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Works on Paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern Worlds
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30 Oct 2020 10:30 GMT
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![Ɵ Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Memorie Istoriographiche, authors presentation copy [Venice, 1686]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/6ba09c3f-fd2b-4559-8f37-ac60010fe32e.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ James Cook, A Journal of a Voyage Around the World, first edition [London, 1771]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/ae615c46-14b9-4615-ac6a-ac60010ff59a.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Anthimos, Al-Hidaya al-Qawiya ila lamana al-Mustaqima, first edition [Austria (Vienna), 1792]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/eee7578d-6ce3-4d77-9950-ac60010ffc7a.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Jean Chardin, , Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, edition nouvelle by Le Normant [Paris, 1811]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/df5725ef-1bac-42b9-93bd-ac600110047b.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Yusuf Nabi, Dhayl-i Siyar-i Nabawi, Bulaq Press [Egypt (Cairo) dated Jumada 1248 AH (1832-33)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/6d26d0eb-97f2-4c72-9f0b-ac600110112f.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Tafsir al-Tabayaan al-Quran, Bulaq Press [Egypt (Cairo), 1256 AH (1840-41 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/f8129ad4-dd87-4774-8ab4-ac6001101626.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Rev. Robert Walsh, Constantinople and the Scenery, first series [London, Fisher & Son, c. 1840]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/dbc10c18-5388-4d60-b811-ac6001101a18.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Arthur J. Joyce, The Cossack and the Turk, first edition [London, 1853]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/5f8dedd0-70f4-4d25-a3b3-ac600110236e.jpg?h=175)
![Frederick George, three illustrations for the Illustrated London News [Egypt, c. 1870]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/50c7cd9c-a0e6-4474-aa10-ac60011027fb.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Abu Hanifa al-Numan, Kitab al-Fatawaa al-Anqariyaa, Bulaq press [Egypt, 1281 AH (1864-65 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/546eeab3-5920-47b8-887e-ac6001103273.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Dora al-Nasheen (a book of sermons), Bulaq Press [Egypt (Cairo), 1279 AH (1862 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/f86cd421-9f7a-4b21-823e-ac60011036f3.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Sharaf and Sherafat, rare limited edition facsimile publication [Offset Press, Tehran, April 1976]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/d6f96514-4069-43dd-9082-ac60011040ed.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Egypt, Damascus and the Holy Lands, by Arnoux, Bonfils and Zangaki [various, c. 1880-1900]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/ba96dcbc-3db5-4515-8186-ac600110654d.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Edmondo de Amicis, Constantinople, first edition [Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & co., 1896]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/e0cbf499-39d4-41f9-87ef-ac60011081c9.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Russo-Turkic and -Perso printing, three publications [Tashkent and Kazan, 1896-1909]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/370a3282-198c-4da7-a6cd-ac6001108881.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Algiers and Tunisia, album of photographs [Algiers and Tunisia, c.1905]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/2e407a8e-5541-4035-9eb5-ac600110a1ed.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ The Sennar Dam and the Gezira Irrigation Scheme [London and Sudan (Al-Jazirah region), 1923-1924]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/a0987fb4-03ee-4d55-8544-ac600110bdd0.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Vast album of original photographs and post-cards [mostly Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, c. 1908]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/5909afb0-b73c-4fc9-ab02-ac600110f378.jpg?h=175)
![Early photography of Ceylon, including some by Scowen [Sri Lanka (Ceylon), c. 1890]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/dce3eef3-c95c-4ecb-b7fd-ac6001112828.jpg?h=175)
![Photographs of India by Murray, Bourne and Shepherd [India, most late nineteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/767f8c6a-d90e-42a5-a448-ac6001113c98.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from a Kufic Quran, on parchment [North Africa or Near East, second half of the ninth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/2fdff9c5-65c4-43b7-97d3-ac6001114ec2.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from an Abbasid Quran, on parchment [probably North Africa, ninth or early tenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/e5a4cdf8-cd1f-401a-b674-ac6001115351.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf form the Muqamat of al-Hariri of Basra, manuscript on paper [Mamluk territories, c. 1300]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/5ce3178c-7f6e-4d3a-bf43-ac6001115730.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Maqamat al-Hariri, manuscript on paper [Mamluk territories, second half of the thirteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/245bbd4d-6a89-49af-a03f-ac6001115eb1.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from a Mamluk Quran, illuminated manuscript on paper [Mamluk Egypt, c. 1400]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/8766e9d8-826a-48ff-bc68-ac60011170eb.jpg?h=175)
![Leaves from Qurans [North Africa and the Near East, thirteenth to fifteenth centuries]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/7d581c7b-8dda-448f-b33b-ac60011174e6.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Tafsir Libab al-Tawil fi Maani al-Tanzil, manuscript on paper [Granada, 890 AH (1485 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/6c6f5c27-f16b-4a5f-8de7-ac6001117a06.jpg?h=175)
![Quranic writing board, ink on wooden panel with handle [probably Somalia, early twentieth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/7f33b8d8-0508-47d2-b08e-ac6001118c31.jpg?h=175)
![Quranic writing board, wooden panel [West Africa (probably Morocco), early twentieth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/880b0c59-1d3b-4e53-ba29-ac6001119081.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Euchologion, in Arabic and Coptic, decorated manuscript on paper [Egypt, c. 1700 AD]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/a123254e-eda7-4659-aed8-ac600111b59f.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Ignatius of Loyola, Kitab al-Riyadat al-Ruhiya ..., manuscript on paper [Jerusalem, 1703 AD]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/afe72350-f34d-4a85-a2bd-ac600111be80.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from a fine Kufic Quran, on parchment [Abbasid territories (possibly Syria), ninth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/f8a31674-1c67-40df-9c35-ac600111d368.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from a Kufic Quran, on parchment [Near East (probably Damascus, Syria), tenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/90850b2d-556b-40a5-9ca3-ac600111d756.jpg?h=175)
![Quranic carved wooden panel [probably Seljuk Anatolia or Ilkhanid Persia, thirteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/3c0d61a7-5552-41a9-95a0-ac600111e64a.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Kitab Durra al-Aghwas wakunaz al-Ikhtasis, on paper [probably Ottoman Levant, 1004 AH (1596 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/0af194a2-7c76-4d0a-be2b-ac600111f55c.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Jamiyat al-Akhbar ..., manuscript on buff paper [Ottoman Levant, 1125 AH (1713 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/10235eca-2056-409b-9ae4-ac600111fd66.jpg?h=175)
![A calligraphic panel by Ismail Zuhtu, on paper [Ottoman Turkey, second half of eighteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/d96ab1c7-bdaa-4d63-8e61-ac6001120c45.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Tazhib al-Mantiq wa al-Kalam, manuscript on paper [probably Ottoman Turkey, c. 1190 AH (1776 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/166bf39c-9839-4fd0-87e3-ac4c00c5726c.jpg?h=175)
![Collection of calligraphic panels, on paper [Ottoman Turkey, first half of nineteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/f9951435-ab44-4879-a546-ac4c00c57acc.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Arabic Qasa'ida, on polished paper [probably Ottoman Turkey, second half of nineteenth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/adfd4e01-f096-4208-97cb-ac4c00c585b9.jpg?h=175)
![Calligraphic panels by Muhammad Qasim [Ottoman Turkey, 1283-1284 AH (1866-67 AD)]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/b430daf6-0ed3-4df6-9373-ac4c00c58d83.jpg?h=175)
![Leaf from an Abbasid Qur'an, on parchment [Abbasid Mesopotamia, first half of the ninth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/1ffe5cc3-e4ee-45ca-875e-ac4c00c59e33.jpg?h=175)
![Ɵ Section from Kitab al-Hadi al-Fiqh al-Shafi'i, on paper [Seljuk Persia, mid-twelfth century]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/aa44074e-bd1f-4e8e-a2c5-ac4c00c5a199.jpg?h=175)
![An Early Talismanic document, manuscript on paper [Probably Persian territories, c. 1200 AD]](https://portal-images.azureedge.net/auctions-2020/blooms1-10013/images/85d94632-b498-4990-8084-ac4c00c5a532.jpg?h=175)
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