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Very rare work on an Islamic procession in the city of Mecca in 1728

ANTONIO, João Carlos (pseudonym of António Correia de LEMOS). Relaçam de huma solemne, e extraordinaria procissam de preces, que por ordem da corte Ottomana fizeraõ os Turcos na cidade de Meca, no dia 16. de Julho de 1728. ... Primeira[-segunda] parte.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1730. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut title vignettes, headpieces and initials. Modern blue marbled paper wrappers. 23, [1 blank]; 24 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Iran / Persia Islam & Qurans
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Extensively illustrated classic of cosmography, geodesy, mensuration, perspective and optics

APIANUS (APIAN), Petrus and Gemma FRISIUS. Cosmographia.
Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen (colophon: printed by Verwithagen), 1574. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page (with a terrestrial globe and other instruments); 4 printed paper volvelles with moving parts and a woodcut sun dial with a string attached to its centre; a folding woodcut cordiform mappa mundi (block size 19×27.5 cm) with letterpress text in the margins; well over 100 further woodcut illustrations, diagrams, maps, etc., in the text. Recased in 17th-century(?) limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 64, [2] ll. plus folding woodcut. Full description
€ 12,500
Astronomy & Cosmography Charts & Maps Early Printing - 16th century Earth Sciences Mathematics Optics & Perspective Science
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Special edition of all 1959 issues of the "Sun and Flare",
published together as a special New Year's edition for the start of 1960

[ARAMCO]. Sun and flare.
Dharan, Saudi Arabia, Arabian American Oil Company, 1959. Folio (ca. 35.5 x 25 cm). With black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. loosely included at the back is a calendar for the year 1960 (and 1379-1380 AH) captioned "Happy 1960 from the staff of Sun and Flare 1960/1379,80" and marked on the calendar are non-work Tuesdays. Publisher's gold- and blind-stamped pebble-grained black cloth. Full description
€ 1,750
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Saudi Arabia
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Neatly executed German manuscript on practical arithmetic

[ARITHMETIC - MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN]. Rechen-Büch. So zusammen geschriben, im Monnath März Anno 1730 ... Dass Ainmahlains.
[Germany], March 1730. 4to. Written in a neat and regular German hand in brown ink, the title page with a drawing of a number-triangle decorated with penwork, the initials on the title and in the text with elegant penwork, often with traces of heightening with gold, numerous arithmetical exercises in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with two clasps, J. A. Dortmund's paper shelf mark label on the spine (451), red and blue sprinkled edges. 175 ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Education & Pedagogy Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics
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Rare study describing a 622 AH (1225/26 CE) celestial globe with Cufic lettering, with 3 folding plates

ASSEMANI, Simone. Globus caelestis Cufico-Arabicus Veliterni Musei Borgiani ... illustratus. Praemissa ejusdem De Arabum astronomia dissertatione et adjectis duabus epistolis Cl. Josephi Toaldi.
Padua, Seminary printing office, 1790. Small folio (21.5 x 29.5 cm). With 3 large folding engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides. [16], CCXIX, [9] pp. Full description
€ 28,000
Astronomy & Cosmography Atlases & Globes
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A wonderfully illustrated rare Dutch compilation of Apian

[ASTRONOMY - APIAN and others]. S.D.V.B (compiler). Een nieu constich boeck inde geometrie en de astronomiae, voor desen noyt in druck gheweest, ende is in ses stucken afghedeylt ...
(Colophon:) Rees, Abraham Wijlicx, 1608. Folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With a half-page woodcut illustration and some decorations built up from typographic ornaments on the title page, 74 woodcuts of various sizes in text, many (near) full- and half-page, with some woodcut decorated initials (various series), a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on four supports laced through the joints. 111, [1] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
Astronomy & Cosmography Charts & Maps Earth Sciences Mathematics Optics & Perspective Science
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Large coloured map of the Middle East, including roads and oil pipe lines

BARTHOLOMEW, John. Map of the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Arabia. In contour colouring with roads and aerodromes.
Edinburgh & London, John Bartholomew & son, [ca. 1940]. 8vo. Large folding map (measuring 77 x 99 cm. in total) on a scale of 1:4,000,000, backed by linen. With relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints and depths shown by soundings. Folded, with title-wrapper. Full description
€ 850
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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Nice work on landscape gardening, with the often lacking rare second part

BECKER, Wilhelm Gottlieb (editor). Der plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.
Nuremberg, Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung, 1799. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. The first part with a fine large folding engraved map and 16 full engraved plates of the "Plauische Grund" between Dresden and Tharand, the second part with 1 folding and 7 full-page hand-coloured engraved plates, illustrating profiles and geological structures of the region and insects. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. XII, 128; [4], 120 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Germany Horticulture Insects & Spiders
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The earliest known portrait of any Sheikh of the Gulf Emirates

BELL, Charles Courtenay (compiler). [Photograph album: Sheikhs of the Trucial Coast].
Various places, including Hong Kong, Mumbai, Muscat, Sharjah, and Aden, 1900-1909. Oblong folio (27.5 × 18.8 cm). With 91 albumen photographs pasted in, plus 10 loose at the rear, ranging from panoramas of 16 × 43.7 cm to smaller photographs of 5.5 × 6.5 cm. Contemporary half black morocco. [15] ll. Full description
€ 250,000
Photography UAE - United Arab Emirates
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