From: Nieuwe En Beknopte Hand-Atlas : Bestaande In Eene Verzameling Van Eenige Der Algemeenste En Nodigste Landkaarten ... no Main Heritage Compact... Show moreFrom: Nieuwe En Beknopte Hand-Atlas : Bestaande In Eene Verzameling Van Eenige Der Algemeenste En Nodigste Landkaarten ... no Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00058 Print Map Item-ID: i1706563x BIB-ID: 1525223 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
Thaʻālibī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān , 1383 or 1384-1470 or 1471, Islamic architecture--Mosques, Islamic architecture--Mosques--Algeria--Algiers--Photographs
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (1204) in the negative and titled in pencil on the mount. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (1204) in the negative and titled in pencil on the mount. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0165 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24476791 BIB-ID: 2537322 Show less
Deel II. and III. have each a second titlepage, which reads: "De Aarde en hare Bewooners. ... Ten vervolge op E. A. W. von Zimmerman. ... Vijfde (... Show moreDeel II. and III. have each a second titlepage, which reads: "De Aarde en hare Bewooners. ... Ten vervolge op E. A. W. von Zimmerman. ... Vijfde (-zesde) deel.". Main Heritage Shelves General DS107 .K36 1835 Book vol 1 Item-ID: i10077625 BIB-ID: 1009398 Show less
vol. 1. Introduction. Distribution of the people, forms of government and administration of justice. Achehnese calendars, festivals and seasons.... Show morevol. 1. Introduction. Distribution of the people, forms of government and administration of justice. Achehnese calendars, festivals and seasons. Agriculture, navigation and fishery. Laws relating to land and water. Domestic life and law. -- vol. 2. Learning and science. Literature. Games and pastimes. Religion. Index. by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje ; translated by the late A.W.S. O'Sullivan ; with an index by R.J. Wilkinson. Main Heritage Shelves General DS646.1 .S66 1906 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i24531376 BIB-ID: 2623731 Show less
vol. 1. Introduction. Distribution of the people, forms of government and administration of justice. Achehnese calendars, festivals and seasons.... Show morevol. 1. Introduction. Distribution of the people, forms of government and administration of justice. Achehnese calendars, festivals and seasons. Agriculture, navigation and fishery. Laws relating to land and water. Domestic life and law. -- vol. 2. Learning and science. Literature. Games and pastimes. Religion. Index. by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje ; translated by the late A.W.S. O'Sullivan ; with an index by R.J. Wilkinson. Main Heritage Shelves General DS646.1 .S66 1906 Book vol. 2 Item-ID: i24531388 BIB-ID: 2623731 Show less
door A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst. Collection of treatises on hunting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst was... Show moredoor A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst. Collection of treatises on hunting in the Netherlands in the 19th century. A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst was forester in the Dutch province of South Holland, and is especially known for his Traité de Fauconnerie , for which he cooperated with the ornithologist H. Schlegel. In the present treatise, Verster van Wulverhorst gives a short survey of the history of hunting before dealing extensively with the hunting regulations in the Netherlands. The full-page engraved plate shows two bisons, the folding lithographed plates depict a hunting scene from the Bayeux tapestry and European and Arabian falcon hunters from the Middle Ages. Ludolf Sloet van de Beele (1806-1890) describes the history of hunting and discusses animals that live(d) in the Netherlands. He was later appointed to the post of Governor-General of Indonesia (NNBW V, cols 751-753). The volume continues with an article by the eminent ornithologist, Herman Schlegel (1804-1884; NNBW IV, cols. 1232-1233), who was Director of the Leiden Museum for Natural History. In "Over de Inlandsche Dag-Roofvogelen" Schlegel gives an accurate description of Dutch birds of prey that hunt by day. He distinguishes eight types, the falcon, hawk, harrier, seaeagle , fish-eagle, kite, buzzard and honey-buzzard, which he lists on the folding table together with their subtypes. The accompanying lithographed plate shows a selection of eight birds. The volume continues with an anonymous article, "De Valkenjacht," (falcon hunting) and a section from Mededeelingen uit het Gebied van Natuur, Wetenschap en Kunst (ed. A. Cohen) from 1844, on large animals that used to live in the Netherlands but have become extinct, and other notes on zoological matters. Minor tears in the folding plates to Schlegel's article, some loose leaves in the final section, hand-written ownership entry first endleaf. Good set of hunting treatises Main Heritage Shelves General SK321 .V47 1840 Book Item-ID: i17067054 BIB-ID: 1525371 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .S25 1732
Th. Salmon Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .S25 1732 Book Item-ID: i24922729 BIB-ID: 2668065 Show moreTh. Salmon Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .S25 1732 Book Item-ID: i24922729 BIB-ID: 2668065 Show less
Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology--Early works to 1800, RE41 .G85 1678
The first French work on ophthalmology, drawing on many Greek and Arab sources. First published, in French, in 1585 as Traité des maladies de lóeil... Show moreThe first French work on ophthalmology, drawing on many Greek and Arab sources. First published, in French, in 1585 as Traité des maladies de lóeil. Considered by Garrison & Morton to be the best of Renaissance books on ophthalmology and an epitome of existing knowledge on the subject. This is the second Dutch edition but the first to have been augmented by the well-known Dutch surgeon and ophthalmologist J. Verbrugge, misspelled on the title-page as "Verbrigge". With an engraved frontispiece depicting an ophthalmologist at work. Also with numerous recipes for ophthalmologic problems and with an interesting treatise on dentistry, commonly attributed to Guillemeau although it has also been suggested that Verbrugge might be the author. Jacques Guillemeau (ca. 1520-1613) studied under his father in law, the renowned Ambroise Paré, and became surgeon to the king of France. He was the first to describe the repair of a congenital eyelid coloboma, a full-thickness defect of the eyelid, by freshening the edges and suturing their margins. - A good copy. A rare book by a famous ophthalmologist with an early tract on dentistry. Main Heritage Shelves General RE41 .G85 1678 Book Item-ID: i16828045 BIB-ID: 1508104 Show less
