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Two very rare peace treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire

PETER II, Tsar and Shah ASHRAF. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, zwischen dem russischen Reich und dem Sultan Eschref, jetzigem Besitzer des persischen Thrones zu Ispahan. Von russischer Seite ertheilet.
St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1729.
With: (2) ANNA, Tsarina and Shah TAHMASP II. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, so zwischen Ihro Kayserl. Majest. von allen Reussen und des persischen Schachs Majest. in der Provintz Gilan zu Rätsche durch die von beyden Seiten bevollmächtigte Ministros am 21. Jan. 1732 geschlossen worden.St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1732. Two treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire in Russian and German in 2 parallel columns. Small folio (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Disbound. 10; 12 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Broadsides & Pamphlets Eastern Europe Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Russia (incl. Siberia)

Remarkable insight into daily life in early 20th-century Iran and Iraq

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA]. [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].
[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. [12]; [12] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Photography

Late 19th-century album with beautiful photographs of Jerusalem

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JERUSALEM]. [Photo album of Jerusalem].
[Jerusalem?, late 19th century]. Ca. 20 x 15 cm. With 20 albumen prints (each ca. 5.5 x 8.5 cm). Later black shark (?) leather. [10] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Islamic Art, Culture & Science Photography

Remarkable collection of photographs from Palestine in the 1940s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - LEBANON - EGYPT]. [Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].
[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board. [17] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt North Africa Photography

Western tourists in Israel shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967 captured by a Dutch photographer

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. [Album with photographs showing parts of Israeli captured territories including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula].
Israel, 1967. Oblong album (ca. 20 x 26 cm); photographs in slightly varying sizes (ca. 18.5 x 24 cm). 44 silver gelatin photographs (including 2 duplicates and 1 other loosely inserted). Grey faux-leather photo album with a small white label on the front board: "42 x Israël 1967 23-24-25 Juli". 44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts. Full description

€ 4,500

Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Photography

Detailed studies of plague outbreaks in the Middle East

[PLAGUE]. Papers relating to the modern history and recent progress of Levantine plague; prepared from time to time by direction of the president to the local government board, with other papers. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1879. C.-2262.
London, George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1879. Folio. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia.Original publishers blue printed paper wrappers. [2], 76 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Iran / Persia Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century)

An important source of knowledge of the Near East

POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer.
Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg, J. Bosch, R. Arrenberg, and M. de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 volumes (in 6 parts) bound as 6. 4to. With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates. Contemporary half calf. Full description

€ 12,000

Balkan & Greece Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt Islamic Art, Culture & Science North Africa Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

Augmented Dutch edition of Pocockes celebrated description of the Near and Middle East,
with 205 engraved plates

POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen, ...
Utrecht, Gijsbert Tieme and Abraham van Paddenburg; Rotterdam, Jacobus Bosch and Reinier Arrenberg; Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 volumes (in 6 parts) bound as 6. 4to. With 205 engraved folding plates (irregularly numbered I-CIII), including maps, plans, views and other illustrations, depicting temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. Contemporary half calf. XXXVI, 219, [1 blank], [11], 224-491, [1 blank]; [12], 262, [2 blank], VIII, [3], 268-376, 397-519, [1 blank]; VIII, 262, [2 blank], VIII, [3], 268-403, [1 blank]; [4], 115, [1], 124 pp. Full description

€ 15,000

Balkan & Greece Charts & Maps Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East

Pamphlet satirising Portuguese notables associated with the Persian wars

[PORTUGAL - PAMPHLET]. Noticia breve das novidades da Azia mandadas de Ali-Xarife da cidade de Babilonia; para Soliman morador na Corte de Constantinopla, e desta para a cidade de Sevilha a hum contratador de vidros.
(Colophon: Madrid, heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1742). 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). Disbound. 7, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Caricature & Satire Iran / Persia Portugal West Asia

The First Anglo-Afghan War: an extraordinary snapshot of the North-West Frontier of British India
between 1840 en 1845.

[PUNJAB-BRITISH SECRETARIAT]. Press lists of old records in the Punjab Secretariat - Volume VII. - North-West Frontier Agency. Correspondence with Government, 1840-1845.
Lahore, printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 1915. 1 volume bound as 2. Folio. With an addendum slip facing p. 197. Brown calf, with "Book 1" and "Book 2" in gold on the spines. [2?], 993 pp. Full description