Persian Miniatures.
London: Spring Books. Profusely illustrated in color. 4to, pictorial boards, dust wrapper; d.w. has chips and wear & boards are edgeworn. (London); Spring Books, n.d. A very good(-) copy. More
London: Spring Books. Profusely illustrated in color. 4to, pictorial boards, dust wrapper; d.w. has chips and wear & boards are edgeworn. (London); Spring Books, n.d. A very good(-) copy. More
Baltimore: Lucas Fielding Jr. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" A map showing the empire of Alexander the Great, including the routes of his conquests, carefully engraved and hand colored in tawny brown. Regions are beautifully hand colored, with cities, towns, and topographical features labeled. Fielding Lucas Jr. was an artist, publisher and cartographer active in the early 19th century. He published his first atlas in 1815 and became known as the earliest successful..... More
New York: Little Brown, 1980. 94 color illustrations, some full-bleed images. Unpaginated, oblong 4to, navy blue cloth, dust wrapper. New York: New York Graphic Society book published by little, Brown and Company, (2003). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
Paris: Morance, 1922. 103 plates, some in color. 2 volumes. Vol. I: Sculpture, Bois Sculptes, Ivoires, Bronzes, Armes, Cuivres, Tapis et Tissus, Miniatures. Vol. II: Cristaux de Roche, Verres Emailles Ceramique. Slim square 4to, 1/2 morocco, marbled boards; (ex.-lib., spine rubbed, flyleaves brittle with some chipping). Paris: Albert Morance, 1922. Very good. More
Syracuse: 2008, 2008. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, black cloth, d.w., black board slipcase. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press and Persian World Press,(2008). First Edition. Fine. More
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1849. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 11 1/2" x 14". Beautifully detailed map of Arabia and surrounding regions comprising present-day Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. The map delineates important towns and major routes, as explained in a small key at the bottom center. This particular map comes from the 1849 edition of Mitchell's seminal "New Universal Atlas" published by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. In good condition, with a minor stain to left margin..... More
London: Day & Son. 52 richly illustrated chromolithographic plates, (plates are glued into binding as issued, one is loose). Slim folio contemporary brown embossed cloth, beveled edges, spine, titles and decorative tooling is gilt, corners lightly bumped, a.e.g. (London): Day & Son, no date, ca. 1860. Near Fine. A tale from Moore's Lallah Rookh. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1974. Foreword by Dr. R. D. Barnett. Color frontis plus nearly 200 black-and-white illustrations. 207 pages, tall 8vo, green cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped, lightly rubbed. London: Faber & Faber, (1974) . A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
London: Morden, Robert. Miniature map. Uncolored engraving. Sheet measures 7.75" x 6.25". Beautiful miniature map of Persia dating to circa 1687. Includes from Georgia south to the Gulf of Oman east as far as the Indus River Valley covering Tartary, Persia and the regions to the southeast of the Caspian Sea. Beautifully detailed noting important cities and topography. Map is in good condition with minor spotting and edge wear along right margins. Robert Morden was an English publisher, mapmaker and..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. With a preface by Sir Walter Scott and illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Text illustrations, decorative initials and rubrics. 2 vols. 8vo, leather-backed pictorial boards (spine slightly rubbed), pictorial board slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Very good(-) copies--rubbing and chipping along spines. One of 1500 numbered copies, designed by W. A. Dwiggins, printed by Aldus Printers, and signed by the illustrator. More
New York: Heritage, 1947. Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated by Honore Guilbeau. Decorative title page in color. 498 pages, 8vo, pretty patterned cloth (spine scuffed to the point of being partially illegible, rest clean and square). Overall a very good copy. Sandglass paper included. More
Qajar Persia: 1815. Written in Shikasteh Script, copied by Muhammad Husain. Persian manuscript on paper. 88 leaves, between eight and eleven lines to the page, written horizontally and diagonally in shikasteh script in black ink, significant words in red, interior rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, blue and red, one late 19th Century double-page illuminated frontispiece in colors and gold, several pages ruled but left blank at end, five later illustrations in Safavid and earlier styles, accession note..... More
Shrewsbury: Cadell, 1799. Translated by Jonathan Scott. 3 volumes, deckled edges, wide margins, 3/4 cloth, marbled boards. Shrewsbury: Cadell and Davies, 1799. Scarce. Very good (+). Previous owner's bookplates. More
Ashiya: Sopa, 1981. 255 plates, a few in color. 9 page list of plates. Tall 4to, blue cloth with decorative stamped seal front cover and gilt-lettered spine; very minor wear to extremities. Ashiya: SOPA and New York: Maxwell Aley, (1981). A fine copy. No text, only plates (556-811). More
New York: Scribner, 1871. With folding maps and many illustrations throughout the text. 3 volumes, thick 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco (lightly worn), marbled boards, top edges gilt. New York: Scribner, 1871. Very good(+). More
New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Two volumes bound in one. Frontispieces, illustrations, and maps, some in color. Double column text. 584 and 701 pages, tall, very thick 8vo, red pebbled leather with gilt decorative stamping of vase and filigree, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt (leather a bit rubbed and worn, hinges beginning to crack though holding firm, still a handsome binding). New York: George Dearborn, 1836. A very good copy. A "New and Improved Edition" More
London: Child, G., 1752. Map. Hand colored copper-plate engraving. Image measures 9" x 10" This stunning map of Arabia, drawn from a sea chart published in 1740 by the order of the Count de Maurepas, was engraved by G. Child and published in Thomas Salmon's "Universal Traveller". The map extends from the Mediterranean eastward to Persia and south to the Horn of Africa, showing extraordinary detail in terms of topography. It also notes several important caravan routes, tribes, pilgrimage routes..... More
Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag. Text in German. Illustrated in color and black & white. 120pp. Slim 4to, pictorial boards. Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag. Sunned and edge worn, still a very good(-) copy. Scarce. More
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Decorative endpapers. Charmingly illustrated by William Siegel. 251 pages, 8vo, decoratively gilt stamped navy cloth (spine illegible from toning and with an old sticker). N.Y., 1928. A very good copy. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Illustrated. 352 pages. 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. A very good(+) copy. Presentation copy from Nora Sigerist Beeson. Volume II ONLY of the 2 volumes published in Sigerest's History of Medicine, a projected 8-volume work left unfinished by the author's death. G.M. 6448. More
Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, 2015. With an Essay by Louise Marlow. 107 color illustrations. 208 pages. Folio, black cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, no date (2015). Fine in fine dust wrapper. Written as a catalogue to an exhibition of one of the finest examples of 16th century Persian manuscripts in the U.S. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. Color illustrations throughout. 148 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial paper wrappers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1994). A fine copy. More
London: SAQI, 2006. 80 photo Illus., 5 maps. 4to, pr. wrs. London: SAQI, (2006). Very good. More
Amsterdam: Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1740. Map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 13.75 x 17.875". Beautifully composed map of the Persian Empire from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf. Denotes towns, rivers, elevations. Minor toning centerfold as expected from the atlas tip in. Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777) was a prominent Venetian publisher of books and maps. He inherited his business from his father and was part of a family active in publishing and bookselling in Venice for 150 years. In..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. Numerous illustrations in color & black & white. 199 pages. Tall 4to, gilt-stamped blue cloth in lightly rubbed slipcase. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1972). First edition. Spine a touch faded, still a near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. More
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