ARMENIAN -- NERSES CLAJENSIS. Preces Sancti Nierses. Armeniorum Patriarchae. Turcice, Graece, Latine, Italice, et Gallicae redditae. Venice, Insula S. Lazari, 1815. 172 pp. W. engr. portr. 12°. Cont. wrps., uncut. (Slightly foxed). Third polyglot edition. -- Id. Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae triginta sex linguis editae. Venice, 1882. (10), 600 pp. W. engr. ti. & portr. Sm-8°. Ocl. w. gilt edges. (Spine soiled). -- (2).

BOSCH, G., (a.o.). Islamic bindings & bookmaking. 1981. 4°. Ocl. -- H.E. WEIJERS. Nieuwe proeve om al de Arabische letters en verdere schrijfteekens door het gewoon Europeesch karakter onderscheidenlijk uit te drukken. 1840. 4°. Wrps. -- SPÉCIMENS des caractères de l'imprimerie catholique Beyrouth (Syrie). Spécialités orientales. (1905). 4°. Ocl. (Spine faded). -- M. LINGS. The Quranic art of calligraphy and illumination. (1976). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 2 o. (6).

COLLECTION of approx. 200 offprints, orations, other small publications, etc. on various subjects (history, language, religion, and espec. printing, typefaces, scripts) concerning the Middle East. Late 19th & 20th c.

COLLON, D. First impressions. Cylinder seals in the Ancient Near East. (1987). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- E.W. SAID. Orientalism. (1978). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- N.M. ABU-IZZEDDIN. The Druzes. A new study of their history, faith and society. 1984. Ocl. -- P.M. HOLT. Studies in the history of the Near East. (1973). Ocl. w. dust-j. (Spine faded). -- And 7 o. (11).

COTTON, H.M., (a.o.). Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Vol. I: Jerusalem. Part 1: 1-704 (&) Part 2: 705-1120. - Vol. 2: Caesarea and the Middle Coast, 1121-2160. - Berl., De Gruyter, (2010-12). 3 vols. Obrds. -- Added: L.Y. RAHMANI. A catalogue of Jewish ossuaries in the collections of the State of Israel. 1994. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (4).

CROWN, A.D. Samaritan scribes and manuscripts. (2001). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. A bibliography of the Samaritans. 1993. Ocl. -- R.H. KÉVORKIAN. Cat. des "incunables" arméniens (1511/1695), ou chronique de l'imprimerie arménienne. Préface p. J.P. Mahé. Geneva, 1986. W. 25 ill. & 2 text maps. 4°. Ocl. (Cahiers d'Orientalisme, 9). -- W.G. LAMBERT & A.R. MILLARD. Atra-hasîs. The Babylonian story of the flood. 1969. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 7 o. (11).

DOROW, (W.), Hrsg. Die assyrische Keilschrift erläutert durch zwei noch nicht bekannt gewordenen Jaspis-Cylinder aus Niniveh und Babylon; begleitet mit (…) genauen Abdrucke einer alten Tibetanischen Handschrift. (8), 62, (2) pp. W. 3 plates (1 fold). - Id. Die indische Mythologie erläutert durch drei noch nicht bekannt gewordene Original-Gemählde aus Indien. xx, 110 pp. W. 3 (fold.) plates. - Wiesbaden, 1820-21. 2 vols. 4°. Owrps. (Wrps. a bit stained/worn, a bit browned/foxed). (Morgenlaendische Alterthümer).

ETHIOPIA -- FUMAGALLI, G. Bibliografia Etiopica. (Repr. ed. 1893. 2001). Ocl. -- W. LESLAU. An annotated bibliography of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia. 1965. Ocl. -- E. ULLENDORFF. The two Zions. Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia. 1988. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- Id. Ethiopia and the Bible. 1968. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- E. v. DONZEL. Foreign relations of Ethiopia, 1642-1700. Documents relating to the journeys of Khodja Murâd. 1979. 4°. Owrps. -- And 8 o. (13).

ETHIOPIA -- UHLIG, S. Hiob Ludolfs "Theologia Aethiopica'. 1983. 2 vols. -- E. ULLENDORFF. A Tigrinya chrestomathy. 1985. -- Id. From the Bible to Enrico Cerulli. A miscellany of Ethiopian and Semitic papers. 1990. -- Id. From Emperor Haile Selassie to H.J. Polotsky. An Ethiopian and Semitic miscellany. 1995. -- H.J. POLOTSKY. Ausgewählte Briefe. Ed.by E. Ullendorff. 1992. -- 6 vols. Ocl. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, 14A-B, 19, 32, 34, 42).

FIEMA, Z.T. & J. FRÖSÉN. Petra — The Mountain of Aaron. The Finnisch archaeological project in Jordan. Vol. I: The church and the chapel. Helsinki, 2008. (8), 447 pp. Prof. ill., partly cold. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j.

GROHMANN, A. Arabische Paläographie. Tl. 1. 1967. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Vol. 1 only). -- Id. Einführung und Chrestomathie zur arabischen Papyruskunde. 1955. Owrps. -- G. VAJDA. Album de paléographie arabe. 1958. 4°. Or. limp brds. -- I.Y. KRATCHKOVSKY. Among Arabic manuscripts. Memories of libraries and men. 1953. Sm-8°. Owrps. -- And 2 o. (6).

HAMILTON, A. & F. RICHARD. André du Ryer and oriental studies in 17th c. France. (2004). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- G. DUGAT. Histoire des Orientalistes de l'Europe du XIIe au XIX s. précédés d'une esquisse historique des études orientales. 1868-70. 2 vols. Sm-8°. Hcl. (A bit foxed). Rare. -- M.T. HOUTSMA. Uit de Oostersche correspondentie van Th. Erpenius, J. Golius & L. Warner. 1887. 4°. Cl. -- CENT-CINQUANTENAIRE de l'École des Langues Orientales. 1948. 4°. Cl. -- J. MOHL. Vingt-sept ans d'histoire des études orientales. 1879-80. 2 in 1 vol. Mod. cl., owrps. bound up. -- And 5 o. (10).

HAMILTON, A. Arab culture and Ottoman magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age. (2001). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- J. SWEETMAN. The oriental obsession. Islamic inspiration in British and American art and architecture, 1500-1920. (1988). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- A. PESCE, ed. Makkah, a hundred years ago or C. Snouck Hurgronje's remarkable albums. 1986. 4°. Or. bind. w. dust-j. -- S.S. AL-ATTAS. ISTAC illuminated. A pictorial tour of the Internat. Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Kuala Lumpur. (1998). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- (4).

IBN ZAFAR. Sulwân al-Mutâ' fi 'Udwân al-Atbâ'. Kuwait, Tri Publishing, (1985). 3 vols. Ocl. (2) & or. dec. leather envelope bind. Tog. in ocl. box.

ISLAM -- BRICE, W.C., ed. An historical atlas of Islam. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1981. W. 57 maps. Lge-fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- H.A. WINKLER. Siegel und Charaktere in der Muhammedanischen Zauberei. 1930. Owrps. (Spine a bit dam.). -- J.T. MONROE. Islam & the Arabs in Spanish scholarship. 1970. Ocl. -- A.L. TIBAWI. Arabic and Islamic thought. Historical, educational and literary studies. 1976. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 3 o. (7).

ISLAM -- LOOP, J. Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Arabic and Islamic studies in the 17th c. (2013). Obrds. w. dust-j. -- H.A.R. GIBB & H. BOWEN. Islamic society and the West. 1950-57. 2 vols. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- R.W. SOUTHERN. Western views of Islam in the MA. (1978). Ocl. -- N. DANIEL. Islam and the West. The making of an image. - Islam Europe and empire. (1962-66). 2 vols. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 13 o. (19).

KORAN -- ARBERRY, A.J. The Koran illuminated. A handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library. 1967. W. 71 plates. Lge-8°. Ocl. -- H. BOBZIN. Der Koran im Zeitalter der Reformation. 1995. Owrps. -- I. BINARK & H. EREN. World bibliography of translations of the meanings of the Holy Qur'an printed translations, 1515-1980. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- QUR'ÂN. Facsimile edition of the Koran manuscript of al-Shaikh al-Hajj Zuhair Bâsh Mamlûk. Tunis, 1403 (1983). W. richly cold. facs. text in maghribi script. Lge-8°. Or. dec. padded artificial leather bind. In or. slipcase. -- And 7 o. (11).

KUNITZSCH, P. Arabische Sternnamen in Europa. Wiesbaden, 1959. Cont. hcf. (Spine discold.). Rare original edition. -- F.J. CARMODY. Arabic astronomical and astrological sciences in Latin translation. 1956. Owrps. -- (2).

LAMBRECHT, E. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de l'École des Langues Orientales Vivantes. Tom. 1 (all published). Par., 1897. vii, (5), 623 pp. Cl.

LEWIS, B & P.M. HOLT, ed. Historians of the Middle East. 1962. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- L.A.O. de CORANCEZ. The history of the Wahabis from their origin until the end of 1809. (1995). Obrds. w. dust-j. -- M. ALLAN. Palgrave of Arabia. The life of William Gifford Palgrave, 1826-88. Ocl. -- D. METLITZKI. The matter of Araby in medieval England. 1977. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 7 o. (11).

MANDAEISM -- PALLIS, S.A. Essay on Mandaean bibliography, 1560-1930. 1933. Ocl. -- Id. Mandaean studies. (1926). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- W. BRANDT. Die Mandäer. Ihre Religion und ihre Geschichte. 1915. Mod. wrps. -- G. WIDENGREN, Hrsg. Der Mandäismus. 1982. Ocl. (WdF). -- (4).

MANGOLD, S. Eine "weltbürgerliche Wissenschaft" - Die deutsche Orientalistik im 19. Jh. 2004. Obrds. -- J. WIESEHÖFER & S. CONERMANN, Hrsg. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) und seine Zeit. (2002). Obrds. -- R. GÉRARD. L'Orient et la pensée romantique allemande. 1963. Owrps. -- J.J. REISKE. Briefe (&) Nachtrag. Hrsg. v. R. Foerster. 1897-1917. 2 in 1 vols. Lge-8°. Cl. -- H.-G. EBERT & Th. HANSTEIN, Hrsg. Johann Jacob Reiske, Leben und Wirkung. Ein Leipziger Byzantinist und Begründer der Orientalistik im 18. Jh. (2005). Owrps. -- And 1 o. (6).

MEADE, C.W. Road to Babylon. Development of U.S. Assyriology. Leiden, 1974. W. fold. map and extensive bibliography (846 entries) of expeditions and publications. Ocl. -- S.A. PALLIS. The antiquity of Iraq. A handbook of Assyriology. 1956. 1 in 2 vols. Cl. -- And 1 o. (4).

NIEBUHR, C. Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und den umliegenden Ländern. Vorw. D. Henze. (Nachdr. Ausg. 1774-78). Graz, 1968. 3 vols. - Id. Beschreibung von Arabien. Vorw. D. Henze. (Nachdr. Ausg. 1772). Graz, 1969. - 4 vols. Sm-4°. Ocl. w. dust-j.

PERSIA -- AMIN, A.A. British interests in the Persian Gulf. 1967. Ocl. -- A. GABRIEL. Die Erforschung Persiens. Die Entwicklung der abendländischen Kenntnis der Geographie Persiens. (1952). Ohcl. w. dust-j. -- A. HOVELACQUE. L'Avesta, Zoroastre et le Mazdéisme. 1e partie: Introduction. 1878. Cl. -- P.A.F. POSSART. Grammatik der persischen Sprache. 1831. Clothbacked brds. (Foxing). -- J.D. YOHANNAN. Persian poetry in England and America. A 200-year history. 1977. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 7 o. (12).

PERSIA -- VOYAGES de Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, en Asie, en Afrique et en Europe, pendant les années 1799, 1900, 1801, 1802 et 1803; écrits par lui-même en Persan. Par., 1811. 2 vols. xvi, 269; (4), 292 pp. Cont. hcf. (Spine vol. 1 half gone, corners bumped, names on half-ti.).

ROORDA, T. Grammatica Arabica. Adiuncta est brevis chrestomathia, ed. a P. Cool. Leyden, 1835. Old brds. Rare first edition. -- R. MEYNET. L'écriture arabe en question. (1971). Owrps. -- J. BERQUE & D. CHEVALLIER. Les Arabes par leurs archives (XVIe-XXe s.). 1976. Ocl. -- H.E. WEIJERS. Nieuwe proeve om al de Arabische letters en verdere schrijfteekens door het gewoon Europeesch karakter onderscheidenlijk uit te drukken. 1840. 4°. Wrps. -- And 4 o. (8).

ROORDA, T. Grammatica Arabica. Adiuncta est brevis chrestomathia, ed. a P. Cool. Leyden, 1835. Old brds. Rare first edition. -- T.F. MITCHELL. Writing arabic. A pract. introd. to Ruq'ah script. 1953. Ocl. -- T.W.J. JUYNBOLL. Letterkundige bijdragen. 1838-40. 3 vols. Wrps. -- H.E. WEIJERS. Nieuwe proeve om al de Arabische letters en verdere schrijfteekens door het gewoon Europeesch karakter onderscheidenlijk uit te drukken. 1840. 4°. Wrps. -- (6).

SALME, S. & E. RUETE. An Arabian princess between two worlds. Memoirs, letters, home, sequels to the memoirs, Syrian customs & usages. Ed. by E. v. Donzel. 1993. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Spine faded). -- ROSARY OF THE TIMES. Subhatu'l-Ahbâr. A 17th-c. representation of world history in geneal. form w. 102 miniatures from Adam and Eve to Fehmed IV. Facs. print. 1981. Lge-8°. Or. dec. artificial leather. Printed in a lim. ed. of 1000 copies. -- (2).

SAYF B. 'UMAR AL-TAMÎMÎ. Kitâb al-Ridda wa'l-Futûh and Kitâb al-Jamal wa Masîr 'Â'isha wa 'Alî. According to a unique ms. preserved in the Univ. Libr. of the Imam Muhammed Ibn Sa'ud Islamic Univ., Riyadh, Sa'udi Arabia. Ed. by Q. Al-Samarrai. Leiden, 1995. 2 vols. Ocl. - Printed in a lim. edition of 450 copies.

SEMITIC -- SPULER, B., Hrsg. Semitistik. 1954. Cl. (Hb.Orient., 3). -- J. NAVEH. Early hist. of the alphabet. An introd. to West Semitic epigraphy & palaeography. 1982. Obrds. -- B. SASS. Studia Alphabetica. On the origin and early history of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and greek alphabets. (1991). Obrds. (OBO, 102). -- G.R. DRIVER. Semitic writing from pictograph to alphabet. 3rd newly rev. ed. by S.A. Hopkins. (1976). W. 66 plates. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- E. RENAN. Histoire générale & système comparé des langues sémitiques. 1 (all): Histoire générale des langues sémitiques. 4e éd. 1863. Cl. (Bind. stained). -- And 8 o. (13).

SIMON, R. Ignác Goldziher, his life and scholarship as reflected in his works and correspondence. 1986. Ocl. -- B. HELLER. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Ignace Goldziher. 1927. Owrps. -- A. HAMILTON. William Bedwell the Arabist, 1563-1632. 1985. Ocl. -- W.M.C. JUYNBOLL. 17e-eeuwsche beoefenaars v.h. Arabisch in Ned. 1931. W. ill. Cl. -- And 5 o. (9).

SNOUCK HURGRONJE -- KONINGSVELD, P.S. v., (ed.). Orientalism and Islam. The letters of C. Snouck Hurgronje to Th. Nöldeke. - Scholarship and friendship in early Islamwissenschaft. The letters of C. Snouck Hurgronje to I. Goldziher. - Minor German correspondences of Snouck Hurgronje. - Leiden, 1985-87. 3 vols. Owrps. (Abdoel-Ghaffaar, 1-3). -- Id. Snouck Hurgronje's "Izhaar Oel-Islaam". Een veronachtzaamd aspect v.d. koloniale geschiedenis. 1985. Owrps. -- Id. Snouck Hurgronje en de Islam. (1987). Owrps. -- (5).

STEINSCHNEIDER, M. Polemische & apologetische Literatur in arabischer Sprache, zwischen Muslimen, Christen und Juden. 1877. Wrps. Rare original edition. -- G.L. della VIDA. Aneddoti e svaghi Arabi e non Arabi. 1969. Owrps. -- R. BLACHERE. Histoire de la littérature arabe, des origines à la fin du XVe s¡ècle de J.-C. 1952-66. 3 in 1 vol. Cl. -- And 2 o. (5).

SYRIACA -- COAKLEY, J.F. The typography of Syriac. A historical catalogue of printing types, 1537-1958. 2006. Ocl. -- A. BAUMSTARK. Geschichte der syrischen Literatur m. Ausschluß der christl.-palästinensischen Texte. (1968). 4°. Ocl. -- T.H. ROBINSON. Paradigms & exercises in Syriac grammar. 2e ed. 1939. Ocl. -- (B. DAVIDSON). Syriac reading lessons. (1851). Ocl. (Spine a bit dam.). -- E. NESTLE. Syrische Grammatik mit Litteratur, Chrestomathie und Glossar. 2. verm. & verbess. Aufl. 1888. Ocl. -- And 1 o. (6).

TOOMER, G.J. Eastern wisedome and learning. The study of Arabic in 17th-c. England. Oxf., 1996. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- G.A. RUSSELL, ed. The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in 17th-c. England. Leiden, 1994. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (2).

TURKEY -- GABAIN, A. v., (a.o.). Turkologie. Leiden/Köln, 1963. Cl. (Hb. d. Orientalistik). -- H.C. HONY & F. IZ. A Turkish-English dictionary. 1947. Ocl. -- (2).

TURKEY -- GÖLLNER, C. Turcica. I-II: Die europäischen Türkendrucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts. III: Die Türkenfrage in der öffentlichen Meinung Europas im 16. Jahrhundert. Bucarest/Berlin/Baden-Baden, 1961-78. 3 vols. W. ill. Ocl. -- Added: F. BABINGER. Stambuler Buchwesen. Lpz., 1919. 4°. Obrds. -- (4).

TURKEY -- HEFFENING, W. Die türkischen Transkriptionstexte des Bartholomaeus Georgievits aus den Jahren 1544-48, Ein Beitr. zur hist. Grammatik des Osmanisch-Türkischen. 1942. Cl. -- P. WITTEK. The rise of the Ottoman Empire. 1958. Obrds. -- K. ÖZDEMIR. Ottoman nautical charts. The atlas of Ali Macar Reis. (1992). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A. BOPPE. Les peintres du Bosphore au 18e s. 1911. Owrps. -- W.E. SCHARLIPP. Die frühen Türken in Zentral-Asien. (1992). Obrds. -- And 9 o. (14).

TURKEY -- PARDOE, (J.M.). The beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinopel and its environs from original drawings by W.H. Bartlett. London, 1839. (4), 164 pp. W. engr. front.-portr., engr. ti., engr. map of Constantinople & 78 engr. plates by W.H. Bartlett. 4°. Or. gilt dec. cl. w. all edges gilt. (Extremities a bit dam./worn, some foxing).

TURKEY -- ROUILLARD, C.D. The Turk in French history, thought, and literature (1520-1660). (Repr. ed. 1940. 1973). Ocl. -- S. ANDERSON. An English consul in Turkey. Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667-78. 1989. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A.H. de GROOT. The Ottoman empire and the Dutch Republic. A history of the earliest diplomatic relations 1610-30. 1978. 4°. Owrps. -- O.G. v. BOESBEECK. Vier brieven over het gezantschap naar Turkije. Vert. M. Goldsteen. 1994. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 4 o. (8).

VERVLIET, H.D.L. Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the end of the 16th c.: an inquiry into the later work of Robert Granjon (1578-90). 1981. 4°. Ohcl. -- S. PELUSI. Le civiltà del libro e la stamp a Venezia. Testi sacri ebraici, cristiani, islamici dal quattrocento al settecento. (2000). 4°. Owrps. -- J.F. COAKLEY. The typography of Syriac. A historical catalogue of printing types, 1537-1958. 2006. Ocl. -- E. HANEBUTT-BENZ, (a.o.), ed. Middle Eastern languages and the print revolution/Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution. 2002. Lge-8°. Owrps. -- And 9 o. (13).

VIDA, G.L. della. Ricerche sulla formazione del più antico fondo dei manoscritti orientali della Biblioteca Vaticana. 1939. W. ill. Hcf. w. owrps. bound up. -- Id. Frammenti Coranici in carattere cufico nella Biblioteca Vaticana (Codici Vaticani Arabi 1605 e 1606). Owrps. -- P. de JONG. Catalogus codicum Orientalium. 1862. Hcf. -- H. FRANK, (a.o.). Folia rara. Wolfgang Voigt LXV diem natalem celebranti. 1976. Ocl. -- And 2 o. (6).

VYCICHL, W., publ. La correspondance entre Max van Berchem et Louis Massignon, 1907-1919. 1980. Ohcl. -- F. TINGUELY. L'Écriture du Levant à la Renaissance. Enquête sur les voyageurs français dans l'Empire de Soliman le Magnifique. 2000. Owrps. -- J. RABY. Venice, Dürer and the Oriental mode. (1982). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- E. IVERSEN. Obelisks in exile. II: The obelisks of Istanbul and England. 1972. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. In slipcase. (Vol. 2 only). -- B.J. SLOT. The origins of Kuwait. 1991. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 7 o. (12).

WEIJERS, H.E. Nieuwe proeve om al de Arabische letters en verdere schrijfteekens door het gewoon Europeesch karakter onderscheidenlijk uit te drukken. 1840. 4°. Brds. -- SPÉCIMENS des caractères de l'imprimerie catholique Beyrouth (Syrie). Spécialités orientales. (1905). 4°. Ocl. (Spine faded). -- F. MILKAU. Geschichte der Bibliotheken im alten Orient. 1935. Lge-8°. Clothbacked brds. -- A. WELCH. Calligraphy in the arts of the Muslim world. (1979). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- A. KHATIBI & M. SIJELMASSI. L'art calligraphique Arabe. (1976). -- And 5 o. (10).

WEISS v. STARKENFELS, V. Die Kaiserlich-königliche orientalische Akademie in Wien, ihre Gründung, Fortbildung und gegenwärtige Einrichtung. Vienna, 1839. Cont. brds. (Slightly foxed). -- W.W. HALLO. Origins. The ancient Near Eastern background of some modern Western institutions. 1996. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- J. v. HAMMER-PURGSTALL. "Erinnerungen aus meinem leben" 1774-182. Bearb. v. R. Bachofen v. Echt. 1940. Cl. -- P.G. BIETENHOLZ. Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652). Studien zur Geschichte der Orientkenntnis und des Orientbildes im Abendlande. 1962. Owrps. -- And 13 o. (17).