Interfoliated annotations in english. Single volume, lithographed in Farsi, title printed in red and black, seemingly complete, 280 x 190 mm; print...

Important persian universal history. The Habib al-Siyar is a general historical treatise, notably dealing with the reigns of Sultan Husayn Bayqara ...

Christian missionaries in calcutta. Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer, first published in Oxford in 1674. T...

Early english Shahnameh translation. An early and important English translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, containing the section of the text relatin...

Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...

Earliest account of the suppression of the Janissaries. The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's suppression of the Janiss...

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...

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...

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...

The first printed edition of the tragic romantic tale of Leila and Majnun in Ottoman Turkish.First edition in Ottoman Turkish; small 8vo (190 x 14...

Shaikh Mohammad ʿAli b. Abi Taleb (1692-1766 AD), known as Hazin Lahiji, was a Persian poet and scholar. He grew up at the Safavid court of Persia...

First and only edition of this Turkish grammar printed in the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 178...

A Spanish orientalist, Francisco Canes (1720-1795) spent sixteen years devoted to the study of oriental languages in Damascus, where he was sent b...

First printed edition of The Gulistan. The single most important publication for Western studies in Persian language and history in the seventeenth...

A Persian translation of the history on the the German Emperor Wilhelm I (1794-1871), whose name is here given as Gilum, from the French original ...

Single volume, lithographed from a manuscript in Arabic, 160pp., complete, 125 x 80 mm; printed from a manuscript in single column, 7 lines bold n...