Rare. Lumsden includes a short account of Muscat and describes his voyage up the Persian Gulf. also includes Bushire, Isfahan, Tabriz, Tiflis, Ros...

The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...

With monkey tools by Bozerian. A fine fresh large paper copy in a handsome contemporary binding by Bozerian, of the earliest illustrated monograph ...

Islam in cyprus. Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915) was a historian and well known bibliographer of Cyprus, as well as one of the founding members o...

Early and authentic translation. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist and very keen Egyptologist whose life had been dedicated...

First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...

Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

Richardson (1740-1795) was one of the leading Orientalists of his time. 'A Specimen of Persian Poetry,' first published in 1774, was his first ma...

An early English translation of the Gulistan (Rose Garden) by the renowned sufi poet Sa'di of Shiraz, often considered one of the singular most im...

Shaikh Mohammad ʿAli b. Abi Taleb (1692-1766 AD), known as Hazin Lahiji, was a Persian poet and scholar. He grew up at the Safavid court of Persia...

A label pasted to the front wrapper reads 'Map of Beshagard, the work of Sulayman Mirza', and the map itself is entitled 'The work of the servant ...

Commission for a qajar prince. An attractive volume comprising the Risalah Salariyyah of 'Isa bin Reza Quli Qajar, known as Majnun, followed by a s...

Very attractive pocket-sized Qur'an copied in a regular scribal hand and dated 1800 AH. The Qajar dynasty began in 1797 and saw a flourish in arti...

A Persian translation of the history on the the German Emperor Wilhelm I (1794-1871), whose name is here given as Gilum, from the French original ...

Single volume, lithographed from a manuscript in Arabic, 160pp., complete, 125 x 80 mm; printed from a manuscript in single column, 7 lines bold n...

A rare copy of an article on the architecture and history of the main Ka'aba and holy mosque in Mecca, included in an Italian geographical periodi...

Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, complete, 318 leaves plus two later free endpapers, 120 x 80 mm; single column, 14 line...

A charming prayerbook containing excerpts from the Qur'an, du'a (prayers) and hilya, presented in an attractive portable pocket-sized format. The ...

Copied during the author's lifetime. An important treatise relating to the Shi'a interpretations of irfan (ethics), fiqh and usul (roots and princi...