Very rare original German edition of Moritz von Kotzebue's narrative of a journey into Persia, in the suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the... Show moreVery rare original German edition of Moritz von Kotzebue's narrative of a journey into Persia, in the suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy, in the year 1817. Complete with all plates including a foot-soldier and an officer, views of the mountains of Ararat taken from the gardens of the Sardar of Erivan, view of the castle Udgani, view of the castle of Sultanie (Solthaniyeh), the sepulchre of the saint Hassani-Kashi at Sultanie and a Tshimburak or Private of the Camel Artillery. - Moritz von Kotzebue (1789-1861) was a Russian/Estonian officer and traveller and brother of Otto von Kotzebue. In 1817, as a young lieutenant in Russian service he travelled to Persia (Iran), in the cortège of a Russian embassy sent to the encampment of Fathá-Al Shah at Soltaniyeh. He kept this illustrative journal which was soon afterwards published by his father, the playwright August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, who also wrote the preface of this work. "The embassy left Tblisi in mid-April 1817 and arrived in Tabriz on May 18 1817, where the tsar's envoy was received by Abbas Mirza, the crown prince. After eight days the embassy left Tabriz for Soltaniyeh via Zanjanm and on July 26 1817, reached its destination where Fathá-Al Shah received the embassy five days later. At the end of August 1817 the embassy left the shah's encampment and travelled back to Russia by way of Tabriz and Erivan" (Howgego). A second German edition of this work was published in 1825; an English edition appeared in 1819; a Dutch in 1819; a French in 1819 and a Polish in 1821. - Bindings show traces of use. A very rare narrative into Persia in fine condition. Moritz v. Rokebue's. Portfolio (33 x 24 cm) includes 7 leaves (ca. 25 x 23 cm, of which 4 aquatints and 3 hand-coloured engravings ), containing the 9 illustrations as called for in the text volume and title label of the portfolio (illustrations 1-2 and 8-9 together on 1 plate). Both contemporary boards, of which the portfolio with original pasted title label on front cover. Main Heritage Shelves General DS507 .K68 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843733 BIB-ID: 1509219 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS410.9 .S23 1672
Main Heritage Shelves General DS410.9 .S23 1672 Book Item-ID: i21959614 BIB-ID: 2346901 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS410.9 .S23 1672 Book Item-ID: i21959614 BIB-ID: 2346901 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS412 .I94 1774
Main Heritage Shelves General DS412 .I94 1774 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i24482511 BIB-ID: 2555148 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS412 .I94 1774 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i24482511 BIB-ID: 2555148 Show less
mit unterstützung der Deutschen morgenländ: gesellschaft in Leipzig autographirt und herausg. von Dr. J. Euting ... Edited from British museum... Show moremit unterstützung der Deutschen morgenländ: gesellschaft in Leipzig autographirt und herausg. von Dr. J. Euting ... Edited from British museum Additional ms. 23598. The German title in red and black within gilt double border. The Mandaean title (at end) within richly illuminated borders and panels of arabesque ornaments. The Mandaean text is reproduced on the versos of the leaves, numbered 1a-73a, the recto pages facing the text are numbered 1b-73b and, with 74b contain the variants from other Britisch museum and Paris manuscripts.--Next to the Mandaean t.p. a double leaf, not numbered: Aramaeische schrifttafel entworfen von Julius Euting.--Fol. 74a: Exordia capitum ordine alphabetico disposita.--Fol. 75a-b (with alternative numbering in roman I.-II.): Vorrede. 110 copies printed. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ5329 .Q65 1867 Book Item-ID: i25198130 BIB-ID: 2501852 Show less
Tabari, Abu Dschafar Muhammad Ibn Dscharir ((at- )), Ṭabarī, Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧarīr aṭ- , 839-923, Perzen (volk), Arabieren, Chronik, Chronik, History, History, DS62.25 .T33 1879
Abu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir at-Tabari. Main Heritage Shelves General DS62.25 .T33 1879 Book Item-ID: i2289083x BIB-ID: 1834451 Includes... Show moreAbu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir at-Tabari. Main Heritage Shelves General DS62.25 .T33 1879 Book Item-ID: i2289083x BIB-ID: 1834451 Includes bibliographical references. Show less
Traductions allemandesMutanabbī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn Abū al-Ṭayyib al-, Arabic poetry, Arabic poetry--Translations into German, Poésie arabe--Histoire et critique, PJ7750.M8 D58 1940
Introduction signée O.Y.R. [Oskar Rescher]. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ7750.M8 D58 1940 Book Item-ID: i10064722 BIB-ID: 1008108 Notes bibliogr. Show moreIntroduction signée O.Y.R. [Oskar Rescher]. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ7750.M8 D58 1940 Book Item-ID: i10064722 BIB-ID: 1008108 Notes bibliogr. Show less
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages, Parades & processions, Parades & processions--Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--1910-1920--Photographs, Architecture, Domestic, Architecture, Domestic--Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Photographs--1910-1920, Pashas
This street view depicts the Egyptian mahmal in Mecca. Osman Pasha, Hejaz military commander and governor (r. 1882-1886), is depicted at the center... Show moreThis street view depicts the Egyptian mahmal in Mecca. Osman Pasha, Hejaz military commander and governor (r. 1882-1886), is depicted at the center of the image. The plate was based on a photograph probably taken by the Egyptian army engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832 – 1902) on the occasion of the departure of the mahmal on 1 Muharram 1303 AH (October 1885 CE). Title and date from item. Plate no. 5 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (V) and titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.02074-0005 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26503153 BIB-ID: 2831251 Show less
Slaves--Circassians, Slaves--Circassians--Potraits, Muslim merchants, Muslim merchants--Portraits
Group portrait showing a merchant, possibly the Grand Sharif's permanent representative in Jeddah, and his Circassian slave. The photograph was... Show moreGroup portrait showing a merchant, possibly the Grand Sharif's permanent representative in Jeddah, and his Circassian slave. The photograph was probably taken between 1884 and 1885 in Jeddah. The negative has had handwork applied and the original background has been substituted completely. Title and date from item. Plate no. 11 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889).The plate is numbered (XI) and titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0011 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26505769 BIB-ID: 2831352 Show less
Troupe of 12 seated and standing men, several holding musical instruments. The word ‘tumburah’ refers to the six-stringed harp-like musical... Show moreTroupe of 12 seated and standing men, several holding musical instruments. The word ‘tumburah’ refers to the six-stringed harp-like musical instrument held by the man seated at center. The instrument is adorned with two fans of feathers and is apparently plucked with the fingers. Four other men sit or crouch, holding various drums between their knees. The plate was based on a photograph taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. Title and date from item. Plate no. 18 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XVIII) and titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.02074-0018 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26515519 BIB-ID: 2831562 Show less
von Herrn Poiret ; aus dem Französischen übersesst, und mit unmerkungen begleitet. Main Heritage Shelves General DT188 .P65 1789 Book Item-ID: i1016912x ... Show morevon Herrn Poiret ; aus dem Französischen übersesst, und mit unmerkungen begleitet. Main Heritage Shelves General DT188 .P65 1789 Book Item-ID: i1016912x BIB-ID: 1018548 Show less
Muslim pilgrims and prilgrimages, Muslim pilgrims and prilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Photographs
“Pictures from Mecca” is the photographic portfolio published in 1889 by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as an annex to the ... Show more“Pictures from Mecca” is the photographic portfolio published in 1889 by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as an annex to the “Pictorial Atlas of Mecca”, the Atlas accompanying the 1888 2-volume publication “Mecca”. In these texts, he reconstructs the history of the Holy City and on the origins of Islam, early traditions and practices, and the first Islamic communities. The second volume, translated into English in 1931 as “Mecca in the Latter Part of the 19th Century”, contains many details of daily life in Islamic culture and deals with the Indonesian Muslim colony at Mecca. While serving as a lecturer at the University of Leiden between 1880 and 1889, Snouck Hurgronje visited Arabia from 1884 to 1885, stopping at Mecca and he was the first Western to take photographs of the Holy City. From 1890 to 1906 Snouck Hurgronje was professor of Arabic at Batavia, Java, and, as a government adviser, he originated and developed the Dutch colonial policy toward Islam. Though Snouck Hurgronje remained a colonial adviser until 1933, he returned in 1906 to the Netherlands, where he was professor of Arabic and Islamic institutions at the University of Leiden until his death. The volume contains 20 collotype prints pasted onto card and includes a panoramic view of the Holy City, images of places related to the hajj (Mina valley, Mount Arafat), as well as a picture of the Ibn Abbas Mosque in Taif. Snouck Hurgronje decided to publish an annex to his first photographic portfolio after receiving a letter with new photographs from his doctor in Mecca, whom he taught the art of photography. The photographs had descriptions in Arabic and were signed “Photography by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar, doctor in Mecca”. Al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) was an Indian physician as a renowned Meccan photographer can be found in the “Journal de Voyages” (1895) by French author Gustave Regelsperger (1856 – 1940) and most importantly in the account published in 1895 “The Guide to the Hajj” by the Egyptian army engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832 – 1902), who took the first photographs of Medina in 1861 and Mecca between 1880 and 1881 and whose photographs were included in Snouck’s “Pictorial Atlas of Mecca”. In his account, the Egyptian military engineer describes ʻAbd al-Ghaffar Efendi as a famous Indian doctor and photographer. Most of the scholars agree that the photographs reproduced in this portfolio were taken by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar and that Snouck, both for aesthetic and scientific reasons, erased the name of the person who had taken the pictures as well as the pictures’ titles and headings. Title and date from item. Prints are mounted on 18 sheets loose in original red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with the oft-lacking half-title, list of plates, title and preface. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0273 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24545612 BIB-ID: 2622576 C.E.S. Gavin with F.H.S. Allen, Mecca: The First Photographs (Cambridge, MA, 1981); William Facey with Gillian Grant, Saudi Arabia by the first photographers (London: Stacey International, 1996); Badr El-Hage, “The First Non-Arab Photographers of the Hijaz”, Saudi Arabia: Caught in Time 1861-1939 (Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd., 1997); Claude W. Sui, “Travel to the Holy Land and Photography in the Nineteenth Century”, To the Holy Lands: pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem; photographs of the 19th century from the collections of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums, Mannheim (Munich; Berlin; London; New York: Prestel, 2008); Durkje van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: The First Western Photographer in Mecca 1884-1885 (Amsterdam: Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund, Rijksmuseum, 2011). See also Anna Canby Monk "From the Individual to the Archetypal: Abd al-Ghaffārs Edited Photographic Portraits" Show less
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Aceh (Indonesia)--Portraits, Patient representatives--Islamic law
Full-length portrait of four Muslim pilgrims from Aceh, in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The group faces forward, looking towards the camera.... Show moreFull-length portrait of four Muslim pilgrims from Aceh, in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The group faces forward, looking towards the camera. The two men standing behind are described as wakils (representatives). The photograph was probably taken in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are photographed in a courtyard-like space with plants – some in wide wooden pots – foliage and a window, fronted by bars, visible in the background. The negative had handwork applied. Title and date from item. Plate no. 36 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXXVI) and titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.02074-0036 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26519173 BIB-ID: 2831705 Show less
People, People--Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)--Portraits, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Jiddah (Saudi Arabia), Street-food vendors, Town criers, Shipowners--Guilds
Collection of three full-length seated portraits of local people from Jeddah, including a group portrait of the Sheikh - leader - of the ... Show moreCollection of three full-length seated portraits of local people from Jeddah, including a group portrait of the Sheikh - leader - of the “boatpeople” and his fellow guild members - probably people working or menaging the port of Jeddah, the main port of arrival for pilgrims -, a sweet seller holding a tray with stalks, and a man described as a “crier and broker” with his mouth open as if in the act of calling out. The photographs were probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jedda between 1884 and 1885. Photographs were taken in a courtyard-like space with foliage and pots visible in the background. Title and date from item. Plate no. 24 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889).The plate is numbered (XXIV) and each collotype is titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0024 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26517334 BIB-ID: 2831622 Show less
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Indonesia--Portraits, Racially mixed children, Racially mixed children--Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
Full-length standing portrait showing five Muslim pilgrims from the island of Ambon, from the Kai Islands and from Banda in Indonesia. On the left,... Show moreFull-length standing portrait showing five Muslim pilgrims from the island of Ambon, from the Kai Islands and from Banda in Indonesia. On the left, a boy described as the son of a man from the island of Ambon and a woman from Mecca. The adults face forward, looking towards the camera, while the young man averts his eyes. The photograph was probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah or Mecca between 1884 and 1885. The group is photographed in a courtyard-like space with plants – some in wide wooden pots – foliage and a window, fronted by bars, visible in the background. The negatives had handwork applied. Title and date from item. Plate no. 30 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXIX) and titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0030 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26518922 BIB-ID: 2831688 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
Main Heritage Shelves General DS107 .F87 1865 Book Item-ID: i10240792 BIB-ID: 1025715 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS107 .F87 1865 Book Item-ID: i10240792 BIB-ID: 1025715 Show less
aus dem Arabischen übersezt und erleautert von S. F. Günther Wahl. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A1215 1790 Book Item-ID: i22878828 BIB-ID: 1830495 Show moreaus dem Arabischen übersezt und erleautert von S. F. Günther Wahl. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A1215 1790 Book Item-ID: i22878828 BIB-ID: 1830495 Show less
hrsg. von Bartholdy und Rumpf, The complete Middle East volume from Rumpf's four-volume gallery of the world. Treats the Levant, Persia and Arabia ... Show morehrsg. von Bartholdy und Rumpf, The complete Middle East volume from Rumpf's four-volume gallery of the world. Treats the Levant, Persia and Arabia (the last fifty pages of the volume giving an overview of history, geography, and customs of the Arabian Peninsula). The fine engravings show costumes as well as views of Baalbek, Palmyra, Rhodes, Samos, Shiraz, Yemen etc. The folding plates show maps of the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and views of the Dardanelles castles. - Ownership stamp "Keyserling, Malgutzen" on first half-title. Insignificant browning; a very appealing copy. Mit 15 Kupfertafeln und 1 Karte. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .G35 1804 Book Item-ID: i16875473 BIB-ID: 1510966 Lit. opg. Show less
Women, Women--Portraits, Brides--Islamic clothing and dress, Brides--Islamic clothing and dress--Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Eunuchs, Children, Household employees, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)
Collection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer... Show moreCollection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer Siegfried Langer, who did extensive research in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and whose travel reports made valuable contributions to the study of inscriptions in Southern Arabia. The remaining photographs were taken in Mecca and Jeddah, between 1885 and 1887, by Snouck Hurgronje and by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s). The negatives had handwork applied. Two of the photographs were taken in a courtyard-like space with foliage and pots visible in the background. Title and date from item. Plate no. 25 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXV) and each collotype is titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0025 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23465104 BIB-ID: 2831628 Show less
Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph , 1744-1856, Arabic poetry, PJ7741.A3 A35 1859
von W. Ahlwardt. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ7741.A3 A35 1859 Book Item-ID: i1003691x BIB-ID: 1005494 Show morevon W. Ahlwardt. Main Heritage Shelves General PJ7741.A3 A35 1859 Book Item-ID: i1003691x BIB-ID: 1005494 Show less
