Iran

  8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).  

  8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).  

مىرزا عبد ألوهاب معتمد Mirzâ ‘Abd al-Vahhâb Mo‘tamed al-Dawle Nashât (d. 1244/1828), Author of Text; Hajji Musa, Author of Introduction and Book Catalogue; ‘Ali-Asgar Tafres (fl. 1261 - 1288 / 1844 - 1871), Scribe. Tehran: [s.n.] 1281-82 [1864-1865].   First catalogue of Persian printed and lithographed books Long 4°, [6 pp.], 344 pp., [1 pp.] lithographed text on paper with…

میرزا علی آشتیانی Mirza Ali Mostoufi bin Yusof Ashtiani, also known as Meykadeh میکده, (1253-1322 Author; Mohammad-Mahdi al-Golpayegani; Mostafa, Illustrator. [Chahâr fasl-e Meykade / The Four Seasons of Mikdeh also meaning The Four Seasons of a Tavern] Tehran: 1307 [1889]. Large 8°, 223 pp. [1 pp.] imprint, lithographed text with 31 illustrations, later brown cloth binding (minor age-toning and staining,…

A rare illustrated Persian book on geography, written by the leading Tehran-based astronomer and geographer Abdul Ghaffar Najm al-Mulk and published by Dar ul-Funun.   12°. 290 pp. lithographed text with illustrations and a map, folding map, contemporary half reddish-brown goat with black linen boards (binding hardly noticeable rubbed and stained, small old signature in black ink on the inner…

  [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte]   A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…

A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language   8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…

  4 sheets, not joined, colour lithographs. Each sheet circa 95 x 111 cm (37.4 x 43.7 inches), if assembled: circa 180 x 203 cm (70.8 x 80 inches). Small tears and holes in folds and margins, tiny creases on surfaces, old repairs, partly with postal slips from 1984 in English language, and traces of tape, later annotations in the…

  8°. [2] title, 150 pp., [2] blank, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining, minor water-staining in the margins in the first part, otherwise a seemingly unread copy).

  A pair of rare ephemeral Iranian pulp magazines with stunning design was published by Mostafa Alamouti, who would become an esteemed journalist, politician and after the Revolution a valuable source of the recent history.  

8°. [2] title page and portrait, 125 pp., original illustrated wrappers, printed in colour on the inner side of the back cover (wrappers with minor foxing, age-toning and minimal traces of use, otherwise in a good condition).

8°. [4] titles, introduction and illustration, 155 pp., [5 pp.] original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with wear mostly to the spine and minor water staining in the lower part of the back cover, rear sheets with minor water-staining in the lower part, first page with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).

  An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi.   8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).  

[Customs commercial arrangement concluded on September 5, 1902 between the Ottoman Empire and Persia]   4°, 4 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (tears and cracks in margins, wrappers little age-toned in margins).  

  An handsome example of an early, seemingly unrecorded printed edition of a highly popular rhyming dictionary of Persian language, written by an Ottoman poet and diplomat Sünbülzâde Vehbî and issued in Bulaq, Egypt.   8°: 60 pp. letterpress, contemporary decorated paper boards an brown goat spine (old title written in ink on the first blank page, old annotations on…

A rare first edition of poems and short essays on the Orient was published in French language in Istanbul by a Persian diplomat and writer Mirza Reza Khan Arfa' Al-Dawlah (1846 - 1937) and contains a hand-written dedication to an intellectual and bibliophile Ernesta Stern, a famous Jewish literary hostess and an author.   8°, [2 pp.], portrait of the…

[S. l., S. d., but probably Tehran: 1860s-1870s] A rare (unrecorded?) lithographed illustrated book in Persian language with a version of a love story of Shirin and Farhad   Small 8°, 184 pp. lithographed text with 8 illustrations and floral lithographed full-page decoration on first and last page, original brown goat with a ghost of a paper label on the…

  A rare Persian illustrated lithographed book with a popular story Forty Parrots. Large 8°, 54 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, original card paper boards, made of papier mâché and covered with white paper (visible lettering from “Tehran Station” on other side of the paper on the wrappers), contemporary cloth spine, bookseller’s stamp in the margin of the first text…

  8°. [2 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] manuscript in black ink in Arabic language, [11 pp.], 357 pp., , [2 pp.] errata, lithographed text with lithographed decorations to first text pages, contemporary straight-grain Morocco binding with blind tooling (old book-seller’s stamps to the first pages, late 19th century annotations, mounted on the inner side of the front board, endpapers…

  A lithographed Persian text against Sufism and supporting Sharia, written by a Shah’s son Soleiman Mirza Qajar, with especially fine lithographed ornaments and an excellent provenance.   8°: [148 pp.] lithographed text with illustrated headers, contemporary brown goat, contemporary blue endpapers (old annotation on paper, mounted on the inner side of the rear board, manuscript title in black ink…

  Educational and moral stories in verses, accompanied with illustrations.   Large 8°: 185 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, contemporary green goat with small paper label with title in black ink on the spine, two fragments of lithographed pages from other books used as paste down endpapers (Persian black book-seller’s stamps in white margins, Russian blind book seller’s stamp in…

Nizami ARUZI نظامی عروضی (fl. 1110 - 1161). [Four Discourses] Tehran: Mohammad Baqer Qajar 1305 [1889]. 12°, 176 pp. lithographed text, contemporary marbled paper boards and brown goat spine, contemporary lithographed text pages from another book used as pasted-down endpapers, book-seller’s stamp on the top of the title, blind stamps of the Russian paper factory in margins (mispagination - without…

  A Persian illustrated lithographed book with a charming contemporary wrappers, made of an advertisement of a Nizhny Novgorod-based firm. An example from a collection of the French orientalist and collector Charles-Henri-Auguste Schefer (1820 – 1898).   Large 8°. 87 pp. lithograph with five illustrations in text and decorated margins, contemporary blue printed wrappers, made of Russian advertisements, brown spine…

  An Arabic lithographed text on the refinement of logic with commentaries, architected in various geometric forms by several authors, with an excellent bibliophile provenance.   Small 4°, [124 pp.] lithographed text with interleaved small-sized sheets with lithographed text, [29 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary dark green goat and brown spine with old paper label, minor water-staining to the margins of…

  Small 8°, 92 pp., contemporary reddish-brown goat with old paper label on the spine (good, used condition with minimal wear and age-toning tot the binding and some light staining to the paper, old owner’s signature in brown ink in the upper margin of the title page (J. Fargus ?)).  

  Silsilät-ul-Nässäb. Généalogie de la dynastie Säfävy de la Perse par Cheik Hossein fils de Cheik Abdal Zahedi sous le regne de Chach Soleiman.   8°. 116 pp. with an illustration, original wrappers with lettering (small chips in upper corners of the last pages and rear wrapper, but without loss of text, later spine, tiny chips in wrappers).

  8°. 79 pp., original wrappers with lettering (minor chips and a small stain throughout the outer margins,wrappers with light age-toning, later spine).  

An early lithographed Quran of the Qajar period with striking hand-made illumination, giving the book appearance of a traditional manuscript.   [Persia:] 1267 [1850/51, 1851, commentaries, dated on the last page], 1268 [1851/52, 1852, hand-written date in red ink on the bottom of the last page, next to illuminator’s name], 1278 and 1285 [1862 and 1869, hand written dates of…