ABAA California Virtual Book Fair
A chronological catalogue of 50 items
published on the occasion of the 2021 California Virtual Book Fair
Open continuously from 9am, March 4th, until 8pm, March 6th (PST).
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1Complete 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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2Based on Ibn Sina's QanunQanunceh ("Small Canon").Herat now Afghanistan, 1436 CE = 840 H.
€ 65,000.00Complete Arabic manuscript containing the Arabic translation of the Qanunsah ("Small Canon"), originally written in Persian: a brief medical compendium compiled by the Khwarazmian polymath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Gamini, and based on Ibn Sina's famous Qanun.
This abridged manual of medicine is arranged in ten parts ("maqalat", or "discourses"), …
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3An Arabic source for Copernicus: the first use of decimal fractions in EuropeTabulae de motibus planetarum.Ferrara, ca. 1475.
€ 280,000.00The so-called Toledan Tables are astronomical tables used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. They were completed around the year 1080 at Toledo by a group of Arab astronomers, led by the mathematician and astronomer Al-Zarqali (known to the Western World as Arzachel), and were first updated in the 1270s, …
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4Inscribed by a Mosul physician in 913 AH (1507 AD)Dhakhirah-i Khwarazm-Shahi.Probably Anatolia, ca. 1490 / late 15th century.
€ 35,000.00Very rare Arabic translation of Al Jurjani's important medical compendium, the first major medical text written in the Persian language.
Jurjani (d. 1136) "went to live in Khwarizm in 504/1110 and became attached to the Khwarizmshahs Kutb al-Din Muhammad, to whom he dedicated his 'Dhakirah', and Atsiz b. Muhammad [...] His 'Dhakirah Khwarizmshahi', …
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5Unknown manuscript copy of the first authentic Western source for the Near and Middle EastDie fart oder reysz über mere zu dem heyligen grab vnsers herren Jhesu …Mühlhausen Thuringia, 1527.
€ 25,000.00Previously unknown textual witness of Bernhard von Breydenbach's famous travel report, which had appeared in print in February 1486 (in Latin) and then again, in June of the same year, in German. This meticulously written redaction of the German text is the work of the Dominican friar Mathias Sartor (Schneider), "ordinis predicatorum conventus Hallensis …
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6Studies in Arabic syntax[Kitab al-Misbah fil-Nahw - commentary].Probably Yemen, 1545 CE = 952 H.
€ 6,000.00A commentary (or supercommentary) on the "dibacha", the introduction of the "Kitab al-Misbah fil-Nahw" on Arabic syntax by Nasir b. 'Abd al-Sayyid al-Mutarrizi (d. 610/1213). This appears to be a commentary which is closely related - but not identical - to MS Berlin SBPK, Lbg. 841 (= Ahlwardt 6547) and MS Berlin, SBPK, Springer 1015 (= Ahlwardt 6545). …
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7Arabic manuscript dictionary of pharmaceutical simpliciaNazm al-Suluk wa Taqwim al-Adviyeh [An Arabic manuscript dictionary of …Ottoman Levant possibly Jerusalem, 1556 CE = Shawwal 974 H.
€ 35,000.00A substantial 16th century codex on herbal medicine and pharmaceutical simplicia, constituting a reference work for medication and the application of practical remedies. The physician and astronomer Abu al-Fazl Hubaysh was given the title "al-Mutabbib" (the doctor) for the numerous medical texts he composed, including the present volume as well …
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8Diplomatic account of Constantinople under Suleiman the MagnificentRelazione dell'Impero Ottomano].Northern Italy, probably 1560/1570s.
€ 9,500.00Near-contemporary manuscript copy of the 1554 relation to the Doge of Venice, by Domenico Trevisan, the returning bailo (resident ambassador) to Constantinople, about the Ottoman Empire and the duration of his station there. Much in the manner of present-day diplomatic cables and station reports, Trevisan gives an account of the ruling dynasty and …
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9Eyewitness account of a 16th century diplomatic mission to the Ottoman court, illustrated with 28 watercoloursMemoires du voiage de Constantinople de Jacques de Bracle seigneur de Bassecourt. …No place, c. 1570.
€ 250,000.00Unique, fascinating and unpublished manuscript containing the account of a diplomatic journey to the Ottoman Empire in 1570. Braeckle (1540-71), a Flemish physician, "assisted Charles Rym Baron de Bellem, Ambassador of Maximilian II in Constantinople, probably as a secretary. He wrote an account of his journey, which contains interesting details …
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10A scholar's handwritten reference manual on Arabic grammarArabic manuscript on polished paper.Ottoman Empire, probably ca. 1580 / 16th century.
€ 3,500.00A scholar's handwritten reference manual on Arabic grammar, dated according to paper and script. Although the manuscript was probably intended to be illuminated, the only decoration that was carried out consists in the red rules that frame the text.
Written on strong, wide-margined laid paper with a crescent watermark not recorded by Piccard …
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11Precursor to Ibn Sina's Qanun: the earliest Arabic medical work to provide instructions on surgical procedureKitab Kamil as-Sina'a at-Tabbaiya [The Complete Book of the Medical Art].Safavid Persia, 1582-1584 CE = 990-991 H.
€ 175,000.00Exceptionally rare, textually complete copy of a fundamental medical work from the Golden Age of Islamic scholarship, preceding and influencing Avicenna's Qanun. Monumentally influential not only in Islamic medicine, this work even had profound impact in the West. It was first translated into Latin by Constantinus Africanus in the 11th century for …
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12The first Gospel printed in interlinear Arabic and LatinArba`at Anajil Yasu` al-Masih Sayyidina al-Muqaddasah. Sacrosancta quatuor …Rome, 1591-1619.
€ 18,000.00The rare first re-issue, with new preliminary matter only, of the first Gospel printing in the interlinear Arabic and Latin version, prepared at the same time and printed by the same press as the first Arabic-only Gospel. These were the first works ever produced by Ferdinando de' Medici's "Medicea" press, founded by Pope Gregory XIII to spread the …
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13"possibly the most remarkable of all printed editions of Euclid ... in a class by itself"Kitab tahrir usul li-Uqlidus min talif Khawjah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.Rome, 1594.
€ 85,000.00First Arabic edition 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 al-Din al-Tusi (1201-74), after whom the lunar crater "Nasireddin" is named. Euclid's bibliographer Charles Thomas-Stanford calls this "possibly the …
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14The Medicea's last production: dedication copy for Pope Paul V[Kitab al-tasrif ta'lif al-shaykh al-Imami]. Liber Tasriphi compositio …Rome, 1610.
€ 28,000.00First edition of this grammatical treatise of Arabic known as the "Tasrif al-Zanjani", not printed again until 1817 (in Istanbul): the final work to leave Raimondi's famous Medicea press, and the only one produced there after a hiatus of 15 years. The long hibernation phase into which the Medicea entered after printing her last book in 1595 for Pope …
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15Studies in Arabic morphologyAnthological manuscript on Arabic morphology.Ottoman Turkey, 1621 AD = 1031 H.
€ 2,500.00A miscellany of works belonging to the genre of "nahw", or essays on grammatical topics, mainly focusing on the nominal and verbal morphology of Arabic. Contains parts of the "Marah al-Arwah" ("Abode of the Spirits") by the 14th century grammarian Ahmad Ibn Ali Ibn Masud (ff. 1-31) as well as "Sharh az Zanjani" (or "Serh ul Izzi fi't-Tasrîf", ff. …
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16A cross-cultural milestone, unpublished for more than 150 years: a Polish-born Turk's Osmanli Bible, produced under the auspices of a Dutch project for universal peaceTurkish translation of the New Testament. Secretarial manuscript with Ali …Constantinople, 1665.
€ 85,000.00Considered lost: a volume of Ali Ufki Bey's famous Bible translation, "the lineal ancestor of today’s Turkish Bible" (Privratsky), the last manuscript in private hands.
A project born of Protestant disappointment with the outcome of the 30 Years' War, the 17th century enterprise to translate the Bible into Turkish was informed by Christian …
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17The early Caliphs and Kings of Egypt, the Hejaz and the LevantAl-Khalaf'a wa Muluk al-Amsaar [A historical and geographical account of …Ottoman Levant, 1713 CE = Sha'ban 1125 H.
€ 9,500.00An historical and geographical account of the early Caliphs and Kings of Egypt, the Hejaz and the Levant, possibly inspired by the author's travels in these regions. The volume not only describes the rulers but also offers insights into the geographical locations where they settled, their "Amsaar" (garrison towns), and the physical proximity of these …
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18Turkish pharmacopoeiaTazkirah 'ata’ tabib Dari’sh-Shifa’.Eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, early 18th century ca. 1720.
€ 3,500.00A traditional pharmacological essay or pharmacopoeia, as well as a description of several ailments and medical conditions (including earache, infection of the larynx, uvular edema, malaria, jaundice, and yellow fever), with their treatment indications. Interestingly, there is a specific reference to opium ("afyon" in Turkish). The anonymous scribe …
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19Laying the foundations for the modern Maronite ChurchRistretto delle Relazioni de Relatori del Sinodo del Monte Libano, et unione …No place or date, but probably Rome, 1736 or soon after.
€ 2,500.00A contemporary account of the 1736 Maronite Synod of Mount Lebanon, which laid the foundations for the modern Maronite Church. Concerns the appointment of Giuseppe Simone Assemani (Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani) as Apostolic Delegate, who presided over the Synod, and the settlements of several sensitive issues of Maronite Church, such as liturgy, martyrology, …
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20"An Innocent Arab Proposing the Destiny of the Universe": An Unpublished French Manuscript with 10 VolvellesNouvelle Methode Astrologique de François Allay Arabe Chretien. 1654.France, ca. 1750.
€ 28,000.00Sole recorded witness of a vernacular translation of this forbidden, volvelle-laden manual of prognostication, burned upon publication at the orders of the Bishop of Nantes. Appearing in 1654 as the "Astrologiae Nova Methodus", the work was immediately condemned (cf. Caillet and Dorbon) and is excessively rare in census today; no vernacular translation …
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21Polyglot poems: an authorial manuscript bound for the KingPoemata anatolico-polyglotta seu plurium linguarum OO. in laudem Magni …Probably Turin, 1767.
€ 25,000.00A fine dedicatory manuscript, pre-dating the noted Hebraist's first published work: an assembly of polyglot odes by the 25-year-old scholar to the royal family of Sardinia, written in Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethopian, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac, all with their Latin translation opposite.
De Rossi studied at Ivrea and Turin. In 1769 he was …
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22An unpublished manuscript travelogue to the Middle East, with 29 original drawingsNotizie, ed aventure veridiche di un viaggio intrapreso da una persona …Middle East, 1769-1770.
€ 75,000.00Unpublished manuscript giving a vivid and event-filled first person account of a journey from Urbino to Constantinople, well legible and beautifully presented with 29 equally unique pen-and-ink illustrations.
A unique account of a journey from Urbino to Constantinople and back, in 1769-70, hand-written and accompanied by 29 original drawings, …
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23Both of Saadi's major worksBustan and Gulistan.Persia, ca. 1770 / 18th century.
€ 15,000.00A highly interesting Persian manuscript in Nastaliq style containing the two major works of the celebrated Persian poet (1184-1291). "Gulistan" ("The Rose Garden", 1258) and "Bustan" ("The Orchard", 1257) are both filled with semi-autobiographical stories, philosophical meditations, pieces of practical wisdom, and humorous anecdotes and observations, …
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24Exceedingly rare engraved wall map comissioned by the Sublime PorteMap of the Ottoman Boundaries.Paris/Istanbul, ca. 1770.
€ 50,000.00Exceedingly rare engraved wall map comissioned by the Sublime Porte, brilliantly labelled and hand-coloured in Istanbul by court calligraphers. A masterpiece of cartography and Islamic calligraphy, the map presents the theatre of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74 in its earliest stages. Focussed on the southern Ukraine, it extends from the Mouths …
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25The 1774 Luso-Moroccan TreatyTractado de paz, de navegacao, e de commercio entre o Senhor Rey D. Jozé …Palacio de N. S.a da Ajuda Lisboa, 13 Nov 1774.
€ 4,500.00Rare contemporary manuscript copy of the peace treaty, in 22 articles, concluded between King José I of Portugal and the Sultanate of Morocco. After the Reconquista, Portugal had expanded into Africa, starting with the territory of Morocco, by occupying cities and establishing fortified outposts along the Atlantic coast. The Portuguese seized numerous …
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26Manuscript commentary on Ibn Sina's Kitab ash-ShifaKitab Sharkh al-Ilahiyyat ("The Book of Explanation of Theology"). Theological …Western Persia Isfahan?, ca. 1780s.
€ 9,500.00Late 18th century Arabic manuscript apparently written in Western Persia, containing a commentary on several theological propositions taken from various parts of Ibn Sina's encyclopedical Kitab ash-Shifa’, the author's major work on science and philosophy, intended to "cure" or "heal" ignorance of the soul. Thus, despite its title, it is not concerned …
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27The virtue of prayerFath Al-Rahmani fi dhikr al-Salat ali Ashraf al-Khalayeq al-Ensani.East Africa or Near East, ca. 1790 / later 18th century.
€ 8,500.00Arabic manuscript on the virtue of prayer upon the Prophet Muhammad. The very neat cursive calligraphy is finely executed in three inks: black, red and gold (the latter having taken on an olive green hue). The manuscript begins with the last three suras of the Qur'an, followed by the Asma ul-Husna, an introduction, and a prayer. A superb frontispiece …
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28An executive order in Napoleon's hand, with a substantial letter in ArabicAutograph executive order, signed twice ("Bonaparte").Cairo, 29 Brumaire an VII 19 Nov. 1798.
€ 28,000.00Napoleon's order is inscribed and signed in his own hand on a petition from Sheikh Mohammad al-Mahdi, on behalf of the Divan (written on the lower half of the page, with the stamp of the Divan at the bottom), regarding one Sheikh Ahmed ben Ûleieh, who has been detained on suspicion of committing a "prétention de caffé" against Adbullah Bacha. …
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29A 'Zealous Muslim' and a Hajji: Alexander the Great in the Islamic TraditionEskander-Nama.Kashmir, ca. 1800 / late 18th or early 19th century.
€ 7,500.00Full manuscript, complete in 72 titled stanzas and 6,866 verse couplets, of this celebrated Islamic biography of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). The colophon of the present manuscript states that it was composed in the Persian Year 570, i. e. 1202 AD, and we suspect that the present copy was executed in Northern India, probably Kashmir (where Alexander …
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30In Arabic throughout[Al-Kutub al-muqaddasa wa-hiya kutub al-`ahd al-`atiq wal-`ahd al-gadid]. …Newcastle upon Tyne, 1811.
€ 6,500.00First edition. Arabic text (without vowel points) throughout, save for the English title-page. "This edition, produced under the patronage of the Bishop of Durham (Shute Barrington), was at first undertaken by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1806), Cambridge Professor of Arabic in 1795, and vicar of Newcastle in 1801. On Carlyle's death Henry Ford, Lord …
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31The first printing of any part of the Arabian Nights in Arabic[Qissat al-Sindibad al-Bahri fi sab` safaratihi fi al-barr wa-al-bahr al-Hindi-Kayd …Paris, 1814.
€ 12,500.00First edition of "Sind-Bâd" and the first independent printing of any part of the Arabian Nights in Arabic. Although traditionally included in the corpus of the Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa Layla) as told by Scheherazade, it is thought that the series of stories that make up the voyages of Sindbad have older and separate origins, incorporating …
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32The editio princeps of the Bible in OsmanliKitab al-Ahd al-Atiq.Paris, 1827.
€ 8,500.00Well-preserved copy of the first complete edition of the Bible in Ottoman Turkish (Osmanli), printed in a vocalized Arabic typeface. Based on the manuscript of Ali Ufki Bey (Albert Bobovius), this version became the basis for further Turkish translations used by Armenian and Greek Christians. The New Testament had appeared separately in 1819. "In …
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33One of the 19th century's most intriguing cross-cultural and inter-religious textsMarkou Antoninou Autokratoros ton eis heauton biblioi 12. Guftar-i Marqus …Vienna, 1831.
€ 4,500.00First and only edition of the "Meditations" of Emperor Marcus Aurelius both in the original Greek and in Persian, edited and translated by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall and printed in parallel on opposite pages throughout. "A meticulous typographical production" (Durstmüller). "The 1831 publication of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in Persian comprises …
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34Mystical Qur'an studiesTwo Southern Arabian essays about the magical virtues of the Qur'an.Yemen, 28 Dec. 1832 CE = 5 Shaban 1248 H.
€ 3,500.0019th century Arabic manuscript copy of two much earlier mystical works concerning the virtues and benefits related to the knowledge and recitation of the Holy Qur'an, namely:
1) Kitab al-Barq al-Lami wa’l-Gayt al-Hami ("The Book of the Shining Flashes and Showering Rain"), epitomizing the work of the early Islamic judge Abu Bakr al-Gassani, …
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35The sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talib[Amtal `Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib]. Sententiae Ali Ben Abi Taleb, arabice et persice, …Jena, 1834.
€ 1,800.00The sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and one of the central figures in Shia Islam, who ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661. Text in Arabic, Persian, and Latin. Based on a Weimar manuscript, this was an early effort by the German scholar J. G. Stickel (1805-96), a student of Silvestre de Sacy, to establish …
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36A Mirror for Princes, illuminated with 17 large miniatures, sumptuously boundTuhfat al-Muluk.Iran, 1835/36 CE: dated "1151" i.e., 1251 H.
€ 35,000.00Lavishly illuminated manuscript on the knowledge of the world and state philosophy, the title of which might be rendered as "A Gift for Sovereigns". This important treatise was composed in 1817/18 on behalf of Prince Muhammad Taqi Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah, the second king of the Persian Qajar dynasty, and is the major work by the Iranian philosopher …
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37An exceptional series of 50 meticulously executed miniaturesA series of miniatures showing Persian scribes.Persia, mid-Qajar period 1850s.
€ 75,000.00An exceptional series of 50 meticulously executed miniatures, compiled and painted by an anonymous artist. 41 of the delicate watercolours represent famous calligraphers, 5 (1 in grisaille) presumably represent sufis, and one more (not coloured) shows a seated prince, while 3 miniatures (2 in grisaille) depict flowers.
The main series of calligraphers …
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38The New Testament in Ottoman Turkish: rare editionKitab ül-ahd il-cedid el-mensub ila rabbina Isa el-mesih [The Book of …London, 1853.
€ 3,500.00An exceedingly rare edition of Ali Ufki Bey's Turkish translation of the New Testament, almost unknown to bibliography.
Revised by Türabi Efendi from the text produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1827, the original translation into Ottoman Turkish was prepared by the Polish musician and linguist Wojciech Bobowski (ca. 1610-75), …
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39The first Arabic translation of Lafontaine's Fables[Amtal Lafuntin al-hakim]. Choix de fables tirées de Lafontaine et écrites …Constantine, 1854.
€ 3,500.00Thirty of Lafontaine's Fables in Arabic: the first Arabic translation of this famous work, an extremely rare Algerian-printed publication issued for instruction in the Arabic language together with a collection of French-Arabic dialogues.
Wrappers a little stained; a few ink and pencil corrections to the preface. An untrimmed, wide-margined …
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40The Sudhoff CollectionThe Sudhoff Collection of the History of Arabic Medicine, deaccessioned …Various places, 1855-1941.
€ 95,000.00A highly important ensemble of books on early Islamic medicine and science, assembled by one of the most renowned medical research institutes of its age, comprising not only rare historical and bibliographical studies, but also many first printed editions of crucial scientific texts in Arabic, frequently in the form of doctoral theses that remain …
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41The genealogy of the Arab peoples, printed in Baghdad: early lithography in the Arab worldHadha kitab Saba'ik al-dhahab fi ma'rifat qaba'il al-'Arab [The book of …Baghdad, 1864 CE = 1280 H.
€ 15,000.00First edition: a rare and important work on the genealogy of the Arab tribes, also an early, graphically sophisticated lithographic effort from the Arab World. The "Book of Gold Bars" by the prominent Iraqi theologian and historian Suwaydi (1786-1831) is a revised and expanded interpretation of the "Dictionary of the Arab Genealogy" by the legendary …
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42The first complete Turkish New Testament printed in Constantinople in Arabic charactersKitâb ül-Ahd il-Cedîd el-mensûb ilâ Rabbinâ Îsâ el-Mesîh.Istanbul, 1866.
€ 3,000.00Luxuriously bound Turkish New Testament, newly translated from the Greek by the German-born William Gottlieb Schauffler (1798-1883). This is the first Constantinople-printed complete New Testament in Osmanli Turkish ever printed in Arabic characters: previous editions had been printed in Greek or Armenian characters only.
"Ordained a missionary …
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43The only complete copy on the market for decadesVoyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du …Paris, 1874.
InquireFirst edition, very rarely encountered complete: only 2 copies sold at international auctions of the past decades (both incomplete; the last set wanting plate 44: Sotheby's, 15 Oct. 2003, lot 676, GBP 8500; only 40 plates from the set, including glass and collodium negatives, fetched 21,450 EUR at Sotheby's Paris [22 March 2003, lot 583]).
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44Moroccan-printed Arabic edition of Euclid's "Elements"Kitab tahrir al-usul li-Uqlidis (Commentary on Euclid's Elements).Fes Alawi Morocco, 1 Nov. 1876 CE = 13 Shawwal 1293 H.
InquireVery rare Moroccan-printed (lithographed) Arabic edition of Euclid's famous "Elements of Geometry", the "oldest mathematical textbook in the world still in common use today" (PMM). The translation and commentary, first printed in 1594, are by the great Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-74), after whom the lunar crater "Nasireddin" is named.
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45Two-volume manuscript in a contemporary caseTwo-volume Qur'an with accompanying storage case.Morocco, ca. 1880 / 19th c.
€ 35,000.00A fine example of a manuscript Qur'an from the westernmost parts of the Islamic World. The final decades of the 19th century witnessed a late golden age of Moroccan manuscript production and calligraphy. The heading to Surah 1 (al-Fatiha, the opening) in the first volume of this charming two-volume Qur'an set is illuminated in the "kaleidoscope" …
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46Gothic Novel in Ottoman TurkishUdolf Hisari.Constantinople, 1890 CE = 1307 H.
InquireFirst and only Ottoman Turkish translation of Ann Radcliffe's famous Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (here rendered as "The Fort Udolpho") from 1794. The translator, Ahmet Midhat Effendi (1844-1912) - not to be confused with the Ahmet Midhat who devoted himself to a political career - was a prominent intellectual during the so-called Tanzimât …
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47A manual on horses, illustrated with 21 large miniaturesShalihotra Samhita.Northwest India, 19th century.
€ 15,000.00A strikingly illustrated 19th c. manuscript excerpt of the "Shalihotra," a classic of Ayurvedic hippiatry attributed to the legendary founder of Indian veterinary science. Horses were a vital part of Indian culture, and a tradition of hippiatry developed in parallel to human medicine: the sage Shalihotra was said to have been educated alongside Agnivesha …
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48An early runCatalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.Cairo & Vienna, 1901-1932.
€ 6,500.00Extensive set, comprising 20 of the first 32 issues of the still-published series that catalogues and describes in detail the treasures of the famous Egyptian Museum, which houses the world's largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities.
Printed in Cairo: W. E. Crum, Nos. 8001-8741 Coptic Monuments (1902); M. Quibell, Nos. 11001-1200 & …
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49La guerilla du DhofarDocuments sur la Révolution au Sud-Yémen et la guerilla du Dhofar.Zinjibar, Aden and no place, 1968-1969.
€ 1,250.00Collection of political statements on the South Yemeni revolution and the Dhofar rebellion by the South-Yemen National Liberation Front. Includes resolutions adopted by the 4th Congress of the FNLSY held in Zinjibar from 2 to 8 March 1968, such as the "Programme de liberation nationale democratique populaire" presented by Abd al-Fattah Ismail, later …
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50Archive of books and documents on the Dhofar rebellionThe collection of Luc-Daniel Dupire, founder of the Belgian Palestine National …Aden, Algiers, Beirut, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dhofar, Iran, Jordan, London, Toulouse, Yemen and other places, 1969-1983.
€ 45,000.00An extraordinary archive of books and documents on the Dhofar rebellion (also known as the Omani Civil War) waged from 1962 to 1976, from the collection of the journalist and activist Luc-Daniel Dupire, founder of the Brussels Palestine Committee in 1969 and chairman of the Palestine National Committee in Belgium from 1970 to 1976.
Mostly …