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'Al-Balda al-Jadida' (the new town), [Ürümqi], Xinjiang, Qazani Press, dated 1348 AH and 1929 'Miladi' AD. . Two parts in one volume, type-set printed in Arabic with 16 woobdblock printed diagrams, complete, 331pp., 215 x 165 mm; typographic black ink Arabic text, with cosmological diagrams with captions in Arabic and Chinese scripts, some very light age-toning to paper else clean internal condition; contemporary leather-backed marbled boards, spine ends and extremities worn, covers scuffed. islam24 49 Ma Liangjun (1871-1957) was a renowned Hui Muslim Akhund in the Northwest and a famous Islamic scholar ('Hui' referring to an ethno-religious group of Chinese speaking Muslims mostly based in North-west China). The author's name is only given in Arabic in this publication, but 'Ma Liangjun' and 'Muhammad Yusuf Hijrani' are the same person; 'Ma' being synonymous with the Arabic 'Muhammad' among the Hui population and 'Hijrani' being the Arabic name Ma Liangjun appointed himself. He was a prominent…
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Hashiyya al-Hijrani, a work on Islamic theology, astronomy and global affairs.
by MA LIANGJUN [AL-HIJRANI, Muhammad Yusuf].
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Kitab Tahqiq al-Shuhur al-Maqlub..., a treatise on the Islamic calendar in accordance to months of the year, with extracts on Arabic Grammar and Philosophy.
by MA LIANGJUN [AL-HIJRANI, Muhammad Yusuf].
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The Grand Mosque in Yining City, Xinjiang, al-Matba'a al-Sha'biyya, dated 1350 AH, 1931 'Miladi' AD and the 20th year of the Republic of China. . Single volume, woodblock printed in Arabic and Mandarin, 8vo (290 x 200 mm), 4 full-page tables and 4 full-page solar and lunar astronomical charts, some early erratas bound-in or pasted to the margins these woodblock printed) a few small ink annotations, leaves evenly age-toned, text-block sewn, loosely inserted into contemporary cloth-backed wooden boards, lower cover worn with a little loss to fabric, extremities rubbed. islam24 50 Rare example of arabic woodblock printing in china by a prominent hui islamic scholar in xingjiang. Ma Liangjun (1871-1957) was a renowned Hui Muslim Akhund in the Northwest and a famous Islamic scholar ('Hui' referring to an ethno-religious group of Chinese speaking Muslims mostly based in North-west China). He was a prominent local figure that advocated peace and national unity in Xinjiang and was responsible for much of the…
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English Nobility.
Horation Nelson; Lieutenant General Hay Macdowall; John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun and Colonel Banastre Tarleton.
by MACBETH-RAEBURN, Henry.
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London, 1924. . 4 mezzotints printed in colours. Framed and glazed. Priced individually
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The First Maccabiah Games - Important Collection of Documents.
by MACCABEE, World Union.
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Palestine and Europe, World Union Maccabee, 1932. . Printed documents of various sizes; handwritten corrections and additions on some items; text in Hebrew, English, German, French and Arabic. An important collection of documents of the First Maccabiah Games - opening ceremony programme, drafts of the games regulations, official leaflets and more.Ten documents recording the preparations for the first Maccabiah Games in Palestine. Highlights include: · 'The Arrangements for the Opening Ceremony, 29.3.1932' a detailed plan for the first Maccabiah Games opening ceremony procession, which was to include motorcyclists, horsemen and flag bearers, an orchestra, and the athletic teams, with sketches of their placement in the stadium and the text of the opening announcement of the games.· Four drafts of the Maccabiah regulations: proposal of the world-wide centre of Maccabi, proposal of the Palestinian centre of Maccabi, proposal by the Jewish Olympic swimmer Július Balá (in German) and a draft…
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Whistler. Butterfly, Wasp, Wit, Master of the Arts, Enigma.
by MACFALL, Haldane.
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Edinburgh & London, T.N. Foulis, 1905. . Number 22 of 100 copies signed by the author; narrow 8vo (c. 200 x 110 mm); printed on Japanese vellum, partly unopened, portrait frontispiece, plates, 6pp. advertisements, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's vellum, gilt to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, slight splaying but overall very good. The first title in Foulis' Spirit of the Age series, a neat and attractive volume.
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Campaigning on the Oxus, and the fall of Khiva.
by MACGAHAN, J.A
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London, Sampson Low, 1874. . First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy. A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspondent of the New York Herald. Ghani p233; Yakushi M12 (later reprint).
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Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas.
by MACINTYRE, Donald.
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Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1889. . First edition. 8vo, xx, 464 pp., 24 pages ads at end, tinted lithograph frontispiece and numerous other illustrations both full-page and in the text, little soiling pp 313-315, contemporary green half calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, marbled sides and edges, light fade to spine, short autograph note from the author, signed, and a printed obituary tipped-in, a very good copy. Macintyre's Hindu-Koh is a big game classic. Macintyre travelled from Srinagar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo in 1871. Czech, Asian, p 131; Yakushi M45.
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Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
by MACKAY, Charles.
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London, Routledge, 1892. . 2 vols in 1, 8vo., viii, 303; vi, 322 pp., illustrations in the text, some foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, contemporary calf gilt, marbled sides and edges, a good copy. A classic account of popular follies and the madness of crowds and an important early work of social psychology.In the preface it is stated "The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes". The chapters on the financial fads, are still considered crucially important even today. The Financial Times rated it second among the top ten greatest books on investment ever published. Since its first publication in 1841 it has seldom been out of print. Bernard Baruch wrote a new forward in the 1932 edition, stating that…
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Santa Claus in Summer.
by MACKENZIE, Compton.
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London, Constable & Co Ltd., 1924. . First edition; 8vo; vignettes and illustrations by A.H. Watson, some light spotting; publisher's pictorial cloth, colour pictorial dust-jacket by Watson, some chipping and fraying, a little light marking, but overall a very good copy. misc23 A great first edition copy of this relatively unknown work by Compton Mackenzie, more well-known for his '...Galore' stories and Eastern Mediterranean Quartet. The author draws inspiration from fairy tale & nursery rhyme alike to create a charming tale for children. A rare beast thus in the original, delightful dust-jacket.
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. [with] A Journey through Scotland. Being the third volume, which compleats Great Britain.
by [MACKY, John].
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London, Pemberton. 1724 & 1723. . Together 3 volumes, 8vo. First work: 2 vols, fourth edition of vol. I, second edition of vol. II, vol. I with ads before title, vol. II with half-title and errata leaf at end. Second work: First edition. complete but with erratic pagination (pages 136-139 not used), contemporary mottled calf gilt, red sprinkled edges, vol. II lacks label, spines rubbed, light wear to tops of spines, a very good set. The Scottish journey is written in a series of letters to better inform those south of the border of the positive aspects of Scotland and the Scots. It proved very popular. Macky was a British spy who informed the British of French plans to restore James II to the throne.
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My Name is Love. A Romance.
by MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian.
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Douglas, Isle of Man Times Press, 1964, . First edition; 8vo; original publishers sage cloth binding, lettering in metallic blue to spine, unclipped dust-jacket, slight rubbing to extremities, a few short closed tears, light stain affecting fore-edge of lower panel. The authors last novel, written whilst living in abject poverty. In part autobiographical, the narrative details the amorous pursuit of the beautiful widow of a famous writer (in fact based on his pursuit of George Orwell's wife, Sonia).This is the author's scarcest book, especially with the elusive dust-jacket.
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Guide to Egypt and the Sudan including a description of the route through Uganda to Mombasa.
by MACMILLAN
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Macmillan and Co, London 1918 . Seventh edition. xx, 196 pp, 12 map, 24 plans; publisher's red cloth gilt, slightly bumped at edges, lettering dull on spine, original blue printed dust-wrapper; a very good copy. Very scarce in dust-wrapper.The first edition of this title was published with Palestine in 1901. This edition is a reprint of the sixth in 1916. It is very unusual to find copies with dust-wrappers.
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Autumn Journal.
by MACNEICE, Louis.
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London, Faber & Faber, 1939. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; light age-toning to text block, else unmarked internally; publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, with the unclipped dust-jacket, some chips and tears, minor loss to spine ends, rear panel soiled, else very good. First edition of the author's masterpiece, written between August and December 1938. A record of the author's intellectual and emotional experience during that period, MacNeice described the work as 'both a panorama and a confession of faith'.
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Poolreflection.
by MACPHERSON, Kenneth.
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Territet, Pool Editions, 1927. . First edition, sole impression; 8vo; light spotting early and late; publisher's buff wrappers printed in black, a little foxing to the wrappers, backstrip tanned and with some further light wear, otherwise a good copy. One the author's three novels and distinctly uncommon. Printed by Darantiere in Dijon (who had, of course printed the first edition of Ulysses) and issued in presumably quite small numbers by Bryher's publishing company. Macpherson's main claim to fame was as one of the first serious film critics and theorists. From the library of Eric Walter White with his name in an unknown hand to the first blank. White and Macpherson had both been the lover of H.D., the American modernist poet Hilda Doolittle.
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[Relief, Arch of Titus, Rome].
by [MACPHERSON, Robert].
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[c.1880]. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in good condition. Slight sunning in the margins. A nineteenth-century albumen print of the south inner panel of the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum. The relief depicts the spoils taken from the Temple of Jerusalem after the city of Jerusalem was besieged and conquered by the future Emperor Titus in 70 AD. The Menorah is the central focus of the scene and is carved in deep relief. The triumphal procession shows several other sacred objects being carried, including Gold Trumpets, fire pans for removing the ashes from the altar, and the Table of Shrewbread.
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[Temple of Hera I, Paestum].
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[c.1860]. . Albumen print. Fair tonal contrast with slight sunning along margins. Macpherson's blind stamp underneath image.
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[St Peter's].
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Gaunt Island.
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Territet, Pool Editions, 1927. . First edition, sole impression; 8vo; light spotting early and late; publisher's puce wrappers printed in black, a little foxing to the wrappers, backstrip tanned and considerably worn, otherwise a good copy. One the author's three novels and distinctly uncommon. Printed by Darantiere in Dijon (who had, of course printed the first edition of Ulysses) and issued in presumably quite small numbers by Bryher's publishing company. Macpherson's main claim to fame was as one of the first serious film critics and theorists. From the library of Eric Walter White with his his own inscription to the first blank recording this to have been given to, 'Eric Walter White from H.D. 1932'. White and Macpherson had both been H.D.'s lover which makes this gift peculiar to put it mildly. Scarce.
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A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood.
by MACQUOID, Percy.
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London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1938. . Third edition; 4 volumes, folio, 60 colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards) after Shirley Slocombe, numerous black & white plates and illustrations within text, publisher's red cloth gilt, slight fading to spine heads, otherwise fine and bright, original drab printed dust-wrappers, faded with minor defects and soiling, otherwise very good and internally fine. An excellent set of this landmark in furniture history, retaining the original dust-jackets, so often discarded.
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L'Oiseau Bleu. L'Oiseau Bleu: Féerie de Maurice Maeterlinck avec des aquarelles de Georges Lepape [with] Décors et costumes pour L'Oiseau Bleu de Maurice Materlinck avec une préface de Gérard d'Houville.
by MAETERLINCK Maurice; LEPAPE, Georges (illustrator).
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Paris, Le Livre, 1925-1927. . 2 vols; 8vo; libretto, one of 10 examples on Japon imperial, hors commerce, this for the publisher Henri Barthlémy, 8vo, 14 original Pochoirs by Saude after Georges Lepape, original wrappers. Décors et costumes: one of of 10 copies on Japon Imperial, hors commerce, this for the publisher Henri Barthlémy, 61 colour plates (seven double page folding), loose in the original wrappers, both volumes protected by a chemise and slipcase (slight wear). 03 Illustrated libretto with separate edition of 61 costume designs for L'Oiseau Bleu which was written in 1908 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck and premiered at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre. These illustrations are based on the 1923 production of the play, for which Lepape was the designer.An Art Deco artist Georges Lepape (1887-1971) began his career as an illustrator for the fashion designer Paul Poiret, before becoming one of the world's most famous fashion illustrators in the world, working…
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