Internationale Buchmesse Abu Dhabi 2022
Eine chronologische Auswahl von 50 seltenen Drucken, Handschriften und Photographien
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Stand 9E05 - Haupteingang Messe
23. bis 29. Mai 2019
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1English Bible ManuscriptLateinische Handschrift auf Pergament.Nordfrankreich oder England?, um 1300.
€ 175.000,00Komplette, sehr sorgfältig geschriebene Perlbibel in zierlicher gotischer Minuskel auf feinstem geschabten Pergament, vermutlich in England oder in englischem Auftrag entstanden. Dem Anfang ist wie gewöhnlich der Brief des Hieronymus an Paulinus vorgesetzt (53: "Frater Ambrosius [...] moriturum", Bl. 1r-3r), dann der Prolog des Hieronymus zum Pentateuch …
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2Complete Ottoman medical manuscript, copied during the lifetime of the authorTeshil ("Facilitation"). Ottoman medical manual.Central or Eastern Anatolia, 28 April 1408 CE = 1 Du'l-Higga 810 H.
€ 58.000,00Complete Ottoman medical manuscript, copied by the scribe Celalu'd-din Mehmud al-'Ala'i in 1408 CE, still during the lifetime of the book's author, the Anatolian religious scholar and physician Haci Pasha (known in the Arabic tradition as Haggi Basha Galalu'd-Din al-Hidr bin 'Ali bin al-Hattab al-Aydini).
The introduction (1v-2r) sets out …
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3Earliest printing of Arabic physicians in a modern vernacularArzneibuch.Nuremberg, 17.03.1477.
€ 95.000,00One of the earliest medical books in the vernacular and the first printed German pharmacopoeia. First dated edition: an undated edition was published at Augsburg in the same year, followed by four more printed editions before 1500. Of the utmost rarity, no copy of the present first edition traceable at auction or in the trade since 1950. Only Lathrop …
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4Unique, early Renaissance alchemical manual drawing on Rhazes and the Arabic tradition, a source for Hieronymus Bock and Western botanyAn alchemist's handbook, in German. Illustrated manuscript on paper.Germany, ca. 1480/90.
€ 350.000,00A Renaissance alchemist's handbook, quoting Al-Razi by name and deeply rooted in the Islamic tradition of alchemical art. An intriguing manuscript which bears witness to early practical chemistry in 15th century Germany and to the immense influence of Arabic alchemy, illustrated with talented watercolour diagrams of the associated apparatus.
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5Incunabular edition of an important Arabic treatise on the preparation of pharmaceutical drugs[Incipit:] Liber servitoris de preparacionibus medicinarum.Strasbourg, ca. 1483-1484.
€ 45.000,00Early edition of this Latin translation of a treatise dealing with the preparation of pharmaceutical drugs. It is book 28 from the Al-Tasrif, a 30-volume Arabic encyclopaedia on medicine and surgery, written ca. 1000 AD by the Arab physician Abulcasis, the father of surgery. The present translation was first published in 1471 and was for the present …
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6Tinnitus, diabetes, manic depression: a medical manual drawing on Avicenna, editio princepsDe aegritudinibus particularibus. De curis febrium.Pavia, 1485.
€ 85.000,00Editio princeps and sole incunabular edition of this two-part medical treatise, drawing strongly on the Arabic physicians who dominated the medieval medical schools of France and Northern Italy. It includes the author's treatise on fevers, based on Avicenna, who is variously quoted and is also referenced in the handwritten annotations. Some of the …
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7The first printed travel report of the Middle East, including the first Arabic alphabet in printPeregrinatio in terram sanctam.Mainz, 11.02.1486.
€ 375.000,00Editio princeps. "Das künstlerisch bedeutendste Werk unter den illustrierten Mainzer Frühdrucken und eines der berühmtesten Bücher, die seit der Erfindung Gutenbergs in Mainz erschienen sind. Bernhard von Breydenbach, der 1497 gestorbene Mainzer Domdekan, beschreibt darin seine dreivierteljährige Pilgerfahrt zum Grabe Christi in Jerusalem und …
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8Pre-Mughal Qur'an commentaryManuscript Qur'an commentary.Sultanate of Delhi, ca. 1490 CE, or 15th century.
€ 35.000,00Part four of a pre-Mughal Qur'an commentary, treating the text from Surah XXI, Al-Anbya (The Prophets) to Surah LXXV, Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection).
Lacks five leaves according to the foliation; some dampstaining; several edge flaws (more severe near the end of the volume), often remargined. Traces of dust in the gutter throughout. In all …
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9The earliest and “by far the most detailed account of the coast of the United Arab Emirates”Naturae historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari quam …Venice, 1497 but not before 13 Feb. 1498.
€ 28.000,00Fine incunabular edition of Pliny's famous encylopedic work, covering the entire field of ancient knowledge. With his "Natural History", Pliny gives a mathematical and physical description of the world, discusses geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, sculpture and painting. As "a purveyor of information …
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10Two complete volumes in contemporary Renaissance bindings[Al Qanun - latine]. Canon medicinae.Lyon, 24.12.1498.
€ 125.000,00Two complete volumes, in their contemporary Renaissance bindings, of the four-volume Latin edition of Avicenna's magnum opus. Gerard de Cremona's widely received translation was here edited by Jacques Ponceau with the commentaries of Jacobus de Partibus and Johannes Lascaris.
The principal writing of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdullah ibn Sina …
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11Liber novem iudicum in iudiciis astrorum. Mesehella, Aomar, Alkindus, Zael …Venedig, 4. I. 1509.
€ 85.000,00I: Erste Ausgabe. Seltene Zusammenstellung astrologischer Schriften ("a Petro Liechtenstein aptissime edita") von Anleitungen der antiken, vorwiegend arabisch-jüdischen Astrologie, nach den zwölf Häusern geordnet und jeweils mit Autorenangabe versehen. Enthält u.a. den Erstdruck von 'De electionibus', Texte von al-Kindi u. a. "Masha'allah, [a …
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12Two groundbreaking works in the history of medicineLiber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii [...].Augsburg, 1519.
€ 45.000,00First Latin edition of the first two books, namely the medical and therapeutic section, of "al-Tasrif", a 30-volume Arabic encyclopaedia on medicine and surgery written ca. 1000 CE by the Arab physician Abulcasis, edited by the physician Paul Ricius, and containing "what is probably the earliest description of haemophilia" (Garrison/M.). Abu al-Qasim, …
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13Opus medicinae practicae saluberrium, antehac nusquam impressum, Galeatii …Hagenau, 25.03.1533.
€ 45.000,00Hauptwerk des als "arabischer Galen" gerühmten Rhazes (um 900), bis in die Renaissance in zahlreichen Bearbeitungen und Kommentaren wiederholt aufgelegt. Gewidmet dem Fürsten Almansor von Chorasan, hier mit den Kommentaren des in Padua geborenen und in Wien u. a. als Leibarzt Herzog Albrechts IV. wirkenden Arztes Galeazzo da Santa Sofia (gest. …
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14The first edition to call Geber an Arab: profusely annotated throughout(De alchemia). In hoc volumine de alchemia continentur haec. Gebri Arabis, …Nuremberg, 1541.
€ 48.000,00The rare first edition of this extremely important and early collection of alchemical writings, which unites several first printings of works previously circulated only as manuscripts. This is first edition to call Geber an "Arab", the first to use "Summa perfectionis magisterii" on the title-page, and also the first printing of the famous "Smaragdine …
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15First edition of two of the most important works on twilight and opticsSalacie[n]sis, de crepusculis liber unus, nu[n]c rece[n]s & natus et …Lisbon, January 1542.
€ 75.000,00First edition of two of the most important and rarest scientific works on twilight and optics. The first is written by the greatest Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunez (1492-1577), who served as cosmographer royal to the court of João III. His "De crepusculis" discusses new solutions for problems concerning twilight (such as the shortest twilight …
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16The birth of modern anatomy: a coloured copy of the first edition, used by the surgeon of the Duke of SaxonyDe humani corporis fabrica libri septem.Basel, June 1543.
€ 950.000,00A truly outstanding copy of one of the greatest and most appealing books in the history of science. Preserved in its original binding with the blindstamped initials of its first owner, the German physician Caspar Neefe (1514-79), and with his handwritten annotations throughout, the present copy is partly coloured by a contemporary artist (including …
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17The first printed eyewitness account of any place in today's UAE: an excellent, entirely complete copy with fine provenanceThe Navigation and v[o]yages of Lewes Vertomannus, Gentelman of the citie …London, 1577.
€ 265.000,00The first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema's famous travels to Arabia, Persia, and India: the highly important and adventurous narrative containing the first printed eyewitness account of any place in today's United Arab Emirates. On his return journey from Mecca (which he was the first Westerner to describe), Varthema visited Ras al-Khaimah …
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18Commentary on At-Tusi's TadhkiraSharh al-tadhkirah.N. p., ca. 1585/1591 CE = 999 or 994 H.
€ 45.000,00A rare, complete, and well-preserved late 16th century manuscript of Al-Birjandi's "Sharh al-Tadhkirah", a commentary on the "Tadhkira", the memoir of the Persian polymath at-Tusi (1201-74). As consistent with the Islamic tradition of commentary, Al-Birjandi provides explanations for the reader and provides alternative views while assessing the viewpoints …
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19The first printed record of Abu Dhabi and DubaViaggio dell'Indie Orientali.Venice, 1590.
€ 150.000,00First edition of this important travelogue by the Venetian state jeweller and gem merchant Gasparo Balbi, detailing his nine-year voyage from Venice to the Far East between 1579 and 1588, and a work of special historical interest for its eyewitness information about the Arabian Peninsula in this early period. In this book, Balbi was "the first writer …
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20Three treatises on astronomy and mathematicsA manuscript collection of three treatises on astronomy and mathematics.Safavid Persia; copied in al-Jauhariyya School, Isfahan, each treatise dated 1619/20 CE = 1029 H.
€ 35.000,00The three works comprise:
1. "Al-Durr al-manthur fi'l-'amal bi-rub' al-dustur". A treatise on calculating time with the aid of the sine quadrant, for any region (GAL II, p. 218, 1, attributed by Brockelmann to Sibt al-Maridini's grandfather, the astronomer Abdallah ibn Khalil ibn Yusuf Jamaladdin al-Maridini al-Qahiri, d. 1406).
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21Arabic manuscript of Euclid's ElementsKitab tahrir usul li-Uqlidus. [Elements].Central Asia, 1653 CE = 1063 H.
€ 22.000,00A fine mid-17th century Arabic manuscript of Euclid's famous "Elements of Geometry", the "oldest mathematical textbook in the world still in common use today" (PMM). The translation is by the great Persian polymath Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi (1201-74), after whom the lunar crater "Nasireddin" is named. Written in Central Asia, this manuscript comprises …
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22First French edition of the Kitab al-Najah[Kitab al-Najah - French]. La logique du fils de Sina, communément appellé …Paris, 1658.
€ 15.000,00First French edition of the Kitab al-Najah ("The Book of Salvation"), the part on logics from Ibn Sina's great scientific and philosophical encyclopedia Kitab Al-Shifa' ("The Book of Healing"). Translated by the French oriental scholar Pierre Vattier (1623-67), himself a physician like Avicenna.
Ibn Sina's system of logic is known as "Avicennian …
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23One of the earliest printed sources for the early history of Fujairah and SharjahViaggi di Pietro della Valle il pellegrino.Venice, 1661-1664.
€ 18.500,00Early duodecimo edition of Della Valle's complete "Viaggi", published while the first complete edition was still under the press. Della Valle's account is highly sought after as one of the earliest printed sources for the early history of Dibba, the coastal region at the northeastern tip of the United Arab Emirates, today ruled by the Emirates of …
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24The astronomy, astrology and allied sciences of the Arabs, Persians and Turks: Anquetil-Duperron's copy[At-Taqwim sana 609] sive Ephemerides Persarum per totum annum, juxta epochas …Augsburg, 1695-1696.
€ 28.000,00Only edition of this rare treatise on the astronomy, astrology and allied sciences of the Arabs, Persians and Turks. Once "said to be the first book printed with Persian characters" (Anderson, The library of the late George H. Hart of New York City, Part II [1922], no. 471), it remains an impressive achievement, even if the oriental languages are …
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25Daybook for the Ottoman Empire's oriental administration: Jeddah, Basra, Beirut, Jericho, and Yerevan in 1731[Mehmed Sâlim Efendi Rûznamçesi]. Rûznâmçe-i Hazret-i Sâlim Mehmed …Constantinople, 1731 CE = 1143 H.
€ 28.000,00A rare document of Ottoman state administration during the early Modern period: the official chronological record-book kept by the Kazasker (chief judge) of Anatolia, Mehmed Sâlim, during the year 1731.
Within the Ottoman administrational structure, the Kazasker (or Qadi'asker) had jurisdiction over all judicial and educational officials …
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26A magnificent copy of a classic world atlas, hand-coloured and sumptuously boundGrosser Atlas über die gantze Welt.Nuremberg, 1737-1762.
€ 85.000,00The Lord Wardington copy of the last edition (1737 with later substitutions by the publisher, probably issued ca. 1762) of Germany's most famous 18th-century world atlas in an exceptionally fine binding, commissioned in Vienna around 1800, and with the frontispiece and all maps coloured by an 18th-century hand. After a 40-page introduction and descriptions …
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27First explicit statement of the principles of pearl valuationA treatise on diamonds and pearls. In which their importance is considered: …London, 1750.
€ 18.000,00Rare first edition of the "first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut" (Sinkankas). The London jeweller Jeffries is also the first author to provide "a clear statement of the principle that the value of pearls should be calculated to the square of their …
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28Ridingers Tierwelt, komplett und handkoloriertDas in seiner großen Mannigfaltigkeit und in seinen schönen Farben nach …Augsburg, 1768.
€ 50.000,00Erste Ausgabe von Ridingers letztem großen Tafelwerk, das posthum von seinen Söhnen Johann Jakob und Martin Elias Ridinger vollendet und herausgegeben wurde und einen schönen Überblick über Ridingers Schaffen darstellt. Eine von nur zwei Kupferstichfolgen, die Ridinger koloriert herausgegeben hat; sehr selten komplett wie vorliegend: "Das Werk …
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29Large paper copies of two lavishly illustrated descriptions of Arabia and the Middle EastReize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen.Amsterdam and Utrecht, 1776-1780.
€ 18.000,00One of the very rare large paper copies of the first and only editions of the Dutch translation by Jacob van Ekers of Niebuhr's famous account of a voyage to Arabia and surrounding countries (ad 1) and his description of Arabia, Egypt and the Middle East (ad 2). Both works were originally written by the Danish traveller and surveyor Carsten Niebuhr …
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30"So far no European has yet obtained the freedom to settle in Muscat [...] The Arabs are the only ones so far occupied in this trade"Mémoire sur le commerce de la côte orientale d’affrique et du Golfe …"Au Port" de Saint-Louis Isle de France, 30.08.1788.
€ 48.000,00One of the earliest primary source documents for the opening of Omani-French trade relations and for the history of Muscat and Oman in the 18th century, hitherto unpublished.
With Muscat becoming an increasingly important port for trade in the Indian Ocean under the rule of the Al Bu-Sa'id dynasty from 1749 onwards, the location quickly caught …
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31A truly outstanding Cedid in its original bindingCedid Atlas Tercümesi [= New Atlas, Translated].Üsküdar/Istanbul, April 1803-March 1804 CE = 1218 H.
€ 250.000,00The first European-style atlas printed in the Islamic world: an exceedingly rare, handsome, and entirely complete example in its original first binding. "[T]he first world atlas printed by Muslims [...], of which only fifty copies were printed" (Library of Congress, Near East Collections: an illustrated guide, online). Several copies were reserved …
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32First edition of the first illustrated medical book ever printed in the Muslim world[Hamse-i Sânizade].Kostantiniye Istanbul, 1820 CE = 1235 H.
€ 35.000,00The first edition of the first illustrated medical book ever printed in the Muslim world: the pioneering Ottoman physician Sanizade's (1771-1826) medical compendium, the first three books (on anatomy, physiology, and internal medicine) of what would later be known as "Sani-zade's Canon of Five", "Kitâb ül-evvel fi t-tesrihât" ("Mir'âtül-ebdân …
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33Erstes arabisches Gestüt in EuropaAbbildungen Königlich Württembergischer Gestütts Pferde von orientalischen …Stuttgart, 1823-1824.
€ 65.000,00Sehr seltene, einzige Ausgabe dieser prachtvollen Folge. Sie erschien als Auftragsarbeit der Württembergischen Gestütsdirektion und besteht aus eindrucksvollen Darstellungen verschiedener Vollblutaraber aus württembergischer Zucht, jeweils mit malerischen orientalischen Städte- und Landschaftsszenen im Hintergrund.
Blattgröße 526 x 602 …
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34The first Westerner to visit the Holy CitiesTravels in Arabia, comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz …London, 1829.
€ 18.000,00First edition (the second of the same year was in two volumes, octavo). Burckhardt travelled disguised as an Arab, making his notes clandestinely. This work deals primarily with his travels to Mecca and Djidda, Medina and Yembo. The Lausanne-born Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a remarkable character, the first Westerner to visit the Holy Cities. In the …
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35First substantial English translation of Ibn Batuta's travels through the Islamic world and beyondThe Travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript …London, 1829.
€ 17.500,00First edition of the first substantial English translation of the travel account of Abu Abdullah Mohammed ibn Batuta (1304-68/69), known in the West as the Arabian Marco Polo, with extensive footnotes. "While on a pilgrimage to Mecca he made a decision to extend his travels throughout the whole of the Islamic world. Possibly the most remarkable of …
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36The world's nations illustrated: one of the greatest publishing ventures ever, the rarest work to be found completeIl costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della …Milan, 1829-1834.
€ 280.000,00Without question the largest pictorial encyclopedia of the world published during the 19th century, and one of the rarest works to be found complete. Printed in a press run of no more than 300 copies, this set is numbered "12" and was inscribed to a friend of the author ("del socio Signor G. Ferrario"); as such, it was printed on superior paper and …
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37Medical and historical books from the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid IIA collection of nine books formerly in the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid …Constantinople, Florence, Berlin, and Paris, 1841-1891.
€ 65.000,00A rare survival: an ensemble of books, mainly medical, formerly in the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, whose famous collection was dispersed following his deposition in 1909.
Of the nine volumes in the present collection, more than half a devoted to medicine. They include a rare account of Turkish military and civil …
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38Red Sea AlgaeAlgae from the Red Sea.Red Sea, ca. 1844-1845.
€ 18.500,00A rare and early ensemble of algae specimens collected from the Red Sea, from different areas between Suez and Yemen, including one specimen from Alexandria. All items identified with the Latin name and details of the location around the Red Sea and date of collection written in French on the mounts, e.g., "Caulerpa prolifera: très commune dans …
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39A primary reference work on the history of travel and explorationThe complete series of the first 200 works issued by the Hakluyt Society.London, 1847-1958.
€ 85.000,00A primary reference work on the history of travel and exploration, including the principal accounts of the great voyages to the Middle East. This is a complete run of the first series and a large part of the second series (with its first part complete), dating from 1847 to 1956, of the publications of the Hakluyt Society. Early volumes of interest …
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40A photographic pioneer in the Middle East, "the first completely realized photobook" (Parr/Badger) ever publishedÉgypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis …Paris, 1852.
€ 350.000,00Extremely rare first edition, complete, illustrated with 125 salt prints from wet paper negatives (Blanquart-Evrard process) mounted one to a page. Maxime Du Camp’s monumental survey, "Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie", was the first of its kind, the first travel album to be completely illustrated with photographs of archaeological monuments.
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41Unpublished source on Oman navigation: illustrated logbook recording the laying of the telegraph sea cable off the Omani coast in 1859Log of the proceedings. HMS "Cyclops". W. J. S. Pullen Esq. Captain. Commencing …HMS Cyclops: Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, 1857-1861.
€ 45.000,00Historically significant manuscript logbook, containing a detailed record of the first attempt at laying a submarine telegraph cable to connect London with British India. The expedition took place from May 1859 (the Red Sea leg from Suez to Aden) to February 1860 (from Aden to the Khuriya-Muriya Islands, Muscat and Karachi). The two specially designed …
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42Presentation copyOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation …London, 1859.
€ 175.000,00First edition, first issue, of "the most important single work in science" (Dibner), and "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). "No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world …
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43Vernay's poetry in French, Turkish, Persian and other languages: unrecorded Royal folio issues dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I and with extensive additionsPoésies nationales et religieuses Françaises, Italiennes, Turques et …Paris, 1860-1861.
€ 28.000,00Unrecorded royal folio issues of two major editions of oriental poetry, bound together and with extensive supplementary material added, probably for presentation to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I: the first and only edition of the collected oriental poetry (195 pieces) of the French child prodigy orientalist, linguist and poet Charles Vernay; and …
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44Illustrated manuscript of the Qanunceh, or "small canon": a summary of Ibn Sina's famous Canon of Medicine[Qanunceh (= Small canon)].No place, 1862 CE = 1279 H.
€ 28.000,00Arabic manuscript containing the Arabic translation of Ibn Sina's Qanunsah ("Small canon"), originally written in Persian: a brief medical compendium compiled by the Khwarazmian polymath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini based on Ibn Sina's famous Qanun. This abridged manual of medicine is arranged in ten parts ("maqalat", or "discourses"), …
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45A perfect copy of the original editionL'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'la …Paris, 1869-1877.
€ 65.000,00Sehr seltene Erstausgabe dieses prächtigen, unübertroffenen Standardwerks zur islamischen Kunst. Prisse d'Avennes verbrachte ab 1826 viele Jahre in Ägypten, zunächst als Ingenieur im Dienste Mehmet Alis. Ab 1836 erforschte er das Land in der Verkleidung eines Arabers und unter dem Namen Edris Effendi; während dieser Zeit führte er archäologische …
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46The defining issues of the Gulf region, as studied by one of its most successful early policymakers, a British diplomat who retired in Abu Dhabi under the protection of Sheikh ZayedThe research library of the British diplomat Edward Henderson (1917-1995).Various places, 1892-1995.
€ 115.000,00A defining ensemble of specialist literature on the Arabian Gulf, assembled as a research library by the noted British diplomat Edward Henderson, himself a renowned scholar of the Arab world and long a prominent figure in the Gulf region, where he spent most of his life furthering Britain's relations with the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states.
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47A British Gentleman's Oriental TourA collection of 847 original photographs documenting a British gentleman's …Various places, 1900-1901.
€ 95.000,00An exceptional trove of early exploration and travel photographs, documenting a two-year tour around the coast of Africa and Yemen, through the Gulf from Muscat to Bahrein, then on by the Arabian Sea to Karachi and finally back to Syria and Jerusalem. The collection is preserved in its original massive oblong albums with each of the partly large-format …
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48"Secret" and "Confidential": The making of the most famous map of ArabiaCorrespondence relating to Fraser's classified map of Arabia and the Gulf.Mostly Simla and Dehra Dun, 1905-1906.
€ 150.000,00This letterbook containing correspondence on the research and preparation for F. F. Hunter's "Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf" (1908) forms an important source that reveals the extensive and detailed work behind the production of a milestone in the mapping of the Arabian Peninsula.
When Hunter joined the Survey of India from the Indian …
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49The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz: from the archive of King Ali's personal physicianA collection of early photographs of Arabia, with additional material.Mainly Jeddah but also Mecca and Baghdad, early 1920s, with a few addenda to 1955.
€ 25.000,00An uncommon trove of twelve early, original photographs of the Hejaz while under the short-lived Hashemite Kingdom, removed from an album kept by the Polish-born physician Maksimilian Mordechaj Makowski. One photograph shows the "Kaabah in Mekka" (annotated thus in ink) and another the pilgrims' tent city before the Masjid al-Khayf at Mina. The remainder …
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50"For Offical Use" only: the Arabian Peninsula in 382 maps - 1:200,000General'nyí shtab. (Arabian Peninsula 1:200,000).Moscow, 1975-1991.
€ 95.000,00Most of the Soviet Union's 1:200,000 General Staff map quadrangles showing the Arabian Peninsula: from the Russian series of maps produced during the Cold War, based on high-quality satellite imagery, but usually also ground reconnaissance. While there are a few lacunae in the eastern and central part of the Peninsula, mainly concerning Oman and …