Antiquities, Islamic & Indian Arts

A South Arabian alabaster head, circa 3rd-1st Century B.C., with eyes in sunk relief, one with the remains of the original limestone sclera, the n...

An Attic black-figure lekythos from the workshop of the Emporion Painter, early 5th Century B.C., enlivened with added wine red and white, depicti...

Three ancient pottery vessels, circa 2500 B.C. – 7th Century B.C., including two coarse pottery vessels from the Holy Land, one vessel with globul...

Eighteen miniature Roman glass vessels and amulets, Circa 1st-4th Century A.D., including a pale green bag-shaped vessel, 2cm high; a dark blue co...

Two Roman carnelian intaglios, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D., both set within their original bezels, one engraved with a figure of the goddess Nemesi...

Two Scythian bronze fittings, circa 700-400 Century B.C., both in figure-of-eight form, with zoomorphic motifs, each end with eyes, a beak and cre...

A bronze statue of a flamingo and frog, possibly Roman, on an oval base with incised detail, 7cm. highProvenance: Private Collection, London acqui...

Kitab al-Malahama, Ottoman Turkey, dated 15 Sha’ban AH 924 /1 September 1518 AD, Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, an apocalyptic compilation f...

A brown tooled leather binding, Ottoman Turkey, 18th century, the central panel with a lobed medallions with pendants above and below, the corner ...

Four late illustrations on earlier unrelated and detached illuminated folios, one folio with a colophon dated 995AH/1586AD (4)

A decoupe and a black and white fold-and-reveal double calligraphic panel, India, 19th century or later, black ink, opaque and transparent pigment...

A calligraphic quatrain of Khusraw Dehlavi, Iran, black nasta'liq script on gold speckled paper, laid on black card, signed Fakhr al-Din Ahmad a 1...

An illustrated palm leaf from a Pancharaska manuscript, Nepal, 12th-14th century, opaque pigments on paper, depicting one of the five Goddesses in...

Two folios from a dispersed Shahnama, Delhi, North India, circa 1840, ink and opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, illustrating the deat...

A miniature Vaishnava sect palm leaf manuscript from Dashavatara: the 10 incarnations of Vishnu, Orissa, circa 1800, pen and ink on palm leaf, the...

An illustrated tantric manuscript, Nepal, 19th century or earlier, 14ff., with black and opaque pigments on yellow paper, the manuscript opening b...

A cosmic diagram arranged in a booklet, Kutch, India, late 18th-early 19th century, 6ff., ink and opaque pigments on paper the cosmic diagram divi...

A portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar's Vizier Haji Mirza Abbas Iravani, better known by his title of Aqasi, Iran,dated 1325AH/(1907AD), opaque pigmen...

His Majesty Mahommed Shah of Persia, Proof state of a mezzotint by J. E. Coombs, after a painting by J. H. Twigg (fl. 1839), published by Welch an...

Two panels of calligraphy by Gulam Reza, Qajar Iran, late 19th century, Persian manuscript on paper, each panel with 4ll. of thick black nasta'liq...

A Sino Islamic calligraphic work, 20th century, opaque pigments on paper, 50 x 70cm. 

A prayer book, including selected suras from the Qur'an, Ottoman Empire, late 19th century, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 85 lea...

Three Ottoman calligraphic panels (ijaza'), Turkey, 18th century, unsigned, one with attribution to Sheikh Hamdullah, comprising a fine ijaza', th...

A Safavid firman fragment in Shikasteh script with the names of Imams, Iran, 17th century, with 2 lines of shikasteh script in black, blue and gol...

A Qajar portrait of a princess in the Safavid style, Iran, late 19th-early 20th century, ink and opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, de...

A Qajar painting of a horseman, signed Malek Hussain Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, 19th century in a 18th century border, ink and opaque pigments on pap...

A Qur'an, Ottoman Turkey, 17th-18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 3fl., each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, gold roundel verse markers ou...

A miscellaneous collection of orientalist material, mostly 19th-century, including an Ottoman travel document for Captain James Broad of the Charl...

The Private Library of Professor JM Rogers (1935-2022), approximately 900 rare publications, journals and pre-1960s monographs on the art and arch...

An Ottoman talismanic manuscript dated 1229AH and a fragmentary quire with tables, possibly on geomancy, each with black naskh script on paper, tw...

A Quran, Ottoman Turkey, signed Al-Sayyid Husein al-Hamdi, dated 1273AH/1856-57AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 293ff. with 15ll. of black naskh to...

A firman of sultan 'Abd al-Majid II (R.18976-1909), 3 ll. of black diwani script under a possibly printed gold imperial tughra, marked fold marks ...

An album of black and white silver prints of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, circa 1920-30 and later, including views of Damascus gate, the Dome of the Ro...

A Qur'an section with spurious attribution to Yaqut ibn Abd'ullah al-Musta'simi, possibly Timurid Iran, late 15th century, Arabic manuscript on pa...

A printed copy of the Atbaq al-dhahab, Beirut, al-Matba’ al-Adabiyya, dated 1309 AH/1892AD, 53ff., typographic Arabic text, original printed board...

Kifayat al-ʻawamm fi hifz al-sihhah wa-tadbir al-asqam, Wortabet, John, Beirut, 1881, a medical treatise, printed Arabic text, black ink on paper,...

Hashiyya ‘ala sharh al-muhaqqaq Abi al-Layth al-Samarqandi, Muhammad al-Disuqi, al-Hajj Izzat, AH1275 AH /1858-9 AD, Undated lithographed replica ...

al-Siyalkuti, ‘Abd al-Hakim ibn Shams al-Din. Hashiyya ‘ala al-Qadi al-Baydawi, Istanbul, Dār al-Tiba'a al-'Amira, AH 1270 / 1854 CE, typographic...

 Ahmed ibn Hijazi al-Fashni,  a commentary on the 40 Hadith of al-Nawawi, Cairo, Kastali Press, 1278 AH/1861 AD, typographic Arabic text. 153ff., ...

Shams al-Din Abi ‘Abd Allah al-Damashqi al-Hanbali Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Kitab akhbar al-nisa’. [Cairo?], circa 1905, typographic Arabic text. 1...

‘Abd al-Hakim ibn Shams al-Din al-Siyalkuti, Siyalkuti ʻala al-tasawwurat. [Istanbul], Dār al-Tiba'a al-'Amira, 1259 AH/ 1843AD,  typographic Ara...

A Qur'an juz’ 25, China, late 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 55ff., 2fl., 5ll. of sini script within double-ruled red frames, heading i...

A fragmentary Qur'an, India, 15th/16th century, the text, not continuous, 20ff., 5fl., 6ll. of black-outlined gold naskh in two text blocks altern...

Juz’ 18 from an Ottoman 30-part Qur’an, Turkey, 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 27ff., written entirely in gold, with 7ll. of gold naskh...

A Qur'an juz', China, 19th century, juz' 25, Arabic manuscript on paper, 50ff., 2fl., 5ll. of sini per page within double-ruled red frames, openin...

Juz’ 5 from a 30-part Qur’an, copied in China, most likely in the 19th century, 53ff., with 5ll of Sini per page within double-ruled red frames, o...

Juz’ 4 from a 30-part Qur’an, copied in China, most likely in the 19th century, 52ff., with 5ll. of Sini per page within double-ruled red frames, ...

Juz’ 22 from a 30-part Qur’an, copied in China, most likely in the 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 59ff.,with 5ll. of Sini per page with...

Juz’ 29 from a 30-part Qur’an, copied in China, most likely in the 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 53ff., with 5ll. of black Sini script...

Juz’ 12 from a 30-part Qur’an, copied in China, most likely in the 19th century, 58ff., with 5ll of black Sini per page within double-ruled red fr...

A Qur'an juz', China, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff., 2fl., 5ll. of black sini script per page, within double-ruled red frames, o...

A large section from a Qur’an most likely copied in Daghestan, Arabic manuscript on Russian paper, 348ff.,  with 13 lines of naskh within double-r...

Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Maqrizi (d. 845AH/1441AD): al-durrah al-bahirah fi tarikh Misr wa khitatahu al-'amirah Part IV, Ottoman Provinces, p...

 Friederich Dieterich, ed.. Thier und Mensch vor dem König der Genien. Ein arabisches Märcen aus den Schriften der Lautern Brüdern in Basra, pu...

Kitab al-mustatab, Istanbul, Dār al-Tiba'a al-'Amira, AH 1275 /1859 AD, typographic Arabic text, 299pp., misbound in modern library cloth with fl...

A lithographed copy of the Akhlaq-i Jalali by Jalal al-Din Muhammad b. Asa‘d Davvani (d.1502AD). Lucknow, Munshi Naval Kishore, December 1891AD / ...

Hashiyya al-mutawwal li-Hassan Celebi, Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey, AH 1309 /1891-2 AD, Typographic Arabic text in black ink, 594pp., 2fl., the upper...

Two illustrated bifolios from a manuscript, Iran, early 20th century, ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, one folio of each wit...

An illustrated bifolio of a manuscript, Iran, 19th and margins early 20th century, ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with pan...