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[Atlas of the western Ottoman Empire].Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 19.5 cm). 14 leaves with 10 pen-and-ink maps, hand coloured with watercolours. Tissue guards. Gold-stamped cloth with the tughra of Mehmed V (ruled 1908-18) on the front board (when reading right to left) and "Album" on the back board (the front when reading left to right), with an inscription below the tughra and the European numerals “16” and “2” flanking an ornament below the inscription, the whole framed by 4 large floral cornerpieces.

[OTTOMAN ATLAS - MANUSCRIPT].

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

An album of hand-drawn maps forming an atlas of the western (mostly European) parts of the Ottoman Empire, with legends in Ottoman Turkish, written in the Arabic script. The overview map shows Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and the Ottoman controlled (northern) parts of Greece, co...

Nine photographs of Egypt.[Egypt], 1880. 9 albumen prints (approx. 340 x 260 mm), each mounted on backing cardboard (ca. 400 x 340 mm). Three edges gilt.

SEBAH, Pascal and Antoine BEATO. · 1823

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

A fine set of nine albumen images of Egyptian sights and views, including Karnak, ships on the Nile, the Aswan cataract, the Temple of Edfu, murals at the Sanctuary at Karnak, camel drivers on the Sinai, etc. Pascal Sébah (1823-86), a leading photographer of the Middle East, w...

Examen: vor ein neuer angehender Chirurgus, der sich will examiniren lassen, daß er in seinem examen bestehet, und wohl erfunden wird, so muß er dieses alles auswendig lernen, daß er antworten kann, über dasjenige was ihm gefragt wird. Anno 1806.Franconia and Alsace (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Strasbourg), 1800-1826. 4to (17 x 23 cm). German (and Latin) manuscript by various hands. Contemporary boards with vellum corners and modern cloth spine.

[MEDICAL MANUAL AND RECIPE BOOK]. · 1762

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[47], "286" [= 285], [47] pp.Interesting medical manual beginning with an "examen" on the unnumbered 45 preliminary pages, arranged as questions and answers in the manner of a catechism. The body of the work consists in a copious collection of medical recipes: the first 193 pa...

Fleurs & fruits des quatre parties du monde desseine par Prévost & gravé par J.B. Huet.Paris, Dauty, [ca. 1837/1838]. Folio (ca. 35 x 26.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 11 (of 23) engraved botanical prints: 4 showing 5 kinds of fruits each, 3 showing 9 types of flowers each and 4 showing flower bouquets. All prints are stipple engravings and coloured by a contemporary hand, some parts glazed with egg white. Contemporary half sheepskin.

HUET Jean-Baptiste (the younger); Benoît-Louis or Jean-Louis PRÉVOST. · 1772

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

[12] ll.Extremely rare botanical print series showing both European and exotic fruits and flowers, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Huet the younger (1772-1852) after designs of Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735?-1804?) or Jean-Louis Prévost (1760-1810). It also includes four plates showing...

Panorama de la guerre d'Italie. Magnifique album développé formé d'une série de grandes lithographies coloriées représentant les combats et les batailles qui ont immortalisé nos soldats en Italie précédé d'un compte-rendu de cette mémorable campagne.Pont-à-Mousson (France), Élie Haguenthal (colophon: Paul Toussaint), [1860/65]. (Size of the whole when folded and closed:) 22.5 x 18 cm. Lithographed folding panorama, showing 8 different lithographed scenes, captioned in and beneath the illustrations, of the Italian War of 1859 from the French-Italian perspective. The 8 scenes (5 3-leaf scenes and 3 single leaf scenes) are assembled to make a single long foldout (as assembled with the text: 21.5 x 395 cm; image size 19 x ca. 310 cm), coloured by a contemporary hand. Half red cloth and hand coloured, lithographed paper sides.

[PANORAMA - ITALIAN WAR 1859]. · 1859

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

[5] ll. of letterpress text and the lithographed folding panorama.Second known copy of a lithographic panorama of the Italian War of 1859, also known as the Second Italian War of Independence. This war was fought in the northwest Piedmont region of Italy pitting the Second Fre...

Avicennae quarta fen primi libri de universali ratione medendi: nunc primum. m. Iacob Mantini medici hebrei: opera Latinate donata.(colophon:) Venice, Lucantonio Giunti, 8 April 1530. 8vo. With Giunti's printer's device on the title page (a Florentine lily with the L. A. initials). Later vellum with more recent end leaves.

IBN SINA (AVICENNA) and Jacob MANTINO (translator). · 1455

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

60 ll.First edition of Jacob Mantino's translation into Latin of the fourth part of the first book of Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine (original title: al-Qanun fi at-Tibb), divided into 31 chapters. Mantino dedicated it to the Doge of the Venetian Republic, Andrea Gritti (1455-15...

Die Reise S.M. Corvette "Aurora" nach Brasilienen und den La Plata-Staaten in den Jahren 1884-1885.Vienna, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1885. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed folding maps (one coloured) showing the route of His Majesty's Ship Aurora along the east coast of South America. Contemporary half brown cloth with the original publisher's printed wrappers mounted on the boards.

[CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE by the CORVETTE AURORA]. [BOSQUET, Victor]. · 1884

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

56 pp.First edition of an account of the 8-month expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1884-1885, by His Majesty's Ship Aurora, a vessel launched by the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine (Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Navy) to Brazil and the Río de la Plata bas...

Arabia and the Far East. Their commercial and cultural relations in Graeco-Roman and Irano-Arabian times.Cairo, printed by l'institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1942. 27.5 x 18 cm. With 12 relief-printed folding maps with trade routes, some regions, etc. printed in several colours and with the coat of arms of King Fouad I of Egypt on the title page. Original brown publisher's printed paper wrappers with the title of the work and the coat of arms of King Fouad I of Egypt on the front wrapper and the logo of "la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte" on the back wrapper.

HUZAYYIN, S.A. · 1933

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[2 blank], XXIX, [1 blank], 319, [1 blank] pp.First edition of Huzayyin's revised and enlarged master's thesis "The Arabian East and the Far East" (Liverpool, 1933). It covers the period form the 4th century BCE to the early 16 century CE. With this work, Huzayyin made a consi...

Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.Large 8vo. 4 pp.(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].Large 4to. 4 pp.Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers

LABORDE, Léon de. · 1807

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp.First and only edition of this groundbreaking geographical and sociological commentary on the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt described in the Old Testament. This work by the French archaeologist and traveler Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph Lab...

The natural history of Aleppo.London, printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. 4to With an engraved frontispiece and 20 numbered engraved plates (including 5 folding) on 19 sheets. Contemporary calf with gold-tooled spine labels, red edges.

RUSSELL, Alexander. · 1740

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

XXIV, 446, XXIII, [3]; VII, [1], 430, XXXIV, [26] pp.Second edition of an authoritative account of Aleppo and Ottoman life and manners, based on Russell's experience as physician to the British factory in Aleppo from 1740 to 1753. Enlarged with 3 additional plates compared to ...

Instrucçam militar para o serviço da cavallaria, & dragôes ...Lisbon, Ferreira, 1723. 4to. With a folding woodcut plate. Later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine and spine-label, marbled endpapers, red edges.

SARMENTO, Francisco Joseph. · 1862

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[24], 157, [1] pp.Very rare first and only edition of a manual for cavalry and dragoons by Major General Francisco Joseph Sarmento, governor of the province of Tras-os-Montes in northeastern Portugal. It includes instructions for various ranks, explanations of weaponry, marche...

[Iraq, Kuwait and Iran].Istanbul, [Erkan-i Harbiye-i Umumiye], 1331 Rumi [= 1915 CE]. Colour-lithographed map of Iraq, Kuwait and southwestern Iran (65.5 x 66 cm) in black, brown, blue and green at a scale of 1:1,000,000, dissected into 12 sections and mounted on contemporary cloth.

[MAP - OTTOMAN ARMY]. · 1915

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

First edition of the first accurate Ottoman general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait, and Khuzestan (southwestern Iran); the authoritative map used by the Ottoman army for strategic planning during the "Mesopotamia Campaign", where Ottoman-German forces mounted a unexp...

Dala'il al-khayrat. [= "Waymarks of benefits"].[Eastern Turkestan, now Xinjiang, China, early 17th century CE]. 4to (19 x 14 cm). Manuscript written in black ink on paper in Arabic script, with a red single- or double-line frame around each page, rubricated throughout, and two illustrations on pages 47 and 48) showing the "Ka'ba of Allah" (!) and the burial sites of the first three Rashidun Caliphs. The Arabic script is in the sini calligraphic style used in China, an archaic form mixing features of naskh and muhaqqaq. Contemporary(?) black, red and gold painted and lacquered leather over paper and cloth. The painted sides show floral designs in black and gold on a red background, in a black border with red wave designs. With remnants of leather on the brown cloth spine.

AL-JAZULI, Muhammad ibn Sulaiman. · 1405

€38,000.00 ($41,882.92 | £31,702.11 | ¥6,688,160)

[1], 337 pp.An extremely rare early 17th-century Turkestani example of the famous Sunni prayerbook “Dala’il al-khayrat”: an Arabic manuscript written in what is today Xinjiang, China.The Dala’il al-khayrat (“Waymarks of benefits” or “Proofs of good deeds”), an extensive book o...

(title-page:) Heraldry.[England (Kent?), ca. 1775-1795]. Large 4to (ca. 27 x 21 cm). Manuscript in English on paper, mostly containing coats of arms with captions and a hand-written index. Completely written in brown ink in a neat 18th-century hand. With a hand-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured title-page, 108 contemporary hand-coloured smaller coats of arms showing motives on the crest and 1050 contemporary hand-coloured larger coats of arms of English noble families. Contemporary sheepskin, blind-tooled boards and spine, marbled endpapers.

CLEMENTS, Joseph and J. GOLDING. · 1795

€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)

[2], 183 ll.Interesting and beautifully finished heraldic manuscript on the English nobility, showing the coats of arms of important 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century English noble families. The present manuscript contains more than 1050 coats of arms, all finely hand-painted with...

Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863. With: (2) [FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. Original publisher's printed wrappers.

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. · 1842

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp.Two very rare issues of an administrative annual periodical (in the form of an almanac) on Tahiti, Moorea and other parts of French Polynesia, printed in Papeete (the capital of French Polynesia and Tahiti). In 1842 the French proclaimed t...

Relaçam de huma solemne, e extraordinaria procissam de preces, que por ordem da corte Ottomana fizeraõ os Turcos na cidade de Meca, no dia 16. de Julho de 1728. ... Primeira[-segunda] parte.Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1730. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut title vignettes, headpieces and initials. Modern blue marbled paper wrappers.

ANTONIO, João Carlos (pseudonym of António Correia de LEMOS). · 1728

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

23, [1 blank]; 24 pp.First edition of a detailed description of a procession in the city of Mecca on 16 July 1728, ordered by Ahmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire at that time. It was written by António Correia de Lemos, whose pseudonym was João Carlos de Antonio. The first...

[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".

[PHOTOGRAPHY - THIRD ARAB-ISRAELI WAR - ISRAEL] DONY, Bianca. · 1967

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

44 photographs in an album with 30 clear plastic inserts.A rare collection of fascinating original photographs capturing the first Western tourists in Israel and Israeli captured territories approximately a month after the Six-Day War in 1967 by Dutch journalist and photograph...

[Photographs showing mob killings, grieving families and funerals].Palermo, [ca. 1961-1966?]. 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints on baryta paper, ca. 24 x 30 cm, all but one with manuscript captions on the reverse.

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAFIA - SICILY]. SCAFIDI, Nicola. · 1925

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

A collection of 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints, showing mob killings, funerals and families by Nicola Scafidi (1925-2004), Sicily's most important mafia photographer of his time. The Palermo photographer Scafidi spent much of his career making striking yet chilling...

Polish Arabian horses before the year 1940.[No place, ca. 1995]. 5 volumes. Oblong 4to. With 253 original photographs mounted on cardboard with accompanying text. Cloth-bound volumes with stamped titles.

[KWIATKOWSKI, Wojciech]. · 1918

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

Extensive photo documentation of Polish Arabian horses, recording year of birth, ancestors, racing results, descendants, etc. and presented in alphabetical order of name. It is with thanks to stud books and works like the present albums that Polish Arabian horses have such ext...

Mission archeologique en Arabie III. Les chateaux arabes Qeseir 'Amra, Harâneh et Tûba.Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1922. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Small folio (21 x 29.5 cm). Text volume with 21 illustrations in the text (mostly photographs). Atlas volume with 58 loose plates (mostly plans and photographic views) as issued. Text volume in modern half cloth, kept with the plates in a modern half cloth portfolio.

JAUSSEN, Antonin and Raphael SVAIGNAC · 1909

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[6], 134, [2] pp.Third and final instalment of the “Archaeological mission to Arabia” series published by the Societé des Fouilles Archéologiques between 1909 and 1922, this issue dedicated entirely to the famous “qusur” (or qasr: so-called desert castles) of the Umayyad Calip...