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Ottoman Turkey: [1009 A.H. = 1600 C.E.]. A fine dated manuscript of the Diwan (or Collected Works) of Ottoman court poet Baki (Mahmud Abdulbaki, 1526-1600 C.E.), known as "Sultânü'ş-şuarâ" (Sultan of poets) in a “Golden Age” of Ottoman literature, Baki’s influence as a poet echoed down through the centuries. He..... Read More Item Details for [Diwan] [Divan-i Baki] Add to Wish List
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Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1952. [First]. Two of the stories in this book, "Rashomon" and "In A Grove" are the source for the Japanese movie called Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa which won grand prize at the 12th International Film Festival in Venice. This is the first English publication..... Read More Item Details for Rashomon Add to Wish List
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, praeceptis decalogi & initio Evangelii S. Johannis Add to Wish List
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei Add to Wish List
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi Add to Wish List
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[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title] Add to Wish List
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi Add to Wish List
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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1886. First Edition. On Aramaic loan words and phrases in classical Arabic. With the ownership signature of linguist and scholar of Jewish history, Max L. Margolis. Read More Item Details for Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen gekrönte Preisschrift Add to Wish List
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Leipzig: Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1896. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Assyrisches Handwörterbuch Add to Wish List
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Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1884. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Mit einer kritischen Erörterung der aramäischen Wörter im Neuen Testament Add to Wish List
Item #57478
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[n.d., ca. 1930s?]. My station in life Is that of a clerk. But privately There are two things I love Surpassingly: Good wine And the women Of other men. Acting script of the Ethel van der Veer translation of a Chinese play, Circle of Chalk, which tells a tale of..... Read More Item Details for Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.) [Caption title] Add to Wish List
Item #324388
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Parma: Dalla stamperia imperiale, 1807. Succinct biographical dictionary of classical Arabic authors in all fields, with notes of manuscripts in European libraries and printed editions. A standard work, widely cited by Schnurrer, who also notes de Rossi’s work, De Corano arabico (Parma, 1805); de Rossi also compiled a dictionary of..... Read More Item Details for Dizionario Storico degli Autori Arabi più celebri e delle principali loro 0pere Add to Wish List
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First American edition, and first edition thus of this translation with preface by Emerson. A nice association copy; John Albee was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he wrote 'Reminiscences of Emerson' [1882; reprinted in 'Concord Lectures in Philosophy'(Myerson E202)] and 'Remembrances of Emerson'..... Read More Item Details for THE GULISTAN OR ROSE GARDEN. By Musle-Huddeen Sheik Saadi, of Shiraz. Translated from the Original by Francis Gladwin. With an Essay on Saadi's Life and Genius By James Ross, and a Preface By R. W. Emerson Add to Wish List
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Sao Paulo, Brazil: [Maṭbaʻat Abu al-Hawl], 1932. First edition. The first critical anthology of the work of Lebanese-American poet, novelist and artist Gibran Khalil Gibran, known best in the West for his visionary work 'The Prophet'. This anothology was printed in Arabic in Sao Paolo in 1932 (the year after..... Read More Item Details for Jibran Hayyan wa Mayittan [Gibran Alive and Dead]. Majmu'a tashtamilu 'ala mukhtarat mimma kataba wa-rasama Jibran Khalil Jibran wa-mimma qila fih Add to Wish List
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[Persia: 1270 A.H., i.e. 1254 C.E]. Read More Item Details for Diwan Add to Wish List
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[Istanbul: 1257 A.H., i.e., 1841]. Read More Item Details for Diwan-i Hafiz Shirazi Add to Wish List
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Calcutta: Printed by J. W. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1880. Signed on the diagonal by Hearn on ffep "Lafadio Hearn/ New Orleans 1885." With a long note signed by Mitchell McDonald, executor of Hearn's estate, indicating that this was one of 597 books from Hearn’s library surrendered to..... Read More Item Details for The Katha Spirit Sagara ... Translated from the Original Sanskrit Add to Wish List
Item #301061
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London: George Routledge & Sons, [1938]. First Edition in English. The first English translation of Kafka's unfinished novel, developed out of some short stories he worked on from 1912-1914, which he based on details from the experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The original was..... Read More Item Details for America Add to Wish List
Item #373537
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London: Reeves and Turner, 1892. First edition. First edition of this noted translation of an Arabic verse romance. A.W. Lawrence’s “probably complete” inventory, Books at Clouds Hill, lists only a copy of the Gregynog Press edition of 1930 given him by Edward Garnett, but Lawrence clearly knew the work long..... Read More Item Details for The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into Verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First edition. With Advance Review slip laid in. Read More Item Details for Five Modern No Plays. Translated, with an Introduction, by Doanld Keene Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred Knopf, 1957. First edition in English. Read More Item Details for Five Modern No Plays. Translated, with an Introduction, by Donald Keene Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. First book published by Mishima in America. Read More Item Details for The Sound of the Waves. A Love Story. Translated by Meredith Weatherby Add to Wish List
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![Item #373892 Midhat Paşa [Pasha]. Hayat-ı siyasiyesi, hidematı, menfa hayatı. Ali Heydat Mithat](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/373892.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774983725)
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Istanbul: Bab-ı Ali Caddesinde Hilâl Matbaası, 1325 A.H. = 1909 C.E. Biography of the Ottoman statesman Midhat Pasha (1822-1884). Read More Item Details for Midhat Paşa [Pasha]. Hayat-ı siyasiyesi, hidematı, menfa hayatı Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition, first printing, with leave tipped in with Murakami's chop and signature. Read More Item Details for After Dark. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin Add to Wish List
Item #372787
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New York: Japan Society, 1933. First separate edition (reprinted from The Perfume of the Rainbow), one of 1000 copies. Beautifullly produce volume on the Noh plays of Japan. This copy with a card laid in noting that it is one of a limited number of copies available to members of..... Read More Item Details for The Ghost Plays of Japan Add to Wish List
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