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- Books, Iran
AESOP’S FABLES / URDU LANGUAGE / MUMBAI IMPRINT: نقليات يوسف [Nakaliyat-i Yusuf]
- 880.00€
- 8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).
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- Books, History, Iran, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS: ايرانده انكليزلر [İran’da İngilizler / Englishmen in Iran]
- 460.00€
- 8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Iran, Science
GEOGRAPHY / PERSIA / DAR UL-FUNUN, TEHRAN: فایت الجغرافیا [Principles of Geography]
- 1,600.00€
- A rare illustrated Persian book on geography, written by the leading Tehran-based astronomer and geographer Abdul Ghaffar Najm al-Mulk and published by Dar ul-Funun. 12°. 290 pp. lithographed text with illustrations and a map, folding map, contemporary half reddish-brown goat with black linen boards (binding hardly noticeable rubbed and stained, small old signature in black ink on the inner…
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- Books, History, Iran
GERMAN ORIENTALISTS – KARL SÜSSHEIM: العراضة فى الحكاية السلجوقية
- 960.00€
- [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte] A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…
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- Books, History, Iran
IRAN: ايران نامه [Iran Name]
- 650.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language 8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…
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- Bindings, Books, Iran
MASNAVI: كتاب المثنوى المعنوى [Kitab al-Masnavi al-Manavi / Masnavi]
- 950.00€
- An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi. 8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS: چحل طوطى [Chehel Tuti / Forty Parrots]
- 2,400.00€
- A rare Persian illustrated lithographed book with a popular story Forty Parrots. Large 8°, 54 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, original card paper boards, made of papier mâché and covered with white paper (visible lettering from “Tehran Station” on other side of the paper on the wrappers), contemporary cloth spine, bookseller’s stamp in the margin of the first text…
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN ILLUSTRATED LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS: قهرمان قاتل [Quahraman-e Qatel also Kahreman-i Katil also Kahraman Katil [Turkish / Ottoman version] / The Killer Hero]
- 2,400.00€
- Large 8°, 64 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, original card paper boards, made of papier mâché and covered with white paper, later spine, bookseller’s stamp in the margin of the first text page (binding rubbed and scuffed, but overall in a good condition, old annotation in French mounted on the inner side of the front board).
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS: تذكرة الاخوان [Message to Brothers] [Followed by Title:] كوز الرموز
- 3,200.00€
- A lithographed Persian text against Sufism and supporting Sharia, written by a Shah’s son Soleiman Mirza Qajar, with especially fine lithographed ornaments and an excellent provenance. 8°: [148 pp.] lithographed text with illustrated headers, contemporary brown goat, contemporary blue endpapers (old annotation on paper, mounted on the inner side of the rear board, manuscript title in black ink…
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS: تقدس [Taqdis]
- 2,800.00€
- Educational and moral stories in verses, accompanied with illustrations. Large 8°: 185 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, contemporary green goat with small paper label with title in black ink on the spine, two fragments of lithographed pages from other books used as paste down endpapers (Persian black book-seller’s stamps in white margins, Russian blind book seller’s stamp in…
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHED ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: كتاب يوسفيه [Ketab-e Yusofiyye / The Book of Joseph].
- 2,800.00€
- A Persian illustrated lithographed book with a charming contemporary wrappers, made of an advertisement of a Nizhny Novgorod-based firm. An example from a collection of the French orientalist and collector Charles-Henri-Auguste Schefer (1820 – 1898). Large 8°. 87 pp. lithograph with five illustrations in text and decorated margins, contemporary blue printed wrappers, made of Russian advertisements, brown spine…
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- Books, Iran
PERSIAN LITHOGRAPHY / MARGINAL COMMENTARIES: حاشية ملا عبد الله [Commentaries to Molla Abddullah]
- 2,200.00€
- An Arabic lithographed text on the refinement of logic with commentaries, architected in various geometric forms by several authors, with an excellent bibliophile provenance. Small 4°, [124 pp.] lithographed text with interleaved small-sized sheets with lithographed text, [29 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary dark green goat and brown spine with old paper label, minor water-staining to the margins of…
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