Scarce first arabic edition. An important scholarly account, in the authentic Arabic language, of the history of the coastal Emirates, Oman and fir...

Indo-persian artistry. An attractive album leaf that demonstrates the Indo-Persian artistic style of the 19th century in India. The colour palette ...

Interfoliated annotations in english. Single volume, lithographed in Farsi, title printed in red and black, seemingly complete, 280 x 190 mm; print...

Pharmacopoeia dedicated to Shah Suleyman. Tunakabuni was a 17th century physician originally from Mazandaran that spent most of his professional li...

A working copy of an astronomical treatise broken up into 19 chapters and containing many charts and diagrams of the planets and solar system. Num...

A rare Bulaq press edition of the most comprehensive and authentic collections of Hadith in Sunni Islam. Imam al-Bukhari was a Persian Islamic sch...

Largest encyclopedia of galenic medicine in persian. Zayn al-Din Jurjani (d. 1137) was a Persian physician who worked under the patronage of to Kha...

First edition burton arabian nights. First edition of Burton's magnum opus, The Arabian Nights. Richard Burton was an accomplished geographer, expl...

A medical manuscript featuring lists of sicknesses and remedies copied in an informal freehand likely copied for personal use by a medical practit...

An interesting treatise on mathematics with a particular focus on multiplication and division in algebra and arithematic, likely adapted from Nasi...

Influenced by avicenna. Considered one of the most important works of Islamic philosophy, this treatise contains discussions of the main problems o...

Important persian universal history. The Habib al-Siyar is a general historical treatise, notably dealing with the reigns of Sultan Husayn Bayqara ...

Important timurid astronomy. Ali Qushji (d. 1474) was an important Timurid scholar best known for his development of astronomical physical independ...

From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...

An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...

From the court of Shah Tahmasp. An exceptional qur'anic juz with calligraphy attributed to the court calligrapher to Shah Tahmasp, Ahmad Al-Khalili...

Sunni hadith printed in Calcutta. Mishkat al-Masabih is an important and extensive collection of about 6000 hadith, compiled by Imam Khatib at-Tabr...

Christian missionaries in calcutta. Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer, first published in Oxford in 1674. T...

Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...