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Item #52630 Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch...

Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen gekrönte Preisschrift.

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 about Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap...

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Item #315119 El Mugrabi. Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1937. Monthly Arabic Magazine. Publisher and Editor...

El Mugrabi. Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1937. Monthly Arabic Magazine. Publisher and Editor Rev. J.B. Hakim.

Lawrence, Mass: 193 Spruce Street, 1937. A single issue of this uncommon Massachusetts Arabic language periodical with literary and general content: poetry, review of journals, “Hal ‘Alamtak” [Did you know?], medical topics, and household hints. Read More about El Mugrabi. Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1937. Monthly Arabic Magazine. Publisher and Editor Rev. J.B. Hakim

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Item #324388 Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.)...

Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.) [Caption title].

[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 about Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.) [Caption title

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Item #252180 Japanese Poetry. Basil Hall Chamberlain

John Quinn’s Copy

Japanese Poetry.

London: John Murray, 1911. First edition thus. John Quinn’s Copy. The first three sections of this book were first published in 1880, and this edition adds a fourth section on "Basho and the Epigram." This was collector and patron John Quinn’s copy. Read More about Japanese Poetry

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Item #265276 Dizionario Storico degli Autori Arabi più celebri e delle principali loro 0pere....

From Abdalkader to Zoheir

Dizionario Storico degli Autori Arabi più celebri e delle principali loro 0pere.

Parma: Dalla stamperia imperiale, 1807. From Abdalkader to Zoheir. 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..... Read More about Dizionario Storico degli Autori Arabi più celebri e delle principali loro 0pere

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Item #60025 Ethiopic Manuscript Prayer Book on Vellum. [Miracles of the Virgin Mary and the...

Ethiopic Manuscript Prayer Book on Vellum. [Miracles of the Virgin Mary and the Saints].

[Ethiopia: late 19th century]. A representative manuscript collection of miracles, including a selection of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and miracles of the saints George, Gabra Manfas Qeddus, and the archangel Michael; the sections record several names of those commissioning the manuscript, Walda Śellāsē, Ḫāyla Śellāsē, and Walda Tenśā'ē. The..... Read More about Ethiopic Manuscript Prayer Book on Vellum. [Miracles of the Virgin Mary and the Saints

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Item #301061 The Katha Spirit Sagara ... Translated from the Original Sanskrit. Lafcadio Hearn,...

From the library of Lafcadio Hearn

The Katha Spirit Sagara ... Translated from the Original Sanskrit.

Calcutta. From the library of Lafcadio Hearn. 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 the estate by George M...... Read More about The Katha Spirit Sagara ... Translated from the Original Sanskrit

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Item #308272 The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original...

The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into...

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 about The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady...

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