Ludvico (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Reprint. [3, introduction by Badr El-Hage], 68 pp., 19 b/w photographs by Ludvicio Wolfang Hart including a vignette on title page, half-title, title printed in red & black, hard back binding, a reprint of 1865, limited edition of 500 copies, of which this copy is numbered 63. The first edition of this work was published in 60 numbered copies only in Paris. It is an extremely rare work. Lallemand (1826-1904) was a French writer who was active with his friend Ludvico Hart (1837-1919), an accomplished photographer. Both of them travelled to Egypt and Syria. Hart took a series of photographs during that journey depicting Syrian costumes. The photographs illustrated in this work are as follows: 1- La ville de Zuck. 2- Marchands de limonade à Beyrouth. 3- Pâtre du Liban avec un chevreau. 4- Musique arabe à Damas. 5-Paysans Kurdes. 6- Marchand de limonade à Damas. 7- Cawas du consulat de France à Beyrouth. 8- Portefaix à Beyrouth. 9- Marchand et paysan de la région de Damas. 10- Cawas nègre de la Cie des Messagerie Impériale ottomanes. 11- Femme de Zuck (maronite). 12- Évêque maronite. 13- Jeune fille et jeune femme juive de Damas. 14- Femmes juives de Damas. 15- L'Émir Melhem, gouverneur de Schouffas et son fils. 16- Dame chrétienne de Damas. 17- Diacres grecs melchites. 18- Évêque grec melchite, costume d'autel. 19- Divan de la maison du Consul anglais à Damas. #35487.…

The first European to enter Mecca and Medina 4to. Engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, plates shaved, head of title-page reinforced, otherwise in good condition. Contemporary vellum. Collation: [8], 56, "56" [= 60], 24, [2, 2 blank] pp. Second Dutch translation of a highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first recorded visit of a non-Muslim to Mecca. Ludovico di Varthema or Barthema (ca. 1468-1517) sailed from Venice to Egypt in 1502 and travelled through Alexandria, Beirut, Tripoli, and Aleppo, arriving in Damascus in April 1503. Here he enrolled in the Mameluke garrison and proceeded overland to Khaybar, Medina and Mekka, thereby becoming the first European to enter the two holiest cities of Islam. His travels took him to South Arabia, Shiraz (Persia), India, Goa, Cochin, and supposedly the Malay isthmus, Sumatra, Banda, the Moluccas, the Spice Islands, Borneo, Java and Malacca. He finally returned to Lisbon in 1508. "Varthema's Itinerario, first published in 1510, had an enormous impact at the time, and in some respects determined the course of European expansion towards the Orient" (Howgego). His account, moreover, contains a detailed description of Mecca and the Islamic pilgrimage, and four evocative plates (including an illustration of a Sati ritual). Contrary to the statement on the title-page, this is de second Dutch translation; an earlier and rather elusive rendering had already been published at Antwerp in 1544. The present translation was made by Felix van Sambix de Jonge after Megiser's German translation of the Italian. With a poem by Simon de Vries. Tiele, Bibl., 1128; cf. Howgego V15; Lach I, p. 164-6.…