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ALBERS, Derk. Uit het land der pyramiden. Den Haag, H.P. Leopold, 1930. Original decorated cloth. With 100 photographic illustrations. XI,194 pp. - The country of the pyramids. [Boeknr.: 27359 ]

€ 30,00

BELZONI, Giovanni Battista. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon. Third edition. London, John Murray, 1822.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt and with red morocco title-labels. With lithographed portrait of the author, plate of inscriptions, folding plan of the temple of Jerusalem, and large folding map of the course of the Nile. XXVI,438; X,421 pp. First edition published in London in 1820. - Belzoni is 'one of the most striking and interesting figures in the history of eastern travel (DNB) and certainly, next to Burckhardt, the most interesting in the history of Egyptology and Egyptian travel. He succeeded in removing an enormous number of statues and sarcophagi. In 1817 he excavated Abu Simbel, Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, and the tomb of Seti. In 1818 he opened the second pyramid at Gizeh and identified the site of Berenice (Blackmer p.25). Contains at the end: Short account of the women of Egypt, Nubia, and Syria by Sara Belzoni. Without the separately issued atlas-volume. - A fine copy.Blackmer Collection 116; Atabey Collection 95; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.62. [Boeknr.: 37154 ]

€ 795,00

BERQUE, Jacques. Die Araber. Köln, M. DuMont Schauberg, (1959). 4to. Boards. With many photographic illustrations (several in colours). 109 pp. [Boeknr.: 24689 ]

€ 18,00

BICKERSTAFFE, L.E. Things seen in Morocco. A land of enchantment, of perpetual contrasts & of absorbing human interest. London, Seeley, Service & Co., (1928).Sm.8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt camel illustration on front board. With double-page map and 32 photographic plates. 160 pp. A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 37559 ]

€ 45,00

BONOMI, Joseph. Nineveh and its palaces. The discoveries of Botta and Layard, applied to the elucidation of holy writ. London, Office of the Illustrated London Library, (1852).Original embossed cloth gilt, spine gilt. With frontispiece, map and 234 wood-engravings. XX,402 pp. First edition. - Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity on the eastern bank of the river Tigris and capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire. - Age-browned, otherwise fine. [Boeknr.: 9656 ]

€ 125,00

BRUYN, Cornelis de. Pont Alla-Werdie-Chan. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1718.A fine panoramic view of the magnificent bridge of Ispahan, Persia. Ca. 61 x 20,5 cm. From the French edition Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse et aux Indes, translated from the Dutch edition of Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie. Cornelis Le Bruyn (1652-1726/28) left the Netherlands on his second journey in 1701. He travelled first to Russia for a year before going on to Persia. There he remained for the years 1704-1705. On his return voyage he resided in Persia again between 1706 and 1707 described the ruins of Persepolis. His narratives are largely valued for the engravings executed from De Bruyn's drawings. - (Blank left corner missing; some small tears rep.). - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35878 ]

€ 125,00

BRUYN, Cornelis de. Seconde vûé de Persepolis. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1718.A fine panoramic view of the ruins of Persepolis, Persia. Ca. 61,5 x 30 cm. From the French edition Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse et aux Indes, translated from the Dutch edition of Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie. Cornelis Le Bruyn (1652-1726/28) left the Netherlands on his second journey in 1701. He travelled first to Russia for a year before going on to Persia. There he remained for the years 1704-1705. On his return voyage he resided in Persia again between 1706 and 1707 described the ruins of Persepolis. His narratives are largely valued for the engravings executed from De Bruyn's drawings. - (Blank lower margin cut off). - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35876 ]

€ 125,00

BRUYN, Cornelis de. Troisième vûé de Persepolis. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1718.A fine panoramic view of the ruins of Persepolis, Persia. Ca. 61 x 28 cm. From the French edition Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse et aux Indes, translated from the Dutch edition of Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie. Cornelis Le Bruyn (1652-1726/28) left the Netherlands on his second journey in 1701. He travelled first to Russia for a year before going on to Persia. There he remained for the years 1704-1705. On his return voyage he resided in Persia again between 1706 and 1707 described the ruins of Persepolis. His narratives are largely valued for the engravings executed from De Bruyn's drawings. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35877 ]

€ 125,00

CAIRO. Vue du Caire. (No pl., ca. 1900).Small oblong 8vo. Original green printed wrappers by L. & H. With 16 plates. The plates depict: Pyramides et sphinx, le grande pyramide Chéops, village auprès des pyramides, pyramide de Sakkarah, le Caire citadelle, tombeaux des khalifs, mosquée Kaïl Bey, Savoy Hotel au Caire, etc. [Boeknr.: 36637 ]

€ 45,00

CASTRO, Joam de. Le routier de Dom Joam de Castro. L'exploration de la Mer Rouge par les Portugais en 1541. Traduit du Portugais d'après le manuscrit du British Museum avec une introduction historique et des notes critiques de géographie par A. Kammerer. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1936. Wrappers, uncut. With 3 illustrations and 25 plates. 202 pp. Voyage from Goa to Suez by Dom Joao de Castro (1500-1548), who led a fleet of 60 ships with orders from Vasco de Gama to attack the Turks in the Red Sea area and control their possession in trade. The expedition succeeded in occupying Aden, Socotra, Bab el-Mandeb, Assab, Masawi�h, Suwakim, Port Sudan and Tour Sinai. [Boeknr.: 37663 ]

€ 95,00

CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, Jacques-Jospeh. Égypte ancienne. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1858.Rebacked (part of original spine laid down), with gilt coat of arms on both sides of the city of Utrecht. With folding map and 92 steelengravings of Egypt. 500 pp. First published in Paris in 1839; part of the series L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples. Champollion had a major influence on the scientific development of his brother Jean François, 'le père de l'Égyptologie moderne', who was twelve years younger. Although Champollion-Figeac himself was very erudite, he sometimes stayed in the background to help his brother progress. After his premature death in 1832, he published his unfinished manuscripts. Blackmer Collection 315; Andres 1016; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.130. [Boeknr.: 33123 ]

€ 125,00

DELITZSCH, Friedrich. Assyrische Lesestücke mit den Elementen der Grammatik und vollständigem Glossar. Einführung in die assyrische und semitisch-babylonische Keilschriftliteratur für akademischen Gebrauch und Selbstunterricht. 5. neu bearbeitete Auflage. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs, 1912. 8vo. Original printed boards. XII,183 pp. - (Assyriologische Bibliothek). [Boeknr.: 24705 ]

€ 45,00

DIXON, William Hepworth. Das heilige Land. Autorisirte Ausgabe für Deutschland. Nach der vierten Auflage aus dem Englischen von J.E.A. Martin. Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1870.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 2 steelengraved plates and 12 woodengravings in the text. X,422 pp. First German edition; first published in London in 1864: The Holy Land. - (Foxed).Tobler p.200: Sehr lebendige darstellung; Rohricht p.518. [Boeknr.: 33390 ]

€ 95,00

FAMARS TESTAS, Willem de. Reisschetsen uit Egypte 1858-1860 naar ongepubliceerde handschriften bewerkt en geannoteerd door Maarten J. Raven.. Maarssen, 's Gravenhage, Gary Schwartz & SDU, 1988. Pictorial wrappers. With 94 illustrations (some in colours) after De Famars Testas. 232 pp. The Dutch artist Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896) travelled together with the French Egyptologist Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) in Egypt. [Boeknr.: 33362 ]

€ 25,00

FLEURY, (Claude). Les moeurs des Israélites, ou l'on voit le modele d'une politique simple & sincere pour le gouvernement des etats & de la réformation des moeurs. Derniere édition, corrigée & augmentée. Bruxelles, se vend a Liege chez J.F. Broncart, 1777.Sm.8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco title-label to spine (hinges dam. but holding). With woodcut printer's device on titlepage. (4),236,(3) pp. First edition published in 1681; with autograph dedication dated 1790. - Claude Fleury (1640-1723) , was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian, tutor of the Dukes of Burgundy, Anjou & Berry, confessor to the young Louis XV from 1716, and member of the French Academy. Fleury's treatise on the ancient Israelites was hugely popular for over 100 years. It is a classic text on Jewish social life and customs. - (Age-browned). [Boeknr.: 36993 ]

€ 225,00

GÉRAMB, Marie Joseph de. Pélerinage a Jérusalem et au Mont-Sinaï en 1831, 1832 et 1833. 3e édition. Paris, Adrien le Clere et Cie, 1839.3 volumes. Contemporary half red morocco, spines lettered in gilt. With 8 steelengravings. XXII,445; 453; 388 pp. First published in Paris in 1836. - A very good account by a member of a Trappist monastery near Mulhausen in Alsace. In his letters Géramb describes the Holy Land, Alexandria, Cairo, the Sinai, and the Nile to Aswan. While in Upper Egypt, he traveled with Count d' Estourmel. - (Some foxing). - A fine set. Tobler p.152; Rohrich p.364-365; Gay 3659; Kalfatovic 0314; Blackmer Collection 673; Hage Chahine 1856. [Boeknr.: 33388 ]

€ 225,00

HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers� Now carefully revised, with large additions, and continued down to the present time; including particular accounts of the manufactures and commerce of each country. London, T. Woodward, a.o., 1744-1748. 2 volumes. Large folio. Period-style blind-stamped calf, with red morocco title labels. With title-pages printed in black and red, royal privilege as frontispiece in volume one, woodcut head-pieces and 61 engraved maps, charts and plates (15 folding). (32),984; (10),1056,(22) pp. (Text in double-column ). 'This is a revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition of John Harris's 'compleat collection of voyages and travels'. The second edition, especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of a printing of Tasman's original map and two short articles printed on the map. One discusses Quiros's voyage, while the other speculates about the possibility of the Australian continent being colonized' (Hill p.275). Book I, Chapter I: History of the circumnavigators: Magellan, Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, Sebald de Weert, Joris van Spilbergen, François Pelsaert, Willem Cornelisz. Schouten, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, Jacques l'Hermite, Cowley, William Dampier, William Funnell, Woodes Rogers, John Clipperton, George Shelvocke, Jacob Roggeveen, Abel Jansz. Tasman, George Anson. II: Discovery, settlement, and commerce of the East Indies. Chapter III: Comprehending the discovery, settlement and commerce of the West Indies.Book II: Voyages and discoveries towards the North, and through most of the countries of Europe.Book III: Voyages to, and travels through the dominions of the Grand Signior, and through other empires, kingdoms and states in Asia: Turkey, Persia, China, Corea, Russia.Present here, and absent in the first edition, are the narrations of Christopher Middleton to Hudson Bay, 1741-1742, Bering to the Northeast, 1725-1736, Woodes Rogers� circumnavigation, 1708-1711, Clipperton and Shevlocke�s circumnavigation, 1719-1722, Roggeveen to the Pacific, 1721-33, and the various travels of Lord Anson�s voyages, 1740-1744. - (Some age-browning). - A very good copy of this great collection of voyages.Hill 775; Landwehr, VOC, 261; Sabin, 30482; Cox I, p.10; Schilder, map 87; NMMC I, 34. [Boeknr.: 34160 ]

€ 11500,00

HAUFF, Wilhelm. La caravane. Contes orientaux. Traduits de l'Allemand par A. Tallon. 5me édition. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1889.Sm.8vo. Original decorated gilt cloth, a.e.g. With 46 illustrations by Bertall. VIII,301; 8 pp. Bibliotheque rose illustrée. - Some foxing othewise fine. [Boeknr.: 37336 ]

€ 45,00

HERBERT, Thomas. Zee- en lant-reyse na verscheyde deelen van Asia en Africa: beschryvende voornamelijck de twee beroemde rijcken van den Persiaen, en den Grooten Mogul. Als mede/ verscheyde machtige en groote koninckrijcken van Oost-Indien/ en andere gedeelten van Asia/ te samen met de aenleggende eylanden. Beneffens een verhael van den eersten vinder van America. Uyt het Engels in de Nederlandtsche tale overgeset door L.V. Bosch. Dordrecht, Abraham Andriessz., 1658.4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece and 12 large engravings in the text. (12),192 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in London in 1634 A relation of some years travaile, begunne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia. - 'In 1627 Herbert travelled to Persia as a member of the entourage of Sir Dodmore Cotton, accompanied by Sir Robert Sherley. Cottton had been appointed ambassador to Persia as a result of the return of Robert Sherley in 1623. The embassy had produced two rival ambassadors, Sherley and Nagd Ali Beg (Nogdi Ali Beg), each of whom had denounced the other as an imposter. James I therefore decided to send Cotton as his ambassador to Persia to clarify these matters, accompanied by the two interested parties, Sherley and Ali Beg. Thomas Herbert was to accompany the mission. Sailing via the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar and Goa, the party landed at Surat on 27.11.27. There Ali Beg deliberately took on overdose of opium and killed himself .. Herbert sailed on 18.12.27 for Persia and landed at Gombroon .. they continued to Teheran, and then to Qazvin where both Robert Sherley and Cotton died of dysentery. Herbert, however, continued his travels, visiting Lar, Shiraz, Esfahan, Tehran, Qum, Kashan and eventually returning to Gombroon. From there he made his way to Surat (December 1628), and in April 1629 sailed for London, visiting en route Ceylon, the Coromandel coast, Mauritius and St. Helena' (Howgego p.503/504). Herbert 'gives a description of Persian coffee customs which is probably the earliest in English language' (Hünersdorff/Hasenkamp p.686). Pages 188--192 contain the Ontdeckingh van America door Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth. He was a 12th-century apocryphal Welsh voyager (Howgego M12). - A very fine copy of the earliest significant English travel account of the Near East.Tiele 468; Cat. NHSM I, p.133; Mendelssohn I, p.705-706; Cordier, B.I., p.875; Wilson p.94. [Boeknr.: 36167 ]

€ 1250,00

HEUGLIN, Theodor von. Die Tinne'sche Expedition im westlichen Nil-Quellgebiet 1863 und 1864. Aus dem Tagebuch von Th. von Heuglin. Nebst ethnographischen, zoologischen und karthographischen Anhängen. Gotha, Perthes, 1865.4to. Later wrappers. With folding map, coloured in outline. VIII, 46 pp. Petermanns Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft 15. - The adventurous young Dutch woman, Alexandrine Pieternella Françoise Tinné (1835-69) entered a world dominated by men as a woman. She travelled down the Nile and penetrated the Bahr el Ghazal. She was accompanied by her mother and aunt and a domestic staff which included lady's maids. They were well provisioned in the only steamer available for hire at Khartoum. Alexine Tinné was murdered in an expedition across the Sahara in 1869. [Boeknr.: 21620 ]

€ 195,00

JOÃO DE JESUS CHRISTO. Viagem de hum peregrino a Jerusalem, e visita que fez aos lugares santos, em 1817. Terceira edição. Lisboa, Eugenio Augusto, 1831.Original marbled wrappers. With fine engraved folding frontispiece. VIII,308,(3) pp. First published in Lisbon in 1819. - Ample travel-account of the Holy Land and the Middle East , including a historic survey of the persecution of the religious orders before 1756. - Rare.Rohricht 349. [Boeknr.: 33382 ]

€ 275,00

JOÃO DE JESUS CHRISTO. Viagem de hum peregrino a Jerusalem, e visita que fez aos lugares santos, em 1817. Terceira edição. Lisboa, Eugenio Augusto, 1831.Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title label to spine. With fine engraved folding frontispiece. VIII,308,(3) pp. First published in Lisbon in 1819. - Ample travel-account of the Holy Land and the Middle East , including a historic survey of the persecution of the religious orders before 1756. - Rare.Rohricht 349. [Boeknr.: 37098 ]

€ 275,00

JOLIFFE, T(homas) R(obert). Reis in Palestina, Syrië en Egypte, gedaan in het jaar 1817. Met vele bijvoegselen en ophelderingen uit de nieuwste uitlandsche reisbeschrijvingen verrijkt, en ingerigt tot een nuttig gebruik voor bijbellezers. Met eene voorrede van E.F.K. Rosenmuller. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, G. Portielje, 1822.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf. With folding engraved map and 3 engraved plates (1 folding) after J. van Meurs by D. Veelwaard. XXIV,248; XII,307 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1819: Letters from Palestine, descriptive of a tour through Galilee and Judea, Syria, and Egypt; with some account of the Dead Sea and the present state of Jerusalem, written in the year 1817. - The letters are written to various personages, containing historical as well as descriptive details. - (Some marginal foxing and offsetting of the plates).Rohricht p.349; Tobler p.143-144; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.332; Blackmer Collection 878; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 33392 ]

€ 295,00

KELLER, Gerard. Duizend en één nacht. (Half title page:) Volledige Arabische vertellingen van de Duizend en één nacht. Nijmegen, Arnhem, Gebr. E.& M. Cohen, (1889).7 volumes. Large 8vo. Original embossed red cloth with gilt lettering, With over 3000 illustrations and plates by Gustave Doré. The tales of One Thousand and One Nights are a collection of stories from the Middle East, in the form of a frame story in prose. The stories belong to different genres and a considerable part is erotic in nature. In the Western world, these penetrated as fairy tales in the 18th century. The stories are told by the Persian Sheherazade. The origin of the stories is difficult for historians to trace. Some stories probably date from before the Christian era and the oldest stories come from India and Persia. - A fine set. [Boeknr.: 37140 ]

€ 275,00

KELLERMANN, Bernhard. Auf Persiens Karawanenstrassen. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1928.Original cloth. With 72 photographic illustrations. 204 pp. First edition. - Interesting account of a trip through Persia. - Some light foxing otherwise fine. Wilson p.116. [Boeknr.: 1107 ]

€ 35,00

KRAYENBELT, J(an). Het Heilige Land. Reis door Egypte, Palestina en Syrië. Rotterdam, Wenk & Birkhoff, 1892.8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g. With plan of Jerusalem and 12 photolithographed plates by Emrik & Binger. 343, XXII pp. First edition. - Adaptation of Carl von Orelli's Durch's heilige Land. Tagebuchblätter. Basel 1878 (Rohricht 594). - Travel account of Egypt, Holy Land, Syria and Turkey. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 33364 ]

€ 125,00

LAMARTINE (DE PRAT), (Marie Louis) Alphonse de. Herinneringen, indrukken, gedachten en tafereelen, opgedaan gedurende eene reize naar het Oosten, (1832-1833), of aanteekeningen van een reiziger. Breda, Amsterdam., F.P. Sterk & L. van Bakkenes, 1835-1836.4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with title label to spines. With frontispiece portrait, folding table and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,294; 370; 344; VI,338 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in French Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient, Paris 1835 . - Lamartine, with his wife and daughter, left Marseilles in October 1832, in his private yacht which was fitted out with a library and an arsenal. He travelled in the style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts and was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone. His daughter Julie died of consumption at Beirut, and Lamartine returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levent (Blackmer p.199). - (Foxing).Blackmer Collection 942; Atabey Collection 659; The Ömer Koç Collection II, 300; Tobler 153; Rohricht 1776; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 7339 ]

€ 375,00

LAMARTINE (DE PRAT), (Marie Louis) Alphonse de. Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient (1832-1833), ou notes d'un voyageur. Bruxelles, Louis Haiman et Comp., 1835.4 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original marbled boards, with paper title-labels to spines. First edition published in the same year. - Lamartine (1790-1869), with his wife and daughter, travelled in his private yacht in style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts. He was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone, he returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levant.Cf.Blackmer Collection 942 and Atabey Collection 659; Tobler p.153; Rohricht 1776; Europa und der Orient p.336. [Boeknr.: 16354 ]

€ 225,00

LAZARD, Paola & Bertrand. Collection de Paola et Bertrand Lazard. L'Orient et la Terre Sainte. Livres et dessins. Paris, Pierre Bergé & Associés, 2008. 4to. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 241 pp. Fine illustrated auction catalogue of the private library of Paola and Bertrand Lazard containing rare books on the Orient and the Holy Land. [Boeknr.: 32807 ]

€ 35,00

LINDEN, Jan vander. (H)eerlyke ende gelukkige reyze nae het heylig land ende de stad van Jeruzalem .. in't jaer ons Heere 1633. .. Van Nieuws overzien/ verbetert/ en vermeerdert met een Byvoegsel/ getrokken uyt eenen brief/ geschreven uyt Jeruzalem den 20. maerte 1779/ op den tegenwordigen toestand van die stad. Gend, Judocus Begyn, (ca. 1800). 2 volumes in 1. 4to. Old wrappers. With 7 woodengravings. 72; 56 pp. First published in Antwerpen in 1634, followed and reprinted several times and served as a schoolbook to generations of children well into the nineteenth century. - Jan vander Linden (1577-1638) was 'pater van de cellebroeders tot Antwerpen'. He describes in detail the voyage by way of Paris, Avignon, Marseille, Genua and Cyprus to all the holy places at Nazareth, Mount Thabor, Nablouse, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jaffa, etc. In the second part the return voyage is extensively described. - Scarce chapbook edition, partly printed in civilité type.Tiele 674; Tobler p.101; Bibl. Gantoise, 7412. [Boeknr.: 32226 ]

€ 650,00

LYNCH, W(illiam) F(rancis). Togt door het Heilige Land, vooral tot onderzoek der Jordaan en der Doode Zee. Naar den 6e druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door J.P. Stricker. Dordrecht, P.K. Braat, 1855.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces after L. de Koningh by F. Böger and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,251; XII,263,(1) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Philadelphia in 1849: Narrative of the United States' expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead Sea.- The official report was not published until 1852. Lynch carried out the first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Ephesus, Smyrna and Constantinople were also visited.Blackmer Collection 1043 (English ed.); Rohricht p.432; Tobler p.176; Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 23923 ]

€ 225,00

MacGREGOR, John. Veertien dagen op de zee van Galilea. Naar het Engelsch door C(arel) S(teven) Adama van Scheltema. Amsterdam, Hoveker & Zoon, (1878).Original printed wrappers. With lithographed map and 2 chromo-lithographed plates by Emrik & Binger. 74,(2) pp. Dutch translation of Rob Roy on the Jordan Nile, Red Sea and Gennesareth &c.: a canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus. London 1869. Travelling by steamer to Alexandria, he started on the most adventurous and perilous of his voyages, through the Suez Canal and down the Red Sea, and thence to Palestine, navigating the Jordan and Lake Gennesareth. MacGregor may be considered the patron saint of canoeing. Rohricht p.547. [Boeknr.: 33379 ]

€ 75,00

MICHAUD, (Joseph) & (Jean J.F.) POUJOULAT. Correspondance d'Orient (1830-1831). Bruxelles, N.J. Gregoir, V. Wouters et Cie, 1841.8 volumes in 4. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With folding map. First published in Paris in 1833-1835. - 'Michaud, the historian of the Crusades, and his secretary Poujoulat travelled together through Greece, Constantinople and the Archipelago to Jerusalem, where they separated. Poujoulat explored Syria and Michaud went on to Egypt, but they wrote regularly to each other, and these letters constitute in great part the voluminous Correspondance d'Orient. The first three volumes, dealing with Greece and Turkey, contain mostly Michaud's letters. Both Michaud and Poujoulat were interested in the contemporary state of the countries they visited than archaeology and antiquities' (Blackmer 1122). - A very fine set.Atabey Collection 807; Blackmer Collection 1122; Contominas Collection 465; Weber 211; Tobler p.151; Röhricht p.367; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.33. [Boeknr.: 32445 ]

€ 475,00

NEDERLAND EN DE ORIËNT. (N.a.v. de tentoonstelling Fata morgana. De verbeelding van het Oosten: Nederlandse oriëntalisten 1830-1930). Amsterdam, 2004. 4to. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. 53 pp. Kunstschrift - On Willem de Famars Testas, Tico Martinus Lycklama a Nijeholt, Jacobus van Looy, Marius Bauer & Daniël van der Meulen. [Boeknr.: 28440 ]

€ 15,00

PALESTINE. - Drie weken in Palestina en op den Libanon. Naar den 4e druk, uit het Engelsch vertaald. Schiedam, de Munnik en Wijnands, 1835.Original boards. With lithographed frontispiece depicting Jerusalem. XVI,182 pp. First Dutch edition. - Translation of Three weeks in Palestine and Lebanon. London 1833; many times reprinted (13th edition in English in 1853). - (Some waterstaining).Tobler p.152 (English and German ed. only). [Boeknr.: 8634 ]

€ 150,00

PALESTINE De burgerlijke instellingen van den voormaligen Israëlitischen staat, naar aanleiding der Heilige Schrift. 's Gravenhage, J. Belinfante, 1835.Original boards, with title label to spine. XVI,152 pp. With library stamp of Bibliotheek Financiën. - The civil institutions following the Holy Scripture. [Boeknr.: 33365 ]

€ 95,00

PALGRAVE, William Gifford. Personal narrative of a year's journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). 10th thousand. London, Macmilland and Co, 1883.Sm.8vo. Contemporary blue calf, spine gilt. With engraved portrait on titel-page and 5 folding maps and plans. VI,427 pp. First published in 1865; with bookplate of F. Cleveland Morgan. - Palgrave (1826-1888) made the first known west-to-east crossing of the Arabian Peninsula, from Ma'an in southern Jordan to Qatif on the Persian Gulf. The French emperor Napoleon III, who, anticipating the construction of the Suez Canal, sought to extend French hegemony over the region, was willing to provide financial backing. The book was immediately translated into French and became a bestseller throughout Europe. - A classic of Arab travel literature. [Boeknr.: 11903 ]

€ 150,00

PETERMANN, A. Karte des Mittelländischen Meeres. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1880.8 sheets, coloured in outline. Each ca. 37,5 x 46 cm. Fine detailed maps of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries by the German cartographer Augustus Heinrich Petermann (1822 - 1878). [Boeknr.: 37404 ]

€ 150,00

PORTER, J(osias) L(eslie). The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867.Original pictorial green cloth gilt (waterstained). With lithographed frontispiece and 6 lithographed plates. V,371 pp. First published in 1865. - Porter spent 10 years in Syria and travelled extensively. Very popular description of the massive buildings to be found in Bashan and an account of his theory explaining their construction. Porter believed that the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, before its occupation by the Jewish tribes, had constructed these buildings. - (Foxing).Blackmer Collection 1334; Rohricht p.468; Tobler p.189; Not in the Atabey Collection. [Boeknr.: 31715 ]

€ 95,00

PORTER, J(osias) L(eslie). The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1877.Contemporary calf, gilt fillets, with coat of arms (High Harrogate College), spine richly gilt. With lithographed frontispiece and 6 lithographed plates. V,371 pp. First published in 1865. - Porter spent 10 years in Syria and travelled extensively throughout Syria and Palestine. Very popular description of the massive buildings to be found in Bashan and an account of his theory explaining their construction. Porter believed that the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, before its occupation by the Jewish tribes, had constructed these buildings. - An attractive copy.Blackmer Collection 1334; Rohricht p.468; Tobler p.189; Not in the Atabey Collection. [Boeknr.: 2125 ]

€ 165,00

PRESSENSÉ, Edmond de. Het land van 't evangelie. Aanteekeningen eener reis in't Oosten. Uit het Fransch, met een woord aan den lezer van J.J.L. ten Kate. Amsterdam, D.B. Centen, 1865.Modern wrappers. With lithographed map by Tresling & Co. XII,248 pp. First published in Paris in 1864: Le pays de l'évangile. Notes d'un voyage en Orient. - (Library stamp on title-page).Rohricht p.516; Tobler p.204. [Boeknr.: 33426 ]

€ 65,00

RAUMER, Karl von. Palästina. Leipzig, F.M. Brockhaus, 1835.Original boards, with red morocco title-label. With folding table and 2 folding plans. XII,346 pp. First edition. - Karl Georg von Raumer (1783 - 1865), a German geologist, was born in Wörlitz. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and at the mining academy in Freiberg as a student of Abraham Gottlob Werner. In 1811 he became professor of mineralogy at Breslau, and two years later, participated in the war of German liberation from French Napoleonic domination, 1813-1814. In 1819 he relocated as a professor to the University of Halle, then in 1827 settled at the University of Erlangen as a professor of natural history and mineralogy.Rohricht 376; Engelmann I, p.151; Tobler p. 218: Ein vortreffliches Handbuch. [Boeknr.: 33375 ]

€ 175,00

RAUMER, Karl von. Palestina. Naar den vierden, vermeerderden en verbeterden, druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door D. Koorders. Utrecht, Kemink en Zoon, 1867.Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With folding table and large folding coloured map (small tear). XX,770,(3) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Leipzig in 1835.Rohricht 376; Engelmann I, p.151; Tobler p. 218: Ein vortreffliches Handbuch. [Boeknr.: 33376 ]

€ 125,00

RAWLINSON, George. The sixth great Oriental monarchy; or the geography, history, & antiquities of Parthia, collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (spine rubbed; 1 hinge dam. but holding). With coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2 folding maps and several illustrations. XIII,458 pp. First edition. - Description of Parthia, the northeastern part of present-day Iran. Rawlinson (1812-1902) summarised for his generation in scholarly form the results of research and excavation in the East, in a series of works of considerable constructive ability which have hardly yet been superseded in English (D.N.B.). - One of two of the most important modern works on the history of the region and its inhabitants (Encyclopaedia Britannica). - (Some foxing).Wilson p.184. [Boeknr.: 15166 ]

€ 175,00

RICCIOTTI, Giuseppe. Histoire d' Israël. Traduction française par Paul Auvray. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. Paris, A. & J. Picard et Cie, 1947-48. 2 volumes. Wrappers. With maps and illustrations. 560; 636 pp. [Boeknr.: 24795 ]

€ 45,00

RÖHR, Johann Friedrich. Palästina oder historisch-geographische Beschreibung des jüdischen Landes zur Zeit Jesu, zur Beförderung einer anschaulichen Kenntniss der evangelischen Geschichte für Reliogionslehrer und gebildete christliche Bibelleser. 3. vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Zeitz, Webelschen Buchhandlung, 1821.Original boards. With engraved plan of Jerusalem on title-page, folding genealogical table of the Herodian family and folding engraved map. 212,XIV pp. First published in 1816. - Johann Friedrich Röhr (1777 - 1848) was a German theologian; regarded as a main representative of theological rationalism. On March 26, 1832 he delivered the funeral oration at Goethe�s burial. - Very popular work, reprinted and translated several times.Rohricht p.349; Tobler p. 216; Engelmann I, p.151. [Boeknr.: 33383 ]

€ 95,00

RUSSEL, M(ichael). Palestina, of Het Heilige Land, van de vroegste tot op den tegenwoordigen tijd. Op geschiedkundige waarheid, volgens de meest geloofwaardige reizigers gegrond; benevens een beknopt overzigt van de aardrijkskunde, land- en plaatsbeschrijving; alsmede van de geschiedenis des Joodschen volks, de kruistogten en van de letterkunde en godsdienst der oude Hebreeën. Naar het Hoogduitsch van A. Diezmann. Amsterdam, G. Portielje, 1838.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 lithographed frontispieces and 2 lithographed plates. VIII,200; 229 pp. First printed in Edinburgh in 1831: Palestine or the Holy Land from the earliest period to the present time. - Michael Russel (1781-1848), became bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. To the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he contributed volumes on Palestine, 1831, Ancient and Modern Egypt, 1831, Nubia and Abyssinia, 1833, The Barbary States, 1835, Polynesia, 1842, and Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles, 1850.Röhricht p.366; Tobler 1833; Engelmann I, p.151; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 26965 ]

€ 125,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SCHULZ, E(durad) W(ilhelm). Reise in das gelobte Land. Mülheim an der Ruhr, F.H. Nieten, 1852.Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (sl. worn). With 20 lithographed plates. XVI,339,(1) pp. First edition. - Eduard Wilhelm Schulz was a German Protestant pastor in the city of Mühlheim an der Ruhr. This is the account of his journey to, and experiences in the Holy Land in 1851.Tobler p.183; Rohricht p. 447. [Boeknr.: 33380 ]

€ 125,00

SCOTT, Walter. The talisman. A tale of the crusaders and the chronicles of the Canongate. Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1871.Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-vignette and 1 engraving in the text. 420 pp. The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin. [Boeknr.: 37126 ]

€ 45,00

SOTHEBY'S. The Holy Land & Middle East. The library of a gentleman. Maps and books from the Laor collection. London, 1999. 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 96 pp. Auction catalogue with i.a. duplicates from the Laor collection in the Jewish National and Hebrew University LIbrary in Jerusalem. [Boeknr.: 37097 ]

€ 18,00

STEPHENS, John Lloyd. Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land. Edinburgh, William & Robert Chambers, 1839.Modern wrappers. 120 pp. (printed in two columns). First published in New York in 1837 followed by many other editions, by 1839 there were ten editions. - The American John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) sailed for Alexandria in 1835. After visiting Cairo he took a voyage up the Nile, visited Dendra and Luxor. He made his way to Mount Sinai and then to Aqaba and Petra and Jerusalem where he spent several months. 'His book achieved considerable success on both sides of the Atlantic' (Howgego II, p.565). 'One of the earliest and best-selling American travel books on Egypt' (Kalfatovic, Nile notes, 0342). Stephens became know as 'the American traveller' (Blackmer p.340).Rohricht p.384; Tobler p.158; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p. 259. [Boeknr.: 37733 ]

€ 125,00

TASSO, Torquato. Jerusalem delivered. An heroic poem, translated by John Hoole. London, W. Suttaby, Crosby & Co and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1809.12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt fillets round sides, spine richly gilt. With engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page after R. Cook by J. Fittler. 501 pp. First published in 1581: La Gerusalemme liberata. - A very popular poem recounting a largely fictionalized version of the first crusade in which christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, fought against the muslims in order to raise the siege of Jerusalem. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 31078 ]

€ 275,00

TERPSTRA, H. De opkomst der westerkwartieren van de Oost-Indische Compagnie (Suratte, Arabië, Perzië). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1918. Original printed wrappers. With folding map. XII,308 pp. [Boeknr.: 6321 ]

€ 45,00

TRISTAM, H.B. The land of Israel; a journal of travels in Palestine, undertaken with special reference to its physical character. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1865.Original cloth with gilt vignette on cover, spine richly gilt. With 2 folding maps (1 coloured), 12 plates (4 coloured) and many woodengravings. XX, 651 pp. First edition. - Account of the English geologist, naturalist and traveller Henry Baker Tristam (1822-1906). He made extensive travels in the Holy Land with observations on life, customs, peoples, scenes, buildings, geology, wildlife and nature, including areas which were normally inaccessible in those days, especially in the Dead Sea area and surroundings. Sein werk ist für die naturgeschichte Palästinas unentbehrlich (Tobler p. 203).Röhricht 2798, Howgego IV, T39; Blackmer 1677 note. [Boeknr.: 36689 ]

€ 295,00

TWEEDIE, Alex Ethel Brilliana. My legacy cruise (The peak year of my life). 2nd impression. London, Hutchinson & Co., (ca. 1936). Red cloth. With 4 coloured plates and 66 photographic illustrations. 319 pp. Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (née Harley) (1862-1940) was a prolific English author, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor, journalist, photographer and illustrator. She writes about Naples, Egypt, Suez Canal and Red Sea, Palestine, Bombay, Delhi, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Siam, Bali, Zamboanga, Hongkong, Shanghai, Peking, Japan, Hawaii, and the United States.Robinson, Wayward women, p.198-199; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.276. [Boeknr.: 36152 ]

€ 65,00

WALLACH, Janet. Koningin van de woestijn. Gertrude Bell, raadgever van koningen, avonturier, bondgenoot van Lawrence of Arabia. Amsterdam, Anthos, 1997. Wrappers. With photographic plates. 527 pp. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868 - 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. [Boeknr.: 21688 ]

€ 20,00

WENSINCK, A.J. & J.H. KRAMERS. Handwörterbuch des Islam. Im Auftrag der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam herausgegeben. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1941. Cloth. With plates. VIII,833,6 pp. Detailed glossary to Islamic religion. [Boeknr.: 13605 ]

€ 75,00

WENTHOLT, Arnold. (Red.). In kaart gebracht met kapmes en kompas. Met het koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap op expeditie tussen 1873 en 1960. (Heerlen, 2003). 4to. Boards. With many maps (3 folding) and many photographic illustrations (several in colours). 382 pp. Dutch expeditions, organized by the Royal Geographical Society, in Indonesia, Suriname, Arabia, America and Africa, 1873-1960. [Boeknr.: 26452 ]

€ 35,00

WILLMET, Johannes. Lexicon linguae Arabicae in Coranum Haririum et vitam Timuri. Lugduni Batavorum, apud Sam. et Joh. Luchtmans, 1784.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-label. XVI,824 pp. First edition. - The Arabic-Latin dictionary by Joannes Willmet (1750-1835) was primarily printed for educational purposes. This work is compiled chiefly from that of Golius, but with many important additions. Though it states to be constructed only for the Koran, Hariri and Ibn Arabshah�s Life of Timur, yet the Arabic student will seldom be at loss for any root he may meet with any other author. For the Koran it is particularly useful, as it contains not only all the words but refers also to the chapter and verse in which they occur (Ras Al Khaimah).- (Blank margin last page restored). - A fine interleaved copy with text in Arabic and Latin in double column. [Boeknr.: 34982 ]

€ 1750,00

WRIGHT, Denis. The English amongst the Persians during the Qujar period 1787-1921. London, Heinemann, (1977). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With coloured frontispiece and many photographic illustrations. XV,218 pp. [Boeknr.: 15883 ]

€ 30,00

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