Lot 669
H. Vámbéry, Der Islam im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Leipzig 1875.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
669
Category:
History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Artist:
Hermann Vámbéry
Vámbéry, Hermann: Der Islam im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Eine culturgeschichtliche Studie. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1875. 20,8 x 12,5 cm. VI pp., 1 nn. pp., 321 pp., 1 nn. pp. Modern linen (original paperback cover integrated into the binding)
(Varying degrees of brown spotting.)
Vámbéry was a Hungarian orientalist and Turkologist and is thought to have worked for the British secret service for a time. A fictional version of himself appears in Bram Stoker’s novel ‘Dracula’, published in 1897, as Arminius from Budapest and a friend of Abraham van Helsing.
(Varying degrees of brown spotting.)
Vámbéry was a Hungarian orientalist and Turkologist and is thought to have worked for the British secret service for a time. A fictional version of himself appears in Bram Stoker’s novel ‘Dracula’, published in 1897, as Arminius from Budapest and a friend of Abraham van Helsing.