Middle East

# 48881

MUNSHI, Ziauddin Gulam Moheiddin

The Bostan of Shaikh Sadi

Translated into English by Ziauddin Gulam Moheiddin Munshi, Second English Teacher Military Norman School, Poona. Revised by Rochfort Davies, Esquire. Bombay : Messrs. Home, Sorab & Co., 1889. Tall octavo, purple cloth (edges a little sunned and rubbed), pp. [iv]; 282; (2 – adverts), preliminaries lightly foxed, a fine copy. The Bostan (Bustan, or orchard) …

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# 48880

ARIF, Aida S.

Arabic Lapidary Kufic in Africa. Egypt – North Africa – Sudan

.A study of the development of the Kufic Script (3rd – 6th Century A. H. / 9th – 12th Century A.D.). London : Luzac & Company, 1967. Octavo, orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dustjacket (marked) pp. xv; [blank]; 75; [blank]; 36 black and white photographic plates; 117; [blank]; a touch of foxing to edges, …

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# 48835

CHENEY, Michael Sheldon.

Big Oilman from Arabia

London :Heinemann, 1958. First edition, first impression. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine a little dulled, a few marks, slightly canted, lightly rubbed), illustrated dustjacket (rubbed, tape repairs to edges and folds recto and verso, a few light stains), maps to endpapers (very pale foxing), pp. 320, black and white photographic plates, small water stain to upper …

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# 49341

DAVIDSON, D. and ALDERSMITH, H.

The Great Pyramid : its divine message. An original co-ordination of historical documents and archaeological evidences.

Vol. I – Pyramid Records. A narrative of new discoveries concerning civilisations and origins. London : Williams and Norgate, 1946. Sixth revised edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered black cloth (a little worn at head and foot of spine) in defective but rare dustjacket (splits and tears with loss to spine, old tape marks), pp. xxviii; 568, numerous …

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# 49864

KHAYYAM, Omar; HERON-ALLEN, Edward; TALBOT, Arthur B.

Quatrains of Omar Khayyam from a literal prose translation, by Edward Heron-Allen, of the earliest known manuscript (Bodleian Library: Ouseley MSS., No. 140) done into verse by Arthur B. Talbot.

London : Elkin Mathews, 1909. “Second thousand, corrected and revised”. Small square octavo (160 x 130 mm), publisher’s white cloth with green lettering (boards lightly marked, spine heavily sunned); pastedowns and endpapers foxed, front free-endpaper with gift inscription daed Xmas 1908; pp. [8], [54], [1 blank], [6 publisher’s ads.]; contents clean and sound.

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# 49800

MEREDITH, George

The shaving of Shagpat. An Arabian entertainment.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1856. First edition. Octavo (195 x 125 mm), original maroon pebbled cloth (Carter’s “B” variant binding), boards with decoration in blind (light marks, corners bumped), spine lettered in gilt ‘The Shaving of Shagpat / Meredith / 10/6’ and with gilt decoration at head and foot (spine rolled); front pastedown with circular …

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# 48773

MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro (1533 - 1603)

Le istorie delle Indie orientali

Tradotte di Latini in lingua Toscana. Florence : Filippo Giunti, 1589. First edition in Italian, translated by Francesco Serdonati. Small quarto, contemporary card wrappers (joints strengthened), shelf mark from the Sir Thomas Phillips collection inside upper wrapper, early ownership inscription to endpaper, woodcut device on title, pp. [lvii]; 930; (6), occasional light foxing, a very …

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# 48558

Joannes Rutilius Sombergius

Epistolae Indicae : de praeclaris et stupendis rebus, quas divina bonitas in India & variis insulis, per Societatē nominis Iesu operari dignata est, in tam copiosa Gentium ad fidem conversione

in tam copiosa Gentium ad fidem conversione. Apud R. Velpium, Lovanii, 1566. Second edition. Duodecimo, seventeenth century speckled calf, bookplate to front pastedown, speckled edges, early owner’s name to title page, pp. [xxiv]; 418; (20); (woodcut on final blank), woodcut initials, very pale water stain, overall clean. Important Jesuit letters dating from 1544 to 1560, …

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# 48538

Pimenta, Nicolau (1546-1614)

Copia d’una [lettera] del P. Nicolo Pimenta visitatore della provincia d’India Orientale.

Al molto rerendo P. Claudio Acquaviva… del primo Decembre 1600. Venice : Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1602. Duodecimo, modern panelled red calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration; edges speckled red; pp. 86; title with woodcut Jesuit device, decorated initial; scattered light foxing, a very good example. First Italian translation (from the Portuguese) of the annual …

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# 48824

[MARCO POLO]

Markus Paulus Venetus Reisen, en beschryving der Oostersche Lantschappen;

… Beneffens de Historie der Oostersche Landschappen, door Haithon van Armenien te zamen gestelt … Hier is noch by gevoegd De Reizen van Nicolaas Venetus, en Jeronymus van St. Steven naar d’oostersche Landen, en naar d’Indien … Amsterdam : Abraham Wolfgang, 1664. Three parts in one volume, quarto, old papered boards with printed label and …

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# 18469

OLEARIUS, Adam (1603-1671); MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von (1616-1644); DAVIES, John (translator)

The voyages and travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia. Begun in the Year M.DC. XXXIII. and finish’d in M.DC. XXXIX. Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia … whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo … into the East-Indies … …

London : for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition. Two parts in one volume, folio, contemporary full mottled calf with blind embossed boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting morocco title label with gilt lettering and ornament, front pastedown with eighteenth century armorial bookplate of John and Louisa Trevelyan, additional engraved title incorporating 5 portraits, main …

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# 37099

RAY, John (1627-1705)

[NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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# 47313

[HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]

L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …

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# 35516

BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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# 49394

BECHER, A. B.

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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# 49465

GRAY, Basil

Treasures of Asia. Persian Painting (Yvonne Audette’s copy)

London : Skira, 1961. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 192, extensively illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. The most famous publication by the preeminent British art historian and museum curator, covering the Mongol style under the Il-Khans, painting under the Timurids 1400 – 1450, the Shiraz School 1415 – 1503, the School …

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