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‘ABD ALLAH KHAN BAHADUR FIRUZ JANG (trans.) Farasnama. Lahore c.1810sAn example of the fine tradition of Persian manuscript illus-tration that flourished in the Punjab in the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Manuscript in Persian on paper, 8 paintings in opaque pigments and gold.

[113344] £45,000

(ABU’L-FIDA’.) SCHIER, Karl. Géographie en ara-be. Dresden, 1846First and only edition thus, an attractive lithographed edition of the Kitab Taqwim al-buldan (Survey of the Lands), an important Arabic compendium of geographical knowledge containing important first-hand information on Syria and Palestine. Folio, contemporary purple cloth.

[117578] £3,500

(ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London, 1892First edition of this rare handbook for British sailors, contain-ing the texts of each treaty signed between the Gulf shaykh-doms and the British from 1820 to 1847. Rare: a highly impor-tant document of the formation of the modern Gulf States. 2 vols, contemporary black half calf, dark blue cloth sides.

[104970] £7,500

(AGATHARCHIDES.) [Title in Greek letters.] Ex Ctesia. Geneva, 1557Editio princeps of these five Greek histories, including Photi-us’s version of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agatharchides, containing the first appearance in print of the earliest reference in history to the Arabic language. Attractive late 18th-century green goatskin. [92349] £2,500

AGRICOLA, Georgius. De re metallica. Basel, 1556First edition of the first systematic treatise on mining and met-allurgy, extensively illustrated with nearly 300 woodcuts. An excellent copy of an important book not uncommonly found in poor state. Folio, 17th-century calf, skilfully rebacked with original spine laid down.

[80925] £45,000

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica. Florence, 1496First edition in the original Greek, inscribed by Elizabethan Greek scholar Robert Pember to his friend and student Roger Ascham, Royal tutor, and alluding to John Cheke, first Regi-us Professor of Greek. A remarkable copy, unifying three out-standing figures in the early years of Greek scholarship in Tu-dor England. 4to, 19th-century crushed goatskin.

[112899] £47,500

ASCHAM, Roger. The Scholemaster. London, 1570First edition of the most important Tudor work on education. 4to, 18th-century polished calf; the Bradley Martin copy.

[114919] £25,000

AUCHER-ÉLOY, Pierre Martin Remi. Relations de voyages en Orient. Paris, 1843First and only edition, containing letters and extracts from the journals of the botanist Aucher-Éloy, an important part in the botanical history of the Middle East. A handsomely bound copy. 2 vols, near-contemporary English green half calf.

[117581] £3,750

BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore degli Arabi e fondatore dell’Impero musulmano. Casal-maggiore, 1791First and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recounting the life of Muhammad in 12 cantos of ottava rima. An unusual and extremely uncommon work. 2 vols, 4to, contemporary half sheep vellum.

[102633] £8,750

Farasnama Apollonius

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BEHR, Johann von der. Diarium. Jena, 1668First and only edition of this fascinating account of the East In-dies and Persia by a German soldier, depicting Batavia, Goa, St Helena, and Kamron in Persia, and some of the flora and fauna encountered – coconut trees, the cinnamon tree, an elephant hunt, and flying fish. Uncommon and highly attractive. 4to, later pinkish-yellow glazed boards. [96772] £12,500

(BIBLE; Arabic.) Novum testamentum domini no-stri Jesu Christi versio arabica. Mosul, 1876Extremely uncommon Arabic gospel produced by the Domin-ican Mission to Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, edited by Yusuf Dawud, a figure of great importance in the revival of Arabic letters in the 19th century. Contemporary “native” green half morocco. [117622] £3,500

BOTELER, Thomas. Narrative of a Voyage of Discov-ery to Africa and Arabia. London, 1835First edition of “this great surveying undertaking” of the two ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols, late 19th-century red half calf.

[117586] £2,500

(BRITISH CONSULATE, BANDAR ABBAS.) Manu-script daybook. Bandar Abbas, 1905-29Manuscript daybook covering the formative period of the Brit-ish consulate at the key Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, mainly in Persian or English, with a number in Arabic and a few in Sindhi (Khudawadi script). A highly detailed primary source for the commercial and social life in the region. Folio ledger book, contemporary sheep dyed red.

[117495] £16,500

CAESAR, Gaius Julius. The eyght bookes. London, 1565Rare first complete edition in English of De Bello Gallico, Cae-sar’s commentaries on the Gallic Wars. Early 19th-century half calf. Provenance: early inscriptions by members of the Moore family.

[100848] £12,500

CARLYLE, Joseph Dacre. Specimens of Arabian Po-etry. Cambridge, 1796First edition, with text in Arabic types. Early 19th-century half calf, neatly rebacked to style.

[95218] £1,500

CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonder-land. New York, 1866The Appleton Alice, the first practicably obtainable issue of the original sheets, comprising sheets of the suppressed 1865 first printing, with the Appleton cancel title page. An excellent copy in original cloth.

[116108] £37,500

CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand-Pierre. Essai sur l’histoire des Arabes avant l’Islamisme. Paris, 1847–8First edition of this study of the history of the Arab tribes be-fore the advent of Islam. 3 vols, contemporary purple quarter morocco.

[117589] £1,500

CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The workes. London, 1532First complete collected edition of Chaucer and the first at-tempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author. Much the most complete copy to have ap-peared in commerce in the past 40 years. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled calf, lifted from the original binding, relaid on heavy boards and rebacked to style; the Pirie copy.

[108308] £150,000

ChaucerBritish Consulate

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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) ENTWISTLE, Florence Vivienne. Inscribed photographic portrait. London, [1951]Inscribed by Churchill on the mount to Canadian industrialist and financier, James Dunn, who assisted Churchill by supply-ing nickel from Norway. Silver gelatin print, showing Churchill seated half-length in black formal jacket and bow-tie.

[105390] £6,500

COLLADO, Luigi. Pratica Manuale di Arteglieria. Venice, 1586First edition of a foundational text for the practical application of scientific principles to artillery. Folio, contemporary limp vellum; an attractive, unsophisticated copy. Uncommon.

[39121] £5,500

DOUGHTY, Charles M. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le nord de l’Arabie. Paris, 1884First edition, first issue, of the first publication in English of any account of Doughty’s travels in Arabia. 4to, contemporary maroon quarter morocco.

[117565] £1,750

DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Cambridge, 1888First edition, an unusually well-preserved copy of Lawrence’s guidebook, with exceptional provenance, from the library of Col. Samuel Barrett Miles, a colonial agent with an “unrivalled knowledge of the Arab”. An excellent association copy. 2 vols, original dark green cloth.

[117594] £6,250

DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description geogra-phique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l’empire de la Chine. Paris, 1735First edition of the first definitive European work on the Chi-nese empire – the cornerstone of any collection of books on China. An excellent set in a handsome contemporary binding. 4 vols, folio, contemporary cat’s-paw calf.

[90607] £37,500

DUGUET, Marie-Louise-Firmin. Le pèlerinage de la Mecque. Paris, 1932First edition, one of 12 copies hors commerce, of this detailed study of the hajj with particular emphasis on medical aspects. Original printed card wrappers.

[105496] £1,650

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Gar-den City, NY, 1948First edition, deluxe issue, bound with Eisenhower’s D-day message to the troops, signed by him. This copy uniquely signed by Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, Mont-gomery and the top allied generals and diplomats of the Sec-ond World War. Original cloth, correspondence with the book’s signatories laid in.

[114615] £150,000

ERASMUS. Institutio principis christiani. Basel, 1516First edition of Erasmus’s famous Mirror for Princes. An ex-cellent copy in an unrestored contemporary binding, with two other works by Erasmus bound in. 4to, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin backing beech boards.

[117306] £48,000

FINATI, Giovanni. Narrative of the Life and Adven-tures. London, 1830First edition of this sought-after Arabian travel account. 2 vol-umes, later 19th-century half calf.

[117599] £4,500

Du Halde Eisenhower

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FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, 1859First edition, one of a print-run of 250 copies only made at FitzGerald’s expense, and with his correction in manuscript to page 4. Original grey paper wrappers.

[111542] £45,000

FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London, 1953First edition in the first issue dust jacket. A beautiful copy in the exceptionally bright jacket of the first James Bond novel.

[117834] £45,000

FONTANIER, Victor. Voyage dans l’Inde et dans le golfe Persique. Paris, 1844–6First edition of one of the most detailed treatments of the Persian Gulf in the 19th century. Scarce, with just a handful of copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. 2 volumes in 3, near-contemporary tan half calf.

[117600] £7,500

GIRARDOT, Alexandre Antoine. Two albums re-cording nearly 40 years of life in Algeria. Algeria, 1830–67An exceptional visual document, two albums painstakingly and thoughtfully assembled from the observational sketch-books of a little-known, but highly-talented first generation French Orientalist painter. 2 oblong folio albums, dark green shagreen, with more than 1,000 mounted drawings of various sizes.

[110595] £95,000

GOOD, Frank Mason. Views in Upper Egypt. Lon-don, 1871-2An attractive album of archaeological images from Egypt taken by one of Francis Frith’s closest associates, containing a won-derful selection of archaeological views including Heliopolis, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Luxor, Philae, and the Memnomium at Thebes. Decidedly uncommon. Landscape 4to, contemporary brown morocco.

[108084] £12,500

[GREEN, John.] Journey from Aleppo to Damascus. London, 1736First and only edition. The descriptions of Aleppo and Damas-cus are taken from the Nouveau mémoires de missions de la Compa-gnie de Jésus. Part II is a translation from De La Roque’s Voyage to Mt Lebanon … Green is much concerned with the effect on the Levant trade of the Russian-German attempt to dismember Turkey”. 19th-century half sheep.

[117604] £2,000

GUERICKE, Otto von. Experimenta nova. Amster-dam, 1672First edition of one of the most remarkable books in the history of physics and technology. Guericke illustrates his inventions of the air-pump, the earliest electric generating machine, the water-barometer, and the air-balance with handsome engrav-ings. Folio, contemporary mottled calf.

[77930] £37,500

(GUTENBERG.) BIBLE; Latin. Single leaf from the New Testament, Luke 1:12–2:9 [Mainz, 1455]A single paper leaf from the Gutenberg bible, this leaf giving the fullest narrative of the birth of Christ. From the first sub-stantial book printed with movable type; an exceptional liter-ary and cultural artefact. Royal folio.

[116821] £125,000

HAFIZ, Shams al-Din Muhammad. Specimen Poe-seos Persicae. Vienna, 1771First edition of any substantial part of the Hafiz corpus in the original Persian, compiled by Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Persianist Count Karl Emmerich Reviczky. With the bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, “England’s earliest female bibliophile”. Contemporary blue morocco.

[114406] £2,750

Fontanier Gutenberg

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HERBELOT, Barthelémy d’. Bibliothèque orientale. The Hague, 1777-9.First published in 1697, this revised and expanded edition of d’Herbelot’s monumental work is “generally considered the best”. 4 vols, 4to, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style. A superb association for this cornerstone text.

[117606] £3,500

HITLER, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Munich, 1925–7First edition, copy number 94 of an “edition de luxe” (Prachtaus-gabe) of 500 copies, signed by the author, each volume further inscribed, signed and dated by Hitler, to the widow of Max Er-win von Scheubner-Richter, the Nazi leader who died in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Autograph note card signed by Hitler laid in. 2 vols, original full vellum.

[114356] £100,000

IBN AL-MUQAFFA’ (trans.) Calila et Dimna. Paris, 1816First complete edition in Arabic of this cycle of ancient animal fables, which were first translated into Arabic in the eighth cen-tury, and are considered one of the earliest examples of secular prose literature in the language. 4to, later 19th-century mar-bled boards. Rare in commerce.

[117493] £2,500

IBN BATTUTAH. Voyages. Paris, 1859–79First edition of the index volume, second editions of the four text volumes. Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s edition of Ibn Bat-tutah’s Rihlah, originally published 1853–8, was the first com-plete publication of the renowned Arabic narrative by “the greatest traveller of pre-modern times”. 5 vols in 4, near-con-temporary burgundy half morocco.

[94276] £4,500

IBN KHURRADADHBIH. Le Livre des Routes et des Provinces. [Paris:] Journal asiatique, Jan.–Jun. 1865First edition of the Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-mamalik, “the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography”, the Arabic text accompanied by a French translation and commentary. 3 journal extracts in 1 volume, near-contemporary “native” hard-grain half morocco.

[117583] £875

IDRISI, Muhammad al-Sharif al-. Dhikr al-Andalus. Madrid, 1799First edition in Spanish of Idrisi’s Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi-ikhti-raq al-afaq, the most important work of medieval Arabic geog-raphy, and the first separate edition of the portion relating to Spain; Idrisi’s original Arabic text is also printed, with spacious types. Recent maroon crushed morocco in the Jansenist man-ner.

[117487] £2,000

JAMES, Silas. A Narrative of a Voyage to Arabia, In-dia, etc. London, 1797First edition, scarce. Containing a brief description of the Red Sea and its marine life – “some of the most curious prodigies of nature” (p. 56), including what appears to have been a type of catfish. Later 19th-century tan calf by Riviere.

[117608] £3,000

KEANE, John Fryer. My Journey to Medinah. London, 1881First edition. Keane spent ten days in Medina, “wandering the streets quite freely in a bright white tunic and a huge turban”. Original blue sand-grained cloth.

[98733] £1,500

Hitler Laborde

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KEPPEL, George. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England. London, 1827First edition. Keppel sailed from Bombay in January 1824, and landed at Muscat, where he obtained an audience with the Imam, and sailed for Basrah, subsequently visiting the ruins of Babylon and the court of Tehran. 4to, 20th-century orange half calf by Bayntun.

[117610] £1,750

LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l’Arabie pétrée. Paris, 1830First edition of the first illustrated account of Petra, extensively illustrated with lithographs, with an essay on different aspects of the region, including travel, pilgrim routes, and trade. The only visual representation of Petra available to Western schol-ars until Roberts’s Holy Land (1842–5). Folio, contemporary green half morocco.

[107973] £19,500

LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. [Lon-don,] 1926One of the Cranwell or subscriber’s edition of 211 copies, this one of 170 “complete copies”, inscribed by Lawrence on p. XIX, with his manuscript correction to the illustration list. 4to, orig-inal tan morocco. This beautifully preserved copy is accompa-nied by related correspondence from the original subscriber, Mrs Colin Campbell.

[92941] £80,000

LEMPRIERE, William. A Tour from Gibraltar to … Morocco. London, 1791; [together with] SANCHEZ, Franco. A Corrective Supplement. [Amsterdam,] 1794First editions, William Beckford’s copies with the rare supple-ment, addressing a number of its minor inaccuracies. 2 works, contemporary marbled calf by Christian Kalthoeber. A highly appealing set, in a splendid contemporary binding.

[117613] £6,500

MCCRINDLE, John Watson. The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea. Bombay, 1879First edition in book form. Two of the most important sources for Arabia and the Persian Gulf in antiquity, translated from the Greek. Scarce, with one copy listed in auction records in the last 50 years.

[94810] £3,000

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. Nicholas Machiavel’s Prince. London, 1640First edition in English of Machiavelli’s famous handbook for rulers, the last of his great works to be published in English. 2 works in 1 vol, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf.

[107613] £65,000

MALCOLM, Sir John. The History of Persia. Bombay, 1287 ah (1870/1 ce)First edition in Persian. The translation of Malcolm’s history was the outcome of a British mission to Iran in the 1860s. 2 volumes in 1, tall 4to, native binding of contemporary straight-grain black half roan.

[102966] £5,000

(MILES, Samuel Barrett.) Articles on classical Is-lamic history and Arabic literature. Paris [and] Leiden, 1838–62First editions, comprising Michael de Goeje’s rare and impor-tant Mémoire sur les Carmathes de Bahraïn, together with five Journal Asiatique articles mainly on classical Arabic poetry, bound for British Arabist and colonial agent Col. Samuel Barrett Miles. 6 works in 1 volume, later 19th-century “native” green half mo-rocco.

[117602] £2,500

Lawrence Machiavelli

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(MÜTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim, trans.) KRUSINSKI, Judas Thaddeus. A Traveller’s Chronicle Concern-ing the Emergence of the Afghans and the Cause of the Collapse of the Safavid Dynasty. Istanbul, 1142 ah (1729 ce)First edition in Turkish (printed with Arabic types) of this eye-witness account of the Afghan invasion of Persia; the third text printed on the first press established under Muslim auspices. Any such “Turkish incunabula” are uncommon. Contemporary dark red quarter morocco.

[100191] £12,500

NEWTON, Isaac. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. London, 1729First edition in English of the Principia, together with Machin’s attempt to rectify Newton’s lunar theory. 2 vols, later matching panelled calf to style.

[89500] £45,000

NICOLAY, Nicolas de. The Navigations, Peregrina-tions and Voyages, made into Turkie. London, 1585First edition in English of this illustrated survey of the Otto-man world including the Arabian Peninsula, the first serious attempt to describe the costume and customs of the Near East. The work is frequently cited by Shakespeare scholars as a source for The Merchant of Venice. Mid 17th-century speckled calf.

[92271] £25,000

NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien. Co-penhagen, 1772First edition of this official account of Niebuhr’s travels, one of the classic accounts of the geography, people, antiquities and archaeology of the region. The maps remained in use for over 100 years. 4to, modern pale tan half morocco.

[46821] £3,750

OWEN, William Fitzwilliam. Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagas-car. London, 1833First edition. Owen’s account notably includes a brief descrip-tion of Muscat and its commerce and inhabitants. 2 vols, con-temporary green half calf.

[117623] £1,750

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Background of Islam. Alexandria, 1947First and signed limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author. Original green cloth-backed printed boards.

[114457] £1,250

QAZWINI, Zakariya’ al-. Kosmographie [&] Die Wunder der Schöpfung. Göttingen, 1848–9First editions of Qazwini’s Cosmography and his Geography, the first systematic exposition of a complete cosmography in Is-lamic literature, and known in Arabic respectively as the ‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat (“Wonders of Created Things”) and the Athar al-bi-lad (“Traces of the Lands”). 4 parts in 2 vols, contemporary ol-ive-green half calf.

[94271] £4,500

(QUR’AN.) Alcorani textus universus. Padua, 1698First edition of Marracci’s Qur’an, “the greatest pre-modern European work of Qur’anic scholarship” (Burman). The second volume, entitled “Refutatio Alcorani”, comprises the second obtainable edition of the original Arabic and a Latin translation considered “by far and away the best translation of the Qur’an to date”. 2 vols in one, folio, contemporary vellum.

[115141] £10,500

NicolayNewton

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(QUR’AN.) Illuminated Kashmiri manuscript. [Kash-mir, c.1800]An exceptional manuscript Qur’an, illuminated throughout with polychrome surah-headings and marginal decorations, text in black naskh on gold ground, Persian marginal commen-tary in gold cloudbands; bound with 3 additional texts includ-ing a guide to Arabic pronunciation and extremely uncommon figurative diagram of the mouth. Indian red morocco.

[118250] £100,000

RAIF EFENDI, Mahmud (ed.) Cedid Atlas Tercüm-esi. Üksküdar/Istanbul, 1218 ah (Apr. 1803–Mar. 1804 ce)The first world atlas printed by Muslims, of which only 50 cop-ies were printed. With 25 engraved maps, all in fine contempo-rary hand-colour. The majority of the atlases were destroyed during the Janissary uprising of 1807–8. Exceedingly rare; only 6 recorded complete institutional examples. 2 works in 1 vol, folio, later red morocco.

[118232] £200,000

RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Through Wahabiland on Camel-back. Cairo, 1916First edition in English, one of 100 copies. Raunkiaer travelled through Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on his 1912 expedition. Original pale tan cloth.

[71009] £16,000

REGIOMONTANUS & Georgius Purbachius. Epit-oma in Almagestum Ptolemaei. Venice, 31 August 1496First edition in any form of Ptolemy’s Almagest, the foundation of ancient astronomy. This epochal text both made available the canonical astronomy of the ancient world and heralded the birth of the revolutionary astronomy of the new learning. Su-per-chancery folio, bound to style in full vellum.

[114113] £80,000

ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich. Analecta Arabi-ca. Leipzig, 1825–8First and only Arabic and Latin text edition of 3 interesting and varied Arabic manuscripts: a pioneering effort to make the texts of important Arabic manuscripts available to scholars. Rebound to style in half sheep.

[92362] £1,750

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London, 1997First edition, the preferred case-bound issue, one of 500 copies issued in this format. The first book in the Harry Potter series, in the rarest and most desirable hardback format, in superb condition. Original matt laminated printed paper boards.

[117302] £67,500

RUSCHENBERGER, William Samuel Waithman. A Voyage round the World. Philadelphia, 1837; [together with:] ROBERTS, Edmund. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. New York, 1838First editions. Individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschenberg-er the more so, and together here offering a very full record of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle and Far East. 2 vols, uniformly bound in black half morocco.

[71560] £4,500

SACY, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de. Exposé de la Reli-gion des Druzes. Paris, 1838First edition of one of de Sacy’s principal works. 2 vols, later 19th-century red-brown half morocco. Uncommon: 6 copies at auction in the last 50 years.

[117632] £3,750

SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. London, 1951First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Joyce Williams, “who nursed my mother so selflessly and beau-tifully”. Original boards with the dust jacket.

[113798] £55,000

RegiomontanusQur’an

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SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1664Third folio edition; the rarest of the 17th-century folio editions, complete with the supplementary plays, including Pericles, and both issues of the title page. An unknown number of copies is thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. Median folio, early 19th-century russia, sympathetically rebacked.

[108578] £500,000

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. Weimar, at the Cranach Press, 1930First edition in English, one of seven copies printed on vellum, with 3 extra sets of loose proofs signed by the artist. The most luxurious presentation of one of the most remarkable printed books of the 20th century. Folio, red levant morocco.

[115397] £250,000

SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum. Nurem-berg, 12 July 1493First edition of the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century, a universally acknowledged masterpiece of complex design. Imperial folio, contemporary German dyed-brown pigskin.

[108472] £87,500

SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty. London, [1877]First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fel-low author Emma Curtis; with 2 autograph letters signed from the author to Curtis and a note written by Grace Sewell on the day of Anna’s death. An exceptional example. This was the only book of its bedridden author, who died shortly after its publi-cation; presentation copies are understandably rare. Original brown cloth, in one of two primary bindings.

[107896] £50,000

Cranach Press Hamlet

ShakespeareSchedel

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SOUBHY, Saleh. Pèlerinage à la Mecque et à la Mé-dine. Cairo, 1894First and only edition, notably collecting the work of the first two men to photograph the holy cities of Arabia: Muhammad Sadiq Bey and Abd al-Ghaffar. Black crocodile-skin-textured paper sides. An uncommon publication.

[99252] £4,000

SPIRO, Socrates. The Moslem Pilgrimage. Alexan-dria, 1932First and only edition of this uncommon account of the hajj, collecting some of the earliest and most important photo-graphs of Mecca and Medina. A decidedly scarce title. Small octavo, original blue quarter cloth.

[113279] £1,375

STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster, 1897First edition, first impression, earliest state, in the original cloth. An excellent copy of a notoriously fragile book.

[117817] £25,000

STRUYS, Jan Janszoon. Les Voyages; [bound with] Relation du naufrage d’un vaisseau hollandois. Am-sterdam, 1681First edition in French, first published in Amsterdam in 1676, before becoming a Europe-wide best-seller. Struys’s high-ly-coloured text is dramatized by some very explicit plates, and some excellent views including one of Muscat. 2 parts in 1, 4to, contemporary vellum.

[94082] £3,750

SUYUTI, Jalal al-Din al-. History of the Caliphs. Cal-cutta, 1880–1First edition in English of Suyuti’s Ta’rikh al-khulafa’. A cohesive and authoritative chronicle of Muslim rulers, from the imme-diate successors of Muhammad to the shadow ‘Abbasid caliphs of his own time; also covering Muslim Spain. 6 parts in 1 vol-ume, contemporary half morocco.

[117609] £2,000

TABARI, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-. Chronique. Paris, 1836First edition in any language of Tabari’s Ta’rikh al-rusul wa’l-mu-luk, “the most important of the classical Arabic historical texts still extant”. Large 4to, original green cloth.

[110201] £1,250

(TIMUR.) IBN ‘ARABSHAH, Ahmad. Kitab ‘Aja’ib al-maqdur fi akhbar Taymur. Leeuwarden, 1767–72First edition thus of the most importance source for the life of the great conqueror Timur, an annotated and improved edition of the Arabic text (first published in 1636), alongside the first edition in Latin. 2 vols in 3, 4to, contemporary mottled calf.

[103690] £10,000

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit. London, 1937First edition, first impression, first issue jacket. The first edi-tion was published on 21 September 1937 and the first impres-sion of 1,500 copies was sold out by December. Original green cloth, in the brighter than usual jacket.

[93967] £35,000

(TUSI, Nasir al-Din al-.) NISHABURI, Nizam al-Din al-. Sharh Tadhkirah al-Tusi. [?Iran:] copied by Abu’l-Fa-da’il ibn Muhammad al-Karudani, 1486/7An attractive early manuscript copy of the most important com-mentary on the Tadhkirah. Its major contribution was the “Tusi couple”, a device to replace the physically problematic equant theory in the planetary model of Ptolemy’s Almagest, and used by Copernicus in the lunar theory set out in his De revolutionibus.

[118248] £50,000

VINCENT, William. The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates. London, 1797First edition of Vincent’s important commentary on Nearchus’s voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 BC. The ex-pedition, ordered by Alexander the Great, marked the Greek discovery of the Persian Gulf. 4to, late 19th-century brown half morocco.

[93992] £3,000

Tolkien Tusi

[VOLTAIRE.] Candide. [Geneva,] 1759True first edition, one of only a dozen or so recorded copies thus of this celebrated philosophical conte, a rarity in major 18th-cen-tury literature. 12mo, contemporary French mottled calf.

[39605] £50,000

WEIL, Gustav. Geschichte der Chalifen. Mannheim, 1846-51First edition of Weil’s path-breaking history of Islam, which re-lied in large part on Muslim sources still in manuscript. 3 vols, near-contemporary green half calf.

[94297] £4,500

WELLSTED, James Raymond. “Narrative of a Journey from the Tower of Bá-’l-haff, on the Southern Coast of Arabia, to the ruins of Nakab al Hajar”. London, 1837First edition of this account of the pre-Islamic mountain fort of Naqab al-Hajar (modern-day Yemen). Extremely uncommon in this condition, original wrappers, 2 lithographed folding maps.

[96112] £3,250

WELLSTED, James Raymond. Travels to the City of the Caliphs. London, 1840First edition. In November 1835 Wellsted had permission to trav-el in Oman, reaching areas which no European had previously seen. 2 vols, attractive recent dark green half morocco.

[81005] £3,500

WHITEHEAD, Alfred North, & Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica. Cambridge, 1910–12–13First editions, with presentation slip from the authors laid in. This is the complete set of the Principia Mathematica, decidedly rare; one of only 500 possible complete sets. 3 vols, original dark blue cloth. A superb set.

[114672] £100,000

WILSON, Arnold Talbot. The Persian Gulf. Oxford, 1928First edition of this important contribution to the historiogra-phy of the region. Accompanied by an interesting one-page au-tograph letter, commenting on recent events in Oman. Original blue cloth.

[109448] £750

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung. Leipzig, 1921First edition, the extremely rare journal publication of Witt-genstein’s first published work. Original orange pictorial paper wrappers.

[117021] £75,000

WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand. Geschichte der Arabi-schen Aerzte und Naturforscher. Göttingen, 1840First edition of the foundational work of Arabic science and medicine. Original plain orange paper wrappers.

[117640] £2,000

Voltaire

Whitehead & Russell

Wittgenstein