Search Results: Near East from Focloir

Ancient world 1474 Ribichini, Sergio. Adonis: aspetti orientali di un mito Greco. Roma: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1981, 212p, bib, index, bib, index. Paperback, little sun-fading, good, clean, tight copy. $23.50

Persia aqIfl Floor, Willem. Agriculture in Qajar Iran. Washington, DC : Mage Publishers, 2003., 692 page: illustrations, bib, index, Originally published in paperback, rebound in brown library buckram, gilt lettering on spine. A friendly inscription from Floor to a bibliophile/librarian who often helped him in tracking down difficult to locate sources. Original paper wrappers bound in. Like new copy.
Summary:
Willem Floor has compiled an all-encompassing analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian agriculture based on extensive research into previously untapped Persian and European archives. His investigation covers farming methods like irrigation and seeding, the raising of livestock, and the range of crops cultivated, from wheat, barley, and rice, to the more notorious cash crops of tobacco and opium. Floor also delves into methods of forestry and fishing, subjects about which very little is known and even less has been written, until now. Agriculture in Qajar Iran traces the commercialisation of Iranian… Read More

Ancient world 373 Bagatti, Bellarmino, O. F. M. The Church from the Gentiles in Palestine: History and archaeology. English translation by Eugene Hoade, O. F. M. Jerusalem: Franciscan Print. Press, 1984, x, 393p, bib, index, illus. Paperbound. Good, clean, tight copy. [From the back of the title page: "The present reprint reproduces the edition of 1971. The volume has an Italian edition. (Alle Origini della Chiesa. II: Le communitá gentilo-cristiane). Vatican: Libraria Editrice Vaticana, 1982 with up-to-date notes which do not alter the sense or character of the work]. $25.00

Ancient world 1152 Saggs, H. W. F. Civilization before Greece and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989, 322 p., [16] p. of plates, illus, notes, bib, index. Map on lining papers. Very minor damp spotting to top paper edge, good, clean, tight copy, no marks in dust jacket. An introduction to the early civilizations of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. Contents: Pushing back the frontiers; City-states and kingdoms; Pyramids and ziggurats; Writing; Education; Living in cities; Trade; Law; The brotherhood of nations; Natural resources; Mathematics and astronomy; Medicine; Ancient religion. $8.50

Ancient world 332 d'Ansse de Villoison, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard: De l'Hellade à la Grèce. Voyage en Grèce et au Levant (1784-1786). Edité par Etienne Famerie. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 40). Hildesheim: Olms Verlag. 2006, 287p, bib, index, 2 plates, 2 maps, table of contents. Paperback. Very good to fine volume, clean, tight, no marks. Signature of well-known classics professor on front free endpaper. $40.00 For the first time, this volume offers all texts written by the French scholar of Greek studies J.-B.-G. d'Ansse de Villoison which refer to his trip to Greece and the Levant (1784-86). It is the editio princeps of the manuscript of the diary, the reprint of an epigraphic treatise which developed from the travelogue and preparatory notes for a comparative study on the Greece of ancient and modern times. The three texts are of great interest for experts from different disciplines: the subject matter ranges from the narratives of journeys made in the islands of Greece to… Read More

Kurdish hhdf Hakim, Halkawt. Dictionnaire fondamental kurde-français : dialecte sorani. Paris : Langues & mondes-L'Asiathèque, 1996., 317 pages Very good copy of the paperback. $20.00 Box B18

Ancient History cejw Christine Eslick & Jayne L. Warner. Elmali-Karatas I & II. The Neolithic and Chalcothic Periods & The Early Bronze Age Village of Karatas. Bryn Mawr College, Archaeological monographs, 1992-1994, xviii, 103p plus 109 plates, bib; xxxii, 220p, plus 206plates, bib, index. The two volumes: $27.50
Two Volume Hardback Set. No Dustjackets as issued. First Printing. New. Heavy volumes, would need extra postage.
The first volume to publish the final results from excavations at Elmali-Karatas (1963-1975) on the Lycian coast of southwestern Anatolia focuses on the area's earliest material. The volume reports on Neolithic and Chalcholithic structural remains from Bagbasi and other sites as well as ceramics and environmental evidence.

Middle East esep Erdemgil, Selahattan Ephesus Istanbul: NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1989, 140 pages, large number of full color photos. PaperbackThe author was a professiIstanbul: onal archaeologist and Director of the Ephesus Museum. In fine condition. Book is a pleasure to read lovely full color photos
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Persia fdiz Festgabe deutscher Iranisten zur 2500 Jahrfeier Irans








Edited by Wilhelm Eilers. Stuttgart, Hochwacht Druck, 1971], xv, 168 p. illus. (1 fold.) bib, 15 essays in German








Braun, H. Ein iranischer Grosswesir des 17. Jahrhunderts: Mīrzā Muḥammad-Taqī. -- Busse, H. Thron, Kosmos und Lebensbaum im Schāhnāme. -- Eilers, W. Iran zwischen Ost und West. -- Fragner, B. Ein Autograph des Mongolenwesirs Ras̆īd ad-Dīn Fażlallāh. -- Heinz, W. Die Rolle der Būjiden in der Geschichte Irans. -- Hinz, W. Reichsgründer Kyros. -- Hoffmann, K. Zum Zeicheninventar der Avesta-Schrift. -- Humbach, H. Die baktrische Ära der Tochi-Inschriften. -- Kochwasser, F.H. Persien im Spiegel der Reisebeschreibung von Heinrich v. Poser (1620-1625). -- Kuros, M. Die Bedeutung Irans aus dem Blickfeld der europäischen Kultur. -- Roemer, H.R. Scheich Ṣafī von Ardabīl. -- Schimmel, A. Mīr Dardʼs Gedanken über das Verhältnis von Mystik und Wort. -- Schlerath, B. Zarathustra im Awesta. --… Read More

Ancient world 1494 King, David A. and George Saliba, editors. From Deferent to Equant; A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy. (Series: Annals of theNew York Academy of Sciences, Volume 500). New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1987, xxix, 569 pages, illustrations. Each essay has its own bibliography. Signature of collector on front free endpaper. Paperback volume in very good to fine condition. Very scholarly studies. $21.50

Kurdish hkk Bedirxan, Celadet Ali, 1893-1951. Hawar: kovara Kurdî = Revue kurde Xwedî û berpirsiyarê kovarê Mîr Celadet Alî Bedir-Xan; ji elfa beya erebî-farisî wergerandin û ji nuh ve nivîsandin Mihemed Bekir. [Sweden]: Weşanxana Hawar, 1987.
Description 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., fascims. ; 22 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: Damascus : Maṭbaʻat al-Taraqqī, 1932. Includes v. 1, nos. 1-9, 1932. Text in Romanized Kurdish; includes facsimiles of original text in Kurdish (Romanized or Arabic script) and French.
Reprint of the Kurdish journal originally printed in 1932-. Very scarce and important work in the history of the Kurdish language and culture. Fine copy. $45.00 Box B18

Persia, qsahw Quinn, Sholeh Alysia. Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah ʻAbbas. This was produced in 1998 by University Microfilms. It is a digital xerographic process on acid-free paper of the author's 1993 Ph.d, thesis from the University of Chicago. x, 264 pages, bib. The dissertation service had almost evey doctoral dissertation since 1861 and was often used by libraries when there was no other way of obtaining a copy of the dissertation. It is bound in bright red library buckram with gilt lettering with the original wrappers bound in. From the personal library of a very avid bibliophile-librarian. A fine copy as all the books from his library . $21.50 Box B20

Turkey jbhb Jelavich, Barbara, 1923-1995. History of the Balkans. Two volumes. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994 (1983), xiv, 407 pages, bib, index, illus. 476 pages, bib, Fine copies, like new, bound in blue library buskram, with gilt lettering. From the personal library of a librarian/ bibliophile. This person seems to have bound up all of his paperbound volumes in library buckram. Must have been very expensive but probably got a discount as he sent so many of the library's paperbacks to the bindery. Specialized in the Near and Middle East. $21.50 for the set Box B20

Ancient world 1428 Vieyra, Maurice. Hittite Art, 2300-750 B. C. London: Alec Tiranti, 1955, 92p, bib, notes, index, illus plus 122 black and white photos. Very good in dust jacket. Dust jacket has some parts missing but good overall, protected with a plastic dust jacket as well. Smaller format. The survey of Hittite art presented in this volume is the first specific attempt to describe the artistic achievements of one of the great civilizations of the Ancient East, which, in its heyday, rivalled those of Egypt and Babylon. It is based on a first-hand study of the remains of Hittite art in the museums of Turkey and Europe, and in the field. $15.00

Persia, mmiki Muḥammad Maʻṣūm ibn Khvājagī Iṣfahānī.Hulāṣat as-siyar : der Iran unter Schah Ṣafī (1629-1642) nach der Chronik des Muhammad Maʼṣūm B. Huāǧagï Iṣfahānī ; [übers. und hrsg.] von Gerhard Rettelbach. München : R. Trofenik, 1978, xlii, 552 pages, bib, index. Very good condition. $50.00 Box B25
Series Beiträge zur Kenntnis Südosteuropas und des Nahen Orients ; 29. Bd.
Notes: Languages German and Persian; Ṣafī, Shah of Iran, -1642, Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries; Iran -- Kings and rulers -- Biography

Ancient world 1208 Smith, William Stevenson. Interconnections in the ancient Near-East; a study of the relationships between the arts of Egypt, the Aegean, and western Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965, xxxii, 202 p, bib, index; 221 illustrations. (part fold.) maps (on lining papers). Large and substantial book, in very good, clean, tight condition. The dust jacket is certainly good, almost very good. $25.00

Persia mjjo Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von, 1616-1644. Journal und observation: 1637-1640. Herausgegeben von Margrete Refslund-Klemann. Kobenhavn: Andr. Fred. Host, 1942, xx, 233 p. : ill., facsim., map, port, bib, index. Like new condition, originally issued in paperback, rebound in brown library buckram cloth with black letterin. Wrappers bound in. Attractive copy of an uncommon edition. From the personal library of a librarian/bibliophile.$25.00 Box B18

Ancient world 779 Judeich, Walther, b. 1859. Kleinasiatische Studien, Untersuchungen zur griechisch-persischen Geschichte des IV. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Hildesheim/ New York: Georg Olms, 1987, x, [2], 370p, index. Paperback. Reprint of Marburg 1892 edition –not a print on demand edition. Very good. Signature of well-known classics professor on front free endpaper. $35.00

Ancient world 1366Waldmann, Helmut. Königsweg der Apostel in Edessa, Indien und Rom. 2., verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage.Tübingen: Verlag der Tübinger Gesellschaft, 1997, xxxvi, 236 p. Paperback with dust jacket in protective plastic dust jacket. Fine condition, clean, tight, no marks. N.B.: The original 1996 edition has the following bibliographical description: Waldmann, Helmut. Das Christentum in Indien und der Konigsweg der Apostel in Edessa, Indien und Rom. Tübingen: Verlag der Tübinger Gesellschaft, 1996, xxiii, 195 p. (Series: Wissenschaftliche Reihe (Tubingen, Germany) ; Bd. 5.). They both share the same ISBN to make matters more confusing. $40.00 Box 711

Coptic kkcn Kuratorium des Villa Hugel. Koptische Kunst; Christentum am Nil. 3, Mai bis 15, August 1963. In Villa Hugel, Essen. Essen: Villa Hugel, 1963, 628 pages: illus., map, plates (part. col.). Paperbound. Good copy. This is a complicated bibliographical issue. Virtually all the entries on OCLC and Amazon refer to a catalogue published in 1964 which was based on this exhibition held at the Gemeinnütziger Verein Villa Hügel, Essen, in 1963). The 1964 catalogue had about 250 pages. $30.00