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The written legacy of the Islamic world from the eighth to the twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on Arabic and Persian manuscripts, together with Western books and manuscripts dealing with Islamic cultures and countries.

Quaritch has been handling such material since the nineteenth century, and has been instrumental in the expansion and refinement of many major collections. Among the important works to pass through our hands have been a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsah, copied for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1595, now MS Add. 12208 at the British Library; a set of four volumes from a thirty volume Qur'an, one of the earliest known examples of Eastern Kufic, now MS 1417 at the Chester Beatty Library; and Pagano's monumental view of Cairo, printed at Venice in 1549, one of two surviving copies, now in a private collection.
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  1. BALBI, Girolamo. 

    Oratio habita ab eloquentissimo viro Hieronymo...

    [Rome, Francesco Minucio Calvo, 1523.]

    First(?) edition of Balbi’s celebrated...

    £550

  2. BLANCHON, Jacques.

    Iacobi Blanchoni ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum...

    Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1550.

    First edition of a very rare work of...

    £950

  3. GALLOP, Annabel.

    Malay seals from the Islamic world of Southeast...

    Singapore, NUS Press in association with...

    A new publication by Annabel Teh Gallop,...

    £85

  4. HANWAY, Jonas.

    An historical account of the British trade...

    London, Dodsley, Nourse, Millar, Vaillant,...

    First edition of Hanway’s narrative...

    £1400

  5. [HARSDÖRFFER, Georg Philipp.]

    Peristromata turcica, sive Dissertatio...

    Scarce first and only Latin edition of...

    £2000

  6. [MALTA.] 

    Eruditissima istoria dell’assedio fatto...

    Naples, [c. 1800?]. 

    Scarce poem on the 1565 Great Siege...

    £650

  7. [QUARITCH.]

    Guillaume Postel (1510–1581).

    Quaritch, 2006.

    A catalogue of a collection of the works...

    £60

  8. SA‘DI, Abu ‘Abd Allah Musharrif al-Din (Adam OLEARIUS, translator). 

    Persianischer Rosenthal.  In welchen viel...

    Schleswig, Johann Holwein for Johann Nauman...

    Rare first illustrated edition, and...

    £6500

  9. SHAW, Thomas.

    Travels, or observations relating to several...

    London, A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757.

    ‘Second and most valued edition’...

    £1200

  10. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250