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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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • An early Qur'an leaf in Kufic script,

    [QUR'AN].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • The Aga Khan's horses.

    LYLE, Robert Charles.
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    Signed by the Aga Khan. The rare limited edition, signed by the Aga Khan, of the first book on his horses. A beautiful production with fine colour ...

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