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    Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1861; title from cover. Latest issue consulted: 1868.

  • Periodical
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ ew gushakutʻiwn ōdotsʻ
    Ōratsʻoytsʻ     Annual Description based on: 1848. Latest issue consulted: 1869.

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    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 6. tari (1884). Latest issue consulted: 7. tari (1885).

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    Ōratsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 14. tari (1873).

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    Haykazean ōratsʻoytsʻ ew lusnatsʻoytsʻ Annual Description based on: 1866.

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    The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments
    Also known as: Lincoln Bible | Lincoln Obama inaugural Bible collection | Lincoln Bible | Obama Bible     On March 4, 1861, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the oath of office to Abraham Lincoln using a Bible provided by William Thomas Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court, because Lincoln's family Bible was packed with other belongings that still were en route to Washington from Springfield, Illinois. In the back of the velvet-covered Bible, along with the seal of the Supreme Court,…
    • Contributor: Bible Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853

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    Genealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien. In zwei Abtheilungken. Mit historischen und geographischen Bemerkungen in einem alphabetischen Register. Aus den Quellen zusammengestellt von Dr. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld. Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808-99) was a German Orientalist who specialized in Arab history and literature. He studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin, and he taught at Göttingen from 1842 until 1890. Genealogische Tabellen der arabischen Stämme und Familien (Genealogical tables of Arab tribes and families) consists of genealogical tables showing the two divisions of the Arabs, namely the Yemeni tribes (Tables 1-22),…
    • Contributor: Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand
    • Date: 1852-01-01
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    The native races of the Russian empire.
    • Contributor: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
    • Date: 1854-01-01
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 365

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    Acht jahre in Asien und Afrika. Von 1846 bis 1855. Israel Joseph Benjamin (1818-64) was a Jewish lumber trader from Falticeni, Moldavia (present-day Romania), who at the age of 25 set out to find the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Fashioning himself "The Second Benjamin" after the 12th-century Jewish traveler from Spain, Benjamin of Tudela, he spent five years visiting Jewish communities in what are today Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Afghanistan,…
    • Contributor: Benjamin, I. J. (Israel Joseph)
    • Date: 1858
    • Resource: PDF - 335

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    Cinq années de voyage en Orient, 1846-1851, Israel Joseph Benjamin (1818-64) was a Jewish lumber trader from Falticeni, Moldavia (present-day Romania), who at the age of 25 set out to find the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Fashioning himself "The Second Benjamin" after the 12th-century Jewish traveler from Spain, Benjamin of Tudela, he spent five years visiting Jewish communities in what are today Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Afghanistan,…
    • Contributor: Benjamin, Israel Joseph - Benjamin, I. J. (Israel Joseph)
    • Date: 1856
    • Resource: PDF - 268

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    Eight years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855. Israel Joseph Benjamin (1818-64) was a Jewish lumber trader from Falticeni, Moldavia (present-day Romania), who at the age of 25 set out to find the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Fashioning himself "The Second Benjamin" after the 12th-century Jewish traveler from Spain, Benjamin of Tudela, he spent five years visiting Jewish communities in what are today Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Afghanistan,…
    • Contributor: Benjamin, I. J. (Israel Joseph)
    • Date: 1859
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 349

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    Masʻe Yisrael. Romanized. Bound with the author's Eight years in Asia and Africa. Hanover, 1859.
    • Contributor: Gordon, David - Benjamin, Israel Joseph - Benjamin, I. J. (Israel Joseph)
    • Date: 1859-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 155

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    Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah. Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) was a British orientalist, soldier, spy, diplomat, and explorer best known for his travels in Arabia, Africa, and India. He was born in Torquay, on the southern coast of England, and was raised in France and Italy. It was there that he began to show his exceptional talent with languages by learning Latin, Greek, Italian, and French before he was…
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
    • Date: 1857-01-01
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Malfūẓāt
    ملفوظات | Malfoozate Teemoor     Memoirs of Timur originally written in Chagatay, now lost, translated into Persian by the Mughal scholar Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī. The 14th-century Turkic-Mongol ruler Timur (Tamerlane) wrote a memoir in Chagatai Turkish, the original of which is now lost. The work was intended as a book of advice for princes and rulers and has been given various titles over the years, including, as in this…
    • Contributor: Abū Ṭālib Al-Ḥusaynī - Timur
    • Date: 1851

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    Ibn-el-Athirs Chrönika.
    • Contributor: Tornberg, Carl Johan - Ibn Al-Athīr, ʻizz Al-Dīn - Tornberg, Carolus Johannes
    • Date: 1851-01-01
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    History of the Afghans. Joseph Philippe Ferrier (1811-86) was a French soldier who served as a military instructor in the army of Persia (present-day Iran) in 1839-42 and again in 1846-50. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to Europe by the Qajar ruler Muhammad Shah (1808-48, reigned 1834-48), but later fell out of favor with the shah and was forced to leave Persia. He returned to the…
    • Contributor: Jesse, William - Ferrier, J. P. (Joseph Pierre)
    • Date: 1858-01-01
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 541

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    Muḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar
    / | محاربۀ کابل و قندهار /     Historical account of Afghan wars, 1838-1919, between the states of Kabul and Kandahar against the British invaders, written by Munshī ʻAbd al-Karīm, a companion of Shāh Shujāʻ al-Mulk, the Amir of Afghanistan. Muḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar (The war of Kabul and Kandahar) is an account of the First Afghan War (1839-42) by Munshi ʻAbd al-Karīm, an associate of Shāh Shujāʻ, the emir of Afghanistan.…
    • Contributor: Abd Al-Karīm - ʻabd Al-Karīm
    • Date: 1850-01-01

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  • Periodical
    Shams al-nahār First ever printed periodical from Afghanistan, published during the reign of Amir Shīr ʻAlī Khān in 1873. LC copy has embossed leather binding. In Persian. Description based on: Jild-i 1, nambar 7 (15. shahr Shawwāl al-mukarram sanah-i 1290 [5 Dec. 1873]); title from caption. Latest issue consulted: Jild-i 1, nambar 9 (7. shahr Z̲īḥijjah al-ḥarām sanah-ʼi 1290 [26 Jan. 1874]).
    • Date: 18??

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    History of the war in Afghanistan. The First Anglo-Afghan War began in early 1839 when the British undertook an invasion of Afghanistan from India with the aim of overthrowing the Afghan ruler, Amir Dost Mohammad Khan, and replacing him with the supposedly pro-British former ruler, Shah Shujaʻ. The British were at first successful. They installed Shah Shujaʻ as ruler in Jalalabad and forced Dost Mohammad to flee the country. But…
    • Contributor: Kaye, John William
    • Date: 1851-01-01
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    History of the war in Afghanistan. In 1851, Sir John William Kaye (1814-76) published a two-volume History of the War in Afghanistan. Presented here is the "revised and corrected" edition of the same work, published in three volumes in 1857-58. As explained by the author in the preface, the second edition largely follows the first, but it contains corrections and better organization based on additional research and on information provided…
    • Contributor: Kaye, John William
    • Date: 1857-01-01
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    Goa and the Blue Mountains; or, Six months of sick leave
    • Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Burton, Richard F[Rancis]
    • Date: 1851
    • Resource: PDF, Text - 396

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    Zur Erinnerung an die Reise des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen nach Indien in den Jahren 1844-1946 A private publication based on the diary, essays notes and letters left by the Prince and also on letters left by Dr. Hoffmeister, a companion of the Prince. Hoffmeister's letters were published under title: Briefe aus Indien ... Braunschweig, 1847. Of the more than one hundred plates from sketches by the Prince, more than four-fifths are by Bellermann, and the remainder by Kretzchmer; they…
    • Contributor: Waldemar - Hoffmeister, Werner - Oriolla, Eduard - Mahlmann, Heinrich - Humboldt, Alexander Von
    • Date: 1853
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    Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale (Studies in oriental history and philology), published in Paris around 1854, is a celebratory volume honoring the 60-year career of French Orientalist Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782-1857). The volume includes Quatremère's essays on the Phoenicians, the Biblical Ophir, King Darius of Persia and King Balthasar of Babylon, and Arab science, as well as studies of Jerusalem and the Jordan…
    • Contributor: Quatremère, Etienne
    • Date: 1854-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 468

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    A history of India under the two first sovereigns of the house of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun William Erskine (1773-1852) was a Scottish-born scholar and administrator who held a variety of posts in India between 1804 and 1823. He mastered Persian and in 1826 published an English translation of the memoirs of Babur, the first Mughal emperor and the founder of the Mughal dynasty. In 1831 Erskine began formulating plans for a history of the first six Mughal emperors. He died…
    • Contributor: Erskine, William
    • Date: 1854
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    The life and correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a British soldier, colonial administrator, diplomat, linguist, and historian. He was born in Scotland, left school at age 12, and, through an uncle, secured a position in the East India Company. While stationed in various parts of India as an officer in the company's military forces, he became interested in foreign languages, which he studied diligently. He became fluent…
    • Contributor: Kaye, John William
    • Date: 1856