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THE MOVING PAGEANT, A SELECTION OF ESSAYS.
Adelman, Seymour
First edition. An excellent series of well written essays by the well known book-collector, Seymour Adelman. Limited to 650 copies. Presentation on verso of free endpaper "For Whit, (Arch-Conspirator, staunch friend) with warm regards and many thanks from Seymour." Whit, according to pencil notes in the book, was Whitfield Bell, librarian at the American Philosophical Society.
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> GEORGE MILTON SMITH, AN APPRECIATION OF HIS LIBRARY
> Ruber, Peter, THE LAST BOOKMAN, A JOURNEY INTO THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF MECCA
by Witkam, Jan Just
This facsimile edition of 40 magnificent photographs was originally published in 1889 in the Bilder Atlas. It includes photographs from the classic two-volume work on Mecca by the Dutch orientalist and islamologist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as well as twenty photographs of the additional fourth and last volume also published in 1889 (there were not any photographs in the 3rd volume). The facsimile addition is accompanied by an extensive commentary by Jan Witkam, professor of Arabic studies at Leiden University.
Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Will be available Summer 2011.
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