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Maghreb to the Far East in Manuscript and Print
Our new Near East & Islamic catalogue
The catalogue includes Islamic, literary, historical and scientific texts (among others) showcasing magnificent calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts and rare oriental imprints spanning from the 9th century to the 20th century.
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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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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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Section from a Qur'an in Maghribi script,
[QUR'AN].Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00On western laid paper. The watermarks present in this volume are consistent with an example presented by both Briquet (13200) and Heawood (2171), d...
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Takhlis al-Bayan fi Majazat al-Qur'an, or 'Mujazat al-Radi',
AL-MUSAWI, Abu-Hassan Muhammad ibn al-Husayn (known as al-Sharif al-Radi).Original price £145,000.00 - Original price £145,000.00Original price £0.00£145,000.00£145,000.00 - £145,000.00Current price £145,000.00Exceptionally early and important authorial manuscript on paper - the author's own copy. Al-Sharif al-Radi (970-1015 AD) was a celebrated poet and ...
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Divan'e Shams'e Tabrizi,
RUMI, Jalal al-Din Muhammad.Original price £250,000.00 - Original price £250,000.00Original price £0.00£250,000.00£250,000.00 - £250,000.00Current price £250,000.00One of the earliest recorded manuscripts of Rumi's poetry. Exceptionally early medieval manuscript copy of one of the most important works of sufi ...
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Kitab Vigil Ijim'al ila Ta'ammulat Ruhiya li'Ayam al-Usbu,
AL-ZAHIR, Abdullah (editor).Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00One of the earliest Arabic printing presses in the Middle-East. The Dair al-Shuweir press at the Monastery of St John the Baptist is one of the fir...
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Mehmed Uss'i Zafer 1241 [The Principles of Victory 1826].
ES'AD EFENDI.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Earliest account of the suppression of the Janissaries. The earliest and most comprehensive account of Sultan Mahmud II's suppression of the Janiss...
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A fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...
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Varidat-i Mensure we Divan,
AL-JALWATI, Al-Sayyid Hashim Mustafa Al-Uskudari.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00Sufi poetry by a follower of the celveti order. Sayyid Hashim Mustafa al-Uskudari al-Jalwati (Hashim Mustafa Uskudari), known as Hashim Baba, was a...
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Silsilename,
[GENEALOGICAL SCROLL].Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00Silsilname are geneaological manuscripts, often presented in scroll format, that were popular during the Ottoman Empire where they served as a too...
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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...
