européens à atteindre l'oasis de Kharga. Cailliaud constitua ainsi une première collection d'antiquités, des objets d'un intérêt majeur, ainsi que les pièces disposant d'une valeur anthropologique pour la connaissance de la vie quotidienne. FIRST EDITION. 2 vol. in-folio, xvii (with title and half-title), 120 pp. ; title, half-title, v, 27 pp and 44 engraved plates (45), 10 in colour and 4 double-page. Waterstain in fist part and some foxing and spotting especially in the second part. The French traveller and mineralogist Cailliaud first visited Egypt in 1815. Between then and 1818 he was employed by Mehmet Ali to find the emerald mines of Mount Zabarah. He visited Upper Egypt and Nubia as far as Wadi Halfa with Drovetti and explored the routes to the Red Sea, discovering the quarries and ruins of Coptos. The second volume contains a description of selected objects from the collection which Cailliaud brought back to Paris with him in 1822 with THE SECOND VOLUME, published 40 years after the first and present here, is PARTICULARLY RARE. Ref.: Brunet I, 1465; Gay 1967 M3-Et0.
More imagesPublished by Gabriel Amaulry, Paris 1723
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 pl…ates, 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.
Published by Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam
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Add to basketN/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.
More imagesLanguage: French
Published by M. Schulz, Prague 1923
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Add to basketHardcover. 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, cove…r 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.
More imagesPublished by New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1934
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Add to basketFirst 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 bin…ding 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.
