Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DT51 .P63 1776
1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3.... Show more1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Klein Asie, Thracie, Griekenland, en eenig andere gewesten van Europa. door den Heer Richard Pococke ... ; uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien door Ernst Willem Cramerus ; met eene voorrede van Rutger Schutte ... Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .P63 1776 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i10065064 BIB-ID: 1008142 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DT51 .P63 1776
1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3.... Show more1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Klein Asie, Thracie, Griekenland, en eenig andere gewesten van Europa. door den Heer Richard Pococke ... ; uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien door Ernst Willem Cramerus ; met eene voorrede van Rutger Schutte ... Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .P63 1776 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20234879 BIB-ID: 1008142 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DT51 .P63 1776
1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3.... Show more1. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Egypte.-- 2. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Palestina, Syrie, Mesopotanie, Cyprus, Kandie, en de Grieksche eilanden in den archipel.-- 3. deel, 1.-2. stuk. Klein Asie, Thracie, Griekenland, en eenig andere gewesten van Europa. door den Heer Richard Pococke ... ; uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien door Ernst Willem Cramerus ; met eene voorrede van Rutger Schutte ... Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .P63 1776 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20303981 BIB-ID: 1008142 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Show less
door Carsten Niebuhr. Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and... Show moredoor Carsten Niebuhr. Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India (1761-67), the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published two years earlier, in Copenhagen. Niebuhr's account is here bound with the Dutch translation of Michaëlis's work, containing a review of the first. "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientfiic expedition. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Bauernfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren" (Howgego). - Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. The plates include views of the mosques of Mecca and Medina, and 6 maps including the map of Yemen and of the Gulf of Suez. Furthermore it contains Arabic specimens from the Qur'an, with vowel points and decorations hand coloured. Niebuhr's "accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). - In fine condition; only minor foxing in a couple of plates. Wholly untrimmed, with all deckles intact. Binding rubbed and with some abrasions, but structurally sound. Important contribution to the study of the Middle East. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .N54 1774 Book Item-ID: i22622238 BIB-ID: 1510948 Show less
Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .V37 1654
van de Heer Ludowyck di Barthema van Bononien, Ridder &c. : gedaen in de Morgenlanden, Syrien, Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en... Show morevan de Heer Ludowyck di Barthema van Bononien, Ridder &c. : gedaen in de Morgenlanden, Syrien, Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien en andere. Uyt het italiaens in hoogh-duyts vertaelt door Hier. Megiserium en uyt den selven - in't Neder-duyts gebracht door F.S. Rare second Dutch translation of this highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first recorded visit of a non-Muslim to Mecca. This edition includes for the first time several full-page engravings - one depicting a 15th-century battle against camel-riding Arabs. - Ludovico di Varthema or Barthema (ca. 1468-1517) sailed from Venice to Egypt in 1502 and travelled through Alexandria, Beirut, Tripoli, and Aleppo, arriving in Damascus in April 1503. Here he enrolled in the Mameluke garrison and proceeded overland to Khaybar, Medina and Mekka, thereby becoming the first European to enter the two holiest cities of Islam. His travels furthermore took him to South Arabia, Shiraz (Persia), India, Goa, Cochin, and supposedly the Malay isthmus, Sumatra, Banda, the Moluccas, the Spice Islands, Borneo, Java and Malacca. He finally returned to Lisbon in 1508. - "Varthema's Itinerario, first published in 1510, had an enormous impact at the time, and in some respects determined the course of European expansion towards the Orient" (Howgego). His account, moreover, contains a detailed description of Mecca and the Islamic pilgrimage, and four evocative plates (including an illustration of a Sati ritual). - Contrary to the statement on the title-page, this is de second Dutch translation; an earlier and rather elusive rendering had already been published at Antwerp in 1544 (recorded in just one institutional copy worldwide!). The present translation was made by Felix van Sambix de Jonge after Megiser's German translation of the Italian. With a poem by Simon de Vries Main Heritage Shelves General DS7 .V37 1654 Book Item-ID: i16875606 BIB-ID: 1510982 Show less
door Carsten Niebuhr. Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and... Show moredoor Carsten Niebuhr. Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India (1761-67), the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published two years earlier, in Copenhagen. Niebuhr's account is here bound with the Dutch translation of Michaëlis's work, containing a review of the first. "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientfiic expedition. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Bauernfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren" (Howgego). - Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents an important contribution to the study of the Middle East. His map of Yemen, the first exact map of the area ever, remained the standard for the next 200 years. The plates include views of the mosques of Mecca and Medina, and 6 maps including the map of Yemen and of the Gulf of Suez. Furthermore it contains Arabic specimens from the Qur'an, with vowel points and decorations hand coloured. Niebuhr's "accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). - In fine condition; only minor foxing in a couple of plates. Wholly untrimmed, with all deckles intact. Binding rubbed and with some abrasions, but structurally sound. Important contribution to the study of the Middle East. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .N54 1774 Book Item-ID: i16875291 BIB-ID: 1510948 Show less
door de heer du Ryer uit de Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt. Benevens een tweevoudige beschryving van Mahomets leven en een verhaal van des... Show moredoor de heer du Ryer uit de Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt. Benevens een tweevoudige beschryving van Mahomets leven en een verhaal van des zelfs reis ten hemel, gelijk ook sijn samenspraak met de Jood Abdias ; alles op nieuws door een liefhebber overzien en van alle druk-fouten gezuivert ; met kopere plaaten verciert. Added engr. title-page. Special t.p. title: Tweevoudige beschrijvinge van Mahomets leeven, d'eerste uit de Sarasijnsche histirie van Georgius Elmacinus Arabier d'andere uit verscheide schryvers der Christenen getrokken en te zamen gesteld. Translated into Dutch by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker. -- Letterkundige woordenboek voor noord en zuid / K. ter Laan (2nd ed.), p. 179. The life of Mohammed is in part tr. from Thomas Erpenius' Latin version of al-Makin's History of the Saracens. Main Heritage Shelves General BP106 .M34 1721 Book Item-ID: i15722338 BIB-ID: 1015679 Show less
Door den Generaal Hendrik Middleton ... ; Als mede dag-register Van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton ... Beyde gedaan in het Jaar 1610. en vervolgens ; Nu... Show moreDoor den Generaal Hendrik Middleton ... ; Als mede dag-register Van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton ... Beyde gedaan in het Jaar 1610. en vervolgens ; Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaald. Rare folio edition of this Dutch translation of the journals of Henry Middleton (d. 1613) and Nicholas Downton (Dounton, 1561-1615). Downton was lieutenant under Sir Henry Middleton on the sixth voyage set forth by the English East India Company, in 1610-12. Their ships landed in Aden before continuing to Al-Mukha (Mocha) in Yemen, where Middleton's ship ran aground and had to be refloated. "After an initially friendly reception, the local ruler changed his tune and imprisoned Middleton and his crew on the pretext pf their breaking an embargo against Christian shipping. After spending three weeks as prisoners at Mocha, they were taken inland to Ta'iz and the San'a, where the Pasha explained that the arrival of English ships had been resented by the local Muslim traders. Released in February 1611, Middleton and his crew returned to Mocha and sailed on 9 Aug. 1611 for Surat in India" (Howgego I, 719; cf. also p. 320). - Slightly browned throughout; title page loosened. The engravings show an English ship exploding the the harbour, Middleton in chains in a Mocha jail, etc. Title vignette. Main Heritage Shelves General G160 .M53 1727 Book Item-ID: i16873464 BIB-ID: 1510761 Show less