First edition. Contains chapters on the characteristics of various breeds of horses, about breeding and stud features; the plate shows different... Show moreFirst edition. Contains chapters on the characteristics of various breeds of horses, about breeding and stud features; the plate shows different types of horseshoes. Fine provenance copy from the library of Duke Max in Bavaria (1808-88), father of Empress Elizabeth.The Duke had a hippodrome installed at his Ludwigsstrasse palace, where he regularly performed as dressage rider. Immaculate, spotless copy. Publisher's advertisements: p. 341-344. Main Heritage Shelves General SF285 .S34 1829 Book Item-ID: i16220572 BIB-ID: 1463239 Show less
Arabian horse, Horses--Breeding, Reiten, Einführung, ReitenEinführung, ReitenEinführung, SF291 .G36 1692
sampt beygefugter Gestutt-Ordnung, und grundlicher Einzaumung wie auch der Pferde-Cur. Two rare works on horse keeping, breeding, illnesses, care... Show moresampt beygefugter Gestutt-Ordnung, und grundlicher Einzaumung wie auch der Pferde-Cur. Two rare works on horse keeping, breeding, illnesses, care and general horsemanship. I: Profusely illustrated work showing the riding figures, the various kinds of bridles and headgear, and the telltale marks of equine health or illness (with a double-page-sized plate). - II: Separately published version of Book Eight from Hohberg's "Georgica curiosa", an encyclopedic work about agriculture and housekeeping. - Binding shows some rubbing and chafing; gluestains to endpapers; old catalogue clipping mounted on pastedown. Some browning and brownstaining. Main Heritage Shelves General SF291 .G36 1692 Book Item-ID: i16220468 BIB-ID: 1463228 With: Neugebahnter Tummel-platz und eröffnete Reit-schul Show less
Very rare German translation of the Latin pamphlet "Omnia quae gesta sunt in oriente inter Sophin & maximum Turcarum Soldanum" with beautiful title... Show moreVery rare German translation of the Latin pamphlet "Omnia quae gesta sunt in oriente inter Sophin & maximum Turcarum Soldanum" with beautiful title woodcut. The typographical arrangement of the title page departs in several details from that described by Göllner (with fig. 6) and the VD 16 (BSB copy). The account begins in June 1516 and ends in July 1517, but also includes Sultan Selim's visit to Jerusalem in January 1518. In June 1516 the Sultan began a campagin against Sultan al-Ghuri of Egypt, allied with Shah Ismail I of Persia; in August he took Damascus and Cairo. "Sultan Selim wird zum Schutzherrn von Mekka und Medina und versucht auch, den Charakter eines Kampfes für den Islam zu geben" (Göllner 115). - Evenly browned throughout; slight tears to edge and gutter. Old note on title page. Signatures: A⁴. Woodcut on title page. Main Heritage Compact General Book Item-ID: i16873440 BIB-ID: 1510759 Show less
von neuwem an den Tag geben durch Hans Dietherich und Hans Israel von Bry, Gebrüder. Very rare first German edition; published simultaneously in... Show morevon neuwem an den Tag geben durch Hans Dietherich und Hans Israel von Bry, Gebrüder. Very rare first German edition; published simultaneously in Latin. "The first part of this work deals with Mohammed the Prophet, the ten illustrations depicting scenes from his life. It was reprinted, complete with the engravings, in 1664 by Wilhelm Serlin in his Chronica Turcica. The second part, containing sixteen allegorical engravings, records a prophecy of the downfall of the Turkish Empire" (Blackmer Sale). - Slightly browned and brownstained throughout; several edge defects remargined (slight loss to text at lower edge of ff. B4 and M1), but complete (the incomplete edition sold at the Atabey Sale in 2002 commanded £9,560). Main Heritage Shelves General DR439 .B79 1597 Book Item-ID: i16598805 BIB-ID: 1494602 Show less
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Arab--Bio-bibliography, Z6659 .W87 1840
nach den Quellen bearbeitet von Ferdinand Wustenfeld. Main Heritage Shelves General Z6659 .W87 1840 Book Item-ID: i22821284 BIB-ID: 2428035 Show morenach den Quellen bearbeitet von Ferdinand Wustenfeld. Main Heritage Shelves General Z6659 .W87 1840 Book Item-ID: i22821284 BIB-ID: 2428035 Show less
taʼlīf Abī Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Baghdādī. Iʻtaná bi-nashrih Fardīnānd Vastinfild. In Arabic. Cover title. Added t.p.: Über die... Show moretaʼlīf Abī Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Baghdādī. Iʻtaná bi-nashrih Fardīnānd Vastinfild. In Arabic. Cover title. Added t.p.: Über die Gleichheit und Verschiedenheit der [a]rabischen Stämmenamen [von] Muḥammed ben Ḥabib. Reproduced from ms. copy. Reprint of the 1850 ed. Part of the Arabic Collections Online (ACO) project, contributed by New York Univeristy Libraries. Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : New York University, 2016. NNU تأليف أبي جعفر محمد بن حبيب البغدادي ؛ اعتنى بنشره فرديناند ڤستنفلد. Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General R126.G8 H8 1966 Book Item-ID: i10104410 BIB-ID: 1012077 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General R126.G8 H8 1966 Book Item-ID: i10104410 BIB-ID: 1012077 Show less
Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, DS47 .W55 1613
beschrieben und aussgestanden durch Johann Wilden, Burgern inn Nürnberg ; mit einer Vorrede Herrn Salomon Schweiggers. Very rare first and sole... Show morebeschrieben und aussgestanden durch Johann Wilden, Burgern inn Nürnberg ; mit einer Vorrede Herrn Salomon Schweiggers. Very rare first and sole edition of this remarkable travel account by the second confirmed Westerner to enter Mecca, and one of the earliest printed sources on travel in the Arabian Peninsula. Johann Wild's journey as a slave to a Muslim master took him from Cairo to modern-day Yemen: it is one of the earliest descriptions of Western and Southwestern Arabia, including Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. Wild was also the first European to describe the important pilgrim resting stop of Yanbu (cf. Charles Beckingham, "The Arabian Travels of Johann Wild"). - Wild and his Persian master made the Hajj from Cairo in 1606, enduring many hardships along the way. All told, the caravan and supplies of the pilgrims totaled 100,000 camels and was an obvious target for Bedouin bandits and marauders, who pillaged their supplies and killed many of the pilgrims enroute. His account of the journey is rich in detail, describing eg the beggars who pester the pilgrims for water in the Sinai desert and the booths selling jewelry and perfumes he finds in Mecca. After spending 20 days in Mecca, including a description of the ceremonial procession to Mount Arafat, Wild and his master left for Medina to visit the Tomb of the Prophet and then to Jeddah. From Jeddah they sailed to Mocha at the southern tip of Yemen (Wild erroneously believed he had reached Africa!), where Wild describes the resistance of the 'Moors' - probably indigenous Arabs - to the rule of the Pasha of Cairo. - Wild (b. 1585) eventually escaped from slavery and returned to Europe via Istanbul, reaching his hometown of Nurnberg around 1610. The present work includes an engraved portrait of the remarkable author - who had evidently converted to Islam at some stage of his captivity - at the age of just 28, when the book was published. It also contains a woodcut folding map detailing the scope of Wild's journey from Europe to the Arabian Peninsula. - Jews or Christians were traditionally forbidden on pain of death from entering the holy cities of Islam; very few Europeans thus recorded any personal experience of these places in the Early Modern period. The first recorded European to enter Mecca was Ludovico Varthema in 1503, who had disguised himself as a Turkish soldier. Reports by the Frenchman Vincent Leblanc of a visit to Mecca in 1568 are generally dismissed as spurious, as is the manuscript account of the German Emanuel Oertel dated to the 1560s (cf. Beckingham). The next European to visit Mecca after Wild would be the Englishman Joseph Pitts in 1680. - Wild's account is very rare, and is often found incomplete. VD17 shows just 7 complete copies in German libraries, while OCLC shows just 5 copies in American institutions. The last complete copy at German auction was in 1993. A second edition, also rare, was published in 1623. - Invisible repair to verso of map fold. Light foxing and fingersoiling, occasional dog-earing, otherwise a very good copy in a fine restored period binding. Main Heritage Shelves General DS47 .W55 1613 Book Item-ID: i16875643 BIB-ID: 1510986 Show less
Hrsg., mit einer Einleitung, Amnerkungen und Erklärung der Inschrift von 'Obne versehen von Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan. Main Heritage Shelves... Show moreHrsg., mit einer Einleitung, Amnerkungen und Erklärung der Inschrift von 'Obne versehen von Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .W74 1873 Book Item-ID: i10169131 BIB-ID: 1018549 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Antiquities, DS206 .N54 1774
Carsten Niebuhrs. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .N54 1774 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20303002 BIB-ID: 1008140 Show moreCarsten Niebuhrs. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .N54 1774 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20303002 BIB-ID: 1008140 Show less
