A magnificent example of Ilkhanid Qur'an production with fine calligraphy and elegant marginal ornamentation, likely produced in Persia circa 1350...

An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...

In 1961, Shomei Tomatsu began a series of close-up photographs of objects found at the explosion site at Nagasaki. These include a watch, stopped ...

Sentimental Journey is Araki Nobuyoshi's signature work, one of the key photography books of the twentieth century. It comprises photographs made ...

Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers, and chance encounters on the street, the River Rou...

History of the holy kaaba and masjid al-haram. Mohamed Amin was among the first photographers to photograph sections of the Holy Mosques of Mecca a...

An important publication in dual English and Arabic text of the Kitab al-Mawaqif and the Kitab al-Mukhatabat, with introductory notes on the autho...

Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatl...

An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor C...

First english translation directly from arabic. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist whose career began as an engraver working...

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...

Jewish coffee houses and the Great Synagogue. An important record of Jewish settlement in the City of London at the turn of the nineteenth century,...

After ahmed karahisari. Ahmed Karahisari was one of the great Ottoman calligraphers of the sixteenth century, whose naskh style was reminiscent of ...

The first English translation of the Qur'an.This is the second edition of Alexander Ross's Qur'an in English, translated by Ross from a French tra...