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Appendix to the memoirs of Baron de Tott: containing an answer to the remarks of M. De Peyssonnel, by M. Ruffin : a historical memoir concerning the Druses, a people inhabiting Mount Lebanon; and a Catechism and various extracts from their scared books : which together, form a most curious and interesting account of this extraordinary people, so little known; their religion, manners, laws, and governmentHistorical memoir concerning the druses, a people inhabiting Mount LebanonRemarks of M. de PeyssonelAnswer to the remarks of M. De PeyssonnelRight way

Tott, François , 1733-1793, Tott, François,Tott, François , 1733-1793, Memoirs of Baron de Tott, Druzes, Druzes--Sacred books--Early works to 1800, History, Religion, BL1695 .R84 1786

translated from Drusean manuscripts, by M. Venture de Paradis: and from the French, by an English Gentleman at Paris.
With a half-title.
The "remarks...
Show moretranslated from Drusean manuscripts, by M. Venture de Paradis: and from the French, by an English Gentleman at Paris.
With a half-title.
The "remarks" are contained in the 'Lettre', translated and published by the Robinsons in 1786 as 'Strictures and remarks on the memoirs of Baron de Tott', by Claude Charles de Peyssonnel.
"Extract from an epistle entitled The Right way: translated from the Books of Hamzah, by Monsieur Venture de Paradis, secretary interpreter of Oriental languages to His Most Christian Majesty, and many years his resident among the Druses": p. [141]-224.
Library copy was considered v. 3 of Memoirs of Baron de Tott, a 2 vol. set published in 1785; listed in 1793 catalogue, p. 79, No. 4312, 8°, 2 vol., as Tott's Memoirs. Binding: full calf, double lettering-piece (black for the title, red for the volume number); rolls in gold on spine.
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BL1695 .R84 1786
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Item-ID: i10056440
BIB-ID: 1007280
With: Strictures and remarks on the memoirs of Baron de Tott / M. de Peyssonnel. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786. Bound together subsequent to publication. ZNS
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The generall historie of Spaine: containing all the memorable things that haue past in the realmes of Castille, Leon, Nauarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &c., and by what means they were vnited and so continue vnder Philip the third, King of Spaine, now raigningHistoire generale d'Espagne. English

History, History, DP65 .M47 1612

written in French by Leuuis de Mayerne Turquet, vnto the yeare 1583 ; translated into English, and continued vnto these times by Eduuard Grimeston,...
Show morewritten in French by Leuuis de Mayerne Turquet, vnto the yeare 1583 ; translated into English, and continued vnto these times by Eduuard Grimeston, esquire.
Errors in paging: 476-477, 872-971 repeated.
Signatures: A⁴ B-6K⁶ 6L⁸.
Includes index.
LC copy has a slip bound in, with the inscription: William Orde, 1653; additional inscription on t.p.: Southey. First blank leaf wanting.
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DP65 .M47 1612
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Item-ID: i15863086
BIB-ID: 1021731
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So vast the prisonVaste est la prison. English

Women--Social conditions, Women--Algeria--Social conditions--Fiction, Muslim women, Muslim women--Fiction, PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999, 843

A novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an...
Show moreA novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an affair with a student. The author, who lives in exile, is an Algerian writing under a pseudonym and plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared.
The Silence of Writing -- What is Erased in the Heart -- The Siesta -- The Face -- Space, Darkness -- The Dance -- The Absence -- Before, After -- The Goodbye -- Erased in Stone -- The Slave in Tunis -- The Renegade Count -- The Archeologist Lord -- Destruction -- The Secret -- The Stele and the Flames -- The Deported Writer -- Abalessa -- A Silent Desire -- "Fugitive Without Knowing it" -- Arable Woman I -- Of the Mother as Traveler -- Arable Woman II -- Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride -- Arable Woman III -- Of the Mother as Little Girl -- Arable Woman IV -- Of the Narrator in the French Night -- Arable Woman v -- Of the Narrator as an Adolescent -- Arable Woman VI -- Of Desire and its Desert -- Arable Woman VII -- Shadows of Separation -- The Blood of Writing -- Yasmina -- The Blood of Writing--Final.
Assia Djebar ; translated by Betsy Wing.
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PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999
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Item-ID: i16875862
BIB-ID: 1578884
Translated from the French.
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