Middle East & Islamic World / Islamic Art & Culture

SMITH, William Robertson. Kinship and marriage in early Arabia.
Cambridge, C.J. Clay and son, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1885. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth, lettering in gold on the spine. xiv, 322, [2], 16 pp. Full description

SOUSA, João de. Documentos Arabicos para a historia Portugueza...
Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790. 4to. With the academy's woodcut device on the title-page (incorporating the Portuguese coat-of-arms, Athena's owl and Hermes's staff). Set in roman, Arabic and italic types. Modern brown paper wrappers. Wholly untrimmed and with most of the bolts unopened, preserving all deckles and point holes. [8], 190, [2] pp. Full description

TARENGHI, Enrico. [Carpet sellers and a dromedary beside the Nile].
[Rome?, late 19th century?]. Watercolour on a large sheet of paper (image size: 74.5 x 52 cm), signed at the foot right: "E. Tarenghi". Contemporary (?) gilt wooden frame (89.5 x 66 cm), behind plastic. Full description

THESIGER, Wilfred. The marsh Arabs.
London, Longmans, Green and co., 1964. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). With a frontispiece, 3 maps in text (including 1 double-page) and 32 plates with reproductions of 109 photographs. Green cloth with illustrated dustjacket. [13], [1 blank], 242 pp. Full description

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. Novelle persiane divise in mille, ed una giornata. Tradotte dal francese e dal francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo primo [-quinto].
Venice, Niccolò Pezzana, 1783. 5 volumes. 12mo. With small vignettes built up from typographical ornaments on the title pages and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with the manuscript titles and volume numbers in red on the spines. 179, [1]; 178; 190; 190; 213 pp. Full description

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. Novelle persiane divise in mille ed una giornata, e in cinque libri distribuite. Tradotte in francese e dal francese nel volgare Italiano. Vol. primo [-quinto].
Venice [= Naples?], Giacomo Antonio Vinaccia, 1783. 5 volumes. 12mo. With vignettes built up from typographical ornaments on each title page and some ornamental headpieces. Contemporary grey paper wrappers with manuscript volume numbers on the spines. Stored in a brown decorated paper slipcase. 203; 202; 216; 216; 239, [1] pp Full description

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. Novelle persiane divise in mille ed una giornata, tradotte dal francese e dal francese in volgare italiano. Vol. primo [-quinto].
Venice, Santini, 1810. 5 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. Contemporary gold-stamped half brown cloth, marbled paper sides, with the title and volume number stamped in black on the spine. 172, 168, 176; 179, [1], 200 pp. Full description

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. Novelle persiane divise in mille, ed una giornata, tradotte in francese e dal francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo primo [-quinto].
Milan, Pietro Agnelli, 1815. 5 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. With a small woodcut vignette on each title page. Contemporary half beige cloth, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. 160; 156; 168; 168; 186, [2] pp. Full description

[THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN]. I mille e un giorni. Novelle orientali già tratte dal turco, dal persiano e dall'arabo e pubblicate da Petis-de-la-Croix, Galland, Cardonne, Chawis e Cazotte etc. Nuova traduzione eseguita sull'ultima edizione di Parigi da A. F. Falconetti. Vol. I [-XV].
Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833-1834. 15 volumes bound as 5. 16mo. With an engraved frontispiece in each of the 15 volumes. Contemporary boards with a red title label and a black volume number label, both lettered in gold, on each spine. Full description

TORNBERG, Carl Johan. Numi Cufici regii numophylacii Holmiensis, quos omnes in terra Sueciae repertos.
Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1848. 4to. With 14 lithographed plates. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. [6], LXXXVIII, 315, [1] pp. Full description