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ARABS. DROMEDARUS. ARABISCH POST. - Il dromedario. Il corriere in Arabie. - Dromedar. Arabische Post. - Le dromedare. Post en Arabie. Dromadary. Arabian-post. Mainz, Joseph Scholtz, (ca. 1880).Lithographed plate. c. 34,5 x 43 cm. A fine popular print depicting a dromedary running at high speed through the desert, mounted by an Arab smoking a pipe. [Boeknr.: 26800 ]

€ 235,00

DAM, N. van. (Ed.). Nederland en de Arabische wereld van Middeleeuwen tot twintigste eeuw. Lochem, De Tijdstroom, 1987. Wrappers. With 46 illustrations (several in colours). 80 pp. [Boeknr.: 4677 ]

€ 25,00

DAMOISEAU, Louis. Voyage en Syrie et dans le désert. Bruxelles, Hauman et Cie, 1839.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Old wrappers. 248; 240 pp. First edition Paris 1833. - Author went as veterinary with De Portes in December 1818 to purchase horses for the French government from Marseilles to Alexandretta, Aleppo, Latakia, Tripoli, Acre, Tyre, Damascus, Carmel, Jerusalem and Sidon. Including the meeting with Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839).Blackmer Collection 446; Weber 207. [Boeknr.: 32466 ]

€ 295,00

DOZY, R(einhart Pieter Anne). Het Islamisme. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1863.8vo. Modern half cloth. With 13 lithographed plates by Emrik & Binger. VIII,357 pp. First edition. - History of the Islam written by the Leiden scholar Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (1820-1883). This Orientalist marked the end of a specific period in Islamology in The Netherlands, the next phase was the religious historical one, which was dominated entirely by Snouck Hurgronje (Boland & Farjon, Islam in Indonesia, p.13). It was translated into French, German and Turkish. The fine plates depict i.a. Muna (Mina), Makkah (Mecca), Al-Madinah (Medina), the mosques in Jerusalem and Damascus, pilgrims and the dance of the Dervishes. The book 'beruht, wenn auch nicht auf persönlicher Anschauung und Beobachtung, so doch auf gründlichen Studien, umfassender Belesenheit und eingehender Kenntnis des Gegenstands' (Pfannmüller p.66). [Boeknr.: 1015 ]

€ 375,00

DOZY, R(einhart Pieter Anne). De Israëlieten te Mekka van Davids tijd tot in de vijfde eeuw onzer tijdrekening. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1864.8vo. Modern boards. With folding lithographed table. VI,214 pp. First edition. - History of the Israelites and Mecca, written by the Leiden scholar Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (1820-1883). This Orientalist marked the end of a specific period in Islamology in The Netherlands, the next phase was the religious historical one, which was dominated entirely by Snouck Hurgronje (Boland & Farjon, Islam in Indonesia, p.13). [Boeknr.: 30503 ]

€ 95,00

GELDER, G.J. van and E. de MOOR. (Ed.). Eastward bound. Dutch ventures and adventures in the Middle East. Amsterdam, Atlanta, 1994. Wrappers. With plates. 178 pp. C.G. BROUWER. Willem de Milde, Kâne Shalabî and Fadlî Bâshâ: a servant of the Dutch East Indian Company received in audience by the Beglerbegi of Yemen, 1622-1624; J. de HOND. Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1726/7): A Dutch painter in the East; etc. [Boeknr.: 16106 ]

€ 35,00

MEULEN, Daniël van der. Ontwakend Arabië. Koning Ibn Sa'ud, de laatste bedoeïenenvorst van Arabië. Amst., H. Meulenhoff, (1953). Decorated cloth. With 28 photographic illustrations. 183 pp. [Boeknr.: 28561 ]

€ 40,00

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. '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; Weber 211; Tobler p.151, Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.33. [Boeknr.: 32445 ]

€ 675,00

OTTERSPEER, W. (Ed.). Leiden Oriental connections 1850-1940. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1989. Wrappers. VI,391 pp. - Studies in the History of Leiden University V. - Collection of 19 surveys and essays by Dutch scholars. [Boeknr.: 31779 ]

€ 65,00

RICHARDSON, D.N. A girdle round the earth. Home letters from foreign lands. Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1888.Original cloth. XI,449 pp. Mainly about Asia: Japan, China, Indonesia, Ceylon, India, etc. [Boeknr.: 10012 ]

€ 45,00

SNOUCK HURGRONJE, Christiaan. Mekka in the latter part of the 19th century. Daily life, customs and learning. The Moslims of the ast-Indian-Archipelago. Translated by J.H. Monahan. London, 19031. Reprint. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1970. Cloth. With 2 maps and 20 plates. VI,309 pp. [Boeknr.: 31700 ]

€ 75,00

STÜWE, Fr. Die Handelszüge der Araber unter den Abbassiden durch Afrika, Asien und Osteuropa. Berlin, 1836. Nachdruck. Amsterdam, Meridian Publishing, 1966. Wrappers. With folding map. XIV,(2),368 pp. [Boeknr.: 27130 ]

€ 30,00

THESIGER, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. (London), Longmans, Green and Co., (1964). Original green cloth, with just-jacket. With 3 maps and 109 photographic illustrations. (12), 242 pp. First edition. - The book is about the tribes that live in the Marshes of Iraq, around the junction of the Tigris and the Euphrates. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 31722 ]

€ 95,00

WENSINCK, A.J. und J.H. KRAMERS. Handwörterbuch des Islam. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1941. Cloth. With plates. VIII,833,6 pp. [Boeknr.: 13605 ]

€ 55,00

WITKAMP, P.H. Beschrijving van Azië. (Aziatisch-Rusland, Toeran of Turkestan, Het Chinesche Keizerrijk, Japan, Oost-Indië, de Oost-Indische-Archipel, Afghanistan, Perzie, Arabie, Aziatisch-Turkije). Amsterdam, J.H. Laarman, 1850.8vo. Contemporary half calf. With maps and numerous wood-engravings. 752,(12) pp. - (De Aardbol. Magazijn van hedendaagsche Land- en Volkenkunde. Deel VII). [Boeknr.: 31550 ]

€ 275,00

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