Near East
3 items found
Extremely rare and hardly recorded
Barbey, W.
Lydie, Lycie, Carie. 1842, 1883, 1887. Études botaniques revues.
Lausanne, George Bridel, 1890. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.3 cm). 84 pp.; five lithographed plates, made by Becquet in Paris, of which two double-sized, all tissue-guarded and with explanatory text leaves. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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€2,200.00
A very rare work on the rise and - temporary - fall of the Ottoman Empire
The very FIRST mineralogical/geological map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East
Guettard, J. E.
Mémoire sur les Granits de France, Comparés a Ceux d'Égypte. [AND] Mémoire sur Quelques Corps Fossiles Peu Connus. In: Histoire de l'Academie Royale des sciences, Année MDCCLI [1751], avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique, pour la même année. Tirés des registres de cette académie.
Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 4to (25.1 x 18.9 cm). 738 [202, 536] pp.; 23 mostly large, folded plates. Contemporary full tree-calf. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Red edges.
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€1,000.00
