Description and travel, DS412 .I263 1819, 425.4 Ib5d
ex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar,... Show moreex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar, south-western India. Original Arabic text, edited with a Latin translation and annotations by the Jena oriental scholar and entomologist Johann Heinrich Gottfried Apetz (1794-1857), a student of L. G. Kosegarten, to whom this effort is dedicated. - Ibn Battuta's famous "Rihla" (literally, "The Journey") is considered one of the most significant Mediaeval eyewitness accounts of the Middle East. Over a period of thirty years, the Muslim Moroccan explorer Abu-‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutah (1304-77?) visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East - a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later, and is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. After returning home from his travels in 1354, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar whom he had previously met in Granada. The account is the only source for Ibn Battuta's adventures. For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text. - Slight browning and duststaining; ownership "S. H. Lewin" (dated 1828) on t. p. Main Heritage Compact General DS412 .I263 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843642 BIB-ID: 1509208 Show less
qua scriptione ... ad orationem publicam audiendam invitat Georgius Henricus Augustus Ewald. Text in Arabic. Introduction and notes in latin. Main... Show morequa scriptione ... ad orationem publicam audiendam invitat Georgius Henricus Augustus Ewald. Text in Arabic. Introduction and notes in latin. Main Heritage Shelves General DS71 .W37 1827 Book Item-ID: i21964774 BIB-ID: 2347091 Show less
Maqqarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad , -1631 or 1632, DP103.7.M343 D69 1871
par R. Dozy. Main Heritage Shelves General DP103.7.M343 D69 1871 Book Item-ID: i22425469 BIB-ID: 2397295 Show morepar R. Dozy. Main Heritage Shelves General DP103.7.M343 D69 1871 Book Item-ID: i22425469 BIB-ID: 2397295 Show less
avec la description du pèlerinage de la Mecque et une nouvelle carte géographique de Kiepert ; par Adolphe d'Avril. First and only edition of this... Show moreavec la description du pèlerinage de la Mecque et une nouvelle carte géographique de Kiepert ; par Adolphe d'Avril. First and only edition of this rare description of the Arabian Peninsula and its inhabitants, as well as of the Muslims' annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The French diplomat Louis-Marie-Adolphe Lévesque, Baron d'Avril (1822-1904), served as Minister Plenipotentiary. Includes Heinrich Kiepert's groundbreaking map of the region (in German, folding, with slight tear near inner edge). Interior somewhat foxed throughout; altogether a good, very appealingly bound copy in excellent condition. Sold for £2,800 at Sotheby's (Oct 14, 1999, lot 61: Burrell copy). "Appendice: Rapport à la Commission sanitaire internationale sur la marche et le mode de propagation du choléra en 1865": p. [253]-313. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .A96 1868 Book Item-ID: i16598672 BIB-ID: 1494586 Also issued online. Show less
par M. Moris. Main Heritage Shelves General DS46 .M57 1827 Book Item-ID: i22330203 BIB-ID: 2392047 Show morepar M. Moris. Main Heritage Shelves General DS46 .M57 1827 Book Item-ID: i22330203 BIB-ID: 2392047 Show less