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THE ISLAMIC WORLD
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The Hedàya, or Guide; A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: Translated by the Order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal
London: T. Bensley, 1791. 4 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 8 inches).
lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, [2-errata] pp.; viii, 727, (1), [2-errata]; viii,
609, (1), [2-errata]; lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, (1), [2-errata]. Errata
leaf in rear of each volume. Expertly bound to style in half
calf over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine
divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools, black
morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a
repeat arabesque decoration in gilt.
First edition in English of al-Hidayah: the authoritative
guide to Islamic jurisprudence.
(#29370) $ 11,000
AL -MARGHINANI &
CHARLES HAMILTON
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Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis, et prophetae. Ex Arabico Idomate in Latinum translatus.
Rome: Typographia Savariana, 1614. 4to. Text in Latin and
Arabic, woodcut arms of Louis XIII on title. [12], 474, [2]pp.
Contemporary manuscript annotations in Arabic, Latin and
Hebrew. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style.
First edition of the Psalms in Arabic.
(#33069) $ 5,500
BIBLE
IN ARABIC
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Souvenirs d'Egypte
Paris: Lemercier, [circa 1850]. Large folio. Lithographed
and mounted on cloth guards throughout: tinted title with
integral vignette, 24 tinted plates titled in French, Arabic
and English, all printed by Lemercier. Contemporary
brown half morocco and blue cord-grained cloth, upper
cover titled in gilt "Souvenirs / d'Egypte", spine in seven
compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the
second, the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt,
cream/orange glazed endpapers.
A spectacular and rare album featuring the work of two
important French Orientalist artists.
(#23182) $ 15,000
ALEXANDRE
BIDA
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El- Medinah and Meccah
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-56. 3
volumes, 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). xvi, 388; [2], iv, 426; xii,
448pp. Half-title in vol. 3, publisher's ads in rear of vols. 1
and 3. 4 maps & plans (3 folding), 5 colour lithographed
plates, 8 tinted lithographed plates. Publisher's blue cloth,
covers blocked in black, spines lettered in gilt (recased with
endpapers renewed, repairs to head and tails of spine,
minor uneven fading).
First edition of Burton's classic account of his journey
across the Arabian peninsula.
(#31284) $ 6,000
RICHARD
BURTON
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Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du General Bonaparte
Paris: P. Didot, An X [1802]. 2 volumes (text large quarto [12
x 9 1/8 inches], atlas large folio [23 x 17 inches]). Text: half-
title, list of subscribers. Atlas: 143 engraved plates
(numbered 1-141, plus 20 bis and 54 bis) on 142 sheets (plates
4 and 5 on the same sheet). Uncut. Contemporary French
blue paper covered boards, expert repairs to the spine of
the atlas. Housed in blue morocco backed boxes.
Provenance: Armaney (contemporary signature on the front
blank of text and title of atlas).
A foundation work of Egyptology by "the first to reveal the
richness of Egyptian art to Europe" (Atabey).
(#26729) $ 20,000
DOMINIQUE
DENON
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Voyage en Perse ... Perse Ancienne ... [With:] ... Perse Moderne ... [And with:] ... Relation du Voyage ...
Paris: Gide et J. Baudry, [1843-1854]. 7 volumes, folio and
octavo. [Ancienne:] 4 volumes, folio. Double-page engraved
map and 243 plates on 244 sheets, numbered 1-229. plus 16
bis plates. Inked subscription stamp on plate 46. [Moderne:]
1 volume, folio. 100 tinted lithographed plates (31 with two
images per plate). [Relation:] 2 volumes, octavo. [4], 511, [1];
[4], 536pp. Expertly bound to style in half green morocco
and period green cloth covered boards, spines gilt with
raised bands. Provenance: Alfred Blanche (inked stamp on
half titles in Relation vols).
Very rare, profusely illustrated folio work on Persia: the
finest depiction of Persia in the 19th century.
(#34450) $ 55,000
EUGENE NAPOLEON
FLANDIN
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Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described
London: James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes, small folio
(17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches). 76 mounted albumen photographs.
Extra-illustrated with 3 additional images by Frith in the
rear of vol. 2, dated in the negatives 1873-1875. Foxing,
principally to the mounts. Contemporary half green
morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt with
raised bands. Provenance: Arthur G. Soames (armorial
bookplate).
Frith's Egypt and Palestine: "one of the most renowned
nineteenth century photobooks" (Parr & Badger).
(#31436) $ 12,500
FRANCIS
FRITH
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Views in Affghaunistaun ... from sketches taken during the campaign of the Army of the Indus.
London: published by W.H. Allen & Co. and T.M'Lean,
[1841]. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches). Tinted lithographed title,
uncoloured lithographed dedication "To The Chairman and
Directors of the Honble the East India Company," hand-
coloured lithographed frontispiece, engraved map and 26
tinted lithographed plates after Jackson by W. L. Walton, T.
Allom and others. Publisher's moire cloth boards, lettered
in gilt on the upper cover, expertly rebacked to style,
original yellow endpapers.
A fine and rare record of the first Afghan War.
(#26764) $ 12,000
KEITH ALEXANDER
JACKSON
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Pilote de la Mer Noire, Traduit de Russe et Mis a Jour ... Cote d'Asie
Paris: Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1865
[updated to 1884]. Tall, thin 8vo (11 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). xvi,
128pp. 16 hand-coloured, double-page maps after
Manganari, 24 lithographed plates of coastal profiles. With
27 inserted printed slips, updating the work to 1884.
Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper boards, wear to top
and tail of spine.
Rare mariner's pilot to the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea.
(#34476) $ 2,850
HIPPOLYTE DE
LA PLANCHE
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Voyages ... par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
Amsterdam: Chez les Freres Wetstein, 1718. 2 volumes,
small folio (13 x 8 inches). Half-title in volume II, titles
printed in red and black. Vol 1: engraved portrait of the
author, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 engraved
double-page maps, 111 engraved plates on 52 sheets, 24
engraved illustrations within the text. Vol 2: 162 engraved
plates on 56 sheets, 20 engraved illustrations within the
text. 18th-century calf, rebacked retaining the original
lettering pieces. Provenance: Thomas Lennard Barrett, Lord
Dacre of the South, of Belhus, Essex (1717-1787, armorial
bookplate).
First edition in French of Le Bruyn's important illustrated
account of his voyage to Russia, Persia, India and Java.
(#25534) $ 14,000
CORNELIUS
LE BRUYN
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Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres &c. De même que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte
Delft: chez Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700. Folio. Engraved
portrait of Le Brun by G. Valck after Sir Godfrey Kneller,
emblematic additional engraved title, folding engraved map,
97 engraved plates (including folding panoramas), 24
engraved illustrations. Expertly bound to style in period
mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled
endpapers.
First edition in French of this classic of Middle Eastern
travel, with spectacular panoramic views.
(#33305) $ 10,000
CORNELIUS
LE BRUYN
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Les Voyages et Observations... Où sont décrites les Religions, Gouvernemens, & situations des Estats & Royaumes d'Italie, Grece, Natolie, Syrie, Perse, Palestine, Karamenie, Kaldée, Assyrie, grand Mogul, Bijapour, Indes Orientales des Portugais, Arabie, Egypte
Paris: François Clousier, 1657. Three parts in one, small 4to
(8 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches). Woodcut head- and tailpieces and
initials. Full-page woodcut portrait of the author, 33
woodcut illustrations (17 full-page). Early vellum, early
morocco lettering piece. Provenance: M. Delaloge (early
signature); M. de Plumerey (early signature).
Rare corrected and expanded second edition of a noted
mid-17th century narrative of travels in Persia, India, Egypt
and the Levant.
(#27696) $ 5,950
FRANÇOIS LE GOUZ
DE LA BOULLAYE
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Recueil de cent estampes représentant differentes nations du Levant. [With, part two:] Explication des cent estampes qui représentent les costumes des differentes nations du Levant. Avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications.
Paris: Le Hay and Duchange, 1714; Jacques Collombat, 1715.
Folio. Engraved title, 102 engraved plates, plus engraved
music. Contemporary red morocco, covers ruled in gilt,
spine in eight compartments with raised bands, marbled
endpapers. Provenance: Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount
Folkestone (armorial bookplate on verso of the title).
A lovely copy of Le Hay and Ferriol's famous work depicting
the costume of the Levant: this copy bound in 18th century
red morocco.
(#15885) $ 29,500
LE HAY &
CHARLES DE FERRIOL
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Description de Toute l'Isle de Cypre, et des Roys, Princes, et Seigneurs, tant Payens que Chrestiens, qui ont commandé en icelle ... [Bound with:] Histoire contenant une sommaire description des Genealogies, Alliances & gestes de tous les Princes & gransSeigneurs ... qui ont iadis commadéés les Royaumes de Hierusalem, Cypre, Armenie, & lieux circonuoisins
Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1580; 1579. 2 volumes in
one, 4to. Titles with woodcut device, woodcut headpieces
and initials. [10], 292, [xviii]; [iv], 72 ff. Contemporary limp
vellum. Provenance: Artus de Prunier, Comte de Clermont,
la Seigneurie de Virieu en Dauphine; Nicolas de Prunier.
Rare first edition in French of a noted early history of
Cyprus and account of the 1571 Ottoman Empire conquest.
(#27702) $ 17,500
STEFFANO DI LUSIGNANO
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Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales ... Conentant une description nouvelle & très-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Iles & Presqu'Îles de l'Orient, des Royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, &c.
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Céne, 1727. 2 volumes in 1,
small folio. Titles printed in red and black. Engraved
portrait frontispiece, 44 engraved maps, plans and views (31
folding), 19 in-text engraved illustrations. Contemporary
calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers and
edges.
A lovely copy of a noted illustrated work on Asia, including
maps and views of Persia, India, China, and Japan.
(#30277) $ 7,800
JOHANN ALBRECHT
VON MANDELSLO
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Travels in Egypt and Nubia
London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. 2
volumes, folio. [12], xxxiv, 124; [4], viii, 156pp. Half-titles.
Engraved allegorical frontispiece in vol. 1, engraved portrait
of the author in vol. 2, 157 engraved plates, maps and plans.
Period speckled calf, covers with a gilt roll tool border,
spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red and
green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the
others with repeat overall elaborate tooling in gilt.
Provenance: Abraham Roumieu, architect, 1734-1780;
Richard Hill of Thornton House, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.
First edition in English of an important early illustrated
account of exploration in Egypt.
(#26814) $ 14,000
FREDERIK LUDVIG
NORDEN
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Jowaki [manuscript title of an album of watercolours and pen-and-ink sketches by Lt. Oswald C. Radford recording the Jowaki Expedition in Kohat Pass]
[Kohat Pass, Pakistan: Nov. 1877 - Jan. 1878]. Oblong quarto.
Watercolour title, 28 watercolours (mostly on mounted
sheets of drawing paper), 7 mounted pen-and-ink sketches,
5 watercolour vignettes incorporating various date
headings, all of the above recto and verso on 23 album card
leaves. Manuscript descriptions and captions by Radford
throughout. Contemporary green cloth album.
A unique album of drawings depicting the Jowaki
Expedition in the Kohat Pass preceding the Second Afghan
War, recorded by an eyewitness: a pictorial relic of The
Great Game.
(#26989) $ 25,000
PAKISTAN ,
JOWAKI EXPEDITION
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A Description of the East, and Some other Countries
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer, 1743-1745-
1745. Two volumes, folio. 3 engraved title vignettes, engraved
headpiece dedication in vol. 1, engraved dedication in vol.II,
178 engraved plates, plans and maps (the 12 botanical plates
by G.D. Ehret, the others unsigned). Contemporary calf,
spine gilt with raised bands. Provenance: John Rolle, 1st
Baron Rolle (armorial bookplate).
A very fine set of the first edition of one of the first accurate
records of Middle-Eastern antiquities and culture to be
published in the modern era.
(#33307) $ 8,400
RICHARD
POCOCKE
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Souvenir de Constantinople et d'un Voyage fait en Egypte en 1845, par le Duc alors Prince Roger de Bauffremont. Aquarelles de Preziosi et du Vicomte Adalbert de Beaumont [manuscript caption title]
Constantinople and Egypt: 1845. 56 watercolours on 26
period card mounts (30 by Preziosi [11 signed], 26 by
Beaumont [2 signed]), all captioned at a contemporary date
on the mount. Housed in a period burgundy morocco box
signed by A. Giroux. Provenance: Prince Roger de
Bauffremont (1823-1891).
An incredible collection of watercolours of Turkey and
Egypt, accomplished by two notable 19th century Orientalist
artists, documenting a journey through the region by a
French prince.
(#26318) $ 380,000
AMADEO PREZIOSI &
A . DE BEAUMONT
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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia
London: F.G. Moon, 1842-1843-1849. 3 volumes, large folio.
Mounted on guards throughout. Lithographic portrait of
Roberts, 3 hand-coloured mounted lithographic titles, 120
hand-coloured lithographic plates, all cut to the edge of the
image and mounted on card, as issued. Expertly bound to
style in dark green half morocco and original green cloth-
covered boards, the upper covers with large central
morocco blocked in gilt with the arms of Jerusalem, spines
gilt retaining the original spine panels.
Very fine copy of the deluxe hand-coloured edition of
Roberts' monumental work on the Middle East: the Holy
Land, Syria, Idumea, and Arabia, here with the plates in
unusually fine condition.
(#25194) $ 160,000
DAVID
ROBERTS
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View of Grand Cairo
London: William Miller, 1809. Hand-colored aquatint by D.
Havell. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches.
Masterful large, panoramic view of Cairo, depicting the
great Sultan Hussan Mosque.
(#29143) $ 3,750
HENRY
SALT
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The World in Miniature ... Persia, containing a brief description of the country; and an account of its government, laws and religion, and of the character, manners and customs, arts, amusements &c.
London: R. Ackermann, [1822]. 3 volumes, 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8
inches). 30 hand coloured stipple engraved plates (plates
watermarked 1822). Period half red morocco over marbled
paper covered boards, spine with semi-raised bands in five
compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others
with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers
and edges.
Shoberl's Persia, complete with all hand coloured plates and
in a lovely period binding.
(#27708) $ 900
FREDERIC
SHOBERL
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A Narrative of a Journey into Persia, and Residence at Teheran: Containing a Descriptive Itinerary from Constantinople to the Persian Capital
London: Printed for William Wright, 1820. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8
inches). Engraved folding map after Arrowsmith, hand
coloured engraved plate. Twentieth century half smooth tan
calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised
bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the
second.
First edition in English of a noted French epistolary
narrative describing an Embassy to Persia.
(#27709) $ 1,800
JOSEPH MICHEL
TANCOIGNE
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A Large Draught of the Coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar
London: William Mount & Thomas Page, [1734]. Copper-
engraved sea chart by Sutton Nichols, in excellent condition
apart from a small expert repair to the lower right and left
corners. Sheet size: 19 x 22 3/4 inches.
A very fine sea chart of the coast of Yemen and Oman from
the celebrated Third Book of 'The English Pilot'
(#19527) $ 750
JOHN & SAMUEL
THORNTON
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The Oriental Album: Twenty illustrations in oil colors of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Folio (18 x 13 3/4
inches). Tinted lithographic additional title by Charles
Parsons, printed by Endicott & Co., 20 chromolithographic
plates by Parsons after van Lennep, all printed by Endicott
& Co. of New York. Modern half brown morocco and cloth
boards, spine gilt.
A rare and important American color-plate book
(#31583) $ 9,500
HENRY JOHN
VAN LENNEP
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