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Photographs of Sheikh Zayed's state visits to Pakistan

[ABU DHABI – STATE VISITS TO PAKISTAN]. [Photograph archive and album. Album title]: Visit to Lahore of His Highness Skeikh Zayed bin Sultan Alnahayyani the ruler of Abudhabi (16th to 28th November, 1967).
[Pakistan, 1967-1971]. An archive of 183 photographs: 133 loose black and white photographic prints (ca. 30 x 25 cm), 30 smaller ones (ca. 5 x 6 cm) numbered and mounted together on a single sheet of paper, and 20 additional prints in the album. Further with numerous rolls of original medium format negatives.Original black half morocco album, green cloth sides with title and emblem of the United Bank Limited Pakistan on the front board. Full description

€ 75,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Photography UAE - United Arab Emirates West Asia

Beautifully illustrated hand-coloured and highlighted in gold album amicorum in an elaborately gold- and blind-tooled binding dated 1590

[ALBUM AMICORUM - EQUESTRIANISM - HERALDRY]. [Late 16th- and early 17th-century album amicorum].
[North-western Europe (specifically the vicinity of Brussels?)], [1585-1615]. 4to. With 45 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved plates of horses and their riders from Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East, numbered 1-50 (skipping nos. 2, 21, 27, 35, and 36), 46 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved heraldic plates (sometimes filled in with manuscript notes), 2 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms on l. 15v, and 1 black and gold hand-coloured manuscript coat of arms on the back pastedown. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with gold lettering on both boards (front: RVB HZC VFB C.) (back: 1590). 164 ll. Full description

€ 35,000

Alba Amicorum Art & Art History Dutch Literature Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Iran / Persia Prints & Print Series

Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century

ALDROVANDI (ALDOVANDUS), Ulisse. [Opera omnia].
Bologna, 1599-1668. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). With an engraved title page to each volume, an engraved full-page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in the text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1645 & ca. 1670), with a large centrepiece on each board (the 11 volumes dated 1599-1642 from a single block; the 2 volumes dated 1648 & 1667 from a different block), the spines uniformly gold-tooled in the 18th-century. Full description

€ 150,000

Arboriculture & Dendrology Birds - Ornithology Early Printing - 16th century Faunas & General Zoology Fossils / Palaeontology Insects & Spiders Mammals Mineralogy & Gems Museums & Wunderkammer Shells & other Invertebrates

The work that spread Ptolemy's ideas in Europe

AL-FARGHANI, Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Kathir and Jacob CHRISTMANN (translator). Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.
Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 565, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

€ 17,500

Astronomy & Cosmography Early Printing - 16th century

With the celebrated Reynard engravings by Allart van Everdingen

ALKMAAR, Hendrik van and Johann Christoph GOTTSCHED (translator). Reineke der Fuchs; nach der Ausgabe von 1498 ins Hochdeutsche übersetzet, und mit einer Abhandlung, von dem Urheber, wahren Alter und grossen Werthe dieses Geschichtes versehen.
Leipzig and Amsterdam, Peter Schenk, (colophon: Leipzig, printed by J.G.I. Breitkopf), 1752. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small folio. With an engraved vignette on the title pages of both parts, and 60 engravings in the text. Contemporary half calf. 52, 340; "93" [=83], [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Education & Pedagogy Fable Books

Peace trough the language of (Arab) music!

ALLAWERDI, Michael (Miha'il Halil ALLAH WIRDI). Arabism and Peace. [and title in Arabic on back wrapper].
Damascus, Syria, Ibn Zeydoun Printing Shop, 1951. 4to. Original green (faded to brown) printed paper wrappers with the English title on one wrapper and the Arabic title on the other, staple bound. 8, [4], 8 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Music, Theatre & Dance West Asia

Beautifully illustrated

[ALMANAC - GERMAN]. Calender 1805.
Offenbach, C.L. Brede, [1804]. 32mo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette, and 8 full-page numbered engraved plates by Neubauer. Contemporary pink boards tooled in black, with a floral ornament in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a dotted frame, paste paper pastedowns. The work is housed in a brown decorative paper slipcase. [18], 37, [1] pp. Full description

€ 725

Alba Amicorum Almanacs German Literature

One of the most charming examples of the German pocket almanac

[ALMANAC - GERMAN]. Frankfurter Taschenkalender für freundschaftliche Cirkel auf das Jahr 1808, enthaltend: Sinn-Gedichte, auch in Stammbüch brauchbare, kurze Geschichten, Sentenzen, &c.
Frankfurt, In der Jägerschen Buch- Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, [1807]. 32mo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved title with a view of Frankfurt, and 12 full-page numbered engraved plates in the calendar (1 for each month). Contemporary green boards tooled in black, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. The work is housed in a decorative paper slipcase. [32], 31, [1] pp. Full description

€ 725

Alba Amicorum Almanacs German Literature

Defending the Apostolic see: a Franciscan response to Luther at the dawn of the Reformation

ALVELDT, Augustin von. Super apostolica sede, an videlicet divino sit iure, nec ne, anque pontifex qui papa dici caeptus est, iure divino in ea ipsa praesideat, non parum laudanda, ex sacro bibliorum canone declaratio.
(Colophon: Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, 1520). 4to. Modern light brown quarter morocco. [2 blank], [39], [2 blank] ll. Full description

€ 1,500

Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)

A fierce defence of Lutheran orthodoxy

ANDREAE, Jakob. Spiegel der offenbaren unverschämbten Calvinischen lügen wider reine lehrer der Augspurgischen Confession unnd grewlichen erschroeckenlichen loesterungen wider die Goettliche Majestat der menschhelt Jesu Christi.
Tübingen, Georg Gruppenbach, 1588. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and 2 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half pigskin, printer's waste sides. [20],130, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 5,000