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Two boxes of mixed books to include Folio society, historical interest and more.

A large folio of paintings mostly 20th cent 

Leech, John, Pictures of Life and Character, 2 vols, London Bradbury & Agnew & Co 1886, gilt dec green half calf and textured cloth, folio; lot also includes Punch Vol CXLVI 1914 (3)

ALEXANDER DRUMMOND: TRAVELS THROUGH DIFFERENT CITIES OF GERMANY, ITALY, GREECE AND SEVERAL PARTS OF ASIA AS FAR AS THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES..., London, printed by W Strahan for the author, 1754, 1st edition, 34 engraved plates and maps as called for, some water staining, pages 121-122 with closed tear, folio, contemporary carved worn, boards detached, all leaves before B detached

ARCENGELLO CORELLI: 4 works: CONCERTI GROSSI... OPERTA SEXTA-QUINTA - SECONDA - TERZA, 1st work, London for I Walsh and I Hare, circa 1725, 2nd work London for I Walsh, circa 1736 (2 parts with separate title pages), 3rd work, London, printed for the author and sold by I Walsh, circa 1732, 4th work, London for I Walsh, 1735, all works for 2nd violin only, bound in with 8 other works for 2nd violin, comprising PIETRO CASTRUCCI: CONCERTI GROSSI..., London for John Walsh, circa 1736, JOHN HUMPHRES: XII CONCERTOS IN SEVEN PARTS... OPERA SECONDA, London, B Cooke, circa 1741, GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI: VI CONCERTI GROSSI... OPERA SECONDA, London for J Simpson, circa 1745; RICHARD MUDGE: SIX CONCERTOS IN SEVEN PARTS...TO WHICH IS ADDED NON NOBIS DOMINE..., London for I Walsh, circa 1749; JOHN STANLEY: SIX CONCERTOS IN SEVEN PARTS..., London for I Walsh, circa 1745; CHARLES AVISON: TWELVE CONCERTOS IN SEVEN PARTS..., London, Joseph Barber for the author, 1744; ANTONIO VIVALDI: 2 works: SELECT HARMONY BEING XII CONCERTOS IN SIX PARTS..., London for I Walsh circa 1732; TWO CELEBRATED CONCERTOS, THE ONE COMMONLY CALLED THE CUCKOW AND THE OTHER EXTRAVAGANZA, London for I Walsh, circa 1730, all works engraved throughout, folio, contemporary reverse calf worn, top board with inset morocco gilt panel, titled "Violino Secondo"

One box of books Folio Society and others

One box of books war interest to include the Boer War, Folio Society and various others

One box mixed books to include Perraults Fairytales, Folio Society, King Alberts Book and others

THE COVERDALE BIBLE, intro S L Greenslade, Folkestone, W Dawson 1975, 1st facsimile edition from The Holkham copy in the British Library, folio, original buckram, original slip-case

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK: THE BOTTLE IN 8 PLATES, (cover title), London, David Bogue, [1847], 1st edition, published for the author, 8 plates, folio, original printed wraps

JOURNAL DES VOYAGESET DES AVENTURES DE TERRE ET DE MER, July 1877-June 1885 in 8 bound volumes, each folio, 1st volume rebound quarter calf, volumes 2-8 contemporary quarter calf gilt worn (8)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE, edited Charles Knight, London, Virtue, circa 1880, "Imperial edition", 2 volumes, 2 added steel engraved vignette title pages + 45 steel engraved plates (lists of illustrations call for 44 engraved plates, one additional plate), folio, contemporary half calf gilt worn, spines gilt in compartments, all edges gilt (2)

EDGAR WALLACE: CHARLES PEACE, IN "THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH", 1931, Nos 3592-3609, complete story, folio, original wraps, staples rusted (18)

BRITISH AIR FORCES, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE FLEET AIR ARM, ALSO AEROPLANES OF THE USE, GERMANY AND ITALY, London, The Illustrated London News, circa 1944, oblong folio, original limp wraps + C H GIBBS-SMITH: THE AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION MANUAL, London, George Newnes for British Aviation Publications, 1944, original cloth + OLIVER STEWART (ED): THE ROYAL AIRFORCE IN PICTURES, London, Country Life 1941, original cloth + MAUREEN HILL: IMAGES OF WAR THE BLITZ, London Parragon 2004, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards, d/w + five others, aviation interest (10)

BRUCE CAMPBELL: THE BIRD PAINTINGS OF HENRY JONES, intro HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, preface Professor Lord Zuckerman, Folio Fine Editions/The Zoological Society of London, 1976 (500), numbered, 24 coloured plates as called for, oblong, original half green leather gilt, top edges gilt, cloth gilt slip-case with split at edge

§ Francis Newton Souza (Indian 1924-2002) Folio of Four Erotic Drawings comprising Lovers, 1962, signed and dated in pen, pen and ink on paper; Lovers, 1963, signed and dated in pen (upper left), pen and ink on paper; Lovers, 1962, signed and dated in pen (lower left), pen and ink on paper; Bound Figure, 1962, signed and dated in pen, pen and ink on paperDimensions:13cm x 14cm (5 1/8in x 5 1/2in); 40cm x 53cm (15 3/4in x 20 7/8in); 27cm x 43cm (10 5/8in x 17in); 19cm x 34cm (7 1/2in x 13 1/2in), all unframed

A Robert Graves 'Goodbye to all that' Folio Society book

A Mughal portrait of a nobleman smoking, India, 17th century, gouache on paper heightened with gold, the sitter depicted on a terrace facing right, his right arm resting on a balustrade, wearing a deep red sash, the face finely painted, within an oval frame and green ground, blank inscription cartouches above and below, within a border of gold flowers on a blue ground, the folio with gold grape bunches and flowering plants within a lattice design, glazed and framed, folio 39.3 x 25cm., image 18 x 12cm. Please refer to department for condition report

The wedding of Krishna and Rukmani, an illustration to the Rukmani Harana from the Bhagvata Purana, late Kangra style, Punjab Hills, North India, 1840-50, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, Krishna depicted within the walls of a palace mounted on horseback with his brother Balabhadra also mounted, Rukmani is hidden within a palanquin above with a purple and gold embroidered cover, the wedding guests elaborately dressed bejewelled, the walls of the palace enhanced with gold and silver, the whole on green ground, within a border of white flower heads and leaves on a dark blue ground, wide outer pink border, secondary attached folio with inscription in black davanagari, folio 35.5 x 26.7cm. Please refer to department for condition report

Four portraits of women, Lucknow, North India, late 18th century, opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, arranged in a square, the portraits of oval form and each depicting a regional beauty, pasted down on a red ground with gold floral lattice, between each a border of meandering gold leaves on blue, a larger gold flecked folio, each portrait approx. 5 x 6.5cm.; painting 18.7 x 21.2cm. and folio 35.1 x 23cm. Please refer to department for condition report

The opening folio of a Rasamanjari of Daruja Khan, Deccan, Aurangabad, dated 1650, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, two ladies sit on an orange floral carpet in a small chamber which is decorated with a colourful painted frieze, the girl on the right is offering a lotus flower to her companion, the scene is within a thin gilt border with black and red rules, 2 line inscription to the top, the reverse with 12 lines of text, a second attached folio with 15 lines of text on front and back, some words highlighted in red, folio 17 x 21cm., image 11.6 x 15.5cm.Provenance: Simon Digby CollectionThe colophon to the Rasamanjari series to which this page belongs states that it was completed at Aurangabad for a price of a fief of Mewar. The manuscript was published by S. Doshi, 'An Illustrated manuscript from Aurangabad dated 1650 A.D.', Lalit Kala, no.15, pp. 19-28, who posited that the patron was serving in the Mughal armies campaigning in the Deccan. This would account for the synthesis of Mughal, Rajasthani and Deccani styles. This Rasamanjari series is very closely related to a Ragamala set of which pages are published in M. Chandra, Mewar Painting, Delhi 1957, pl.7; S.C. Welch, M.C. Beach, Gods, Thrones and Peacocks, New York 1965, n. 18, and S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum 1998, no. 127. Both manuscripts are distinguished by their deep and vibrantly contrasting colours. Two other paintings from this Rasamanjari were sold at Sotheby's. 7 July 1975, lots 86-87. Please refer to department for condition report

A folio from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), Saranga Ragini, Sub-Imperial Mughal, circa 1610-20, opaque pigments on paper, inscribed above the painting with 3 lines of Sanskrit couplets in nagari script, uncoloured border with black, gold, white and blue rules, miniature 14.3 x 10.5 cm; folio: 21.5 x15.8 cm.Provenance: Spink & Sons 1967The ragamala series to which this page belonged relates both in date and style to the Laud Ragamala in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (see H.Stooke, K.Khandalavala, The Laud Ragamala, Oxford 1953), and to the Manley Ragamala, illustrated in K.Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel 1973, pp.160-162. Like those manuscripts, this set must have been produced for an educated Hindu.Folio with losses to edges, reverse with inscription in Persian, minor losses to paintPlease refer to department for condition report

A Jharokha portrait of a prince, Jaipur, North India, circa 1800, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting facing left, with single pearl earring and nose ring, his luminous skin and finely arched brow denoting his youth, an elaborately pattered border below, within gold outer rule, on a speckled folio, painting 19 x 10cm. Provenance: Malletts, London, 1970s; the collection of Captain Jan Vlug (1918-76); Baron Michel Pilette de Kinnear, Belgium, by descent, 1976-2018 Please refer to department for condition report

A group of three Pahari school drawings, North India, late 18th century, pencil on paper, the first an unfinished standing portrait of a nobleman wearing a pearl earring, with black devanagari inscription above; the second a drawing of Krishna, Brahma with a sadhu and two visitors, possibly a scene from the Ramayana, mounted on a gold speckled folio; the third a finely drawn composition from the Ramayana of Durga attacking the demons, traced in pencil and red ink, 28.5 x 19cm. (3)Please refer to department for condition report

Two illustrated leaves from a Jain Kalpasutra manuscript. Western India, probably Gujarat, 18th century, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, each folio depicting a seated Jain deity to one half of the folio and text to the other, the reverse with plain text, each approx. 28.5 x 12cm. (2)Provenance: Private European CollectionThe Kalakacaryakatha tells the story of the Jain monk, Kalaka, who invited an army of Saka warriors (also known as Scythian) in order to rescue his sister, who had been captured by King Gardhabilla. Texts were normally appended to the end of manuscripts of the Kalpasutra: however, the numeral 5 which appears on one of the leaves indicates that these leaves derive from an independent Kalakacaryakatha manuscript. The illustrations depict Indra in two forms, as himself and as an ascetic, paying homage to Kalaka. Another depicts an army besieging the city of Ujjain in Malwa, which had been captured by King Gardhabilla, and in the process rescuing Kalaka's sister.Please refer to department for condition report

A miniature copy of the Bhagavat-Gita devotional text, featuring the ten Avatars of Vishnu with special emphasis on the life of Krishna, North India, probably Kashmir, 19th century, Sanskrit in Devanagari script, 222ff., plus six fly leaves, each folio with 5ll. of black script arranged between yellow and red rules, some phrases picked out in red, numerous illustrations , in modern black binding, folio 5.5 x 7.7cm. Provenance: Private UK CollectionThe Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of book 6 of the Mahabharata called the Bhishma Parva), dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE and is typical of the Hindu synthesis. It is considered to be one of the holy scriptures for Hinduism.Please refer to department for condition report

A double-sided folio from a Bhagavata Purana series, Mewar, India, circa 1630-40, gouache on paper, each side has a verse in red Braj identifying the scenes, folio 40.6 x 23.7cm., image 34 x 17.5cm. Provenance: Simon Digby Collection, 1998For other leaves from this manuscript see: Ehnbom, Indian Miniatures, New York, 1985, no. 49; Poster, Realms of Heroism, New York, 1994, nos 154-5; the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1980.530.1a, b); Sotheby's, New York, 22 March 2002, lot 13 and 26 March 2003, lot 120; and Christie's, New York, 22 March 2000, lot 163.This manuscript is the earliest illustrated Bhagavata that can be assigned to Mewar with any certainty. As these paintings are less complex than those done for the Mewar court during the mid 17th century, it has been suggested that this manuscript was possibly painted in a workshop outlying the center of Mewar. In style, the painting is similar to a Dhola-Maru mansucript in the National Museum of India, New Delhi, which was painted in Aghatpur, near Udaipur.Please refer to department for condition report

Prashant Vichitra (Indian, 20th century), Dancing Spirits, Intaglio print in colours, Editioned 'A/P - 4/6' lower left, titled '"Dancing Spirits"' lower centre, and signed and dated 'Prashant Vichitra / 1977' lower right, Artist's Proof, Edition 4 of 6Image: 36.4 x 48.2 cm. (14 ¼ x 19 in.)Folio: 45.8 x 57.8 cm. (18 x 22 ¾ in.)Executed in 1977Provenance: The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs Ute RettbergPlease refer to department for condition report

Chitrangada Krishna, (Indian, 20th-21st Century)Composition, Etching with hand colouring, Editioned 'A-P' lower left, titled 'Composition' lower centre and signed 'Chitrangad Krishna' lower right, Artist's ProofImage: 19.4 x 16.5 cm. (7 ⅝ x 6 ½ in.)Folio: 38.2 x 27.4 cm. (15 x 10 ¾ in.)Provenance: The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs Ute RettbergPlease refer to department for condition report

A very rare early illustration to a mid-13th century obscene poem, Bukhara, Iran, late 16th century, ink and opaque pigments heightened with gold, depicting lovers including a figure in a distinctive black hat, in various coupling positions in a brightly coloured and patterned tile interior, with 2 lines of Persian nasta'liq above and below within cloudbands on a gold ground, and diagonal line of the same above and below, outer border decorated in gold with animals on a floral ground, signature top left, mounted, glazed and framed, painting 26.5 x 17cm. Provenance: Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021)Ostensibly, this single folio was part of a manuscript of the collected works (Kulliyāt) of the renowned Persian poet and mystic, Saʿdī of Shiraz (d. 1292 CE). The painting is partially framed by five couplets that belong to a short narrative poem (masnavī) that is found in the little-studied and unpublished collection of Saʿdī’s obscene works (khabīsāt), which are featured prominently in the earliest manuscripts of the Kulliyāt (see D. Ingenito, Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry). The poem, which comprises seventy couplets, recounts the story of a handsome young man who marries an uncomely and ill-mannered woman. Upon experiencing an erotic fiasco during their first night together, the young man begs his father-in-law to allow him to divorce his wife. The father rejects this request by telling the young man that he would have to spend time in jail in order to pay back his daughter’s dowry. After thinking at length about his miserable condition, the young husband resorts to the uncanny expedient of seducing and sexually subjugating his wife’s entire family and entourage, without discriminating between women and men of any age. Being the only family member who has not been assaulted by the young man, the father consents to the divorce of the couple with no further hesitation. The five couplets quoted in this folio pertain to the central part of the poem, which offers a detailed description of the orgiastic spree undertaken by the young man. As is often the case with Saʿdī’s obscene works, in these lines, explicit descriptions of sexual acts are juxtaposed with delicate similes and metaphors that are drawn from the poet’s inimitable lyric styleThe combination of high and low poetic registers in Saʿdī’s ludic narration in verse is reflected in the stylistic elegance with which the painting portrays scenes of sexual disinhibition. In fact, in this folio (if one takes into account the contents of the entire poem), the visual and literary texts simultaneously stage the lewd and the alluring dimensions of eroticism: intimate body parts are covered and uncovered by fine garments, while mechanical forms of sexual penetration reveal seductive tensions between bodies enraptured by desire. The decorative aspect of pieces of clothing, rugs, curtains, along with the delicate rotation of different limbs, seems to mimic the rhetorical embellishments with which Saʿdī’s lines describe multiple forms of vaginal and anal intercourse. Whereas the poem, line by line, offers a list of the young man’s sexual encounters with the members of his wife’s family in chronological order, the painting portrays all of them simultaneously. The orgiastic aesthetics of the visual representation does not allow onlookers to recognize specific details found in the poem (apart from a candle held by a young man on the bottom right). The young husband, as a serial penetrator, occupies a different timeframe in each section of the painting. While his physical features appear to be always the same, different erotic settings are distinguished by different garments. At the center of the painting, as a bizarre variation of the erotic scenes, the young husband appears to have a darker skin color. Moreover, instead of having sex with a beardless male or female youth, the darker boy seems to be penetrating a bearded man. A man with similar facial features and hair appears on the top right of the painting. One could assume that this adult male is the visual depiction of the young man’s father-in-law who, in the versified plot, fears the sexual intentions of his daughter’s husband after having been made aware of the erotic tumult he has brought to his family.Stylistic features of this painting suggest that it was produced in Shiraz between the 1560s and the 1570s CE (see, for instance, a Gulistān copied in Shiraz in 1575). Visual representations of Saʿdī’s bawdy verses (and, in general, of obscene poetry) are extremely rare before the 17th century. Nonetheless, a manuscript of Saʿdī’s Kulliyāt copied in Shiraz in 1566 (British Library, Add. 24944) presents a painting that is strikingly similar to this one [reproduced by Boone, see attachment] and illustrates exactly the same erotic masnavī. Even though both Lâle Uluç and Joseph Allen Boone misread Saʿdī’s poem as a text on “lovemaking techniques” and its visual representation found in Add. 24944 (f. 333) as a “brothel scene,” these documents attest to the existence of a Saʿdī-centric tradition of erotic iconography that developed in Shiraz during the second half of the 16th centuryWith special thanks for this cataloguing to Domenico Ingenito, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of California, Los AngelesFolio stuck down

An Eastern Kufic Qur'an folio, Abbasid Persia or Iraq, 11th century, Arabic manuscript on thick buff paper, 23 lines of Eastern Kufic in black ink, vocalization in red and green, diacriticals in black, gold curl verse marker, marginal medallions and vase shape to both sides in gold with leafy motif, folio 26.7 x 20.3cm. Provenance: Spink & Sons, LondonAnother folio from this Qur'an was sold at Christie's 11 April 2014, Lot 245Please refer to department for condition report

Four Maghrebi Qur'an folios, North Africa or Al-Andalus, 9th-10th century, Arabic manuscript on vellum, each written in sepia Maghrebi script, with gold and polychrome marginal decoration, one with a verse header in gold, comprising the surah al-Takathur (102), vv.5-8; sura al-‘Asr (103), vv.1-3; the surah Hud (11), vv.5-9; the surah al-Nahl (16) vv.24-28; surah Qaf (50), vv.13-15, folio 21 x 16.5cm, 19.7 x 19.4cm., 21 x 17.5cm., 18.7 x 19.6cm. (4)Provenance: Spink & Son, LondonPlease refer to department for condition report

A North African portable prayerbook, probably Morocco, circa 1800, 300ff. approx. Arabic manuscript on paper, with 7ll. of neat maghrebi script in black, gold and polychrome, within red and blue outer rule, some marginal notes, 6pp. to beginning and 12pp. at end in a different hand, opening folio with illuminated title page, headers in polychrome decorated cartouches, some with red guard sheets, red morocco gilt binding panelled in gilt flower tools, central lozenge black, preserved in a contemporary blue velvet travelling case with red and gilt cord binding, embroidered with flowers in relief, folio 11 x 11.5cm. Please refer to department for condition report

A leaf from an Ilkhanid Qur'an, Iran or Mesopotamia, circa 1275-1315, Surah 2 (al-Baqara/the Cow), v. 241-248; and a large group of fragmentary Ilkhanid Qur'an folios, many with sections cut out, all of roughly similar size, with gold and polychrome verse markers, marginal illumination, folio approx 48 x 35 cm (a lot)Provenance: UK Book Trade, 1998Please refer to department for condition report

Juz 10 of a a large Qu’ran, Persia, circa 1300, in its original binding, Arabic manuscript on paper, 31ff., with 5 ll. of black muhaqqaq script, titles in silver, with gold and polychrome verse markers, marginal medallions in gold on a red ground every 5th verse, marginal medallions in gold with silver surround and decorated with leaves every 10th verse, containing varying number of medallions and lozenges, in original extensively blind-tooled brown morocco binding, each with eight-lobed central medallion, flap with central field of interlocking strapwork, sewn on 3 cords, folio 44 x 31 cmProvenance: Private Collection Norway since the 1990’s with paper label "The Shoyen Collection".The Schøyen Collection was started around 1920 by Engineer M.O. Schøyen (1896-1962), father of Martin Schøyen, who collected some 1000 volumes of early and later editions of Norwegian and international literature, history, travel, science, as well as antiquities.Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman religious commentary, Turkey, dated 966AH/ 1558-9AD, Ottoman Turkish manuscript on coloured paper, incomplete, 440ff., with approx. 25 lines of text arranged variously, in two columns, with diagonal text to margins within gold outer rule, headers in red, edges of pages gilded, numerous gold and polychrome decorated headers, in later green morocco binding with gilt lattice decroation, folio 24.8 x 13.4cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ethiopic religious text, Ethiopia, first half 19th century, 103ff., in Ge'ez on vellum, with 19 lines written in black and red ink, 1 ornamental painted headpiece, with contemporary cloth covered wood board covers, folio 13.6 x 9.1cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

A Qur'an, Kashmir, North India, early 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 439ff., with 12 lines of elegant black naskh per page within gold and outer blue rule, gold roundel verse markers, headers in red naskh, with three double pages of polychrome and gold illuminated floral decoration, brown morocco binding with flap, folio 23.7 x 14.2cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman collection of prayers, including surah al-An’am (6), surah Fatir (35) and Al-Jazuli’s Dala'il Al-Khayrat, Turkey, copied by Hafez Mehmet, known as Cakizadeh (?), dated 1156AH/1743-4AD, Arabic manuscript on polished cream paper, 130ff., with 11 lines of elegant black naskh per page within gold rule, copious marginal notes, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, some words in gold or red, two full page miniatures of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in gold and polychrome,in brown morocco binding with flap, tooled central medallion and corner spandrels enclosing arabesques, folio 16 x 10.6cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Numerous folios loose, binding with damage to corners

A North African collection of prayers, copied by Muhammed, bin ‘Abd al-Hamin bin Hamdun bin al-Hajj, dated 1215 AH/1800-01 AD, 252ff., with 10 lines of sepia Maghrebi script per page outlined in red and outer blue rule, some words in red, green and blue, headers in large gold script on a red ground with white floral ground contained within gold and polychrome interlace, numerous gold and polychrome drawings including the Ka’ba, in original red and brown gilt-decorated binding, folio 9.7 x 10cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman manuscript containing the surah al-An’am (6) and prayers, Turkey, second half 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 90ff., with 7 lines of black naskh per page, gold verse roundels, three gold and polychrome decorated headers, some pages stuck together, in brown morocco binding with flap, folio 10.5 x 7.5cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Folios with damp, smudging to ink, opening folio stuck to binding, numerous pages stuck together

An Ottoman Qur'an, Turkey, copied by Husein al-Rajai, student of (...) Ibrahim al-Sari and (...) Husein al-Wasfi, dated 1286AH/1869-70, Arabic manuscript on paper, 291ff., with 15ll. of neat black naskh script to the page within outer red rule, gold and polychrome verse roundels, headers in gold larger naskh, golf and polychrome floral marginal decoration, red morocco binding with flap and gold tooled central medallion and spandrels willed with cloudbands and scrolling vegetation, folio 15.6 x 10cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

A text on astronomy, probably a risala, Ottoman Turkey, dated Rajab 1246AH/ December 1830-1AD, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 63ff., with 19ll. of black naskh per page, some words and headings in red, numerous diagrams and polychrome illustrations of the planets, northern and southern hemispheres, green morocco binding with gilt border, folio 18.7 x 12cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman collection of prayers, Egypt, first half 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 115ff., with 9 lines of neat black naskh per page within gold outlined in black, including extracts from various surahs (surah al-An’am (6); surah al-Fath (48); surah al-Rahman (55) and surah al-Ankabut (29)), polychrome and gold verse markers, headers in gold and polychrome with floral decoration, opening folio and an addition folio with illuminated header, numerous gold and ink drawings, diagrams and tables, in green morocco binding with gilt border, folio 16.6 x 11.5cm.Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

Fifteen leaves from the Shahnameh, Timurid Persia, 15th century, Persian manuscript on polished paper, with 21ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, headers in gold naskh on a cream ground, some on a red hatched ground, outer margins with a delicate dense array of flowers and scrolling vines, folio 36 x 25cm. Provenance: The Private Collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman Qur'an, Turkey, copied by Hassan al-Nafi’I, dated AH 1275AH/1858AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 279ff., with 15 lines of black naskh within gold rule, gold roundel verse markers, headers in white naskh on a gold ground, blue ink and gold and polychrome marginal decoration, opening bifolio heavily illuminated with gold and polychrome flowers, text within an ovigal medallion, original brown morocco binding with flap, with tooled, gilded central medallion and spandrels, folio 18.9 x 11.9cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman Qur'an, Turkey, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 302ff., with 15 lines of neat black naskh per page, gold roundel verse markers, headers in white naskh on gold ground, opening bifolio with extensive gold and polychrome decoration, gold and polychrome floral marginal decoration, original brown morocco binding with flap with gilt-decorated tooled central cusped medallion and spandrels, folio 19.6 x 12.7cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

Kitab al-Ateima, a collection of notes on the food according to the Prophet, North Africa, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 79ff., with approx. 17 lines of sepia Maghrebi script per page within red rule, important words and some headers in large red Maghrebi script, the text mentioning chard and barley in chapter 1 and garlic and legumes later in the text, modern mottled brown paper covered binding, folio 22.8 x 15.5cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

A book of prayers, possibly a copy of the Dalail=Khayrat, North Africa, 19th century, Al-Jazuli's renowned work in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, 253ff., incomplete, with 8ll. of sepia maghrebi script per page, important words in gold, vocalization in blue and red, numerous polychrome and gold decorated heads each with orange protective paper, numerous full page polychrome and gold full page illustration including the Ka'aba with protective red page, lacking binding, folio 9 x 10.1cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

A Provincial Ottoman collection of prayers and religious commentary, copied by Ahmad Hegazi Ismail, dated 1274 AH/1857-58 AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 291ff., with 17 lines of neat black naskh per page within a gold border, important words in red, opening folio with gold and polychrome floral decoration, red morocco binding with flap and gilt decoration, red outer slip cover, folio 20.4 x 12.6cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An Ottoman collection of prayers, including Al-Jazuli’s Dala'il Al-Khayrat, Turkey, late 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 111ff. with 13 lines of neat black naskh per page, verse markers in gold and polychrome, gold and polychrome floral headers, two full illustrations of mosque interiors, red morocco binding with flap, with large gilt-decorated cusped medallion and spandrels containing arabesques, folio 16.4 x 11.3cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

An unusual Ottoman Qur'an, Turkey, late 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 92ff., with 35 lines of diagonal black naksh per page, verse markers in red, headers in red, in green morocco binding with gilded tooling, in red leather slip cover, folio 12 x 9.3cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

A work on enigmas and riddles by Sadiq Rutni, Persia, copied in Rajab 964 AH/ April 1557 AD, Persian manuscript on paper, 117ff., with 16 lines of black nasta'liq per page, important words in red, two diagrams in red and black ink, some folios replaced, in later Qajar lacquered papier mache binding, with polychrome floral decoration, folio 17 x 10.5cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Binding scuffed and with numerous losses, some folios repaced

An Ottoman collection of prayers, including Muhammad bin Sulayman Al-Jazuli؛’s Dala'il Al-Khayrat, copied by Hafiz Mehmet Amin al-Rushdi, dated 1239 AH/1823-4 AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 117ff., with 11 lines of black naskh per page, gold roundel verse markers, opening folio with polychrome and gold decorated header and text on gold, further heads in white naskkh on gold with floral detail, two full page illustrations in gouache on Mecca and Medina, binding of red morocco with gilt border and floral detail to centre, folio 16 x 9.7cm.Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Binding in poor condition, coming away from main book

An Ottoman collection of prayers, copied by Uthman bin Abu Bakr al-Tuqati known as Hajj 'Abd Mirzadeh, dated 950AH/1543-44AD, including Muhammad bin Sulayman Al-Jazuli؛’s Dala'il Al-Khayrat, Arabic manuscript on paper, 91ff., with 11 lines of elegant black naskh script per page, gold and polychrome verse roundels, headings blank on gold illuminated panels, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, the opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, gold and polychrome marginal section markers, with double-page illustration depicting the interior of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina in gold and polychrome, in red morocco with tooled cusped medallion filled with black flowering tendrils on a gold ground, within a gold and black repeating border, folio 15.5 x 10cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Please refer to department for condition report

Juz 20 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century,Surah an-Naml (27), v.60 to surah al-‘Ankabūt (29), v.44, Arabic manuscript on paper, 47ff., with 5ll. of black sini script per page outlined in red rule, vowel markers in black, gold rosette verse markers, headers in gold, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, closing bifolio in polychrome pink and green, in a brown tooled and stamped binding, folio 29.5 x 19cm. Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sPlease refer to department for condition report

Juz 20 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century,Surah An-Naml (27), v.60; to surah al-‘Ankabūt (29), v.44., Arabic manuscript on paper, 55ff., with 5ll. of black sini script per page outlined in red rule, vowel markers in black, gold rosette verse markers, headers in gold, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, in a brown tooled and stamped binding, folio 25.6 x 18.4cm. Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sPlease refer to department for condition report

Juz 22 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century,Surah al-Aḥzāb (33), v.31 to surah Yā Sīn (36), v.27, Arabic manuscript on paper, 55ff., with 5ll. of black sini script per page outlined in red rule, vowel markers in black and red, headers in red, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, in a brown tooled and stamped binding, folio 25.1 x 18.5cm. Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sPlease refer to department for condition report

Juz 22 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century,Surah al-Aḥzāb (33), v.31 to surah Yā Sīn (36), v.27, Arabic manuscript on paper, 53ff., with 5ll. of black sini script per page outlined in red rule, vowel markers in black, gold rosette verse markers, headers in red, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, closing bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome with floral detail, in a brown tooled and stamped binding, restored, folio 27 x 20cm. Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sPlease refer to department for condition report

Juz 28 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century, Surah al-Mujādilah (58), v.1 to surah at-Taḥrīm (66), v.12, Arabic manuscript on paper, 63ff., with 5ll. of black sini script per page outlined in red rule, vowel markers in black, surah headers in red, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, closing bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome, in a brown tooled and stamped binding with flap, folio 25.1 x 18cm. Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sPlease refer to department for condition report