THE ISLAMIC WORLD

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The Hedàya, or Guide; A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: Translated by the Order of the Governor-General and Council of Bengal

London:  T. Bensley,  1791. 4 volumes, 4to (10 1/4 x 8 inches).

lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, [2-errata] pp.; viii, 727, (1), [2-errata]; viii,

609, (1), [2-errata]; lxxxix, (1), xii, 561, (1), [2-errata].  Errata

leaf in rear of each volume. Expertly bound to style in half

calf over period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine

divided into six compartments with gilt roll tools, black

morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a

repeat arabesque decoration in gilt.

First edition in English of al-Hidayah: the authoritative

guide to Islamic jurisprudence.

(#29370)                                                                              $ 11,000

AL -MARGHINANI &

CHARLES HAMILTON

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Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis, et prophetae. Ex Arabico Idomate in Latinum translatus. 

Rome:  Typographia Savariana,  1614. 4to. Text in Latin and

Arabic, woodcut arms of Louis XIII on title.  [12], 474, [2]pp.

 Contemporary manuscript annotations in Arabic, Latin and

Hebrew. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style.

First edition of the Psalms in Arabic.

(#33069)                                                                                 $ 5,500

BIBLE

IN ARABIC

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Souvenirs d'Egypte

Paris:  Lemercier,  [circa 1850]. Large folio. Lithographed

and mounted on cloth guards throughout: tinted title with

integral vignette, 24 tinted plates titled in French, Arabic

and English, all printed by Lemercier. Contemporary

brown half morocco and blue cord-grained cloth, upper

cover titled in gilt "Souvenirs / d'Egypte", spine in seven

compartments with semi-raised bands, lettered in the

second, the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt,

cream/orange glazed endpapers.

A spectacular and rare album featuring the work of two

important French Orientalist artists.

(#23182)                                                                              $ 15,000

ALEXANDRE

BIDA

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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El- Medinah and Meccah

London:  Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,  1855-56. 3

volumes, 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). xvi, 388; [2], iv, 426; xii,

448pp. Half-title in vol. 3, publisher's ads in rear of vols. 1

and 3. 4 maps & plans (3 folding), 5 colour lithographed

plates, 8 tinted lithographed plates. Publisher's blue cloth,

covers blocked in black, spines lettered in gilt (recased with

endpapers renewed, repairs to head and tails of spine,

minor uneven fading).

First edition of Burton's classic account of his journey

across the Arabian peninsula.

(#31284)                                                                               $ 6,000

RICHARD

BURTON

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Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du General Bonaparte

Paris:  P. Didot,  An X [1802]. 2 volumes (text large quarto [12

x 9 1/8 inches], atlas large folio [23 x 17 inches]).  Text: half-

title, list of subscribers. Atlas: 143 engraved plates

(numbered 1-141, plus 20 bis and 54 bis) on 142 sheets (plates

4 and 5 on the same sheet).  Uncut. Contemporary French

blue paper covered boards, expert repairs to the spine of

the atlas.  Housed in blue morocco backed boxes.

Provenance: Armaney (contemporary signature on the front

blank of text and title of atlas).

A foundation work of Egyptology by "the first to reveal the

richness of Egyptian art to Europe" (Atabey).

(#26729)                                                                             $ 20,000

DOMINIQUE

DENON

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Voyage en Perse ... Perse Ancienne ... [With:] ... Perse Moderne ... [And with:] ... Relation du Voyage ... 

Paris:  Gide et J. Baudry,  [1843-1854]. 7 volumes, folio and

octavo. [Ancienne:] 4 volumes, folio. Double-page engraved

map and 243 plates on 244 sheets, numbered 1-229. plus 16

bis plates. Inked subscription stamp on plate 46. [Moderne:]

1 volume, folio. 100 tinted lithographed plates (31 with two

images per plate). [Relation:] 2 volumes, octavo. [4], 511, [1];

[4], 536pp. Expertly bound to style in half green morocco

and period green cloth covered boards, spines gilt with

raised bands. Provenance: Alfred Blanche (inked stamp on

half titles in Relation vols).

Very rare, profusely illustrated folio work on Persia: the

finest depiction of Persia in the 19th century.

(#34450)                                                                             $ 55,000

EUGENE NAPOLEON

FLANDIN

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Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described

London:  James S. Virtue,  [1858-1859]. 2 volumes, small folio

(17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches). 76 mounted albumen photographs.

 Extra-illustrated with 3 additional images by Frith in the

rear of vol. 2, dated in the negatives 1873-1875.  Foxing,

principally to the mounts. Contemporary half green

morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, spine gilt with

raised bands. Provenance: Arthur G. Soames (armorial

bookplate).

Frith's Egypt and Palestine: "one of the most renowned

nineteenth century photobooks" (Parr & Badger).

(#31436)                                                                               $ 12,500

FRANCIS

FRITH

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Views in Affghaunistaun ... from sketches taken during the campaign of the Army of the Indus.

London:  published by W.H. Allen & Co. and T.M'Lean,

 [1841]. Folio (14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches). Tinted lithographed title,

uncoloured lithographed dedication "To The Chairman and

Directors of the Honble the East India Company," hand-

coloured lithographed frontispiece, engraved map and 26

tinted lithographed plates after Jackson by W. L. Walton, T.

Allom and others. Publisher's moire cloth boards, lettered

in gilt on the upper cover, expertly rebacked to style,

original yellow endpapers.

A fine and rare record of the first Afghan War.

(#26764)                                                                              $ 12,000

KEITH ALEXANDER

JACKSON

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Pilote de la Mer Noire, Traduit de Russe et Mis a Jour ... Cote d'Asie

Paris:  Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont,  1865

[updated to 1884]. Tall, thin 8vo (11 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). xvi,

128pp. 16 hand-coloured, double-page maps after

Manganari, 24 lithographed plates of coastal profiles.  With

27 inserted printed slips, updating the work to 1884.

Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper boards, wear to top

and tail of spine.

Rare mariner's pilot to the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea.

(#34476)                                                                                 $ 2,850

HIPPOLYTE DE  

LA PLANCHE

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Voyages ... par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. 

Amsterdam:  Chez les Freres Wetstein,  1718. 2 volumes,

small folio (13 x 8 inches). Half-title in volume II, titles

printed in red and black.  Vol 1: engraved portrait of the

author, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 engraved

double-page maps, 111 engraved plates on 52 sheets, 24

engraved illustrations within the text.  Vol 2: 162 engraved

plates on 56 sheets, 20 engraved illustrations within the

text. 18th-century calf, rebacked retaining the original

lettering pieces. Provenance: Thomas Lennard Barrett, Lord

Dacre of the South, of Belhus, Essex (1717-1787, armorial

bookplate).

First edition in French of Le Bruyn's important illustrated

account of his voyage to Russia, Persia, India and Java.

(#25534)                                                                              $ 14,000

CORNELIUS

LE BRUYN

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Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres &c. De même que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte

Delft:  chez Henri de Kroonevelt,  1700. Folio. Engraved

portrait of Le Brun by G. Valck after Sir Godfrey Kneller,

emblematic additional engraved title, folding engraved map,

97 engraved plates (including folding panoramas), 24

engraved illustrations. Expertly bound to style in period

mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled

endpapers.

First edition in French of this classic of Middle Eastern

travel, with spectacular panoramic views.

(#33305)                                                                             $ 10,000

CORNELIUS

LE BRUYN

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Les Voyages et Observations... Où sont décrites les Religions, Gouvernemens, & situations des Estats & Royaumes d'Italie, Grece, Natolie, Syrie, Perse, Palestine, Karamenie, Kaldée, Assyrie, grand Mogul, Bijapour, Indes Orientales des Portugais, Arabie, Egypte

Paris:  François Clousier,  1657. Three parts in one, small 4to

(8 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches). Woodcut head- and tailpieces and

initials.  Full-page woodcut portrait of the author, 33

woodcut illustrations (17 full-page).  Early vellum, early

morocco lettering piece. Provenance: M. Delaloge (early

signature); M. de Plumerey (early signature).

Rare corrected and expanded second edition of a noted

mid-17th century narrative of travels in Persia, India, Egypt

and the Levant.

(#27696)                                                                                 $ 5,950

FRANÇOIS LE GOUZ

DE LA BOULLAYE

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Recueil de cent estampes représentant differentes nations du Levant. [With, part two:] Explication des cent estampes qui représentent les costumes des differentes nations du Levant. Avec de nouvelles estampes de ceremonies turques qui ont aussi leurs explications. 

Paris:  Le Hay and Duchange, 1714; Jacques Collombat, 1715.

Folio. Engraved title, 102 engraved plates, plus engraved

music. Contemporary red morocco, covers ruled in gilt,

spine in eight compartments with raised bands, marbled

endpapers. Provenance: Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount

Folkestone (armorial bookplate on verso of the title).

A lovely copy of Le Hay and Ferriol's famous work depicting

the costume of the Levant: this copy bound in 18th century

red morocco.

(#15885)                                                                               $ 29,500

LE HAY &

CHARLES DE FERRIOL  

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Description de Toute l'Isle de Cypre, et des Roys, Princes, et Seigneurs, tant Payens que Chrestiens, qui ont commandé en icelle ... [Bound with:] Histoire contenant une sommaire description des Genealogies, Alliances & gestes de tous les Princes & gransSeigneurs ... qui ont iadis commadéés les Royaumes de Hierusalem, Cypre, Armenie, & lieux circonuoisins

Paris:  Chez Guillaume Chaudiere,  1580; 1579. 2 volumes in

one, 4to. Titles with woodcut device, woodcut headpieces

and initials. [10], 292, [xviii]; [iv], 72 ff. Contemporary limp

vellum. Provenance: Artus de Prunier, Comte de Clermont,

la Seigneurie de Virieu en Dauphine; Nicolas de Prunier.

Rare first edition in French of a noted early history of

Cyprus and account of the 1571 Ottoman Empire conquest.

(#27702)                                                                               $ 17,500

STEFFANO DI LUSIGNANO

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Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales ... Conentant une description nouvelle & très-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Iles & Presqu'Îles de l'Orient, des Royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, &c.

Amsterdam:  Michel Charles le Céne,  1727. 2 volumes in 1,

small folio. Titles printed in red and black.  Engraved

portrait frontispiece, 44 engraved maps, plans and views (31

folding), 19 in-text engraved illustrations. Contemporary

calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers and

edges.

A lovely copy of a noted illustrated work on Asia, including

maps and views of Persia, India, China, and Japan.

(#30277)                                                                                $ 7,800

JOHANN ALBRECHT

VON MANDELSLO

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Travels in Egypt and Nubia

London:  Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers,  1757. 2

volumes, folio. [12], xxxiv, 124; [4], viii, 156pp. Half-titles.

Engraved allegorical frontispiece in vol. 1, engraved portrait

of the author in vol. 2, 157 engraved plates, maps and plans.

Period speckled calf, covers with a gilt roll tool border,

spines with raised bands in seven compartments, red and

green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the

others with repeat overall elaborate tooling in gilt.

Provenance: Abraham Roumieu, architect, 1734-1780;

Richard Hill of Thornton House, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.

First edition in English of an important early illustrated

account of exploration in Egypt.

(#26814)                                                                              $ 14,000

FREDERIK LUDVIG

NORDEN

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Jowaki [manuscript title of an album of watercolours and pen-and-ink sketches by Lt. Oswald C. Radford recording the Jowaki Expedition in Kohat Pass]

[Kohat Pass, Pakistan:  Nov. 1877 - Jan. 1878]. Oblong quarto.

Watercolour title, 28 watercolours (mostly on mounted

sheets of drawing paper), 7 mounted pen-and-ink sketches,

5 watercolour vignettes incorporating various date

headings, all of the above recto and verso on 23 album card

leaves. Manuscript descriptions and captions by Radford

throughout. Contemporary green cloth album.

A unique album of drawings depicting the Jowaki

Expedition in the Kohat Pass preceding the Second Afghan

War, recorded by an eyewitness: a pictorial relic of The

Great Game.

(#26989)                                                                             $ 25,000

PAKISTAN ,

JOWAKI EXPEDITION

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A Description of the East, and Some other Countries

London:  Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer,  1743-1745-

1745. Two volumes, folio. 3 engraved title vignettes, engraved

headpiece dedication in vol. 1, engraved dedication in vol.II,

 178 engraved plates, plans and maps (the 12 botanical plates

by G.D. Ehret, the others unsigned). Contemporary calf,

spine gilt with raised bands. Provenance: John Rolle, 1st

Baron Rolle (armorial bookplate).

A very fine set of the first edition of one of the first accurate

records of Middle-Eastern antiquities and culture to be

published in the modern era.

(#33307)                                                                               $ 8,400

RICHARD

POCOCKE

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Souvenir de Constantinople et d'un Voyage fait en Egypte en 1845, par le Duc alors Prince Roger de Bauffremont. Aquarelles de Preziosi et du Vicomte Adalbert de Beaumont [manuscript caption title]

Constantinople and Egypt:  1845. 56 watercolours on 26

period card mounts (30 by Preziosi [11 signed], 26 by

Beaumont [2 signed]), all captioned at a contemporary date

on the mount. Housed in a period burgundy morocco box

signed by A. Giroux. Provenance: Prince Roger de

Bauffremont (1823-1891).

An incredible collection of watercolours of Turkey and

Egypt, accomplished by two notable 19th century Orientalist

artists, documenting a journey through the region by a

French prince.

(#26318)                                                                           $ 380,000

AMADEO PREZIOSI &

A . DE BEAUMONT

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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia

London:  F.G. Moon,  1842-1843-1849. 3 volumes, large folio.

Mounted on guards throughout. Lithographic portrait of

Roberts, 3 hand-coloured mounted lithographic titles, 120

hand-coloured lithographic plates, all cut to the edge of the

image and mounted on card, as issued. Expertly bound to

style in dark green half morocco and original green cloth-

covered boards, the upper covers with large central

morocco blocked in gilt with the arms of Jerusalem, spines

gilt retaining the original spine panels.

Very fine copy of the deluxe hand-coloured edition of

Roberts' monumental work on the Middle East: the Holy

Land, Syria, Idumea, and Arabia, here with the plates in

unusually fine condition.

(#25194)                                                                            $ 160,000

DAVID

ROBERTS

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View of Grand Cairo

London:  William Miller,  1809. Hand-colored aquatint by D.

Havell. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches.

Masterful large, panoramic view of Cairo, depicting the

great Sultan Hussan Mosque.

(#29143)                                                                                 $ 3,750

HENRY

SALT

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The World in Miniature ... Persia, containing a brief description of the country; and an account of its government, laws and religion, and of the character, manners and customs, arts, amusements &c. 

London:  R. Ackermann,  [1822]. 3 volumes, 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8

inches). 30 hand coloured stipple engraved plates (plates

watermarked 1822). Period half red morocco over marbled

paper covered boards, spine with semi-raised bands in five

compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others

with a repeat overall decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers

and edges.

Shoberl's Persia, complete with all hand coloured plates and

in a lovely period binding.

(#27708)                                                                                   $ 900

FREDERIC

SHOBERL

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A Narrative of a Journey into Persia, and Residence at Teheran: Containing a Descriptive Itinerary from Constantinople to the Persian Capital

London:  Printed for William Wright,  1820. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8

inches). Engraved folding map after Arrowsmith, hand

coloured engraved plate. Twentieth century half smooth tan

calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised

bands in six compartments, morocco lettering piece in the

second.

First edition in English of a noted French epistolary

narrative describing an Embassy to Persia.

(#27709)                                                                                $ 1,800

JOSEPH MICHEL

TANCOIGNE

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A Large Draught of the Coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar

London:  William Mount & Thomas Page,  [1734]. Copper-

engraved sea chart by Sutton Nichols, in excellent condition

apart from a small expert repair to the lower right  and left

corners. Sheet size: 19 x 22 3/4 inches.

A very fine sea chart of the coast of Yemen and Oman from

the celebrated Third Book of 'The English Pilot'

(#19527)                                                                                     $ 750

JOHN & SAMUEL

THORNTON

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The Oriental Album: Twenty illustrations in oil colors of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text

New York:  Anson D.F. Randolph,  1862. Folio (18 x 13 3/4

inches). Tinted lithographic additional title by Charles

Parsons, printed by Endicott & Co., 20 chromolithographic

plates by Parsons after van Lennep, all printed by Endicott

& Co. of New York. Modern half brown morocco and cloth

boards, spine gilt.

A rare and important American color-plate book

(#31583)                                                                                 $ 9,500

HENRY JOHN

VAN LENNEP

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