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
Johann Heckelwelder. Main Heritage Shelves General DS49.5 .H43 1797 Book Item-ID: i2195351x BIB-ID: 2346523 Reise nach der Türkei und einem Theil der... Show moreJohann Heckelwelder. Main Heritage Shelves General DS49.5 .H43 1797 Book Item-ID: i2195351x BIB-ID: 2346523 Reise nach der Türkei und einem Theil der Levante : nebst einer Beschreibung von Palästina / Saviour Lusignan Show less
Carl Johan Lamm. Volume 2 published before than volume 1. Main Heritage Shelves General NK5107 .L36 1929 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i22799576 BIB-ID: 2426556 Show moreCarl Johan Lamm. Volume 2 published before than volume 1. Main Heritage Shelves General NK5107 .L36 1929 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i22799576 BIB-ID: 2426556 Show less
Carl Johan Lamm. Volume 2 published before than volume 1. Main Heritage Shelves General NK5107 .L36 1929 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i22799588 BIB-ID: 2426556 Show moreCarl Johan Lamm. Volume 2 published before than volume 1. Main Heritage Shelves General NK5107 .L36 1929 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i22799588 BIB-ID: 2426556 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
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
treu nach der Natur aufgenommen und gezeichnet von J. M. Bernatz ; mit erlaeuterndem Texte von G. H. v. Schubert. Main Heritage Shelves General DS107... Show moretreu nach der Natur aufgenommen und gezeichnet von J. M. Bernatz ; mit erlaeuterndem Texte von G. H. v. Schubert. Main Heritage Shelves General DS107 .B47 1839 Book Item-ID: i10066263 BIB-ID: 1008262 Show less
... Durch Johann Christoph Wagner. Second edition. - Second and third part of Wagner's "Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici", a... Show more... Durch Johann Christoph Wagner. Second edition. - Second and third part of Wagner's "Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici", a topographical and historical work devised under the impression of the Turkish retreat from Vienna and Northen Hungary, describing the geography and politics of the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire. Contains views of Cairo, Aden, Damascus, Sissek, Nauplia, Kotor, etc. The third part is compiled from other contemporary works and treats Persia, India, and Indochina (with illustrations and interesting maps). The 12-page appendix ("Fortsetzung der Ungar- und Türckischen Chronik") is bound after the preface. - The first two parts of the work are uncommon, and the third is of great rarity; no complete copy containing of all three parts is recorded at German or international auctions since 1950 (cf. Sotheby's, Nov 13, 2008, lot 125 [all three parts, but incomplete]: 20,000 GBP). - Rather brownstained throughout due to paper; several restored tears. T. p. and several engravings of pt. 2 have remargined edge defects; wants plate 23. Binding somewhat rubbed, but the appealing blind-tooled covers are well preserved. Main Heritage Shelves General DR41 .W34 1687 Book Item-ID: i1687562x BIB-ID: 1510984 Show less
par Monsieur Michaelis ... ; traduit de l'allemand. Translation by Johann Bernhard Merian. Appended: "Essai de tables chronologiques des anciens rois... Show morepar Monsieur Michaelis ... ; traduit de l'allemand. Translation by Johann Bernhard Merian. Appended: "Essai de tables chronologiques des anciens rois de l'Yemen, dont on trouve les noms dans la liste de ces rois, publiée par Pocock," [16] p. and "Extrait de la description de l'Arabie par Mr. Carsten Niebuhr, tiré de la Bibliothèque orientale de Mr. Michaelis," 38 p. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .M53 1774 Book Item-ID: i10168576 BIB-ID: 1014756 Show less
Aus unterschiedlichen alten und neuen Land- und Reise-Beschreibungen anfangs in niederländ. Sprache zusammengebracht durch O. Dapper. Anitzo aber... Show moreAus unterschiedlichen alten und neuen Land- und Reise-Beschreibungen anfangs in niederländ. Sprache zusammengebracht durch O. Dapper. Anitzo aber ins Hochteutsche getreulichst übers. von Johann Christoff Beern. PST: Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Anatolia et Arabia*NST: Mesopotamien, Babylonien, Assyrien, Anatolien oder Klein-Asien, und Arabien*EST: Naukeurige beschryving van Asie . Main Heritage Display General DS47 .D37 1681 Book Item-ID: i10151850 BIB-ID: 1016821 Show less
