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Folio from an Impressive Ilkhanid Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /A magnificent example of Ilkhanid Qur'an production with fine calligraphy and elegant marginal ornamentation, likely produced in Persia circa 1350...
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A Journey from London to Persepolis;
USSHER, John.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /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...
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11-ji 02-fun (11:02) Nagasaki.
TOMATSU, Shomei.Original price £1,375.00 - Original price £1,375.00Original price £0.00£1,375.00£1,375.00 - £1,375.00Current price £1,375.00| /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 ...
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Senchimentaru na Tabi [Sentimental Journey].
ARAKI, Nobuyoshi.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Sentimental Journey is Araki Nobuyoshi's signature work, one of the key photography books of the twentieth century. It comprises photographs made ...
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Flower Is.
FRANK, Robert.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Flower Is contains three bodies of work: photographs taken in Paris of flowers, flower sellers, and chance encounters on the street, the River Rou...
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The Holy Mosques at Mecca,
AMIN, Mohamed (photographer).Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /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...
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The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat,
AL-NIFFARI, Muhammad Ibn Abdi'l Jabbar; ARBERRY, Arthur John (editor).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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...
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A Dialogue with Solitude.
HEATH, Dave.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatl...
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The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William; KNIGHT, Charles (editor).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /An attractive, illustrated eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays, including his doubtful works, with a biography of the bard by the editor C...
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The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainmants.
LANE, Edward William (translator).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /First english translation directly from arabic. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist whose career began as an engraver working...
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'Ilmu hal. A manual of the doctrine & practice of Islam.
[ISLAM].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /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...
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St. James Dukes Place Poor Rate from Lady Day 1825 to Midsummer 1825.
[POOR RATE LEDGER].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /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,...
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The Names of Allah,
[ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /After ahmed karahisari. Ahmed Karahisari was one of the great Ottoman calligraphers of the sixteenth century, whose naskh style was reminiscent of ...
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The Alcoran of Mahomet,
DU RYER, André; ROSS, Alexander (translator).Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /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...
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