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Best edition of Strabo's "Geographika" including Casaubon's notes, with descriptions of the Arabian Peninsula

STRABO. Rerum geographicarum libri XVII.
Paris, typis Regiis [Fédéric Morel], 1620. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black with the engraved coat of arms of Louis XIII, and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled parchment, gilt edges. [12], 843, [112]; [4], 282, [8] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Aldine Press Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt Geography Iran / Persia North Africa
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First Spanish edition of Strahlenberg’s work on the exploration of Russia and Northern Asia

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von and Josef Vicente TOMÁS Y CATALÁ (translator). Nueva descripcion geographica del imperio Ruso, en particular y en general de todas las provincias que componen aquel dilatado imperio, con muchas noticias historicas antiguas y modernas.
Valencia, Francisco Burguete, 1780. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on both title-pages (of part 1 and part 2) and two decorated initials (one at the start of each part). Contemporary vellum with ink-lettering to spine. [28], 188; [8], 237, [1] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Arctic & Antarctic Central Asia Eastern Europe Geography Other World Religions Russia (incl. Siberia) Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe
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Arabic travel account from the early Abbasid era, concerning China and India: rare English edition

SULAYMAN AL-TAJIR and ABU ZAID HASAN IBN YAZID, AL-SIRAFI. (Eusèbe RENAUDOT, editor). [Silsilat al-tawarik - English]. Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century.
London, Samuel Harding, 1733. 8vo (ca. 12 x 20 cm). With a wood-engraved printer's device and the half-title-page and title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary blind-tooled panelled calf, sewn on 6 supports creating 6 compartments on the gold-tooled spine. With a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. XXXVII, (1), 260, VII pp. Full description
€ 28,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East UAE - United Arab Emirates
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Twelve vibrant and detailed paintings of members of the Chinese court

[SUNQUA (attributed)]. [Album with twelve Chinese pith paintings of court officials].
[Guangzhou (Canton), before 1850]. Folio (ca. 34.5 x 24.5 cm). Gouache and gold on pith paper (ca. 26.5 x 17.5 cm), each drawing is mounted by its corners in an album of mulberry-bark(?) paper (ca. 34 x 24 cm) and framed with a light blue silk ribbon. Contemporary green silk brocade with a floral pattern, pink closing ties. [12] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Art & Art History China Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Drawings & Watercolours
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Socialist propaganda about the state of the Syria and its people after the March Revolution in 1963

[SYRIA - BA'ATH ARAB SOCIALIST PARTY]. Syria after two years of the March Revolution.
[Syria, Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party], 1965. 24 x 17 cm. With 28 photos on 16 plates and some tables in the text.
With: [MAP - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM]. Syria.
Damascus, Tourist Office, [ca. 1965]. Folded. 70 x 49.5 cm.
A brightly coloured folding map of Syria with some information about the country and its principal cities with a table of distances on the back, all text in the map and on the back is in English and Arabic.
Original publisher's printed wrappers, stapled. 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 850
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps
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The visit of a Siamese embassy to Rome, during the Siamese revolution of 1688

[TACHARD, Guy]. [Drop-title:] Breve ragguaglio di quanto è accaduto in Roma à Sig: Mandarini venuti co[n] il P: Guido Tasciard della compagnia di Giesù, inviato straordinario dal rè di Siam dopo l'Udienza hauuta da N.S. Innocenzo XI.
(Colophon: Rome, Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1689). Small 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm). With decorated woodcut initial on the first page. Disbound. 8 pp. Full description
€ 3,800
Italy Jesuits Southeast Asia
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A history of the kings of Persia and Hormuz, one of the earliest Western books mentioning Qatar

TEIXEIRA, Pedro, [Mir KHWAND and Turan SHAH]. Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1610 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, both boards with the supralibros of D. Vasco Luís da Gama (1612-1676), 5th Count of Vidigueira. [1], [1 blank], [6], 384, [8], "115" [= 215], [17] pp Full description
€ 45,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States History / 17th Century Iran / Persia Portugal Qatar Spain UAE - United Arab Emirates
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Pearl-fishing in the Gulf and the first printed mention of Qatar: significant association copy

TEIXEIRA, Pedro, [Mir KHWAND and Turan SHAH]. Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira del origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India oriental hasta Italia por tierra.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1610. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. 18th-century quarter calf over marbled boards. [8], 384, [8], "115" [= 215], [17] pp. Full description
€ 48,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus History / 17th Century India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Portugal Travel & Voyages Middle East
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