Abu Dhabi Art 2024
Join Shapero Rare Books at Abu Dhabi Art 2024, held at Manarat Al Saadiyat from 20th to 24th November, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
This premier art fair showcases leading international and local galleries, featuring exceptional Modern and Contemporary artworks, exhibitions, and installations. As a highlight of Abu Dhabi’s cultural calendar, it offers a unique platform for collectors, artists, and enthusiasts to connect and engage.
Visit our stand to explore a curated selection of rare works and timeless treasures.
We look forward to welcoming you at Stand AT7.
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Liber Cronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle].
SCHEDEL, Hartmann.Original price $479,782.00 - Original price $479,782.00Original price $0.00$479,782.00$479,782.00 - $479,782.00Current price $479,782.00| /The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. A magnificent copy in contemporary hand-colour of the first illustrated encyclopaed...
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First Juz' from a monumental Safavid Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $319,855.00 - Original price $319,855.00Original price $0.00$319,855.00$319,855.00 - $319,855.00Current price $319,855.00| /From the court of Shah Tahmasp. An exceptional qur'anic juz with calligraphy attributed to the court calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp, Ahmad Al-Khalili...
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Los Caprichos.
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de.Original price $255,884.00 - Original price $255,884.00Original price $0.00$255,884.00$255,884.00 - $255,884.00Current price $255,884.00| /One of approximately 300 copies. The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-1798, on laid paper. A v...
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Takhlis al-Bayan fi Majazat al-Qur'an, or 'Mujazat al-Radi',
AL-MUSAWI, Abu-Hassan Muhammad ibn al-Husayn (known as al-Sharif al-Radi).Original price $185,516.00 - Original price $185,516.00Original price $0.00$185,516.00$185,516.00 - $185,516.00Current price $185,516.00| /Exceptionally early and important authorial manuscript on paper - the author's own copy. Al-Sharif al-Radi (970-1015 AD) was a celebrated poet and ...
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Summa de arithmetica.
PACIOLI, Luca.Original price $172,722.00 - Original price $172,722.00Original price $0.00$172,722.00$172,722.00 - $172,722.00Current price $172,722.00| /The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...
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[L'aigle criard; L'aigle criard (jeune); L'élanoide blanc.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price $159,928.00 - Original price $159,928.00Original price $0.00$159,928.00$159,928.00 - $159,928.00Current price $159,928.00| /Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...
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Recueil de cent estampes
LE HAY, Jacques; FERRIOL, Charles de.Original price $95,957.00 - Original price $95,957.00Original price $0.00$95,957.00$95,957.00 - $95,957.00Current price $95,957.00| /An outstanding example. An exceptional example. Most copies were issued uncoloured. A few were sold with hand-colouring and a smaller number were i...
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Moriae Encomium.
ERASMUS, Desiderius.Original price $63,971.00 - Original price $63,971.00Original price $0.00$63,971.00$63,971.00 - $63,971.00Current price $63,971.00| /First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...
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Oriental Album
PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Emile.Original price $51,177.00 - Original price $51,177.00Original price $0.00$51,177.00$51,177.00 - $51,177.00Current price $51,177.00| /A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...
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Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia dushi. Poema [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. A Poem].
GOGOL, Nikolai.Original price $51,177.00 - Original price $51,177.00Original price $0.00$51,177.00$51,177.00 - $51,177.00Current price $51,177.00| /First edition of Gogol's masterpiece. A handsome example of one of the greatest novels of 19th-century Russian literature.Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) b...
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[Horses & Their Pedigrees].
SPENCER, Thomas.Original price $44,780.00 - Original price $44,780.00Original price $0.00$44,780.00$44,780.00 - $44,780.00Current price $44,780.00| /Fine & very rare set of racing prints. Sparrow notes its rarity in 1922, 'rare no doubt, because so many of the copies have been broken up in o...
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A fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $44,780.00 - Original price $44,780.00Original price $0.00$44,780.00$44,780.00 - $44,780.00Current price $44,780.00| /Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...
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The Universal Conchologist,
MARTYN, Thomas.Original price $44,780.00 - Original price $44,780.00Original price $0.00$44,780.00$44,780.00 - $44,780.00Current price $44,780.00| /An exceptionally fine copy. The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-co...
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Al-Juz' Al-Thani min Kitab al-Iktifa' fi Fada'il...,
AL-MATUFI, Ibrahim bin Abd'ullah Al-Wasabi.Original price $38,383.00 - Original price $38,383.00Original price $0.00$38,383.00$38,383.00 - $38,383.00Current price $38,383.00| /An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...
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Great Footed Hawk.
AUDUBON, John James.Original price $31,986.00 - Original price $31,986.00Original price $0.00$31,986.00$31,986.00 - $31,986.00Current price $31,986.00| /Plate 16 from John James Audubon's Birds of America which was printed between 1827 and 1838 with 435 life-size images of North American birds.Hand...
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An early Qur'an leaf in Kufic script,
[QUR'AN].Original price $31,986.00 - Original price $31,986.00Original price $0.00$31,986.00$31,986.00 - $31,986.00Current price $31,986.00| /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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Divan,
HAFEZ SHIRAZI. SA'DI SHIRAZI.Original price $28,787.00 - Original price $28,787.00Original price $0.00$28,787.00$28,787.00 - $28,787.00Current price $28,787.00| /Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...
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Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens
PARIS, François-Edmond.Original price $25,589.00 - Original price $25,589.00Original price $0.00$25,589.00$25,589.00 - $25,589.00Current price $25,589.00| /With sketches from the french grands voyages. Paris' comprehensive survey of sailing vessels and a valuable contribution to preserving the artifact...
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Oman and the southern shore of the Persian Gulf.
[OMAN].Original price $21,111.00 - Original price $21,111.00Original price $0.00$21,111.00$21,111.00 - $21,111.00Current price $21,111.00| /Rare dual language first edition. The very rare first edition with English and Arabic text of this comprehensive study of Oman produced by the Arab...
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The navigations, peregrinations and voyages made into Turkie
NICOLAY, Nicolas de.Original price $18,552.00 - Original price $18,552.00Original price $0.00$18,552.00$18,552.00 - $18,552.00Current price $18,552.00| /The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.Original price $17,273.00 - Original price $17,273.00Original price $0.00$17,273.00$17,273.00 - $17,273.00Current price $17,273.00| /A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...
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Rare Provincial Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $15,993.00 - Original price $15,993.00Original price $0.00$15,993.00$15,993.00 - $15,993.00Current price $15,993.00| /Copied for a regional king. A very handsome and clean example of a regional Qur'an, produced for a local ruler named 'Malik Muhammad bin Muhammad'....
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.Original price $11,515.00 - Original price $11,515.00Original price $0.00$11,515.00$11,515.00 - $11,515.00Current price $11,515.00| /With very rare original dust-wrappers. A set of Carter's TutAnkhAmen with the very rare dust-wrappers.At the age of seventeen in 1891, Carter went ...
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Epsom.
POLLARD, James.Original price $11,515.00 - Original price $11,515.00Original price $0.00$11,515.00$11,515.00 - $11,515.00Current price $11,515.00| /A magnificently coloured, uncut set of Pollard's Epsom. The third state with titles and imprints present.Landscape folio (43 x 59 cm); 6 deckle-ed...
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