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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. (28), 186, (10) pp. Woodcut initials. 19th century marbled boards. All edges red. The Norman copy of the first edition thus, very rare, containing "most of [Paracelsus's] innovations in chemical therapeutics" (Garrison/M.). Paracelsus (ca. 1493-1541) was a key member of the German Renaissance and a pioneer of the medical revolution. He was interested in chemistry, hermeticism, and toxicology alongside and in conjunction with his medical theories, and overturned much of the accepted wisdom of medicine in the West. In doing so, he "rebelled against ancient humoral pathology, which held t... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. 134 pp., final blank leaf. Original printed wrappers with printed title enclosed in decorative border. First separate printing: exceptionally rare offprint of this important essay on the foundations of calculus and real analysis by the first inventor of non-Euclidean geometry. "As early as 1835, Lobachevsky showed in [this] memoir the necessity of distinguishing between continuity and differentiability" (Cajori). - Lobachevsky's works in other areas of mathematics were either directly relevant to his geometry (as his calculations on definite integrals and probable errors of observation... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. (2), 34 pp. Original printed wrappers. Offprint from the "Klinisches Jahrbuch", bearing Ehrlich's autograph inscription to the mayor of Frankfurt, Franz Adickes ("in vorzüglichster Hochachtung gewidmet") on the upper wrapper cover. - "This was the beginning of the concept of biological standardization. The first exposition of Ehrlich's side-chain theory appeared in this paper" (Garrison/M.). Ehrlich's famous paper describes how diphtheria toxin and antitoxin interact and the method of their measurement. "Not only did he postulate that immunological specificity was due to a unique stere... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to. (IX)-XIV, (1)-147, (3) SS. (inkl. Titel, davon 4 leer) in 8vo. Durchschossen mit zusammen ca. 94 SS. Manuskript in Tinte auf 78 Bll., mit über 150 kleinen Textillustrationen meist in Blei, meist 4to. Marmorierter Papiereinband mit Rückenschild. Zweite Auflage des erprobten Lehrwerks für Physik und Chemie: hier als durchschossenes Handexemplar eines zeitgenössischen Hochschullehrers für seine Vorlesungstätigkeit, versehen mit umfangreichen handschriftlichen Ergänzungen sowie zahlreichen kleinen Handskizzen zur Erläuterung des Stoffs und zu Versuchsaufbauten, die einen unmittelbaren Blic... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. IV, 46 ff., 70 pp. (= counted as a total of 116 pp.), 1 blank page. Original coloured paper boards with printed cover label. Only Geman edition (published in German and Arabic parallel text) of this brief catechism of the tenets of Islam, written by Sayyid Muhammad, professor of Arabic in Nazareth and first published in Cairo (al-Matba'ah al-Kubra al-Amiriyah) in 1911. The German translation and vocalisation as well as the word index are by Mohammed Ibn-Brugsch (1860-1929). Includes a preface by Sadr-ad-Din, the Imam of the mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. - Published as vol. 1/3 within t... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 3 vols. Large 8vo (178 x 245 mm). 344, (1), 15 pp. 557, (3) pp. (3)-400, (4) pp. All with a portrait frontispiece and numerous halftone illustrations throughout. Printed original wrappers (Arabic cover printed in green and black). - Includes: Chenoufi (Shanufi), Ali. Un savant Tunisien du XIXème siècle: Muhammad As-Sanusi. Sa vie et son oeuvre. Tunis, Imprimérie Officielle, 1977. 8vo. 244, (4) pp. With portrait frontispiece and several halftone illustrations. Printed original wrappers. First edition of this valuable account of a 19th century Hajj. - Muhammad as-Sanusi was an important law t... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo (148 x 206 mm). 56 pp. Original printed pink wrappers. Omar Rakbani (1904-62), a professor at Ez-Zitouna University, was a Tunisian historian and tutor of Muslim girls. Fond of travelling, he published several accounts of his journeys through Europe, North Africa and the East in a series entitled "Summer Trips". This sixth booklet in the series is devoted to his visit to the Hejaz in 1947, when he performed the Hajj to Mecca. - Slight fraying to wrappers; slight waterstain. Extremely rare: a single copy in OCLC (National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat). OCLC 929787399. continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Folio (205 x 312 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper. 53 ff., 33 lines to the page written in minute ghubar script in black ink, verse separated by a gold roundel, surah heading in red thuluth on gold background, margins illuminated with gilt discs or lozenges inscribed in red and enclosed within ornamental borders dotted in blue; fols. 1b-2a with a double-page illuminated frontispiece, lavishly coloured and gilt. Contemporary blindstamped and gilt black leather binding; spine rebacked. Marbled pastedowns. A fine, complete Qur'an manuscript, written in meticulous ghubar script and with pretty i... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to. (25) ff., (7) blank ff. With 100 black and white photographs of various sizes (between ca. 75 x 105 and 90 x 145 mm), 96 of which mounted, 4 loosely inserted. A few captioned in ink on the photograph or on verso. With original hand-drawn map of Palestine in ink, crayon and ballpoint on graph paper loosely inserted. Contemporary giltstamped half cloth with a mounted reproduced drawing to lower board, showing an elegantly dressed group of people. Private photo album composed by a British engineer stationed in El Qantara, Egypt, possibly a member of the Royal Engineers, who constructed a ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Mostly 8vo, a few items 4to and folio. 94 autograph letters (signed) by Page, 81 letters addressed to Page. - II: Copy book with 144 letters by Page to the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, as well as to other officials, in his own handwritten transcript. 4to. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. - III: Protocol of a hearing of the Suez Canal Company. 4to. (230) ff., numbered 190-425. Extensive correspondence archive kept by the prominent French naval commander during his voyages across the globe, from the Arabian Gulf to Madagascar, Rio de Janeiro, French Polynesia, Ch... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Folio (245 x 326 mm). 202 pp. Arabic manuscript written in Ruq'ah script. Single column, 11 lines, with extensive glosses above, outside, and interlinear. Black ink, emphases (name of Allah) in red. An annotated sketch of the Kaaba on one page; occasional small ornaments. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated binding. An early 19th century summary of the principles and tenets of the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam, as laid down by Al-Shafi'i in the 9th century, with extensive examples, written in six parts (with a total of 44 chapters) on Taharah (purity), Salah (prayer), Funeral, Zakat (alms)... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to (175 x 221 mm). (III)-XIIV, (15)-217, (1) pp. Text printed within elaborate coloured and gilt borders in the decorative orientalist style. Publisher's full cloth, sumptuously decorated and gilt, floral endpapers. All edges red. Silk divider. First edition of this German translation of Vazeh's poems. - Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794-1852) was a classical Azerbaijani poet in both Persian and his native Caucasus language. Beginning in 1850, the German poet Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819-92), who took oriental language lessons from him, published translations of Vazeh's poems. - Sumptuously produc... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Oblong 4to (ca. 215 x 167 mm). 103 original photographs (ca. 40 x 58 to 53 x 78 mm), mounted under grey paper mattes with rectangular, oval, and circular windows on 24 cardboard pages. Captioned in English. Bound in contemporary blindstamped full cloth with giltstamped cover title "Photographs". Private photo album composed by a British soldier or engineer active during the Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War. It contains not only pictures of landmarks like the Baghdad railway station, the British Residency, the Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad, and the Whiteley Bridge in Basra, as wel... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Royal folio (380 x 506 mm). Persian manuscript on paper. 140 pp., 9 lines in 2 columns to the page, first leaf and final 3 pp. blank save for the borders. Large Nasta'liq calligraphy in black ink, chapter headings in red. Text enclosed within blue, black, gilt and red borders. Title in red to fol. 2r, large 'unwan headpiece on fol. 2v, column separator decorated with gilt floral designs on fols. 2v-3r, 2 meticulous gilt and coloured colophon decoration on fol. 69r. With a total of 18 coloured illustrations of the Holy Sites (7 full-page, the remainder half-page or larger). Splendidly orname... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Folio (365 x 545 mm). 14 (instead of 15) maps (lacking no. 11). Contemporary black half-leather binding over brown cloth. Kiepert's map of the western part of Asia Minor: the personal copy of Paul Gaudin, the archaeologist and engineer in charge of the completion of the Hejaz railway. - In the margins, the numbers of the adjacent maps are written in blue pencil. On maps VIII and IX the route of the railway line as well as the names and numbers of the stations between Alasehir/Philadelphia and Karahissâr/Afiûn were added by Gaudin in red ink. - Binding rubbed. Interior in good general condit... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 3 volumes (Moharam 1369, Alqueda 1370, Moharam 1371). 32, 18 pp. 26, (2) pp. 26, (2) pp. Illustrated coloured printed wrappers. Staple-bound. Three rare issues of the Egyptian monthly "The Islamic World", published by the Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Abul Faid El Menoufi (1882-1972) in Arabic as well as (for features in the early issues) in English and French. El-Menoufi founded several Sufi-leaning Islamic periodicals through which he campaigned against the British occupation of Egypt. - The three issues at hand contain, inter alia: 1) Moharam 1369 (October 1949): an article in Arabic with ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. 3 parts in one volume. (72), 184, (4), 71, (1), (14), 278 pp. With 12 engravings in the text, 3 folding plates and several woodcuts. 19th century mottled boards, spine ruled in gilt, titled in gilt on black leather spine label. All edges speckled. First edition of this important work dedicated to oriental games from Arabia and Persia as well as from India and China, including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes the first scholarly account devoted to the history of chess, as well as Asian board games from Arabia, Persia, India, and China, including backgammon, draughts, and dice. Tw... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 12mo. 85, (3) pp. Original wrappers with lettering. A rare pamphlet in Arabic, containing Saddam Hussein's speech on the role of women in revolutions. The speech was given in 1977, two years before Saddam formally came to power in 1979. The pamphlet was reprinted in the year of his election. With this speech Saddam touched the problem of women's liberation vs. strong local traditional values in the time of the Arab national struggle. In the 1970s Iraqi women had free access to the education, voting rights, could own property and were encouraged to pursue posts in high positions, but during ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to (170 x 240 mm). Persian manuscript on polished paper. 137 (instead of 143) ff. (lacking ff. 97-102) in elegant black nasta'liq script, 14 lines, 2 columns. With an illuminated shamsa on fol. 1r (specifying the name of the sponsor Khawaja Nasir as well as the place and date of production) and an illuminated 'unwan headpiece on fol. 1v. Light brown full morocco with blindstamped borders, corners and central ornaments. An elegantly executed Eastern Persian manuscript that chronicles the epic life and victories of one of history's most famous emperors and military leaders, Timur Leng (Tamer... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. 371 pp. With black & white illustrations and plates throughout. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. Original dust jacket (slight defects). First edition. The personal copy of HH Said bin Taimur (1910-72), the 13th Sultan of Muscat and Oman from 1932 until 1970, with his handwritten ownership in black ink to the front pastedown, and subsequently inscribed by him in blue ink to Captain (later Brigadier) Colin Maxwell on the half-title: "To Captain C. C. Maxwell / Said / 29.1.53". The gift would have been partly in recognition of Maxwell's key role in ra... continua a leggere
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