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A finely illustrated tale from the 1001 nights View picture(s) 1 BAUER, M.A.J. Histoire d'Aboulhassan Ali Ebn Becar et de Schemselnihar. Favorite du Calife Haroun Al-Raschid. Conte tiré des mille et une nuits d'après la traduction de Galland. Haarlem, heirs of F. Bohn, 1929. 4to. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt Arabic lettering on front cover identical to the lettering on the slipcase, orig. wrappers preserved, spine in compartments with title lettered in gold. Preserved in gilt lettered original blue slipcase. With numerous illustrations by M.A.J. Bauer. 174, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Arabia  Arabian Nights  Bibliophily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Arabic geometrical ornaments View picture(s) 2 BOURGOIN, Jules. Les élements De L'art Arabe: le trait des Entrelacs. Paris, Didot, 1879. 4to. Loose in contemporary green slipcase with green marbled boards, spine with title lettered in gold, green ties. With 190 numbered lithographed plates (some with red patterns) of geometrical patterns, and 10 numbered chromolithographed plates (some with gold) a.o. with a door decorated in Arabic style, decorative woodwork, mosaics, an elaborately decorated ceiling. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Art  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedication copy View picture(s) 3 CALLIGARIS, C.D.H. Louis. Histoire de l'empereur Napoléon Ier. Kitab sirat Napoleon al awwal (Arabic text). Paris, [Imprimerie Orientale de Pilloy & Ce], 1856. Large 8vo (26 x 18 cm). Contemporary green morocco, spine ribbed and compartments richly gilt with crowned N, front cover with gilt dedication "Offert à S.E. Le Ministre d'Etat", back cover with Napoleonic crowned eagle, silk endpapers, g.e. With in the beginning of the Arabic text an ornamental vignette printed in green, text framed by typographical border, 16 plates with portraits and historical scenes (7 lithographed and 9 steel-engraved), wood-engraved maps in the text. [4], 7, [1] (= French preface), 584 (Arabian text) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  France  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French officer on Arabian horses View picture(s) 4 CHATELAIN, Rene Julian. Mémoire sur les chevaux Arabes. Paris, Madame Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1816. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. With a frontispiece of a 'Cheval Arabe' after C. Vernet. 158 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Horses & Horsemanship  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a history of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt with a collection of Turkish and Egyptian tales View picture(s) 5 DIGEON, [J.M.]. Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc. Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title labels, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Egypt  History  Literature  Ottoman Empire  Poetry  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of travels in India, Bengal, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Yemen, with 7 folding plates View picture(s) 6 GRANDPRÉ, Louis Marie Joseph Ohier de. Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale, fait dans les années 1789 et 1790; contenant la description des îles Séchelles et de Trinquemalay. Paris, Dentu, 1801. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, green boards. With 7 folding engraved plates. [4], 288; [4], 318, [1 errata] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Arabia  Coffee & Tea  India  Libraries & Collections  Travel & Voyages  Yemen  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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150 beautiful chromolithographs of 19th century Tunis with ca. 100 proofs without letterpress text bound in View picture(s) 7 LALLEMAND, Charles. Tunis et ses Environs. Paris, Maision Quantin, 1890. Large 4to (31 x 24 cm). Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. With 150 detailed chromolithographs (most in the text; some on separate plates), with extra ca. 100 duplicates without text of the illustrations. 245 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Arabia  Chromolithography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Persian-Turkish manuscript with astronomical paintings View picture(s) 8 MAHMUD ibn-ADHAM. Mifah al-Lugha (An Ottoman guide for Persian language with an alphabetic Persian dictionary). (Ca. 1628-29). 8vo. (22 x 14 cm.). Contemporary calf, sides covered with old paper. Manuscript on burnished paper in Persian and Ottoman Turkish written in black and red ink, with 10 magnificent pasted handcoloured plates, of which one double-page. (1-3 blank, 4-114, 115 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arabia  Astronomy  Manuscripts  Ottoman Empire  Persia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of Niebuhr's description of Arabia, with 25 plates View picture(s) 9 NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien. Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst gesammleten Nachrichten abgefasset. Copenhagen, printed by Nicolaus Möller for B.C Breitkopf und Sohn, Leipzig, 1772. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. With engraved vignette on title-page, 25 engraved and etched plates, maps, plans and views (10 folding, 2 plates showing Arabic text with handcolouring indicating vowel sounds, 1 map hand-coloured in outline), and 1 folding table. XLVII, [3], 431, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Arabia  Egypt  Islamitica  Quran  Yemen  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Around the world with a French explorer View picture(s) 10 PAGÈS, François-Xavier. Nouveau voyage autour du monde, en Asie, en Amérique et en Afrique, en 1788, 1789 et 1790; précédé d'un voyage en Italie et en Sicile, en 1787; avec un receuil de tout ce que les voyageurs ont publié de plus curieux sur toutes les parties du globe, excepté l'Europe, sur leurs arts, leurs sciences, leurs productions commerciales et naturelles, leurs moeurs et leurs usages; ainsi que l'histoire de leurs gouvernemens anciens et modernes. Paris, H. J. Jansen, An V (1797). 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt, with red and green labels, gilt borders on sides, gilt binding edges, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With 6 engraved plates, of which 4 folding: 2 in vol. 1 by Y. le Gonaze after N. Ozane (Mascate and Mocomoco) and 2 in vol. 2 by Copia after Périguon (St. Domingue). VI, 504; 420; 414, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Arabia  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Italy  Persia  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Monumental work on Islamic decoration and architecture View picture(s) 11 PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Émile. L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'la fin du XVIIIe. Paris, Morel, [1869]-1877. 1 volume of text (4to) and 3 volumes of plates (large folio). Contemporary half morocco (text volume), plate volumes in matching modern bindings with marbled paper sides, spine with raised bands and gilt morocco label. Text volume with 34 lithographs (all with tissue guards) and 73 illustrations in text; plate volumes all with half title, title and list of contents, and 200 lithographs in total (130 chromo, 48 tinted and 22 black and white), uncut and on strong paper. Text: [1 blank leaf, title leaf], VIII, 296 pp., [1 blank leaf). Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Arabia  Colour Platebooks  Islamitica  Ottoman Empire  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mysterious Arabs View picture(s) 12 RICHARD, Charles. Les mystères du peuple Arabe. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1860. 12mo. Contemporary half citron morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with blue morocco title-label and 5 with gilt emblems of the Ottoman Empire, the crescent moon with the star, gilt upper edges (R. PETIT). XXIV (last blank), 242 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Arabia  Cartography  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Six descriptions of the Arab world printed by Blaeu View picture(s) 13 SIONITA, Gabriele (a.o.). Arabia seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia. Accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Including: SIONITA, Gabriele & Johannes HESRONITA. De Nonnullis orientalium urbibus. And: RICHER, Christophe. De moribus atque institutis Turcarum Arabum, aliarumque, quae Mahumedem sequuntur gentium. And: COTWIJK, Johannes van. Itinerario Hierosolymitano et Syriaco, de sacris, ritibus, moribus & institutis Mahometaeorum, excerpta. And: GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig. Archontologia cosmica. And: ROMAIN, Adrien. Arabiae topographia & alia, ex Theatro Urbium excerpta. And: DRECHSLER, Wolfgang. Historia Arabum. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz & Joan (I) Blaeu, 1635. 16mo. Contemporary red morocco with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine richly gilt in compartments, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved title-page and woodcut initials and tailpiece. 247 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Arabia  Asia  Cartography  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice set of the Arabian nights by Hendrik Frijlink View picture(s) 14 [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Duizend en één nacht. Arabische Vertellingen. Amsterdam, Hendrik Frijlink, 1829 - 1831. 9 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine gilt with orange gilt title lable. With 9 engraved titles and 9 engraved frontispieces. (8), (2), 355; (8), 338, (2); (8), 296; (8), 322, (2); (8), 339; (8), 366, (2); (8), 303; (8), 344; (4), I - VIII, 309, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Arabian Nights  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A richly illuminated manuscript of a Moroccan prayerbook View picture(s) 15 [MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - ARABIC]. Dala'il Al-Hairat Wa-Sawariq Al-Anwar / Burda / Al-Husn Al-Hasin / etc. (Morocco, early 18th century). Small 8vo (96 x 96 mm). Square calf binding over wooden boards with fore-edge flap; covers decorated with interlacing star design in gold and colours. All edges gilt and gauffered. Manuscript in Arabic script (Maghribi, with rubrications and embellishments in Thuluth) on paper. With six richly illuminated pages decorated in gold and colours. 214 ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Islamitica  Manuscripts  Morocco  Prayer Books  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A splendid illuminated Qur'an manuscript from a famous private collection View picture(s) 16 [MANUSCRIPT - QURAN]. Quran. Iran, AH 1204 [1783 AD]. 8vo. (148 x 90 mm). Brown morocco with flap and gilt-stamped borders and central ornaments. 243 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Manuscripts  Persia  Quran  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps of an Arabic work on the youth of Christ, popular with the heretic sect of the Nestorians or Chaldeans at Syria, Persia, and Egypt View picture(s) 17 [SIKE, Henricus (Ed.)]. Evangelium infantiae. Vel Liber Apocryphus de Infantia Servatoris. Ex Manuscripto edidit, ac Latina versione et notis illustravit Henr. Sike. Utrecht, Fr. Halma, Gul. vande Water, 1697. Small 8vo. Original boards. With large woodcut vignette on title, title printed in red and black. (24), 94 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Dutch  Linguistics  Religion  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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