A Collection of printed books relating to the Middle East, in German, Syriac, Russian, Farsi and Arabic [mostly nineteenth or early twentieth century] comprising: (i) Rubayat Hakim Omar Khayyam, dated 1304 AH, numerous ink inscriptions to preliminary leaves, two plates of manuscript facsimiles of the work at the back, 160 x 120mm., boards covered with contemporary dutch-pastepaper; (ii) Hermann Gotz, Eine Orientreise, Leipzig, 1901, adnuchromolithographic frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, lightly foxed, 235 x 160mm., morocco-backed boards, spine gilt with raised bands; (iii) Philoxeni Mabbugensis, Scriptores Syri (Latin edition), Paris, 1907 AD, ex-libris stamps, 235 x 160mm., half vellum over marbled boards; (iv) Grey's Elegy, illuminated by Owen Jones, London, 1846, lightly foxed, 255 x 180mm., gothic-style binding; (v) A Qajar work on medical pathology, Tehran, dated 1300 AH, first leaf loose, 250 x 170mm., contemporary morocco binding; (vi) Ganjiyeh Qur'an, Tehran, dated 1328, plates and a folding table, 215 x 150mm., morocco-backed cloth boards; (vii) A history of the Russo-Japanese war, Istanbul, dated 1321, illustrations throughout, some gatherings loose, 240 x 170mm., original cloth with chromolithographic map pasted to upper cover, spine worn; (viii) Tuhfat al-Ayan bi-sira ahl'Uman, dated 1330 AH, 245 x 150mm., original printed cloth-backed boards All from the Mohamed Makiya collection
