La Science Arabe et Son Role dans l'Evolution Scientifique Mondiale
Leiden: Brill, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xix, 388p. Original dark blue cloth. 24 cm. No Jacket. French text. More
Leiden: Brill, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xix, 388p. Original dark blue cloth. 24 cm. No Jacket. French text. More
Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1953. Hardcover. 266p. Original cloth-backed boards. 26cm. Cover corners somewhat worn. Russian text. More
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. Hardcover. xxxvi, 202p. Brown cloth. 17cm. Spine label darkened and chipped. Indecipherable Autograph Note Signed from Milne mounted on free end paper. Poetic effusions inspired by the author's travels in the Middle East 1842-1843. More
[Tours]: Imprimerie Deslis Freres, n.d. [1894]. Hardcover. xiv, 358p. Later buckram-backed marbled boards (brittle original wrapper bound in). 25cm. Portions of marbled paper on covers darkened (a stain?). Front free endpaper and adjacent flyleaf detached. Text browned around edges. Theologie Musulmane (series). According to the "Avant-propos" in this volume, this..... More
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1913. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, double-page map, 265p. Red cloth. 21cm. Ex lib. (a Masonic organization). Backstrip marred and reglued when a label was partially removed. No Jacket. Written while Mirza was a foreign post-graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1962. Paperback. 2 pages of photos, pp. 42-68. Original wrapper. 27cm. Recent label mounted on front cover identifying this as from the library of H. A. R. Gibb. French text. Extrait de Ethnographie, Revue de la Societe d'Ethnographie de Paris, Annee 1962. More
Berlin: 1876. 2. auflage. Hardcover. vi, 431p. Contemporary boards. 20cm. Covers worn. Handwritten title-label on backstrip. Lacks the map. German text. More
Paris: Charavay, Mantoux, Martin Librairie d'Education de la Jeunesse, n.d. [ca. 1898]. Hardcover. illustrations, 314p. Original red cloth. Front cover rather ornately decorated. 31cm. Text moderately browned. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana (although this is not African) with his bookplate on the endpaper. French text. Fiction. More
Paris: L. Larose et F. Pichon, 1900. 1st separate ed. Paperback. This volume only (of 2). viii, 186p. Softcover. 23cm. Cover chipped; front and back covers held on with 3 strips of cellophane tape. Binding shaken. "Hommage de l'auteur" stamped on cover and title-page. French text. Extracted from Revue Historique..... More
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, (c. 1978). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, xiv, 296p. Original red cloth. dj. 30 cm. Minor cover spotting. Some foxing on page edges. 28 essays. "Palestinian" and other Middle Eastern and North African archeology. More
Budapest: Kir. M. Pazmany Peter Tudomananyegyetemi Gorog Filologiai Interzet, 1942-1943. 1st ed. Paperback. 2 vols. index, 378, 326p. Original blue wrappers. 25cm. Light cover soil. The second volume is unopened. German text. Magyar-gorog tanulmanyok, 20-21. Subtitle on Vol. I: Die byzantinischen quellen der geschichte der türkvölker. Subtitle on Vol. II..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1914. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, xiii, 86p. Original green cloth. 28cm. Extremities rubbed. Minor spotting on backstrip and back cover. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on title-page by Morey (as "C. R. M."). University of Michigan Studies. Humanistic Series, Volume XII, Part I. More
New York: New York University Press Book Store, (c. 1929). Paperback. 101p. Original stiff wrapper, backed in black cloth. 28cm. Backstrip shows some wear. Contents sound. Text printed on one side. More
New York: University Press Book Store, n.d. [1929?]. Paperback. illustrations, 100p. Original stiff wrapper backed in black cloth. 28cm. Cover untitled. Text printed on one side. Former owner's name. Several dozen rather grainy illustrations have been added, presumably by the publisher, to many of the blank pages in this volume..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. 2nd printing. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, index, [8], 243p. Original dark blue cloth. 24cm. Corners frayed. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Morton in 1929. Speculative biography of Aimee Dubuc de Rivery of Martinique which makes numerous interesting but unproven claims. More
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1830. 2nd ed. (with some changes). Hardcover. 408p. Original cloth backed boards. 20 cm. Backstrip has vertical crease. Significant foxing throughout text. A couple of signatures pulled (one of which is partially detached at bottom). Parsons, born in Massachusetts and a graduate of Middlebury College and Andover..... More
Cairo: Ministry of Education Press, 1953. Paperback. illustrations, 78p. Softcover in original wrapper (with a. dj). 24 cm. Collections of the Museum of Islamic Art, [No.] I. More
Bale et Geneve: H. Georg; St-Petersbourg: Eggers et Comp. 1871. Hardcover. index, xviii, 932p. Later blue boards backed in plain untitled vellum (original gray wrapper bound in). 22cm. Moderate cover soiling and wear. French text. More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (map), folding map (in cover pocket), photos, index, xvii, 631p. Original gray cloth. 26cm. Cover slightly warped. Back cover discolored (from damping) along bottom edge. Extemities frayed. No Jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 2..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, 2 folding maps (in cover pocket), xv, 426p. Original gray cloth. 25cm. Slightly warped. Backstrip and adjacent areas soiled and worn. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 3..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1978. Paperback. Folding map on 4 sheets in cloth slipcase. 22 cm. No Jacket (as published). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies series. Reprint of the 1928 edition. This portfolio of maps was issued to accompany Musil's four works on northern Arabia (Arabia Deserta, Middle..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis map, folding map (in cover pocket), photos and illustrations, index, xiv, 367p. Original gray cloth. 26cm. Head of backstrip chipped. Split at head of front joint reglued. No jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 4..... More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis map, folding map (in cover pocket), photos and illustrations, index, xiv, 367p. Original gray cloth. 26 cm. No jacket (as published?). American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 4. More
New York: American Geographical Society, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (map), photos, index, xvii, 631p. Original gray cloth. 26cm. Moderate cover soil. No Jacket. American Geographical Society. Oriental Explorations and Studies, No. 2. This copy issued without the pocket map (or the cover pocket in which it should be found)..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, 1997. Hardcover. 2 vols. 237, xxxv, 183, 97p. Original red bindings. 24 cm. Minor scar on backstrip of Arabic text volume. No Jacket. Islamic Medicine (series), Volumes 80-81. First volume, Arabic text; second volume, French translation, etc. by Pierre Paul..... More