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[1], [1 blank], [2], 645; 407; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 352 pp.Rare edition of one of the best Arabic translations of the Bible. This work is based on the 1671 version from Rome, which was the first printed edition of the complete Bible in Arabic. However, the version from 1671 was not vocalised (written with vowel points), but the present edition from London is.The Arabic translation of the Bible from 1671 was done under the direction of Sergius Risi (d. 1638), the archbischop of Damascus. It had been requested by the Archbischop of Aleppo and other important figures from the Eastern Church, as manuscript copies had become rare and were often found to be incorrect. Risi and his team compared the Arabic manuscripts of the Bible they had access to with Hebrew and Latin versions and then composed their own translation. They first completed the Arabic Pentateuch. The Old and New Testament followed in 1647 and 1650 respectively, after Risi's passing. These translations were revised and then finally… Read More

374 ll.Lengthy and well preserved 13th century Arabic manuscript law book on the fatwa, produced in the Levant by an anonymous author. A fatwa is legal advice given by a Muslim authority on request, with the purpose of resolving a religious or legal problem that has arisen among members of Islam. The person who gives the legal information is familiar with Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and is referred to as a mufti; the one who asks for legal advice is called Mustafti. According to the famed 13th-century Islamic jurist Ibn al-Qaayyim al-Jawziya mufti were “God’s agents". The present anonymous work seems to treat the jurisprudence of the fatwa itself, rather than declaring fatwa on something. The title means "The book of (kitab) analisys or understanding (al-waaqi) of the fatwa (fi'l-Fatawi)". As described in the book itself this is the first volume of an unknown total.Fatwas were produced by jurists from the 10th century onward and in the 13th century, when the present copy was made, several important… Read More

74 ll.A theological manuscript whose title can be translated as "The book of attributes of the Prophet and the leader". While the ruling on most leaves is horizontal and vertical, many include diagonal rules, arcs and circles, sometimes forming diagrams (there is also a diagrammatic human body drawn in red lines). The texts are written right side up, upside down, vertically, diagonally or in a circle or arc following the ruling, and with some passages of “text” consist entirely of a wide variety of symbols.Binding a little rubbed, spine chipped, sewing somewhat loose. Some light staining and soiling throughout; a few ink smudges; several (mostly marginal) tears (some professionally repaired), but nearly untrimmed and with the text, ruling, etc. in very good condition.

[8], 126, [2 blank]; [8]; [48] pp.First edition of this seminal work in the history of Arabic scholarship and printing: the first book on Arab proverbs, and the first critical edition ever of an Arabic text.These 200 proverbs constitute a collection akin to a mirror for princes, dedicated to the education and refinement of a gentleman’s personal and political life. The manuscript was obtained in Rome by the mathematician David de Fleurace, later the educator of Louis XIII, and given to Casaubon. J. J. Scaliger (1540-1609) had translated and explained the first 176 proverbs; after his death, the work was completed and prepared for publication by Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624), who had, just the year previous, become the first European to publish an Arabic grammar.The editors cite as their source Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn Salam (ca. 770-838 CE), a prolific Muslim scholar educated in Basra and well-versed in Muslim law (fiqh), the hadith tradition, theology, and various scholarly pursuits. This is one of the… Read More

45, [1 blank] pp.Very rare edition, possibly the first, of the Ottoman capitulations agreed between a French envoy on behalf of King Louis XV of France and a grand vizier on behalf of Sultan Mahmud I of the Ottoman Empire on 4 Rabi al-Awwal 1153 AH (30 May 1740 CE). We have located only three other copies: in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and Harvard's Houghton Library. This particular agreement comprises eighty-five articles, nearly all concerning the granting of trade, economic and legal rights favourable to France. It was mostly a renewal of articles previously agreed upon, but includes some newly introduced articles.The capitulations are a type of treaty by which foreign people are given certain privileges, mostly relating to trade and transportation, over or even at the expense of native citizens. These treaties did facilitate mutually beneficial commercial and financial contracts for the parties involved, considering an evolving global marketplace, for… Read More

1 leaf plus maps.Rare revised and enlarged edition of an English world atlas. Eleven of the maps are made from 4 sheets each, each numbered and bound in 2 parts, and the map of Asia with the islands of the Indian Ocean, Arabia, the East Indies, Australia and the Southwest Pacific is made from 6 sheets numbered and bound as 3 parts. The 4-sheet maps include the world in 2 hemispheres, Europe, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Holy Roman Empire, the East Indies, Africa, North America and South America. The extraordinary 4-sheet map of the world by Samuel Dunn, with the routes of various voyages of discovery (the main map after D'Anville), includes an inset map in Mercator projection, celestial hemispheres, the solar system (with orbits of comets) and even a map of the moon, hence the atlas title's reference to "the whole universe". Kitchen was a cartographer, engraver, and hydrographer to King George III.In very good condition. The marbled sides are badly rubbed and the spine cracked, chipped, and… Read More

A large watercolour painting from the Meiji period showing Nagasaki harbour viewed from the city, looking across at the Papenburg (Dutch for Pope's mountain), named for the many Catholic martyrs who were thrown off the peak. A large Asian ship in the harbour (15.5 cm tall in the painting) forms a focal point in the painting, while the masts of another appear in the foreground at left. Several more Asian sailing ships appear far in the background and there are many small rowboats in the foreground and background. Of special interest is a steamboat sailing into the harbour in the background left, with two smokestacks.Ochiai Yoshiiku (1833-1904) belonged to the group of woodcut artists known as the Utagawa school, and is therefore also known as Utagawa Yoshiiku. He studied with Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), who had studied with Tokokuni I (1769-1825), who took charge of the group when its founder, his teacher Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814), died. The Utagawa school is known for mixing Western traditions,… Read More

[16] pp.Complaints by shareholders of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of mismanagement on the part of the directors of the company had a long history. Already around 1610, shareholders had alleged in print and through official petitions that the company was building too expensive fortresses in India and failed to issue new shares in 1612, as had originally been agreed. Excessive spending on defensive buildings, they argued, would chip away at the profit share particularly of small shareholders while the failure to issue new shares would allow longstanding shareholders to reap more of the increasing income produced by the company. In the end, the protest of the shareholders uttered in this and similar pamphlets was successful. the directors' powers were somewhat curtailed when the patent for the VOC was renewed in 1623. Their tenure as directors was limited to three years and it was explicitly stated that directors were only allowed to trade goods from India, Batavia and Bangladesh at public… Read More

Charming series of Dutch costume plates. The bibliographies refer to an 8vo-edition with the same title, but different plates. The present series includes: (1) Eiland Marken. Prov. Noord-Holland; (2) Provincie Friesland; (3) Provincie Zeeland; (4) Hindelopen. Prov. Friesland; (5) Zaandam. Prov. Noord-Holland; (6) Beijerland. Prov. Zuid-Holland; (7) Amsterdam weeskinderen; (8) Provincie Noord-Brabant; (9) Vlaardingen. Prov. Zuid-Holland; (10) Zaandam. Prov. Noord-Holland; (11) Provincie Noord-Holland; (12) Omstreken van Leijden. Prov. Zuid-Holland; (13) Provincie Groningen; (14) Provincie Friesland; (15) Scheveningen. Prov. Zuid-Holland; (16) Provincie Groningen. With owner's inscription on paste-down: "te s'Hage gekocht in het jaar 1863". Spine slightly rubbed and some faint thumbing to the foot margins, otherwise in very good condition.l Colas 1618; Hiler, p.501; Landwehr, Coloured plates 333-334.

170, [4] pp.Extremely rare copy of the second edition of an already very rare work presenting the geography and anthropology of the foreign world in the form of a story told in 24 winter evenings by a father to his children. It is divided into 24 chapters, each describing the inhabitants of a specific region in Africa, the Americas, Australia, Asia and Europe, each with a hand-coloured illustration. The equally rare first edition published by Bieling in Nürnberg in 1810, contains the plates from Johann Sigmund Stoy, Bilder-Akademie für die Jugend (1784), while the illustrations in present anonymous edition are printed from new plates, implying a possible pirated edition.It treats the Khoikhoi, the inhabitants of Guinea, the Caribbean, Florida and Mexico, the Eskimos, the inhabitants of Greenland and Patagonia, the "Pescherans" from Tierra del Fuego, the inhabitants of New Zealand, the Australian aboriginies (called "New Hollanders"), the inhabitants of Java and Amboina & Makassar, the Moguls in… Read More

250, [2 blank] pp.Eighth edition of the New Testament in Maori and a slightly corrected edition of the controversial revision of 1887. The first serious edition of the New Testament in Maori translation, had appeared in 1837. Subsequent editions followed until a large revision was made in the fifth edition of 1852. By 1884 it was felt that a new revision should be made to correct the numerous misprints and incorrect translations. The resulting edition appeared in 1887 and is considered "the finest Maori book of the 19th century" (Lineham) but was highly unpopular with its intended audience because for most of the Maori the older Bible text had a spiritual status and memorization of the Bible was highly respected. Despite the objections, a new edition appeared in 1894 and together with the 1887-edition this is considered to be one of the "greatest Maori publications of the 19th century" (Lineham). The publication of this eighth edition was overseen by the same scholars who had prepared the… Read More

24 pp.First edition, printed in Tasmania in the Maori language, of an anti-Catholic pamphlet by William Colenso (1811-1899), printer, missionary, botanist and explorer in New Zealand, containing three dialogues between "Rapupono" ("Truth Seeker") and "Aroha Pono" ("True Love", the pen-name Colenso used in his religious polemics) exposing what he saw as six errors in the Roman Catholic Church. These are additional to six that he had discussed in a pamphlet with three similar dialogues earlier in the same year.In very good condtion.l Ferguson 3055b; T.M. Hocken, Bibl. New Zealand literature, p. 517; H.W. Williams, Bibliography of printed Maori (1924/1975), 63.

Fourth edition of the First translation of the Koran into English.a landmark not only in efforts to bring an accurate version of the Quran to the English-speaking world, but also in Western Quranic studies in general. Holt notes his "enlightened and objective attitude" in sharp contrast with most Western Arabists of his day or earlier: "His freedom from religious prejudice …, his obvious conviction that Arabic writers were the best source of Arab history, and Muslim commentators the fittest to expound the Quran, marks an enormous advance …". In addition to Arabic sources, Sale consulted the best Latin translation of the Quran, by Ludovico Marracci, published in 1698.Rebacked, some tears in the folding map repaired.l ESTC T146975; Fück, Die Arabischen studien, p. 104; P.M. Holt, Studies in the history of the Near East (1973), pp. 57-60; McKenzie & Ross, eds., A ledger of Charles Ackers, p. 41; Schnurrer, p. 429.

[52], 766, [56] pp.Second enlarged edition of the Dutch translation of Johann Hubner’s popular Kurtze Fragen aus der alten und neuen Geographie, first published in Leipzig in 1693, followed by 16 editions during his life. Nicolaas ten Hoorn also published the first edition of the Dutch translation, in 1707. Further editions followed in 1722, 1729 and 1737, the last two published by Van Poolsum in Utrecht. As the earliest schoolbook for geography in Europe, it proved very popular and was also translated into French, Italian, Swedish and RussianJohannes Hübner (1668-1731) attended the university of Leipzig, where he had received his master's degree in 1691 and then gave lectures in history, geography and poetry. In 1694 he moved to Merseburg, where he became the rector of the gymnasium for 17 years, before taking over the “Johanneum” in Hamburg in 1711.In 1704 Hübner published the first large German encyclopedia, entitled Reales Staats-, Zeitungs- und Conversationslexikon, which was followed by the… Read More

[2 blank], [4], III, [1 blank], V, [1 blank], 127, [1] pp.Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of a practical handbook flower lovers to enable them to grow their own flowers from bulbs. Dutch translation of Kurze und gründliche Anweisung zur Kultur der beliebtesten Zwiebelgewächse zum Zimmer- und Gartenflor für angehende Blumenfreunde (1828) by C.H. Kleemann, who was the court gardener of Schloss Carolath in Siedlisko, Poland. Kleemann used the system of Linnaeus to organize the bulbous plants in the first part of this handbook. The Dutch translator Johannes Augustinus Bernardus Kuyper van Wäschpenning here adds descriptions of more bulbs to the original text. He was highly regarded in his time and known for his discovery of the Crocus vernus. Kleemann is always referred to as "C.H. Kleemann", however this stands for his title "Carolathischen Hofgärtner", not the initials of his name, which we could not trace.Front wrapper stained, small tear in the back wrapper, otherwise in good… Read More

[6], 102, [2 blank] pp.First edition of Lambrecht's account of the Dutch colony in America up to its cession to England in 1674, as well as an account of the fate of the Dutch settlers after the British takeover. It covers the discovery and exploration of the regions around present-day New York, the Dutch relations with the English colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay, and the English takeover. New York was beginning to establish itself as America's leading city in the early nineteenth century, and a growing interest in its history made the history of the Dutch colony topical. The folding map, entitled "Kaart van Nieuw-Nederland" combines an up-to-date cartographic image based on Aaron Arrowsmith's 1804 Map of America, with historical data from maps in Arent Roggeveen's 1675 sea atlas and Arnoldus Montanus's 1671 atlas of America. In 1817 Lambrechtsen (1752-1823) was made an honorary member of the New York Historical Society, which published an English translation of his book in 1841.With… Read More

10 pp.A very lively day-to-day eyewitness account of the siege of the Antwerp citadel from 12 November 1832 to the author’s imprisonment in St. Omer as a result of the 23 December 1832 surrender. He remained in prison until June 1833, when he returned to Amsterdam. The account testifies to the intensity of the bombardments and exhausting battles as well as to the good treatment of prisoners by the French troops after surrender. The manuscript is written in Dutch in a legible hand of, apparently, a Dutch soldier possibly named Defourny. At the end of the letter, three members of the Defourny family testify that they have read the text: W[illem]. Defourny on 21 August 1897 (1864-1922), his son Engelbertus Jozephus Defourny W[illem]zn. (1901-1957), and E.J.’s son Jacobus Cornelis Defourny (b. 1939). They may have been the grandson, great- and great-great grandson of Pierre Josephus Defourny (1808-pre 1880), a gunmaker who lived in Amsterdam after 1833, possibly the author of this account.The 5… Read More

XXIX, [3], 444 pp. and 1 publications slip.Rare first and only edition, published posthumously, of a Dutch description of Punjab with an emphasis on the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846). The author Pieter A. de Boer (1818-1847) was a lieutenant in the Dutch artillery, who based his information on several sources but was not an eye-witness.The original lithographed frontispiece by Elias Spanier (1821-1863) shows Maharadjah Runjit Singh and the 4 folding maps, also by Spanier, depict a plan of the Battle of Aliwal 1846; plan of the Battle of Sobraon 1846; overview of British troop movement in 1845-1846, after a sketch by captain H.T. Combe; and large map of Punjab. With an addendum slip.Bookplate of the society Doctrina & Amicitia on front paste-down. Shelf mark on spine. Boards and spine somewhat discoloured. 3 out of 4 plates have a small tear at the fold. Otherwise in very good condition.l Not in Bruce; Sloos; for the author: Van der Aa, Biografisch woordenboek II, p. 725.

[12], 28, [1], [3 blank]; [16], 385, [18], [1 blank] pp.Extremely rare first Czech edition of a famous Turkish chronicle, translated after the German by Jan Kocin. The text was based on a 16th-century Turkish manuscript by Muhammed ibn Hasanjan, called Saadeddin, which described the Turkish history up to the year 1550. This manuscript was brought from Istanbul by the Austrian scholar Hieronymus Beck in 1551, and subsequently translated into German by Joannes Gautier, or Spiegel, the interpreter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Gautier augmented the manuscript with a continuation of the history to the year 1588, and this version was rendered into Latin by Joannes Leunclavius, or Hans Lewenklau. Library stamps on title-pages; occasionally browning throughout; with a few old owner's entries; new endpapers; first blank strengthened; a few old owner's entries. Good copy of an extremely rare Prague imprint.l Göllner, Turcica 1956; USTC 568735; WorldCat (4 copies, including 1 incomplete).

VIII, 924, 63, [1 blank] pp.Reprint of the second edition of an extensive "flora" of the fungi from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, compiled by Georg Winter and others, being the first volume of a larger work on German Cryptogamae edited by Ludwig Rabenhorst (1806-1881). Listed are 2689 fungi, with brief comments on their appearance and habitat. In very good condition.l cf. Volbracht 1695.