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

Instructions on the sitar. A beautifully detailed and illustrated manual to playing the sitar, including different types of sitar and instructions ...

The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's repression of the Janissaries in 1826, composed by the court historian and schol...

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...

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...

There are appearances of several dates throughout the volume (referencing specific instruments) ranging from 1929 to 1939 suggesting a date of pub...

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...

Bombay was inhabited by many second and third generation Indian Zoroastrian members of the Parsi community by the nineteenth century and as commun...

The first printed edition of the tragic romantic tale of Leila and Majnun in Ottoman Turkish translation. ...

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...

Authored by a Zoroastrian high priest. Bahram ibn Farhad Parsi, also known as Adhar Keyvan, was a Zoroastian high priest from Fars that emigrated t...

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 by 80 mm; printed from a manuscript in single column, 7 lines bold ...