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Ibn Chaldun und seine Culturgeschichte der Islamischen Reiche.Vienna, Karl Gerold's son (back of title-page: Adolf Holzhausen), 1879. 8vo. With 4 leaves with Arabic text. Contemporary paper wrappers.

KREMER, Alfred von. · 1406

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

62, [2 blank] pp.Offprint of an essay on the cultural history written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), written by the German Orientalist Alfred von Kremer (1828-1889). It opens with a brief introduction on Ibn Khaldun's works and life. Other chapters deal with th...

[Manuscript ledger recording the time spent working on infrastructural projects].[London?,] 1952-1955. Folio. Lined journal, each page ruled for monthly tallies, with some extra annotations. Contemporary cloth.

BOULTEN, F.A. · 1952

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[48] pp.Manuscript ledger recording the work hours of F.A. Boulten, from 1952 to 1955. Although Boulten's specific field of work, or even the company he worked for, is not stated, he worked on engineering and infrastructure projects in the British colonies, the Commonwealth an...

[Manuscript travel guide to Egypt].[France?, 1850s]. With 17 pages of text written with pen and ink in French and 4 pages of annotations in pencil. Unbound, pages later inexpertly sewn together.

[TOUSTAIN-RICHEBOURG, Henri de]. · 1847

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

30 ll.Interesting French manuscript guide for travelling from Alexandria to Cairo, written by a Norman nobleman. The guide instructs the traveller to travel overnight from Alexandria to Atfeh (Al 'Atf) by way of a cangia (a type of passenger boat) over the Mahmoudiyah Canal. I...

Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde apothekeren alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selve. Verdeylt in acht boecken, tot onderwijsinghe der apothekers. En verrijckt met een vermeerderde examen der chirurgie, benevens een tractaet vande kennisse der drooghen. [Engraved title page:] Het nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst.Antwerpen, Reynier Sleghers, 1667. 8vo. With an anonymous engraved title page and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[BISSCHOP, Jan]. · 1653

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[16], 466, [22]; 70, [2] pp.The fourth edition of a collection of medical distillery recipes, first published anonymously at Ghent in 1653, making it the first book on pharmaceutical chemistry published in the Southern Netherlands. The present 1667 edition for the first time g...

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts, answering most intentions of cure. To which are added, useful scholia, a catalogue of remedies, and copious index, for the assistance of young physicians.London, William Innys, 1714. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue (1684-1756) after Joseph Tymewell (fl. 1717-1737). Contemporary calf.

FULLER, Thomas. · 1714

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[18], 14, 512, [32] pp.Second edition in English of a popular pharmacopoeia, based on the fifth Latin edition of 1714. According to the introduction, the author had originally compiled "a very great Collection of the best, and neatest Medicines" for personal use, constantly te...

Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages, et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot.Paris, Baudouin, 1802. 4to. Contemporary boards, rebacked with cloth.

CAMUS, Armand-Gaston. · 1740

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[8], "401"[=405], [3] pp.First edition of an important bibliographical study of De Bry's Grand and Petit voyages and Thévenot's Relations des divers voyages curieux. Two of the most famous collections of voyages ever published. Sabin calls it "an excellent specimen of bibliogr...

[Title in Greek followed by:] Disputatio cum Herbano Iudaeo: nunc primùm Graecè edita, cum interpretatione Nic. Gulonii, Carnutis, literarum Graecarum professoris regii, notis illustrata. Hoc dialogo sides Christiana tum divinorum oraculorum exposition, tum miraculorum effectu confirmatur.Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1586. 8vo. With text in Latin and Greek on facing pages. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.

GREGENTIUS, Saint. · 1530

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[8], 204 ll.First edition of the sole surviving work of Saint Gregentius, the 6th-century archbishop of Zaphar, in modern-day Yemen. It records a dialogue held in Zaphar, between Gregentius and Rabbi Herban, the chief representative of the local Himyaritic Jews. During the deb...

De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor.Including: RIGAULT, Nicolas. Funus parasiticum sive L. Biberii curculionis parasiti, mortualia. Ad ritum prisci funeris.Leiden, Hackius, 1672. With an engraved frontispiece and 4 folding engraved plates.With: (2) KIRCHMANN, Johann. In funere V. Cl. Pauli G.F.P.N. Merulae. Historiarum Professoris in academia Batavorum, & foederatarum provinciarum historiographi, oratio, in qua de vita scriptisque ejus disseritur.Leiden, Hackius, 1672. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in two parts). 12mo. Contemporary vellum.

KIRCHMANN, Johann. · 1575

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[48], 649, [45], [2 blank], 24; [8], 64 pp.Ad 1: Late edition, the first published in the Netherlands, of an historical work on the funeral rites in ancient Rome, by the German Philologist Johann Kirchmann (1575-1643), illustrated with a frontispiece and four vivid engravings ...

Numi Cufici regii numophylacii Holmiensis, quos omnes in terra Sueciae repertos.Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1848. 4to. With 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth.

TORNBERG, Carl Johan. · 1807

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[6], LXXXVIII, 315, [1] pp.First edition of a work on Kufic coins, written by the Swedish orientalist and numismatic Carl Johan Tornberg (1807-1877). The work catalogues all the early Arabic coins found on Swedish soil, now residing in the Kungliga Svenska Myntkabinettet (Swed...

Mahomets Alkoran, door de hr. Du Ryer uit d'Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt; benevens een tweevoudige beschrijving van Mahomets leven; en een verhaal van des zelfs reis ten hemel, gelijk ook zyn samenspraak met de Jood Abdias.Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1696. 8vo. With an integral engraved title-page, and 6 engraved plates showing the Prophet Mohammed, engraved by Caspar Luyken. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

[QURAN]. · 1657

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[12], 547, [1 blank] pp.Second edition, the first with the engraved plates by Caspar Luyken, of the second Dutch translation of the Quran, translated by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker from André Du Reyer's French translation. Glazemaker's translation was first published in 1657 and pr...

Iter in Chinam. Dissertation praeses Car. v. Linné.Uppsala, Joh. Edman, [1768]. 4to. With a woodcut tailpiece. Sewn as issued.

SPARRMAN, Andrea (Anders). · 1765

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

16 pp.First edition. Sparrman had sailed with Carl Gustaf Ekeberg as a ship's surgeon to the East Indies and Canton (Guangzhou) in 1765-66. In this dissertation he gives a brief account of the voyage and an enumeration of the plants and animals observed by him. It is one of th...

Descriptions of five new shells from the Island of Formosa and the Persian Gulf, and notes upon a few known species.Including: BOCK, Carl. Descriptions of two new species of shells from China and Japan.[London], 18 June 1878. With a chromolithographed plate depicting 14 shells. Modern paper wrappers.

SMITH, Edgar. · 1847

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

727-732 pp.Extract from the 46th volume of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, dealing with newly discovered shells from Formosa (Taiwan) and the Arabian Gulf and some other, already known, shells. The new shells are the Melania Formosensis, Melania Dicksoni, ...

Mahomets Alkoran, door de hr. Du Ryer uit d'Arabische in de Fransche taal gestelt; benevens een tweevoudige beschyving van Mahomets leven; en een verhaal van des zelfs reis ten hemel, gelijk ook zyn samenspraak met de Jood Abdias.Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1698. 8vo. With an integral engraved title page (dated 1696) and 6 engraved plates showing the Prophet Mohammed. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

[QURAN]. · 1657

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[12], 547, [1 blank] pp.Third edition (one of two simultaneously published issues) of the second Dutch translation of the Quran, translated by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker from André Du Reyer's French translation and finely illustrated by Caspar Luyken. Glazemaker's translation was ...

Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.London, 1824-1834. 3 volumes in 8 parts. 4to. With 80 lithographed plates, including several folding plates and 2 chromolithographed plates, and some smaller illustrations in text. Contemporary blue and grey paper wrappers, kept in two modern half morocco boxes.

[ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY]. · 1824

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

Complete set of all the articles published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in the years 1824-1834 under the name "Transactions". In 1835 the journal would continue under the name Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. The society was founded in 1823 an...

[Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Traité d'amitié et de commerce, entre l'Empire de Russie et la couronne de Dannemarc, conclu à St. Petersbourg le 8-19 Octobre 1782.[St. Petersburg], Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1782. Small folio (29.5 x 19.5 cm). Treaty between Russia and Denmark in Russian and French in 2 parallel columns in cyrillic (left) and roman (right) types. Disbound.

CATHERINE THE GREAT, Tsarina and CHRISTIAN VII. · 1762

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

22 pp.Very rare first edition, in Russian and French, of a treaty for friendship and commerce concluded at St Petersburg, negotiated between Tsarina Catherine the Great of Russia and King Christian VII of Denmark. The relationship between the two countries had become hostile a...

Traité de paix, conclu entre ... l’Imperatrice ... de Russie ..., et ... le Roi de Suède ... 1790.[St. Petersburg, Imperial Printing Office, 1790]. With: (2) CATHERINE THE GREAT & GUSTAV III of Sweden. Traité d'alliance défensif ... entre la Russie et la Suède ... 1791. [St. Petersburg, Imperial Printing Office, 1791]. Folio (30 x 20 and 29.5 x 20.5 cm). With the text in Russian and French in parallel columns, and with ornamental rules at the head of each page. Unsewn, marbled paper spine (ad 1); side stitched, blue paper spine (ad 2).

CATHERINE THE GREAT & GUSTAV III of Sweden. · 1788

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

10; 20 pp.First and only editions of two peace treaties between Catherine the Great of Russia and Gustav III of Sweden, which concluded the Russo-Swedish war of 1788-1790, each page with the Russian text in the left column and the French text in the right column. The Treaty of...

[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.

PETER II, Tsar and Shah ASHRAF. · 1725

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

10; 12 pp.Ad 1: Very rare first and only edition of the Treaty of Rasht, a peace treaty between the Russian Empire and the Persian Safavid Empire, concluded between the very young Tsar Peter II and Shah Ashraf, who would both die a year later. After the Russian Tsar Peter the ...

The Persian Gulf, 1975: the continuing debate on arms sales. Hearings before the special subcommittee on investigations of the committee on international relations, house of representatives, ninety-fourth congress, first Session. June 10, 18, 24 and July 29, 1975.Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. 8vo. Original printed paper wrappers.

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

VI, 261 pp.Document printed by the government of the United States of America, concerning "the escalating level of arms sales to Gulf states" (p. V). Included are statements of witnesses, memorandums, tables and other important documents concerning the (illegal) arms trade. Oc...

New perspectives on the Persian Gulf. Hearings before the subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia of the committee on foreign affairs, house of representatives, ninety-third congress, first session. June 6, July 17, 23, 24, and November 28, 1973.Washington, U.S. Government printing office, 1973. 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm). With a small map of the Persian Gulf. Original printed paper wrappers.

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

VIII, [1], 227 pp.Document printed by the government of the United States of America, concerning several hearings of witnesses of events in the Middle East and South Asia, especially concerning "arms sales or pending arms deals with some of the oil-rich countries of the Persia...

La repubblica di Venezia e la Persia.Torino, G.B. Paravia e comp., 1865. 8vo. With 5 photographic plates. Original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers.

BERCHET, Guglielmo. · 1833

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

XVII, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 294, [2] pp.First edition of a work on the relation between the Republic of Venice and the Persian Empire (present-day Iran), focusing on their diplomatic and commercial relations, written by the Italian historian and politician Guglielmo Berch...