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
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
De nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) --... Show moreDe nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) -- Historia Arabum / Wolfang Drechsleri (p.259-297) First edition of the collection. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - From the library of the Vorarlberg lawyer Dr. Karl J. Steger. Waterstaining throughout. Engraved t.p. Title on added t.p.: De nonnullis orientalium urbibus, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita ... Running title: Vrbes et mores Orientalium. Numbers 270-279 omitted in pagination. Written by Gabriel Sionita, Joannes Hesronita, C. Richerius, J. Cotovicus, and others. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .A73 1633 Book Item-ID: i10058102 BIB-ID: 1510974 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
herausgegeben durch Adam Olearium. Mit desselben unterschiedlichen ... First edition of this famous travel report, containing "many interesting... Show moreherausgegeben durch Adam Olearium. Mit desselben unterschiedlichen ... First edition of this famous travel report, containing "many interesting details of the eternally plentiful oriental world" (cf. Henze). While the engraved maps depicts Southeast Asia from Persia to Japan and Java, the remaining engravings mainly illustrate the customs of the Arab world, of Persia and India. "Mandelslo was a German traveller and adventurer (1616-44). Originally a page at the court of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, in 1635 Mandelslo was attached to the duke's embassy to Moscow and Persia, a mission intended to open trade negotiations. The Duke's librarian and mathematician, Adam Olearius accompanied the embassy as its secretary. The ambassadors themselves remained in Persia, but in 1638 Mandelslo, feeling the need for wider travel, obtained permission to travel on to India. Sailing from Hormuz, he landed at Surat in April 1638 then travelled through Gujarat to Agra, Lahore, Goa, Bijapur and Malabar. He sailed for England from Surat in January 1639, calling at Ceylon and Madagascar, but was to die of smallpox five years later. Before his death, Mandelslo had entrusted his rough notes to Olearius, who subsequently published them bound with his numerous official accounts of the embassy" (Howgego I, 677). - This present edition is significantly rarer than its later reworkings and translations; ABPC lists a single complete copy at auctions of the last decades (Sotheby's, Oct 11, 2005, lot 177, £3,400). - Bookplate of Thomas Christian Wöhler on front pastedown; library stamp on t. p.; bottom of hinge weakened. Binding slightly rubbed and bumped; still, a fine copy. Main Heritage Shelves General DS7 .M36 1658 Book Item-ID: i16873415 BIB-ID: 1510756 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
edidit, latine vertit, notas adiecit Ioannes David Michaelis. Arabic and Latin text. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A28 1776 Book Item-ID: i10046227 ... Show moreedidit, latine vertit, notas adiecit Ioannes David Michaelis. Arabic and Latin text. Main Heritage Shelves General DT51 .A28 1776 Book Item-ID: i10046227 BIB-ID: 1006425 Show less
Vol. 1 The Lowlands of the Danakil. Vol. 2 The Highlands of Shoa. drawn and described by John Martin Bernatz. Main Heritage Shelves General DT377 .B47... Show moreVol. 1 The Lowlands of the Danakil. Vol. 2 The Highlands of Shoa. drawn and described by John Martin Bernatz. Main Heritage Shelves General DT377 .B47 1852 Book vol. 1-2 Item-ID: i10174692 BIB-ID: 1019105 Show less