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Amœnitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasiculi v : quibus continentur variæ relationes / observationes & descriptiones rerum persicarum et ulterioris Asiæ multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectæ ab auctore Engelberto Kæmpfero, D.

Engelbert Kaempfer

...Engelbert Kaempfer (16 September 1651 – 2 November 1716) was a German naturalist and physician and is best known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. Amoenitatum Exoticarum is important...

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Dr. Trinkler'schen Zentralasien Expedition/ Dr. Emil Trinkler [band 1] ; Dr. Hellmut de Terra [band 2].

Emil Trinkler

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Helmut De Terra

...Geographical findings of an expedition in 1927–8 in central Asia. Volume 1, by Emil Trinkler, describes the research in western Central Asia and the Karakoram and Himalayas; Trinkler died in April 1931, the year before the book...

Discurso pronunciado por D. Enrique Ojero de la Cruz, en la seccion de literatura del Ateneo de esta Corte para probar que a las ciencias Arabigo-Españolas se debe la restauracion de las ciencias en Europa.

Enrique Ojero de la Cruz

...The text of a lecture arguing that the influence of the high standard of scientific learning in Arabic Spain was fundamental to the subsequent revival of interest in science in Europe as a whole...

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England

and

Edward Norgate

...Illuminated border in upper and side margins, fourteen lines written in an elegant scribal hand in brown ink with initial letters in liquid gold; large initial letter 'C' and baluster-shaped capitals in first line, and border of symmetrical...

Arabian medicine: being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920/ by Edward G. Browne, M.B., F.R.C.P., Sir Thomas Adams's professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Edward Granville Browne

...The text of four Fitzpatrick lectures delivered by Browne in 1919 and 1920, comprising an overview of the history of Arabian medicine, brief biographical details of many of the key figures involved, and the literature they produced. Lecture...

The camel: its anatomy, proportions, and paces by Elijah Walton

Elijah Walton

...Although he is now known above all for his depictions of Alpine scenery, Elijah Walton, who studied art in Birmingham and London, went to the Levant when he was in his late twenties and remained for almost two years in Egypt, Syria...

Al serenissimo Don Giovanni d'Austria generale della Santa Lega, sonetti, & canzoni dell'illustre Sig. Erasmo di Valvasone, per l'espeditione contra Turchi, & per la Vittoria ottenuta.

Erasmo, da Valvasone

...Collection of poems and sonnets dedicated to Don John of Austria on the victory of the Holy League at Lepanto. With a dedicatory epistle to Diego Guzman de Silva, ambassador of Philip II in Venice. Device of the Guerra brothers on the title...

Inauguration du Canal de Suez, voyage des souverains / texte par G. Nicole, aquarelles d'après nature et portraits, par Riou, peintre de son Altesse le Khédive, lithographiés par E. Ciceri, G. Janet, Lafosse, Sirouy, Morel-Fatio, J. Didier, Sorieu, F. Benoit, etc., etc.

Gustave Nicole

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Marius Fontane

...This is a souvenir of the official opening of the Suez Canal and the two works depict the heads of state present, the inaugural ball and dinner and other aspects of the celebrations. The production of the first work was paid...