‎The Historical Geography of the Holy Land, especially in Relation to the History of Israel and the Early Church.‎

‎London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1894, lg. in-8°, XVIII + 692 p., ill with 6 maps, untrimmed copy, small printed card - With the Author’s Compliments -, on first free end-paper, original clothbound. Spine faded some stains on covers.‎

‎George Adam Smith, D. D. was Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at Free Church College, Glasgow. Fine untrimmed copy internally clean. ‎

‎New Arabian Studies 3‎

‎Exeter, University of Exeter Press 1996 269pp.+ 28pp.arabic text, with some illustrations, 24cm., cart., dustwrapper, VG‎

‎DECOUVRIR L OCEANOGRAPHIE‎

‎EDITIONS DU FANAL. 1981. In-4. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 95 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en couleur dans et hors texte -. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 372.89-Livre scolaire : histoire / géographie‎

‎TRADUCTION SUZANNE HORVATH Classification Dewey : 372.89-Livre scolaire : histoire / géographie‎

‎Les drapeaux a travers les ages et dans le monde entier‎

‎Fayard. Non daté. In-4. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 352 pages augmentées de nombreuses planches en noir et blanc et couleur dans et hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 910-Géographie générale. Voyages‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 910-Géographie générale. Voyages‎

‎Dictionnaire classique de biographie, mythologie et géographie ancienne.‎

‎Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1884. 12 x 19, 663 pp., très nombreux dessins et figures, reliure dos/coins cuir, tranches marbrées, très bon état. ‎

‎"Traduit en grande partie de l'anglais de William Smith par N. Theil; 2e édition revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée par M. P. Louisy."‎

‎Voyages autour du Monde et dans les contrées les plus curieuses du Globe.‎

‎Depuis Christophe Colomb jusqu’à nos jours par les plus célèbres navigateurs, mis en ordre par WILLIAM SMITH.11 tomes sur 12 en 11 volumes sur 12. In 8 demi cuir vert à nerfs,titre,filets dorés,tranches jaspées,nombreuses gravures sur acier sous serpentes 9 cartes dépliantes. Au bureau de la publication sans date Tome I.363 pages.Introduction.Notice sur la vie de George Anson.Voyage autour du monde par Anson.Voyage autour du monde par le Commodore Byron.Voyage autour du monde par Bougainville.Frontispice,titre illustré et gravé,8 planches.Tome II.393 pages.Notice sur la vie du Capitaine Cook.Voyages du Capitaine Cook.9 Planches.Tome III.403 pages.Suite des Voyages du Capitaine Cook.Voyage au Pôle Austral et autour du monde.8 planches.2 cartes dépliantes Tome IV.396 pages.Suite des Voyages du Capitaine Cook. Troisième Voyage.8 planches plus 2 planches signalées dans le tome V par **.Tome V.396 pages.Suite des Voyages du Capitaine Cook.9 planches. Tome VI.388 pages.Notice sur la vie de La Pérouse.Voyage autour du monde par La Pérouse. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté par le Capitaine Baudin. Voyage autour du monde de la Corvette L’uranie,commandé par M. Louis de Freycinet.Voyage autour du monde de la Corvette La Coquille commandé par M. Duperrey. Voyage de la Corvette Lastrolabe commandée par M. Dumont d’Urville. Expédition de Lastrolabe et de La Zélée par M. Dumont d’Urville.8 planches.(Il manque 1 planche en regard de la page 27).Tome VIII.441 pages.Précis historique.Voyages en Afrique par F.Le Vaillant.Second voyage de Le Vaillant en Afrique.8 planches.Tome IX.438 pages.Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique par Mungo-Park. Second voyage de Mungo-Park dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique. Voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné dans l’Afrique Centrale par René Caillé.Voyage en Afrique effectué dans le but d’explorer le cours et l’embouchure du Niger par Richard et John Lander.8 planches.Tome X.439 pages Voyage en Perse par Chardin.Voyage aux Indes Orientales d’après Miss Graham, Heber Skinner,etc.8 Planches.Tome XI.412 pages.Voyage en Chine et en Tartarie par Lord Macartney,Ambassadeur du Roi d’Angleterre.Voyage au Mont Caucase par Klaproth.Voyage en Egypte et en Arabie par Niéburth suivi dune description de l’Arabie d’après les voyages modernes de Burckardt,Rupell et Léon de Laborde.Voyage de Saint Peters Bourg Tauris par Kotzbue.8 planches.Et 2 cartes dépliantes Tome XII.400 pages. Notice sur la vie de Christophe Colomb.Voyages de Christophe Colomb.Conquête du Mexique par Fernand Cortez. Conquête du Pérou par Pizzare.Voyage aux Etats-Unis de l’Amérique Septentrionale d’après Basil-Hall,Levasseur et Georges De Beaumont.Voyage dans l’Amérique Septentrionale et particulièrement dans les territoires de la Floride,du Ouisconsin et au Canada par le Comte de Castelnau.Voyage au Pôle Nord et aux Régions Artiques par le Capitaine Ross. Voyage en Grèce et à Constantinople par F.C.H.Pouqueville. 8 planches.2 cartes dépliantes.Rousseurs éparses habituelles Assez bon état d’ensemble ‎

‎AUSCHWITZ 1940 - 1945.‎

‎PANSTOWOWE.. Non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 91 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte. Couverture rempliée. . . . Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE‎

‎La Pologne.‎

‎Couverture souple. Broché. 128 pages.‎

‎Livre. Editions P.U.F (Collection : Que sais-je? N° 1927), 1986.‎

‎THE LIFE OF COL. JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, AND HIS NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES.‎

‎In Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California. Miller, Orton & Mulligan, New York and Auburn, 1856. In-16 gr. (mm. 185x119), tela editoriale, pp. 493 (+8 di Catalogo editoriale), con un ritratto e 8 tavole in b.n. fuori testo. Memorie di John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), esploratore e uomo politico americano. Ingegnere topografico della Marina comand una spedizione nelle Montagne Rocciose, durante la quale raggiunse l'importante valico detto South Pass e sal la vetta che porta il suo nome (Fremont Peak). In un secondo viaggio visit il Gran Lago Salato e il bacino del fiume Columbia. Percorse poi l'Oregon e la Sierra Nevada e, in un'ultima spedizione, il paese degli Apache... Cos' Diz. Treccani,V, p. 104. Ben conservato,.‎

‎Erathosthenes Batavus. De Terrae ambitus vera quantitate. - [MEASURING THE EARTH - FOUNDING THE MODERN ART OF MAPMAKING]‎

‎Leiden, Iodocus à Colster, 1617. 4to. Completely uncut, in the original interim boards, rebacked in matching paper and with leather cords. A bit of soiling to especially front board. Internally a nice, clean, fresh, and unrestored copy. (12), 263, (1) pp. Illustrated.‎

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‎Very rare first edition of Snell's seminal magnum opus, in which he founded the modern systematic use of triangulation, thus also founding the modern art of map-making. It is due to his development of triangulation presented in the present work - a method that was used for accurate large-scale land surveying until the rise of global navigation satellite systems in the 1980'ies - that Snell ""may rightfully be called the father of triangulation"". (D.S.B.). ""Despite Cassini's tables for accurately predicting the motions of Jupiter's moons, which allowed very accurate time measurements to be made, the riddle of longitude still needed another vital piece of information. The size and form of the earth were still uncertain: only one scientific experiment had been conducted to measure its circumference, by Willebrord Snell (1580-1626), in the early years of the seventeenth century.Snellius, as he is better known, was the son of a wealthy professor of mathematics at the University of Leiden in Holland, where young Snell himself studied law. But it was mathematics that intrigued him, and through his studies, he made considerable contributions to science. He is probably best remembered for the optical law of incidence and refraction named for him [which remained unpublished]. However, the most important of his works published in his lifetime was ""Eratosthenes Batavus"", and it revolutionized the science of earth measuring. In 1615, emulating the principles of Eratosthenes 1,900 years before, Snellius had measured the length of a meridian arc by using a chain of thirty-three triangles, observed from the tops of churches, across the fields and hedgerows of the flat Dutch landscape. He had then measured the latitude at the north and south end of his chain of triangles. By calculation, assuming the earth perfectly spherical (as did all philosophers in those days), Snellius worked out a diameter for the earth that was just 3.4 percent smaller than modern values. Although not the first to use triangulation (that claim rightly belongs to Gemma Frisius 60 years earlier), Snell explicated the idea of measuring long distances over the ground by measuring the angles in a chain of triangles rather than by measuring the distance with a surveyor's chain. The method was also far more accurate and significantly speedier than physically measuring directly across the land. Snell's experiments, founded and aided by his patron, Baron Sterrenberg, demonstrated the accuracy of the method and proved conclusively that a framework of stations so developed could be used to control a mapping project."" (Edwin Danson, Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth, pp. 21-22). In 1615, Snell became deeply involved in the determination of the length of the meridian. For his purpose, he selected the method of triangulation that had been used suggested by Gemma Frisius ab. half a century earlier, but Snell developed the method to such an extend that it was able to - for the first time in history - fairly accurately measuring the size of the earth. ""Snel developed it [i.e. triangulation] to such an extent that he may rightfully be called the father of triangulation"" (DSB). Starting with his own house, he used the spires of town churches as points of reference and thus, through a net of 33 triangles, computed the distance from Alkmaar to Bergen-op-Zoom (ab. 110 kilometers). The two towns were separated by one degree on the meridian, so from his measurement he was able to calculate a value for the circumference of the earth. His groundbreaking measurements and method were published for the first time in his seminal """"Eratosthenes Batavus"" (i.e. ""The Dutch Eratosthenes"") in 1617. Snell calculated how the planar formulae could be corrected to allow for the curvature of the earth. He also showed how to resection, or calculate, the position of a point inside a triangle using the angles cast between the vertices at the unknown point. These could be measured much more accurately than bearings of the vertices, which depended on a compass. This established the key idea of surveying a large-scale primary network of control points first, and then locating secondary subsidiary points later, within that primary network.Apart from having discovered what is now know as ""Snell's law"", ""Snell had also developed the method of determining distances by trigonometric triangulation and thus founded the modern art of mapmaking."" (Asimov:79a).‎

‎Le Portugal en un clin d'oeil‎

‎SNI. Non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 88 pages. Rousseurs. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. Une carte du Portugal en couleur.. . . . Classification Dewey : 914-Géographie de l'Europe‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 914-Géographie de l'Europe‎

‎Lot de brochures sur différentes villes du Portugal : Olhão-Tavira. Faro. Moura-Serpa Mértola. Lagos. Viana do Castelo. Bragança-Miranda. Tomar. Beja. Guimarães. Viseu. Portalegre-Castelo de Vide-Marvão. Vila Viçosa. Tejo Acima. Serra da Estrela...‎

‎S.N.I. 1949. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. Environ 3 pages pour chaque brochure. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 914-Géographie de l'Europe‎

‎Liste des brochures : Olhão-Tavira. Faro. Moura-Serpa Mértola. Lagos. Viana do Castelo. Bragança-Miranda. Tomar. Beja. Guimarães. Viseu. Portalegre-Castelo de Vide-Marvão. Vila Viçosa. Tejo Acima. Serra da Estrela. Castelo Branco. Portimão. Caldas-Obidos Alcobaça. Nazaré-Aljubarrota Batalha. Evora. Leiria. Elvas. Estremoz. Santarém. Coimbra. Classification Dewey : 914-Géographie de l'Europe‎

‎Mekka. I Die Stadt und ihre Herren. II. Aus dem heutigen Leben. (+ Bilder-Atlas). 2 text-volumes + atlas. - [PIONEERING WORK ON MECCA]‎

‎Haag, Nijhoff, 1888-1889. Text-volumes in lex-8vo, two volumes, identically bound in near contemporary burgundy half cloth with the original printed front wrappers preserved an pasted on to front boards. the original printed paper spine labels have also been preserved an pasted on to spines. Wear to capitals, corners, and hinges. Blindstamped library imprint to top of front boards (Colonial Office Library). Bound with both half-titles. The half-title of vol. 1 mounted, as is the title-page of vol. 2. Stamps to title-pages (Arab Boreau Cairo and Colonial office Library). Otherwise a clean and fine copy with no noteworthy flaws. XXIII, (1), 228, (2) pp. + 3 genealogical tables and 2 folded maps + XVIII, 397, (1) pp. The atlas volume consists of the printed table of contents and all 65 photographs and lithographs inserted into a 19th century full vellum photograph album with sturdy leaves. The album itself has some wear, but is sturdy, robust and crarming. It artistically shows the craftmanship of the stiching by displaying parts of the sewing cords on leather onlays on the spine. Leather ties. In all, there are 75 illustrations, consisting in four chromolithographic plates, 6 tones lithographic plates (one double-page and folded) and 65 original photographs of varying sizes. Some are full-page, some are mounted four to a page, and some that have originally been four (and in one case three) to a page have here been individually mounted on a leaf each. Although taken out and mounted in to the present album, all numberings (I to XL) have been preserved, as have the titles of the pictures. Generally in very good condition, although one lithograph has a closed tear. ‎

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‎Scarce first edition of the standard scientific work on Mecca, the first of its kind ever to be published. This magnificent work constitutes a pivotal historical source for our knowledge of the Holy City, for some the Forbidden City. It is arguably to date the most important Western account of Islam's holy city, not least due to the magnificent photographs taken by Snouck Hurgronje himself and his student Al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, a Meccan doctor, who became the first Arab photographer of Mecca. The work gives us the most unique insight into the people, the life and faith of Mecca at a most crucial time for both the city and the Arabian peninsula. ""The 21st century reader should realize that the present book is a classic, but in many ways also a modern book. It describes Meccan society in the 1880's, and as such it is an important historical source - in fact till today the only one on the subject."" (Intruduction by J.J. Witkam to the English translation, p. (XIII) ). ""Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, (born Feb. 8, 1857, Oosterhout, Neth.-died June 26, 1936, Leiden), professor and Dutch colonial official, a pioneer in the scientific study of Islam.While serving as a lecturer at the University of Leiden (1880-89), Snouck Hurgronje visited Arabia (1884-85), stopping at Mecca. His classic work ""Mekka"", 2 vol. (1888-89), reconstructs the history of the holy city and sheds light on the origins of Islam, early traditions and practices, and the first Islamic communities. The second volume, translated into English as ""Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century"" (1931), contains many details of daily life in Islamic culture and deals with the Indonesian Muslim colony at Mecca."" (Encycl. Britt.). ""Our standard scientific work on Mecca and the pilgrimage we owe to the next Christian pilgrim on our roll, Prof. C. Snouck Hurgronje... [H]e journeyed to Mecca, where for six months he lived as a student of the Koran, and gathered the material for his monumental work on that city. As Burckhardt had been mainly interested in the topography of the city, and the pilgrimage ceremony, Snouck Hurgronje interested himself particularly in a social study of the Meccan community, and so complete is his work that he has left nothing to later writers save to note the changes made by passing years."" (Arthus Jeffery, The Moslem World, Volume 19 (1929), pp. 232-3). Much speculation has been given to the circumstances under which Snouck Hurgronje succeeded in being able to enter Mecca the way he did. No other Western scholar had been given the opportunity of entering the Holy City this way. ""Ever since Snouck Hurgronje published his monograph on Mecca, the book has amazed its readers. Mecca was and is the Holy City for some, the Forbidden City for others. How had a young Western scholar succeeded, and in such a short time, to become accepted by the Meccans as one of them and to write such a detailed description of Mecca's society? Since Snouck Hurgronje has mostly kept silent about this remarkable feat, stories of legendary proportions were bound to come into circulation..."" (Witkam, p. (XIII) ).Through mediation with the Ottoman governor in Jeddah, Snouck Hurgronje, who was fluent in Arabic, was examined by a delegation of scholars from Mecca in 1884 and, upon successful completion of the examination, was allowed to commence a pilgrimage to the Holy Muslim city of Mecca in 1885. His chief object was to become intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Mekkans and of the thousands of Muhammadans from all parts of the world living in Mekka for material or spiritual purposes.A pioneering traveler, he was a rare Western presence in Mecca. He embraced the culture and religion of his hosts with passion, to such an extent that he successfully gave people the impression that he had converted to Islam. But what is just as astonishing as his entering so fully into life in Mecca and being able to report so intimately and lively on it, is his accompanying photographic documentation. Also in this respect, he is a pioneer. In his day, a camera probably weighed ab. 40 kilos, and one needed a number of chemicals in order to develop the pictures, which would have been done on site. Having been forced to leave Mecca due to a misunderstanding, after five months, Hurgronje gave the photographic equipment to a local physician he had been staying with, Al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, who began using the camera and sent images back to Hurgronje in the Netherlands. Thus, Abd al-Ghaffar became Mecca's first home-grown photographer. Many of the photographs were originally credited solely to Hurgronje, but they are now jointly credited, with experts unable to tell who shot what. ‎

‎Red China Today - the Other Side of the River - a Pelican Book‎

‎Pelican book 1971 in8. 1971. Broché.‎

‎Etat correct couverture défraîchie intérieur propre‎

‎La France Napoléonienne‎

‎Arthaud ,1983, in-8 de 480 pages ,illustrations hors-texte ,cartonné éditeur ,Bon état , .Isbn : 9782700306583.(2 photos du livre sur mon site https://www.vieuxlivre.fr) .Les frais de port pour la France sont offerts à partir de 25 euros d'achat (Mondial relay,lettre suivie)et 30 d'achat (colissimo suivi ). Pour l'étranger : tarif livre et brochure, colissimo international, DHL express‎

‎La civilisation et la Révolution Française - 1/ La crise de l'Ancien Régime - 22 héliogravures - 8 planches en couleurs, 53 cartes et plans‎

‎ ,Paris, Arthaud 1970, 635 pp., 1 vol. in 8 relié plein skivertex noir, plat estampé, jaquette rhodoïd, emboitage‎

‎Les soldats de l'an II‎

‎ ,Paris, C.F.L. Portraits de l'Histoire 1959, 297 pp., 1 vol. in 8 relié cartonnage plein toile éditeur, illustrations hors-texte‎

‎Précis d'histoire de la Révolution française‎

‎ ,Paris, Editions Sociales 1962, 530 pp., 1 vol. in 8 br. ‎

‎Retrobar Barcelona / Retrouver Barcelone [ Exemplaire offert par le Lycée Français de Barcelone au grand mathématicien français René Thom ]‎

‎1 vol. in-4 carré relié pleine toile éditeur sous étui illustré, Lunwerg Editores, Barcelona, 1986, 269 pp.‎

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‎Avec une inscription ms. de remerciements à M. René Thom, Lycée Français de Barcelone le 30 novembre 1989, et une photo du lycée. Bon exemplaire d'une provenance prestigieuse. Honoré par la Médaille Fields en 1958, le mathématicien français René Thom (1923 - 2002) est notamment le fondateur de la théorie des catastrophes.‎

‎RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES - MANUEL 2005-2006 / 10e EDITION.‎

‎PARADIGME. 2005. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 404 pages illustrées de quelques cartes dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE‎

‎National Atlas of the socialist people's libyan arab Jamahiriya.‎

‎ Tripoli, Secretariat of Planning, Surveying Department, 1978. Grand in-4, reliure pleine toile turquoise, titre arabe en long sur dos lisse, 119 pp., cartes et reprod. photogr. en couleurs. Texte en arabe et en anglais. ‎

‎ Bon ex. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €) ‎

‎Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie.‎

‎Bruxelles, Secrétariat de la société, 1877-1928.‎

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‎ Tête de série de cette revue de géographie, complète de la première année 1877 à 1928. On y trouve d'innombrables récits d'explorations en Afrique mais aussi en Asie et en Amérique, des études sur la géographie, la cartographie, la photographie, les techniques, les sciences... Illustré par d'innombrables cartes et gravures hors-texte dépliantes. A la fin de chaque volume, on trouve relié le "Compte rendu des actes de la société" pour l'année. L'ensemble contient des tables pour les années 1876-1901 et un volume édité à l'occasion du 25e anniversaire de la Société. Les 20 derniers volumes sont reliés en percaline, les autres en demi-chagrin. Couleur du dos passée, mais bel exemplaire. /// 43 volumes in-8 de Demi-chagrin, dos à nerfs orné (Reliure de l'époque.) //// /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET‎

‎ARCHEOLOGIE HISTOIRE GEOGRAPHIE ‎

‎ TOME LXXXIX NO 459 MARS 1991 SOCIETE D'ARCHEOLOGIE ET DE STATISTIQUE DE LA DROME ‎

‎Compte rendu des séances de la Société de Biogéographie. Tome 59. Actes du colloque "L'homme, facteur biogéographique".‎

‎Couverture rigide. Reliure toile. 496 pages.‎

‎Livre. Société de Biogéographie, 1983.‎

‎Compte rendu des séances de la Société de Biogéographie. Tome 57 et 58.‎

‎Couverture rigide. Reliure toile 174 + 192 pages.‎

‎Livre. Société de Biogéographie, 1981-1982.‎