A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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.

SHUR, Chaim. · 1986

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Various pagination.9 issues of the magazine, a complete run for the year 1986. Issues present are vol. 31, nos. 1-10 (3/4 is a double issue).All volumes with worn wrappers and address labels on front cover. Otherwise all in good condition.

The History of the Caliph Vathek.London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, [ca. 1900]. Contemporary gold-tooled cloth, gilt edges.

BECKFORD, William. · 1786

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

X, 189, 16 pp.Orientalist tale of Arabia and a Caliph who renounces Islam. Originally published in French and in English anonymously in 1786, here in a printed verbatim from the first edition, with the original prefaces and notes by Henley. Note that the titlepage is a rubrica...

Geschiedverhaal van de cholera-epidemie te Leiden, in 1832.Leiden, C.C. van der Hoek, 1833. Large 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers.

PRUYS van der HOEVEN, C., C.W.H. van KAATHOVEN, G. SALOMON. · 1832

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

VIII, 224 pp.Original and only edition of this first-hand and detailed account on the outbreak of the "cholera morbus", or Asiatic cholera in The Netherlands, and especially in Leiden in 1832. All three authors - Cornelis Pruys van der Hoeven (1792-1871), Cornelis Willem Hendr...

Instructie voor de Apothekers in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.[1818]. 8vo. Paper wrappers.

[DUTCH PHARMACY MANUAL]. · 1818

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

8 pp.Rare instruction, containing 19 articles for pharmacists in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Belgium and The Netherlands), confirmed by Royal decree of 31 May 1818, no. 63, on the basis of the Law of March 1818 as issued in the Staatsblad, n.16. The decree is signed by J.G...

Lijst van Apotheek-etiquetten, bestaande zoowel uit de officieele als uit de meest gebruuikelijke officinale namen of synoniemen der geneesmiddelen volgens de Pharmacopoea Neerlandica, editio altera, en in verband met Art. 6 der Wt van 1 Juni 1865, Staatsbl. no. 61.The Hague, J. Smulders & Comp, [ca. 1872-1875]. 4to. Blue wrappers.

RIJN VAN ALKEMADE, J. van. · 1871

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

22 pp.Extremely rare list of available labels for use in small and big pharmacies. The text of the labels is based on the second edition of the Pharmacopoea Neerlandica (1871). The labels are for sale with the firm J. Smulders & Comp. in The Hague, and are available in various...

Lijst der Medicinae Doctoren, Heelmeesters, Vroedmeesters, Heelmeesters ten Platten Lande, Apothekers, Vroedvrouwen en Drogisten in de Provincie Overijssel, voor den Jare 1821.[1821]. 8vo. Unbound.

[OVERIJSSEL - MEDICINE & PHARMACY]. · 1821

€675.00 ($743.97 | £563.13 | ¥118,803)

21 pp.List of the qualified physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, surgeons in the countryside, pharmacists, midwifes, and druggists in the Dutch province Overijssel in the year 1821, issued by the Commission of Medical research and Supervision at Zwolle, signed at the end by G....

The Anti-slavery reporter and aborigines' friend Series VI.London, Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1961. Original pictorial wrappers.

[SLAVERY - SAUDI ARABIA]. · 1961

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

65-88 pp.Vol. 2, no. 7 (April 1961). Pamphlet journal which includes obituaries, articles, reports, news and reviews. Cover photo shows Nigerian children boarding a plane for Saudi Arabia, where a story on page 73 states that they are to be sold as slaves to cover the costs of...

Proverbs of Arabia.Kansas, Girard, 1924. Orange wrappers.

HALDEMAN-JULIUS, Emanuel (ed).

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

32 pp.Little blue book no. 121. Minor wear, otherwise in very good condition.

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin [8 issues].New York, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1973-1978. 8 volumes.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERCA.

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

Each volume ca. 100 pp.Issues present are vol. 7, no. 1; vol. 10, nos. 2 and 3; vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2; vol. 12, nos. 1 and 2; vol. 13, no. 1. Also included are 2 volumes of abstracts from the group's conferences, and a booklet on "American Images of Middle East Peoples: impact...

The Madras almanac for the year of our lord 1829, calculated for the meridian of Port St. George. To which are added: lists of the civil, judicial and medical establishments, and of the Europeans not in the King's or Company's service. With other matters of useful information.Madras, Asylum Press, [1828?]. 8vo. With 1 engraved hand-coloured folding plate showing different kinds of ships’ flags. Lacking 2 leaves.Contemporary red sheepskin, sprinkled edges. Rebacked in calf, red sheepskin spine label, blue paper pasted over the sides.

[BRITISH-INDIA - MADRAS ALMANAC]. · 1857

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[1 blank], [2], [1 blank], VI, 1-146, [2], 147-361, [1] blank, XXX, VIII pp. (lacking pp. 19-22).A rare issue of the Madras almanac, a landmark in the history of British-Indian colonial printing before the Mutiny in 1857. Styled on European almanacs, it is a great source of in...

The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan wherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diverse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be unknowen of them that would attaine unto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by messire Jean du Bec, abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.London, R. Field for Willam Ponsonby, 1597. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.17th-century calf, 19th century gold-tooled spine.

DU BEC-CRESPIN, Jean. · 1585

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

[4], 265, [1] pp.Very rare first edition of the first English translation of Histoire du grand empereur Tamerlanes (Rouen 1585), the first European account of the life of Timur (Tamerlane) based on an Arabic source. The successful and barbaric 14th-century conqueror Timur crea...

[A collection of ephemera regarding the Arab states].New York & London, The Arab Information Center, 1951-1962 8vo. Comprising:(1) EL-KHATIB, M. Fatallah (foreword). Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. New York, Arab Information Center, June 1958.(2) OMRAN, Abdel-Rahim. Public Health & Welfare in the Arab States: Past, Present and Future. New York, Arab Information Center, November 1959. The booklet opens with a history of the Arab contributions to medicine followed by modern statistics.(3) WRIGHT, Esmond. The Arab World. Current Affairs no. 125. London, Bureau of Current Affairs, 3 February 1951.(4) [MENU]. P&O menu. On board the S.S. Arcadia, Sunday 25 March 1962.2 booklets, a magazine and a menu, all in original publishers wrappers.

[ARABIA - EPHEMERA]. · 1958

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

43; 32; 19, [1]; [4?] pp.Set of four publications, two of which by the Arab Information Center in New York. Together with other Arab information centers in various cities in the America’s, Europe and Asia, the New York office belonged to the Press and information department of...

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.

SILVESTRE DE SACY, [Antoine Isaac]. · 1787

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

[6], 47-58, 483-782 pp.Offprints from vols. 47 & 48 of the Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres with separately printed title-page. The four "mémoires" that make up the first item were lectures delivered in the years 1787 to 1791, but published for ...

Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Literatur, Kunst, Mythologie und Geschichte des alten Aegypten. Erstes Heft: Bemerkungen ueber die Aegyptischen Papyrus auf der Koeniglichen Bibliothek zu Berlin.Leipzig, Joh. Ambros. Barth (colophon: printed by W. Haack), 1826. With 4 lithographed folding plates.With: (2) Beitraege ... zweites, drittes, viertes, fünftes Heft. = Systema astronomiae Aegyptiacae quadripartitum ...Leipzig, Joh. Ambros. Barth, 1833. With a general title-page, a Latin title-page and 4 part-titles, a hand-coloured frontispiece and 10 large folding plates, lithographed throughout. 5 parts in 2 volumes. 4to (22.5 x 26.5 cm). Contemporary richly gold- and blind-tooled polished red morocco in the Romantic style (by the Leipzig master Anton Stumme with his ticket on the first free endleaf).

SEYFFARTH, Gustav. · 1840

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

X, 42; XXX, 445, [10] pp.A fine morocco volume comprising the first five of Seyffarth’s monographic contributions to Egyptology (apparently all that had been published at the time of binding: two more were to follow by 1840). While the first part contains the earliest catalogu...

Mission de Phénicie.Paris, Imprimerie Impériale/Nationale, 1864-1874. 14 volumes bound as 13 (7 of text and 7 of plates, the latter bound as 6). Folio (27,5 x 36,5 and 37 x 55,5 cm). With 70 engraved and lithographed numbered plates (including 1 folding), 1 folding map, and 8 plans(including 3 folding), a few in contemporary hand colouring, and several illustrations in the text.Contemporary wrappers. Plates stored in two half cloth portfolios.

RENAN, Joseph Ernest. · 1860

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

[4], 884, [4] pp.Very rare complete set of the first edition of a monumental and extensively illustrated description of the 1860/61 archaeological expedition to Lebanon and Syria, commissioned by Napoleon III and led by the renowned scholar of Semitic languages, Joseph Ernest ...

Description des monumens Musulmans du cabinet de M. le Duc de Blacas.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1828. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 10 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half mottled calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled endpapers and edges.

REINAUD, [Joseph Toussaint]. · 1795

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[4], XV, [1], 400; [4], 488 pp.First edition of J. T. Reinaud’s (1795-1867) rare catalogue of the famous collection of Islamic Art amassed by the French statesman Blacas. Most copies have title changed to "Monumens arabes, persans et turcs". This copy is inscribed by Reinaud t...

The Hedàya, or Guide; a commentary on the Mussulman laws: translated by the order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal.London, Thomas Bensley, 1791. 4 volumes. Small folio (22 x 27.5 cm). Modern half calf in period style, marbled sides, gold-tooled smooth spine divided into six fields by rolls, black morocco spine label in the second field, the others with an arabesque ornament.

[MARGHINANI, `Ali ibn Abi Bakr] (Charles HAMILTON, transl.). · 1870

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

[2], LXXXIX, [1], XII, 561, [3]; VIII, 727, [3]; VIII, 609, [3]; VIII, 574, [54] pp. Errata leaf at end of each volume.First English edition of al-Hidayah, the authoritative guide to Islamic jurisprudence, printed in a small number of copies only (cf. Brunet) by the most prest...

A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from official sources and published by the Palestine News. Cairo, Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. Small folio (22.5 x 29.5 cm). With a frontispiece portrait of Allenby, mounted on cloth, and 56 coloured maps with explanatory texts on the facing pages. Contemporary half linen.

[LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward]. Harry PIRIE-GORDON (editor). · 1917

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

[6], 113, [1] pp.First edition, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon as a souvenir album, of an account of the 1917-1919 campaign in the Middle East. It contains two anonymous reports, in fact written by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), "Sherifian co-operation in September" and "S...

Inscripciones Arabes de Granada, precedidas de una reseña histórica y de la genealogía detallada de los reyes Alahmares.Madrid, Imprenta Nacional, 1859 (issued 1860). 4to. With a folding family tree. Near contemporary gold-tooled vellum with spine title, endpapers with a floral pattern. With the original publisher’s 1860 front wrapper bound in.

LAFUENTE Y ALCANTARA, Emilio. · 1492

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

XIII, [1], 15-242, [2] pp.The first (and only early) edition of this detailed study of Arabic inscriptions found in Granada, with the texts of the inscriptions set in naskh Arabic type and also translated into Spanish. It includes many poems, notably those of Ibn Zamrak (1333-...

Mishcàt-ul-Masábìh, or, A collection of the most authentic traditions, regarding the actions and sayings of Múhammed; exhibiting the origin of the manners and customs, the civil, religious and military policy of the Muslemàns.Calcutta, T. Hubbard at the Hindoostanee Press, 1809-1810. 2 volumes. Small folio (23.5 x 31 cm). Contemporary sheepskin, flat spines with red morocco labels.

KHATIB AL-TIBRIZI, Muhammad ibn ’Abd Allah (Arnold N. Matthews, trans.). · 1500

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

[6], IX, [1], VI, 665, [1]; [2], VI, 817, [13] pp.The Mishcàt-ul-Masábìh (niche for lamps) by al-Khatib al-Tabrizi (also known as Wali al-Din, d. 741 AH or 1340/41 CE), a revised and expanded version of the Masábìh al-Sunnah by al-Baghawi, adding approximately 1500 hadith (sho...