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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

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

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

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

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

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