Middle East & Islamic World / Islamic Art & Culture

SCHULZ, Walter Philipp. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans.
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 2 volumes. Folio. With 200 full-page table illustrations in volume 2, mostly black-white. Contemporary blind-tooled red cloth, with the title on the spine, and a decorated title and printer's mark on the front board. [XVIII], 246, [2]; [XVI], [400], [2]. Full description

SHAIKHZADE, Ahmed Misri. Istoria della Sultana di Persia. Novelle turche. Composte in lingua turca da Chéc Zadé e tradotto dal francese nell'idioma italiano.
Venice, Andrea Mercurio, 1752. 12mo. Marbled paper with a manuscript label on the spine. 236, [4] pp. Full description

SHUR, Chaim. New Outlook Middle East Monthly [9 issues].
Tel Aviv, Tatzpiot Ltd (under auspices of Jewish-Arab Institute at Givat Haviva), 1986. 9 volumes. Original wrappers, staplebound. Various pagination. Full description

SHUR, Chaim. New Outlook Middle East Monthly [15 issues].
Tel Aviv, Tatzpiot Ltd (under auspices of Jewish-Arab Institute at Givat Haviva), 1984-1985. Original wrappers, staplebound. Various pagination. Full description

SIKE (SIECKE), Heinrich (editor). Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit ...
Utrecht, François Halma, Willem vande Water, 1697. 8vo. With the main text in Arabic with a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages. Contemporary vellum. [22], 161, [7], 93, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

SILVESTRE DE SACY, [Antoine Isaac]. Mémoires sur les antiquités de la Perse et sur l'histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.
Paris, Eugène Duverger & Jean-Joseph Marcel, Imprimerie Impériale, [1808-1809]. Large 4to (22 x 27.5 cm). With 4 tables. Later red half morocco. [6], 47-58, 483-782 pp. Full description

[SINDBAD - SEVEN SAGES]. Historia septem sapientum Rome.
Cologne, Johann Koelhoff the Elder, of Lübeck, (before 6 November) 1490. 4to (200 x 128 mm), 34-37 lines, gothic type, rubricated in red. Illustrated with a large armorial woodcut printer's device at the end and 23 full-page woodcuts, with two of the woodcuts repeated several times. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled full calf over wooden boards. Remains of clasps. Endpapers from a rubricated incunabular edition of the Biblia cum glossa ordinaria. [50] ff. [a–g6, H8]. Full description

SMITH, William Robertson. Kinship and marriage in early Arabia.
Cambridge, C.J. Clay and son, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1885. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, lettering in gold on the spine. xiv, 322, [2], 16 pp. Full description

SOUSA, João de. Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza...
Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790. 4to. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena's owl and Hermes's staff). Set in roman, Arabic and italic types. Modern brown paper wrappers. Wholly untrimmed and with most of the bolts unopened, preserving all deckles and point holes. [8], 190, [2] pp. Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description