Maghreb to the Far East
We are delighted to present our new Maghreb to the Far East catalogue containing a carefully curated selection of rare book and manuscripts spanning from North Africa and Arabia, Turkey and the Near East, Persia and Central Asia, all the way to India and the Far East.
The catalogue includes Islamic, literary, historical and scientific texts (among others) showcasing magnificent calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts and rare oriental imprints spanning from the 9th century to the 20th century.
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An early Qur'an leaf in Kufic script,
[QUR'AN].Original price $32,060.00 - Original price $32,060.00Original price $0.00$32,060.00$32,060.00 - $32,060.00Current price $32,060.00| /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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Section from a Qur'an in Maghribi script,
[QUR'AN].Original price $19,236.00 - Original price $19,236.00Original price $0.00$19,236.00$19,236.00 - $19,236.00Current price $19,236.00| /On western laid paper. The watermarks present in this volume are consistent with an example presented by both Briquet (13200) and Heawood (2171), d...
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Dala'il al-Khayrat,
AL-JAZULI, Muhammad ibn Suleyman.Original price $41,678.00 - Original price $41,678.00Original price $0.00$41,678.00$41,678.00 - $41,678.00Current price $41,678.00| /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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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 $185,946.00 - Original price $185,946.00Original price $0.00$185,946.00$185,946.00 - $185,946.00Current price $185,946.00| /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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Divan'e Shams'e Tabrizi,
RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.Original price $320,597.00 - Original price $320,597.00Original price $0.00$320,597.00$320,597.00 - $320,597.00Current price $320,597.00| /One of the earliest recorded manuscripts of Rumi's poetry. Exceptionally early medieval manuscript copy of one of the most important works of sufi ...
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Kitab Vigil Ijim'al ila Ta'ammulat Ruhiya li'Ayam al-Usbu,
AL-ZAHIR, Abdullah (editor).Original price $10,901.00 - Original price $10,901.00Original price $0.00$10,901.00$10,901.00 - $10,901.00Current price $10,901.00| /One of the earliest Arabic printing presses in the Middle-East. The Dair al-Shuweir press at the Monastery of St John the Baptist is one of the fir...
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Mehmed Uss'i Zafer 1241 [The Principles of Victory 1826].
ES'AD EFENDI.Original price $3,206.00 - Original price $3,206.00Original price $0.00$3,206.00$3,206.00 - $3,206.00Current price $3,206.00| /Earliest account of the suppression of the Janissaries. The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's suppression of the Janiss...
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A fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $44,884.00 - Original price $44,884.00Original price $0.00$44,884.00$44,884.00 - $44,884.00Current price $44,884.00| /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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Varidat-i Mensure we Divan,
AL-JALWATI, Al-Sayyid Hashim Mustafa Al-Uskudari.Original price $12,824.00 - Original price $12,824.00Original price $0.00$12,824.00$12,824.00 - $12,824.00Current price $12,824.00| /Sufi poetry by a follower of the celveti order. Sayyid Hashim Mustafa al-Uskudari al-Jalwati (Hashim Mustafa Uskudari), known as Hashim Baba, was a...
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Silsilename,
[GENEALOGICAL SCROLL].Original price $19,236.00 - Original price $19,236.00Original price $0.00$19,236.00$19,236.00 - $19,236.00Current price $19,236.00| /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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Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].
IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].Original price $1,924.00 - Original price $1,924.00Original price $0.00$1,924.00$1,924.00 - $1,924.00Current price $1,924.00| /The first book on tea printed in Ottoman Turkish. First edition of the first printed book on tea in Ottoman Turkish. Seyyed Mehmed Izzet (1819-1909...
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Shirin and Farhad at Mount Bistun,
NIZAMI GANJAVI.Original price $6,412.00 - Original price $6,412.00Original price $0.00$6,412.00$6,412.00 - $6,412.00Current price $6,412.00| /Timurid manuscript illustration. An early miniature painting from one of Nizami Ganjavi's most loved tragic romances in poetic form, Shirin o Farha...
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Majma' al-Tawarikh,
HAFEZ'I ABRU.Original price $35,266.00 - Original price $35,266.00Original price $0.00$35,266.00$35,266.00 - $35,266.00Current price $35,266.00| /Timurid illustrations of Chinese Emperors. These leaves originate from the famous illustrated copy of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-Tawarikh ('Universal ...
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Mathnavi.
RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.Original price $41,678.00 - Original price $41,678.00Original price $0.00$41,678.00$41,678.00 - $41,678.00Current price $41,678.00| /From the Timurid Courts of Persia. A fine Timurid copy of the complete Mathnavi by the revered Sufi Saint Jalal al-din Rumi.This is Rumi's most cel...
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Tuhfat al-Salawat.
KASHIFI, Husayn Kamal Al-Din.Original price $28,854.00 - Original price $28,854.00Original price $0.00$28,854.00$28,854.00 - $28,854.00Current price $28,854.00| /Inscribed by the author. Kamal al-Din Husayn al-Kashifi was a well known Persian writer on mysticism and preacher who died in Herat in 910 AH (1504...
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Mihr o Mushtari [The Sun and Jupiter].
TABRIZI, Muhammad 'Assar.Original price $44,884.00 - Original price $44,884.00Original price $0.00$44,884.00$44,884.00 - $44,884.00Current price $44,884.00| /With two illuminated miniatures. Sheikh Shams al-Din Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi was a poet, scholar and mystic of fourteenth-century Persia, and this ...
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Prayers for Daily Use,
[QUR'ANIC SCROLL].Original price $10,260.00 - Original price $10,260.00Original price $0.00$10,260.00$10,260.00 - $10,260.00Current price $10,260.00| /A charming prayer scroll containing prayers arranged in accordance to the 7 days of the week, intended for daily use and probably carried in a sma...
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Tarikh-e vaqaye' va savaneh-e Afghanistan, History of Events and Incidents in Afghanistan,
PRINCE IHTIZAD AL-SULTANEH [ALI QULI KHAN].Original price $3,848.00 - Original price $3,848.00Original price $0.00$3,848.00$3,848.00 - $3,848.00Current price $3,848.00| /An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...
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