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The Library of A. Chester Beatty,
ARNOLD, Thomas W. and J. V. S. Wilkinsons (eds)Original price $3,675.00 - Original price $3,675.00Original price$3,675.00$3,675.00 - $3,675.00Current price $3,675.00| /A finely illustrated publication detailing the collection of Indian miniatures of Alfred Beatty (1875-1968), a copper mining tycoon who built up o...
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Naghmah-yi Sitar [Melody of the Sitar],
KHAIRABADI, Mirza Rahim Beg.Original price $4,360.00 - Original price $4,360.00Original price$4,360.00$4,360.00 - $4,360.00Current price $4,360.00| /A beautifully detailed and illustrated manual to playing the sitar, including different types of sitar and instructions on their uses. The text in...
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Dua Alawi Misri,
[PRAYERBOOK].Original price $4,672.00 - Original price $4,672.00Original price$4,672.00$4,672.00 - $4,672.00Current price $4,672.00| /A very attractive Shi'a prayerbook from Safavid Persia, possibly from Shiraz, containing du'a Alawi Misri in praise of the twelfth Imam Muhammad M...
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Selections from the Kur-an,
LANE, Ewward William.Original price $3,115.00 - Original price $3,115.00Original price$3,115.00$3,115.00 - $3,115.00Current price $3,115.00| /First edition,
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Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].
IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].Original price $1,869.00 - Original price $1,869.00Original price$1,869.00$1,869.00 - $1,869.00Current price $1,869.00| /First edition of the first printed book on tea in Ottoman Turkish. Seyyed Mehmed Izzet (1819-1909) was often referred to as "Çayci" (the tea man) ...
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Mehmed Uss'i Zafer 1241 [The Principles of Victory 1826].
ES'AD EFENDI.Original price $3,115.00 - Original price $3,115.00Original price$3,115.00$3,115.00 - $3,115.00Current price $3,115.00| /The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's repression of the Janissaries in 1826, composed by the court historian and schol...
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Divan,
Isfahani, Hakim Safa'i.Original price $623.00 - Original price $623.00Original price$623.00$623.00 - $623.00Current price $623.00| /Safa Isfahani (1852-1904) was a Persian mystic and poet born in Firiydan, Isfahan. In his youth he departed for Tehran where he met sufis, mystics...
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Kitab Uyun al-Haqa'iq wa Idah al-Tara'iq,
AL-SIMAWI, Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Iraqi.Original price $3,426.00 - Original price $3,426.00Original price$3,426.00$3,426.00 - $3,426.00Current price $3,426.00| /Medieval arabic grimoire. Kitab'Uyun al-Haqa'iq wa Idah al-Tara'iq (The Wisdom of the Ages and the Secrets of the Sages) was compiled in the thirte...
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Kutub fi Ilm al-Kimia,
[VARIOUS].Original price $1,869.00 - Original price $1,869.00Original price$1,869.00$1,869.00 - $1,869.00Current price $1,869.00| /Rare bombay imprints. A collection of four rare Bombay imprints including: - Kitab al-Durra't al-Badi'a, by Khan Sahib (16pp. published by Muhammad...
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Armourer Trainees Notes.
[GUNNERY].Original price $935.00 - Original price $935.00Original price$935.00$935.00 - $935.00Current price $935.00| /There are appearances of several dates throughout the volume (referencing specific instruments) ranging from 1929 to 1939 suggesting a date of pub...
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[An Attractive Indian Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $5,917.00 - Original price $5,917.00Original price$5,917.00$5,917.00 - $5,917.00Current price $5,917.00| /Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, complete, 318 leaves plus two later free endpapers, 120 x 80 mm; single column, 14 line...
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Tarikh-e Khani [and] Tarikh-e Gilan,
DORN, Bernhard (editor),Original price $1,558.00 - Original price $1,558.00Original price$1,558.00$1,558.00 - $1,558.00Current price $1,558.00| /These volumes are part of a historical series printed at the Print House of the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg. The two present volumes are: Ta...
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Five Fine Qajar Juz'.
[QUR'AN].Original price $3,737.00 - Original price $3,737.00Original price$3,737.00$3,737.00 - $3,737.00Current price $3,737.00| /The holy text of the Qur'an is divisible into thirty equal parts to facilitate the reading of one section every day of the month, each sections be...
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Leaf from a fine Safavid calligraphic album.
[CALLIGRAPHY].Original price $4,360.00 - Original price $4,360.00Original price$4,360.00$4,360.00 - $4,360.00Current price $4,360.00| /This leaf showcases the excellence of Persian manuscript production in the early Safavid period of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centur...
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An illuminated Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $6,229.00 - Original price $6,229.00Original price$6,229.00$6,229.00 - $6,229.00Current price $6,229.00| /Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, 338 leaves plus an additional free endpaper at each end, 140 x 95 mm; single column, 12...
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Tarikh'i Iskandar (The History of Alexander),
[ALEXANDER THE GREAT]. CAMPBELL, James.Original price $37,370.00 - Original price $37,370.00Original price$37,370.00$37,370.00 - $37,370.00Current price $37,370.00| /With fine marbled paper borders. A fine illuminated manuscript with remarkable decorated marbled borders, of many varying designs and patterns. The...
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Early Qajar Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price $18,685.00 - Original price $18,685.00Original price$18,685.00$18,685.00 - $18,685.00Current price $18,685.00| /Very attractive pocket-sized Qur'an copied in a regular scribal hand and dated 1800 AH. The Qajar dynasty began in 1797 and saw a flourish in arti...
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Divan of ghazals,
[COLLECTED SUFI POETRY].Original price $18,685.00 - Original price $18,685.00Original price$18,685.00$18,685.00 - $18,685.00Current price $18,685.00| /A fine and attractive volume containing excerpts of poetry from revered Sufi poets including Sa'di, Rumi and Hafez, present here in an exceptional...
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Fine Indian Qur'an.
[QUR'AN].Original price $9,343.00 - Original price $9,343.00Original price$9,343.00$9,343.00 - $9,343.00Current price $9,343.00| /Manuscript with Duke of Wellington association. Rare South Indian Qur'an in a contemporary Indian leather-tooled binding, present here in an excell...
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Kitab Vigil Ijim'al ila Ta'ammulat Ruhiya li'Ayam al-Usbu,
AL-ZAHIR, Abdullah (editor).Original price $10,589.00 - Original price $10,589.00Original price$10,589.00$10,589.00 - $10,589.00Current price $10,589.00| /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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