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Les Arts au Moyen Age.
SOMMERARD, Alexandre du.Original price $16,527.00 - Original price $16,527.00Original price $0.00$16,527.00$16,527.00 - $16,527.00Current price $16,527.00| /Sommerard's monumental publication on medieval arts: architecture, tapestry, goldsmithing, furniture, miniature, etc, illustrated with colour plat...
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South-East Asian Qur'an.
[QUR'AN].Original price $16,527.00 - Original price $16,527.00Original price $0.00$16,527.00$16,527.00 - $16,527.00Current price $16,527.00| /Copied on Dutch paper. A rare complete Qur'an from the Malay region of South East Asia copied on Dutch watermarked paper. Committing to a definitiv...
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The South Pole.
AMUNDSEN, Roald.Original price $3,967.00 - Original price $3,967.00Original price $0.00$3,967.00$3,967.00 - $3,967.00Current price $3,967.00| /Cornerstone of Antarctic exploration. The account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full-pa...
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Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;
KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.Original price $2,975.00 - Original price $2,975.00Original price $0.00$2,975.00$2,975.00 - $2,975.00Current price $2,975.00| /The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...
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Leto [Summer].
AKHMETEV, Vladimir.Original price $1,785.00 - Original price $1,785.00Original price $0.00$1,785.00$1,785.00 - $1,785.00Current price $1,785.00| /A truly Soviet depiction of the summer holidays for Young Pioneers. The children help harvest crops on a collective farm, chop wood and build hous...
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Hashiyya al-Hijrani,
MA LIANGJUN [AL-HIJRANI, Muhammad Yusuf].Original price $23,138.00 - Original price $23,138.00Original price $0.00$23,138.00$23,138.00 - $23,138.00Current price $23,138.00| /By a prominent Hui Islamic leader. Ma Liangjun (1871-1957) was a renowned Hui Muslim Akhund in the Northwest and a famous Islamic scholar ('Hui' re...
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Skazka o Tsare Saltane [The Tale of Tsar Saltan].
BILIBIN, Ivan; PUSHKIN, Alexander.Original price $1,587.00 - Original price $1,587.00Original price $0.00$1,587.00$1,587.00 - $1,587.00Current price $1,587.00| /A beautiful children's book, finely illustrated in colour.Tales illustrated by Bilibin are among the most famous children's books both within and ...
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[Original Artwork].
KNIGHT, Frank (illustrator).Original price $49,581.00 - Original price $49,581.00Original price $0.00$49,581.00$49,581.00 - $49,581.00Current price $49,581.00| /A fine set of 37 original watercolours by Frank Knight for Joseph Forshaw's 2011 work, Vanished and Vanishing Parrots. The plates depict: Carolina...
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Silsilename,
[GENEALOGICAL SCROLL].Original price $19,833.00 - Original price $19,833.00Original price $0.00$19,833.00$19,833.00 - $19,833.00Current price $19,833.00| /Silsilname are geneaological manuscripts, often presented in scroll format, that were popular during the Ottoman Empire where they served as a too...
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An early Qur'an leaf in Kufic script,
[QUR'AN].Original price $33,054.00 - Original price $33,054.00Original price $0.00$33,054.00$33,054.00 - $33,054.00Current price $33,054.00| /Rare example of early scribal freehand. A strikingly rare example of scribal freehand from the Abbasid period that is known for producing Qur'ans i...
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Dala'il al-Khayrat,
AL-JAZULI, Muhammad ibn Suleyman.Original price $42,971.00 - Original price $42,971.00Original price $0.00$42,971.00$42,971.00 - $42,971.00Current price $42,971.00| /Copied in the holy city of Medina. The name referred to in the colophon, Sheikh Ahmad bin Muhammad ein Muhammad Tayyeb al-Maghribi al-Fassi, is lik...
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Calligraphic scroll containing excerpts from the Qur'an.
[QUR'ANIC SCROLL].Original price $13,222.00 - Original price $13,222.00Original price $0.00$13,222.00$13,222.00 - $13,222.00Current price $13,222.00| /An attractive calligraphic Qur'anic scroll containing excerpts from the Holy text in stylised forms forming geometric patterns and calligraphic co...
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