1871, ISBN: 072596eff8e97e93f2146d653d955f5d

Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 235pp. Original brown cloth with blind stamp border and gold lettering on spin… More...

Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 235pp. Original brown cloth with blind stamp border and gold lettering on spine. Dropsie College emblem on title page. Catalogue of 487 documents from the Cairo Genizah along with description of the given item. Documents range from texts and commentaries on the Bible and Talmud to philosophy, kabbalah, liturgy, secular poetry and personal letters. Prefatory note provided by author discusses the 19th century discovery of this material and places it within the context of medieval Jewish life. Front cover is scratched. Shelf wear to bottom edges. Head and tail of spine worn. Interior is in good condition. Overall in good condition. B. Halper served as professor of cognate languages at The Dropsie College., The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1924, 2.5, London, Bentley, 1886. Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. xvi, 342, 2 catalogue. Folding, partly coloured engraved map of Western Hauran & Eastern Jaulan, by Schumacher, as frontispiece. Plus 5 other folding engraved maps, some coloured, tipped-in. With a total of 157 engraved illustrations, some full page, throughout the text. Index in English and Arabic, footnotes. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full mustard-colour cloth, gilt-embossed illustration on upper cover, lettering embossed in black, spine lettered in black, spine ends slightly bumped. Foliage green chalked endpapers; top edge roughly trimmed. In about fine condition (contemporary institutional label pasted inside cover with small blemish to front endpaper, stamp on blank endpaper, old signature). Overall an excellent copy. ~ First edition. Schumacher was the first explorer to survey the region lying between Damascus and Haifa. His minute and thorough scientific observations, notes, maps, drawings, and sketches were prepared for publication at the request of the Palestine Exploration Fund by his friend, the explorer Guy le Strange. They were published here for the first time. The papers of le Strange and Laurence Oliphant, "A Ride Through Ajlun and the Belka During the Autumn of 1884," and "A Trip to the North-East of Lake Tiberias, in Jaulan," respectively, were published before but appear here for the first time in a book form. Gottlieb Schumacher (1857) settled at a very young age with his family in Haifa, where his father, a member of the "Temple Association" designed most of the buildings of the German Colony. Following the completion of his engineering studies in Stuttgart, he returned to Haifa and was appointed Chief Engineer for the Province of Akko. He designed many buildings and was a leading figure in civil engineering. One of his most important projects was the survey of the Golan, Hauran, and the Ajlun districts in preparation for the construction of the Damascus-Haifa railway. In the course of this survey he produced the first accurate maps of these regions, along with detailed descriptions of the archaeological remains and the present villages. He published many other reports and books on his discoveries, supported by the Palestine Exploration Fund. With the outbreak of World War I the Templar community left for Germany. Schumacher returned in 1924 to his home on the Carmel, where he died a year later. Although he was born in Ohio, U.S.A., Gottlieb was brought-up and educated as a German. "I beg to throw myself on the indulgence of my readers for the defects of style," he once wrote, "for my work has been perforce written in a language which, though familiar to me, is not my own." [Descriptive text Copyright Librarium, The Hague], London, Bentley, 1886, 0, 1969. Reprint of the original edition London, 1873. 2 Volumes (complete set). Farnborough, Gregg International Publishers Ltd., 1969. 14 cm x 22 cm. Volume 1: XVI, 559 pages. 79 illustrations by J.D. Cooper. Fold-out map at front showing "Dr Schweinfurth's Discoveries in Central Africa". Volume 2: Frontispiece, X, 521 pages. 45 illustrations by J.D. Cooper. Map at front titled "Sketch Map of Dr Schweinfurth's Routes, 1868-1871". Recent Hardcover [publisher's green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Binding in excellent condition. Tiny blemish to lower spine of Volume two. Otherwise in excellent, close to new condition. Originally published in London by Sampson Low. Marston, Low & Searle in 1873. Includes, for example, the following: Volume 1 - The Bedouin camp at O-Mareg. Arrival at the Nile / Arrival at Khartoom / Dyafer Pasha, the Governor General / Ivory trade at Khartoom / Herds of the Hassanieh / The Mountain Nyemati / Mohammed Kher, the robber chief / Fashoda, the most southernly military station / Camp at Mudir/Mohammed Aboo-Sammat / Treachery of the Shilooks / Arabian protocol / Description of the Dinka / Arrival at Ghattas's chief Seriba / Trip to the Dyoor and to Wowo / Hunting adventure with a bastard Gems-bok / Death of Arslan / Cattle-raids on the Dinka / Fear of Ghosts in Kulongo / Nubian love of drink / Smoking in Africa / The Bongo / Width of the skull / Corpulence of the Women / Belief in Witches / Extermination of the race / Six women-slaves burnt / Jewish school / Orgies and Drum-beating / Tour through the Mittoo country / Dokkuttoo / Dangadduloo / Kurraggera / A speech of the Kenoosian / Kuddoo on the Roah / Fetters of fashion / Preparations from the Niam-niam campaign / Banner of Islam Visit to Nganye / Passage of the Manzilly / Monbuttoo fronter/Arrival at Munza's residence etc. Volume 2 - The Niam-Niam / The Monbutto / The Pygmies / Dialect inarticulate / The river Kahpily / Detruncated heads / Mount Baginze / Skulls No. 36, 37, and 38 / Indifference of Nubians to Cannibaliam / Route from Rikkete to Kanna / Route between Kuddoo and Mbomo / Tikkitikki and the cows / Defeat of Khartoomers by Ndoruma / Nubian supersitions / The Pongo / Frontiers of the Bongo and Golo / The Kooroo / Copper mines at Darfoor / Underwood of Cycadeae / Wild game around Dehm Adlan / Katherine II's villages / Baseness of Fakis / Three classes of Gellahbas / Intercourse with Mofio / Price of Slaves / Slave-raids of Mehemet Ali / Chinese immigration / Habits of the Aulacodus etc. Georg August Schweinfurth, (1836-1925), German botanist and traveler who explored the region of the upper Nile River basin known as the Bahr al Ghazal and discovered the Uele River, a tributary of the Congo River. Schweinfurth’s interest in African plants took him across the Red Sea to the Sudanese port of Suakin and overland to Khartoum in 1863. On his return to Berlin in 1866, he obtained a grant permitting him to conduct a botanical exploration in the Bahr al Ghazal region. In January of 1869 he went back by way of Suakin to Khartoum, where he began his ascent of the White Nile River and then ventured into the southwestern Sudan region with a party of ivory traders. He visited the Bongo and Mangbetu peoples as well as the allegedly cannibalistic Naim-Naim, who filed their teeth to points. He also provided the first authoritative account of the Congo Pygmies. Schweinfurth crossed the Nile-Congo watershed and, in March 1870, reached the westward-flowing Uele River, a tributary branch of the Congo, which he mistook for a part of the Niger River. His discovery of the Uele, however, helped toward a final estimate of the extent of the Nile system. In 1873 Schweinfurth published The Heart of Africa. From 1875 to 1888 he lived in Cairo, studying the botany, geology, paleontology, and archaeology of Egypt and Middle Eastern regions. (Encyclopedia Britannica), 1969, 0<

1969, ISBN: 072596eff8e97e93f2146d653d955f5d

[ED: Leinen], [PU: Gregg International Publishers Ltd.], Reprint of the original edition London, 1873. 2 Volumes (complete set). 14 cm x 22 cm. Volume 1: XVI, 559 pages. 79 illustratio… More...

[ED: Leinen], [PU: Gregg International Publishers Ltd.], Reprint of the original edition London, 1873. 2 Volumes (complete set). 14 cm x 22 cm. Volume 1: XVI, 559 pages. 79 illustrations by J.D. Cooper. Fold-out map at front showing "Dr Schweinfurth's Discoveries in Central Africa". Volume 2: Frontispiece, X, 521 pages. 45 illustrations by J.D. Cooper. Map at front titled "Sketch Map of Dr Schweinfurth's Routes, 1868-1871". Recent Hardcover [publisher's green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Binding in excellent condition. Tiny blemish to lower spine of Volume two. Otherwise in excellent, close to new condition. Originally published in London by Sampson Low. Marston, Low & Searle in 1873. Includes, for example, the following: Volume 1 - The Bedouin camp at O-Mareg. Arrival at the Nile / Arrival at Khartoom / Dyafer Pasha, the Governor General / Ivory trade at Khartoom / Herds of the Hassanieh / The Mountain Nyemati / Mohammed Kher, the robber chief / Fashoda, the most southernly military station / Camp at Mudir/Mohammed Aboo-Sammat / Treachery of the Shilooks / Arabian protocol / Description of the Dinka / Arrival at Ghattas's chief Seriba / Trip to the Dyoor and to Wowo / Hunting adventure with a bastard Gems-bok / Death of Arslan / Cattle-raids on the Dinka / Fear of Ghosts in Kulongo / Nubian love of drink / Smoking in Africa / The Bongo / Width of the skull / Corpulence of the Women / Belief in Witches / Extermination of the race / Six women-slaves burnt / Jewish school / Orgies and Drum-beating / Tour through the Mittoo country / Dokkuttoo / Dangadduloo / Kurraggera / A speech of the Kenoosian / Kuddoo on the Roah / Fetters of fashion / Preparations from the Niam-niam campaign / Banner of Islam Visit to Nganye / Passage of the Manzilly / Monbuttoo fronter/Arrival at Munza's residence etc. Volume 2 - The Niam-Niam / The Monbutto / The Pygmies / Dialect inarticulate / The river Kahpily / Detruncated heads / Mount Baginze / Skulls No. 36, 37, and 38 / Indifference of Nubians to Cannibaliam / Route from Rikkete to Kanna / Route between Kuddoo and Mbomo / Tikkitikki and the cows / Defeat of Khartoomers by Ndoruma / Nubian supersitions / The Pongo / Frontiers of the Bongo and Golo / The Kooroo / Copper mines at Darfoor / Underwood of Cycadeae / Wild game around Dehm Adlan / Katherine II's villages / Baseness of Fakis / Three classes of Gellahbas / Intercourse with Mofio / Price of Slaves / Slave-raids of Mehemet Ali / Chinese immigration / Habits of the Aulacodus etc. Georg August Schweinfurth, (1836-1925), German botanist and traveler who explored the region of the upper Nile River basin known as the Bahr al Ghazal and discovered the Uele River, a tributary of the Congo River. Schweinfurth’s interest in African plants took him across the Red Sea to the Sudanese port of Suakin and overland to Khartoum in 1863. On his return to Berlin in 1866, he obtained a grant permitting him to conduct a botanical exploration in the Bahr al Ghazal region. In January of 1869 he went back by way of Suakin to Khartoum, where he began his ascent of the White Nile River and then ventured into the southwestern Sudan region with a party of ivory traders. He visited the Bongo and Mangbetu peoples as well as the allegedly cannibalistic Naim-Naim, who filed their teeth to points. He also provided the first authoritative account of the Congo Pygmies. Schweinfurth crossed the Nile-Congo watershed and, in March 1870, reached the westward-flowing Uele River, a tributary branch of the Congo, which he mistook for a part of the Niger River. His discovery of the Uele, however, helped toward a final estimate of the extent of the Nile system. In 1873 Schweinfurth published The Heart of Africa. From 1875 to 1888 he lived in Cairo, studying the botany, geology, paleontology, and archaeology of Egypt and Middle Eastern regions. (Encyclopedia Britann, IE, [SC: 0.00], wie neu, gewerbliches Angebot, [PU: Farnborough], Banküberweisung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<