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Abu Dahbi Art
20-24 November 2024
Shapero Rare Books | BOOTH AT7
Wed 20 - Sun 24 November (2 - 9 pm)
Manarat Al Saadiyat
Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Shapero Rare Books is exhibiting at Abu Dhabi Art 2024. Join us at the Manarat Al Saadiyat Art Centre in the Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE, from the 20th to the 24th of November 2024.
Shapero Rare Books | BOOTH AT7
Wednesday 20 - Sunday 24 November: 2 pm - 9 pm
Manarat Al Saadiyat
Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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FEATURED ITEMS
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Sixteen Views of Places in the Persian Gulph,
TEMPLE, Richard.Original price £300,000.00 - Original price £300,000.00Original price £0.00£300,000.00£300,000.00 - £300,000.00Current price £300,000.00Only colour plate book on the Gulf. The only colour plate book on the Arabian Gulf and one of the rarest of all colour plate books.The rarity of th...
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First Juz' from a monumental Safavid Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £250,000.00 - Original price £250,000.00Original price £0.00£250,000.00£250,000.00 - £250,000.00Current price £250,000.00From the court of Shah Tahmasp. An exceptional qur'anic juz with calligraphy attributed to the court calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp, Ahmad Al-Khalili...
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[L'aigle criard; L'aigle criard (jeune); L'élanoide blanc.
BARRABAND, Jacques.Original price £125,000.00 - Original price £125,000.00Original price £0.00£125,000.00£125,000.00 - £125,000.00Current price £125,000.00Original watercolours signed by Jacques Barraband for the Description de L'Egypte. Jacques Barraband (1767-1809) was the finest ornithological arti...
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Al-Juz' Al-Thani min Kitab al-Iktifa' fi Fada'il...,
AL-MATUFI, Ibrahim bin Abd'ullah Al-Wasabi.Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...
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An early Qur'an leaf in Kufic script,
[QUR'AN].Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00Rare example of early scribal freehand. A strikingly rare example of scribal freehand from the Abbasid period that is known for producing Qur'ans i...
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Rare Provincial Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Copied for a regional king. A very handsome and clean example of a regional Qur'an, produced for a local ruler named 'Malik Muhammad bin Muhammad'....
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00With very rare original dust-wrappers. A set of Carter's TutAnkhAmen with the very rare dust-wrappers.At the age of seventeen in 1891, Carter went ...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
