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    • Note Bibliografiche: Tall 8vo (150 x 246 mm). Persian manuscript on sturdy cream paper. 254 (instead of 264) ff., 15 lines per extensum, paginated by later hands (lacking pp. 35-42 and 45-46; pp. 43-44 transposed after p. 30). Cursive nasta'liq calligraphy in black ink, catchwords in red. Illustrated with 56 (instead of 77) coloured horse drawings in the text (numbered in pencil by a later hand). Later illustrated binding with black leather spine and lacquered wooden boards with coloured floral designs. A late 18th century Indian manuscript copy of a celebrated treatise on horsemanship, the "Farasnama" ("The Co... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo (127 x 192 mm). 107, (5) pp. Original printed green wrappers. Only edition of this rare account of the "North African War Pilgrimage", the Hajj of the year 1940 - the last before the Second World War brought an effective hiatus on the Meccan pilgrimage for two years. Together with the French journalist and ethnographer Robert Boutet, the Moroccan and Tunisian radio journalist and theatre critic Noureddine ben Mahmoud (1914-1990) published the account of his pilgrimage to Mecca, performed between 19 February and 2 March 1940. The book describes the special travel conditions imposed by th... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Oblong 4to. Album with 148 small original black and white photographs on 18 ff. Contemporary giltstamped full cloth with printed title and 2 silhouette images. Extremley rare photographs from the first successful motor crossing of the desert from Damascus to Baghdad in 1919, preceding by four years the well-known efforts by the Nairn brothers, which resulted in the establishment of the overland mail service between Damascus and Baghdad. The photographs were taken by the 18-year old Eric Blackwell, who had planned to enlist as a pupil pilot in the RAF, had his training cut short by the Armis... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo. Together 370 pp. Printed forms filled in by hand. Contemporary full cloth with blindstamped cover title. Uncommon set of flight records kept by the Imperial Airways pilot Ernest Bicknell, who was active in Africa and the Arabian Gulf region in the 1940s, with destinations including Bahrain, Dubai, Cairo, Mozambique, Durban, Khartoum, and Luxor. The present log books state the type of aircraft and duration of each flight, as well as occasional information on unusual events such as night landings, radio or instrument trouble, damage, weather conditions, or the unfortuna... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to (160 x 214 mm). (80), (4 blank), (32), (4 blank), (19), (1 blank), (13), (1 blank), (81), (1 blank) leaves. Contemporary full calf with cover borders ruled in gilt and prettily gilt spine. All edges gilt. Considered 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 eschatological hopes that Protestantism and ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo (155 x 228 mm). 45, (5) pp. With a folding, coloured map and 14 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (one repeated as a frontispiece). Publisher's original blue wrappers, printed in red and black. First edition thus: a French translation of the author's essay on the Hajj first published in Arabic in the "Roznémé Tounsié" (Annuaire Tunisien). The folding map at the back of the volume shows the route of the Hejaz railway, its course completed only as far as Tabouk at the time of publication, while the remainder of the line is shown in its projected state, still planned to run as far as... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo (170 x 253 mm). 38, (2), 112 pp. With a wood-engraved portrait of Abou Naddara and numerous illustrations. Modern marbled half calf with gilt-stamped spine. Silk divider. Inscribed to Paul Leclerc, "ami de l'Égypte, hommage respectueux du Cheikh Abou Naddara", also signed in Arabic. - "Abou Naddara" was the first Arabic magazine to feature cartoons (with captions in French and Arabic), as well as the first work to use in the press a form of colloquial Arabic, radically different from the literary form. - The Egyptian journalist James Sanua ("Ya'qub Rufa'il Sanu'" in Arabic, but usually ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: A single hand-carved woodblock (ca. 170 by 110/92 by 220 mm) for use as printing block, together with a print on 18th century paper (165 x 105 mm). Woodblock in Ottoman Turkish for a Hebrew publication of the Song of Solomon, probably produced in the Ottoman regions of the Levant for a rural printing press. A rare survival of a printing tool, and also an important witness to cross-cultural printing for minority audiences in the Ottoman world. - Includes a print of the text reading "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman wa'ighal ba-l'Abraniyat Sir Hashirim", printed on a piece of 18th-century pap... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 117 x 78 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale: 1:5,000,000. Relief shown by hachures, contours, and spot heights. Depth shown by soundings. Loosely stored within printer wrappers. Third edition of this German wartime map of the Middle East, parts of Asia, and India, first published thus in 1940. Based on "Stielers Handatlas" and issued within Perthes' "Ubique terrarum" series (no. 20). - In excellent state of preservation, detached from its original wrappers. OCLC 164843864. continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Engraved map. 60 x 84 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale ca. 1:1,500,000. With insert maps: "A Plan of the Harbour of Suez" and "A Plan of the Harbour of Tor". Rare map covering the Red Sea from Jeddah in the south to the Gulf of Suez in the north. Published as part of Robert Sayer's "Complete East-India pilot or Oriental Navigator" (1778ff., subsequently reissued by Laurie & Whittle), it is based on D'Après de Mannevillette's "Neptune Oriental" (1745), incorporating information gleaned from the 1762-63 surveys of Carsten Niebuhr. - A few professionally repaired edge tears. OCLC 733... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. VI, (7)-69, (1) pp. Publisher's original green printed wrappers. First edition of the story of Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, edited by the French oriental scholar (Jacques-)Auguste Cherbonneau (1813-82), professor at the Collège Arabe Française in Algier. Arabic text with French notes. - Well preserved. Chauvin VI, 102, no. 270, 2. OCLC 4432899. continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. (24), 216 (misnumbered as 226), (8) pp. (pagination skips from pp. 80 to pp. 91 due to a printers' error, with no missing text). 18th century full leather ruled in blind and gilt, titled in gilt on red morocco spine label. Early English account of Muslim North Africa. An early example of notoriously difficult Arabic typesetting appears in the index of 'Moorish Words' at the rear, where Arabic terms are listed in both romanized and Arabic alphabets. - The Reverend Lancelot Addison (1632-1703), father of the essayist Joseph Addison, lived and worked as a chaplain in Tangier in northwest ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to. 8 pp. Purple felt-tip pen on ruled paper. A literary portrait of his late friend, the writer and artist Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974), for Soupault's 1981 publication "Mémoires de l'oubli". Soupault bemoans the relative obscurity of his friend, attributing it in large part to his own modesty: "Combien de temps, combien d'amies faudra-t-il encore pour qu'on rende enfin pleinement justice à ce mal connu, méconnu que fut Georges mon ami ? Je sais bien que quelques-uns plus fervents que nombreux ont su accorder à son œuvre la place qu'elle mérite. Est-ce suffisant ? In peut espér... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to. (5), 129 ff. German and Latin manuscript on paper, written in a 17th century hand. With 3 heraldic crosses showing the coats of arms of the Teutonic Order (a black cross) and 4 drawings showing costumes of several members of the order, all executed in watercolours with some albumen highlights. 20th century calf, blind-ruled double fillet borders on both boards, spine ruled in blind and lettered in green. Highly interesting 17th century German manuscript of the Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic or German Order. Founded in 11... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to (180 x 230 mm). Latin manuscript on paper. (2), 12, (2) pp. The text on each page is written inside a carefully embroidered rainbow composed of concentric circles in multicoloured thread. Sewn binding. Golden decorated paper wrappers with a floral design on Augsburg brocade paper. This beautifully decorated Latin manuscript presents a short play, which dramatises the gratitude of Bavaria towards St. Rupert of Salzburg (ca. 660-710 CE) for his work as an apostolic missionary to the area. The titles translates as "Faithful Bavaria gives honoured thanks to the great Apostle St. Rupert for ... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Small 16mo in 8s (85 x 100 mm; leaf size 75 x 90 mm). [423], [3 blank] pp. plus 3 endleaves at the front and 5 at the back. German manuscript in red and black ink on paper, written in an upright, semi-cursive gothic hand, with Lombardic initials in red (a few 2-line and hundreds of 1-line initials), rubricated throughout. 11 lines per page, written space 55 x 70 mm. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden (beechwood?) boards, sewn on 3 double supports, each board bearing a double rectangular border of multiple rules, inner frame with an oval centrepiece stamp (22 x 32 mm, the... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: Oblong 8vo (ca. 215 x 175 mm). (11), (8 blank) ff. Calligraphic exercises in French, written in a French civilité with some first lines in a French cursive or gothic hand. With 9 larger decorated initials, containing extensive ink-drawn illustrations in contemporary hand colour, showing an armoured knight on horseback, birds, dragons and other fabulous beasts, a pierced heart, etc. Some letters with extensive flourishes in the margins, many of them showing ink-drawn human faces. Contemporary limp vellum, loosely stored in a modern marbled paperboard folder within a matching marbled slipcase... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 4to (166 x 195 mm). German and Latin autograph manuscript on paper, signed at the end. (2), 158 ff. with 3 illustrations (on leaves 2r, 68v and 151v). Numerous contemporary manicules and pencil notes. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over pasteboards. Hertodt's working alchemical notebook, written in a fluid mixture of German and Latin. The manuscript contains detailed instructions on alchemical processes, including the transmutation of lesser substances into gold (with first-person remarks on experiments), alongside a cryptographic alphabet and a list of inauspicious dates for the practice... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo. (8), 141, (3) pp. With one page of advertisements at rear as issued. Original fawn-coloured wrappers lettered in red and blue. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell case. A literary touchstone of Faustian horror for the industrial age: presentation copy of the first English edition, inscribed on both the cover and the title-page, to "William Slafford, with the Author's Compliments". - "The date upon the front cover was originally 1885, but the last figure was altered by the pen into 6. It had been intended to publish the book in December 1886, 'but when it was ready the bookstalls wer... continua a leggere
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    • Note Bibliografiche: 8vo (127 x 200 mm). 80 pp. Publisher's original coral red cloth with original dust jacket, jacket design by Lucian Freud, printed in black. First edition. Preceding his illustrations for "The Glass Tower" (1944-45), Lucian Freud's jacket design for Werfel's play marks the first appearance of his work as book illustration. The entire design is his, including the elaborate lettering, whose intials seem unsettlingly to sprout roots and whiskers, and the squat bearded figure with two oversized feet. The founder of the Grey Walls Press, the poet-publisher Charles Wrey Gardiner, later regretted h... continua a leggere
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