Works on Paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern Worlds

ƟBartholomaeus Georgievitz, De Turcarum Moribus Epitome, bound with Jamblichus, De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, together 2 works in 1 volume, in Latin [...

ƟPetrus Gyllius “P. Gylli”, De Bospero Thracio lib. III and De Constantino Poleos Topographia lib. IV, together two volumes, in Latin, second edit...

ƟSir Paul Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire..., 3 books in one volume, second edition [London, John Starkey and Henry Brome, 1668] c...

ƟM. Briot, Histoire de L'Etat Present de L'Empire Ottoman: contenant les maximes politiques des Turcs ..., translated by Monsieur Ricaut [Amsterda...

Ɵ Guillaume Joseph Grelot, Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople..., first edition [Paris, Damien Foucault, 1680] complete, woodcut vign...

ƟGuillaume Joseph Grelot, A Late voyage to Constantinople: containing an exact description of the ... Grand Seraglio and chief mosques ..., first ...

ƟM. de Ferriol and Le Hay, Explication des cent estampes qui representent different Nations du Levant. Avec de nouvelle estampes de ceremonies tur...

ƟLady Elizabeth Craven, A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople ... [London, G. G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789] complete, half-title, large fol...

ƟWilliam Alexander, Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manner of the Turks, first edition [London, John Murray, 1814] complete, frontisp...

ƟPanormic Sketch of Jerusalem, taken from the Governor's Palace, from sketches by Mrs Bracebridge [n.p., probably London, 16 December 1833] comple...

ƟJulia Pardoe, The Beauties of Bosphorous ... views of Constantinople, illustrations by William H. Bartlett [London, George Virtue, 1838] complete...

ƟRev. Robert Walsh, Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, illustrated by Thomas Allom, first edition, first series [...

ƟRev. Robert Walsh, Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, illustrated by Thomas Allom, first edition, first & second...

ƟMichael Angelo Titmarsh, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, first edition [London, Chapman and Hall, 1846] complete, hand-coloured ...

ƟArthur J. Joyce, The Cossack and the Turk: a popular account of the affairs of the Ottoman Empire, first edition [London, Henry Vizetelly, 1853] ...

ƟThéophile Gautier, Constantinople of To-Day, first English edition [London, David Bogue, 1854] complete, sepia frontispiece and additional engrav...

Frederick George (artist, attributed to), Three illustrations for publication in the Illustrated London News, original drawings on paper [Egypt (p...

ƟEdmondo de Amicis, Constantinople, first edition, 2 volumes [Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & co., 1896] 2 volumes, complete, frontispieces and ph...

ƟAbu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina, known as 'Avicenna', Al Qanun fi al'Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), first edition, printed in Arabic [Ro...

ƟKitab Tahthib al-Ibarat fi fin an 'Akhadh al-Misahat (Treatise on Land Surveying), translated by Sa'id Omra Efendi from French to Arabic, apparen...

ƟSmall collection of works relating to Jerusalem & the Hebrew Language, in English [London, 1844-1883] 4 volumes, comprising: (i) W.H. Bartlett, W...

ƟAn Indian Qur'an, in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi, lithographed on paper [India (probably Bombay), dated 1292 AH (1865 AD)] textually complete, possibl...

ƟCaptain H. Wilberforce Clarke, The Bustan by Shaikh Muslihu-d-din Sa'di Shirazi, first edition [London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1879] complete, chr...

ƟSir Charles Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, 5 volumes including Supplement [London, Virture & co. n.d., 1880-84] complete, each v...

ƟCharles Marvin, The Russians at Merv and Herat, first edition [London, W. H. Allen & co, 1883] complete, frontispiece, plates throughout, many ga...

ƟVues Photographiques des Fouilles d'Al Foustat, together with Apel et Ses Environs, both photobooks, in French and Arabic [Cairo and possibly Par...

ƟYemen in 1937 and 1938, documented by Italian traveller B.V. Clementi, two albums of black & white photography with manuscript annotations and ca...

ƟArt and Reference Books relating to Middle Eastern and Persian Art & History [most UK, twentieth century]12 volumes, comprising: Islamic Painting...

Document recording a grain delivery by Aspiy, made in part payment of a debt owed to Muzd, in Middle-Iranian language and Bactrian script, manuscr...

ƟAbu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, work of Maliki Fiqh, possibly his commentary on Tirmidh's Hadith Collection 'Aridhat al-Ahwazi', in Arabic, decorated manu...

Bifolium from an Abbasid Qur'an, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on parchment [Near East (possibly Levant regions), tenth century AD] single bifol...

ƟSection of a Mamluk Qur'anic Juz', in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Mamluk provinces, probably mid-fourteenth century] comprising text...

ƟA Sub-Saharan Qur'an, in a bound format, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [probably southern Sudan, mid-nineteenth century] 112 leaves (p...

ƟAn Alif-Ba Mufradat, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Provincial North Africa (possibly Tunisia), c. 1800] complete, 18 leaves on West...

ƟKitab al-Lughat (a Treatise on the Arabic Language), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Near East, dated month of Sha'ban 1330 AH (1912 AD...

An impressive Qur'an leaf, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on polished paper [probably Mamluk Mesopotamia, c. 1320] single folio of very high qu...

Bifolia from three Mamluk Qur'ans, in Arabic, illuminated manuscripts on paper [Mamluk Regions including Egypt and Yemen, fifteenth and early sixt...

ƟNazm Al-Jawahra al-Sheikh Ibrahim al-Qani (a Treatise of Religious Doctrines in Poetic form), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [“the coas...

ƟAn Ottoman Anthology of Poetry, in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Turkey, second half of seventeenth c...

An Ottoman Hilya, signed Abd'ullah Al-Tufighi, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Turkey, dated 1220 AH (1805-6 AD)] single leaf,...

ƟMuhammad bin Abdan ibn al-Boudi al-Damashqi, Shahr Mukhtasar al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (A Commentary on the fourth chapter of Avicenna’s Canon of Medic...

ƟA fragment from a medical treatise including sections on the pulse and urine, in Farsi, decorated manuscript on thick paper [Ilkhanid Persia, ear...

Tashrih-e Mansuri, three leaves from dispersed manuscripts, in Farsi, decorated manuscripts on paper [probably Safavid Persia, eighteenth century]...

ƟAbu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina, known as ‘Avicenna’, Al Qanun fi al'Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on p...

ƟMusa bin Muhammad Qadi Zadeh al-Rumi, Sharh al-Mulakhas fi'Ilm al-Hay'a (an Astronomical Treatise), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Tim...

ƟMasa'il Ilm al-Astrab (a Treatise on Workings of the Astrolabe), in Arabic and Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [Timurid Persia, c. 1490 AD] ...

ƟNasir al-Din al-Tusi, Shahr Usul Ashkal kitab Uqlidis fi ilm al-Hindasa (an exposition on mathematics and geometry taken from Euclid's Elements),...

ƟKhalasa al-Hisab (a Summation of Mathematics), copied by the scribe “al-Taqsil Abbas”, in Arabic with marginal commentary in Farsi, decorated man...

ƟNataij al'Funnun bound with a historical treatise, in Arabic and Turkish, decorated manuscript on paper [China (town of “Khong Fo”, probably Xing...

ƟKitab al-Mat'hul fi Ilm Tarbi'a ..., being a practical manual on the training and riding of horses, copied by the scribe Ali bin Hajj Muhammad Re...

ƟHizb from a Sejluk Qur'an, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Sejluk Persia (probably eastern Khorasan regions), c.1100 AD] 9 leaves (pl...

Eastern Kufic bifolium, from a Seljuk Qur'an, in Arabic, with interlinear translation in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Seljuk Persia, c....

ƟNur ad-Din Abd'ul Rahman Jami, Haft Awrang, comprising 4 parts only, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Timurid Persia, second half of fi...

ƟNizami Gangavi, Makhsan al-Asrar (Treasury of Secrets), in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on polished paper [Qajar Persia, c. 1820 AD] 41 leaves (...

A Collection of Nine Grants and Deeds, in Farsi, illuminated and decorated manuscripts on paper [Qajar Persia (Fars region), from 1272-1314 AH (18...

ƟSa'adi Shirazi, Golestan (The Rose Garden), in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Qajar Persia, second half of nineteenth century] complete,...

ƟConcertina-style album of nasta'liq calligraphy, signed “Fakir Shad”, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Qajar Persia, dated Jumada al-Th...

An exceptional Qur'an Scroll, reportedly once displayed above Shah Jahan's Peacock Throne, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [India (probab...

ƟShaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh, Bahar'i Danish (The Springtime of Knowledge), in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [probably Delhi, North India,...

ƟNur ad-Din Abd'ul Rahman Jami, Yusuf wa Zulaikha, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on polished paper [Northern India (Kashmir), 1800-1820 AD] com...