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[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…

  A rare book, published by the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the USSR in Russian Cyrillic in 1963, includes 10 short novels by contemporary Persian writers.

  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).