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The King of Aden Hang'd aboard Soliman Bassus Galley.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), set in text, very large margins.
The 1538 execution of the king of Aden by Hadim Suleiman Pasha (c.1467-1547), as punishment for being a friend to the Portuguese. From the account of Philips Baelde (or Father Philippus Baldaeus) of India and Sri Lanka, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58627] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving. 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"), set in text, very large margins.
The 1538 execution of the king of Aden by Hadim Suleiman Pasha (c.1467-1547), as punishment for being a friend to the Portuguese. From the account of Philips Baelde (or Father Philippus Baldaeus) of India and Sri Lanka, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58627] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Arab.]](jpegs/47027.jpg)
[Arab.] Arabe du Desert.
J.B. I. Haussard sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47027] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J.B. I. Haussard sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47027] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Arab sailors and Abyssinian dress] Naute Arabes quibus navessuas regenda Lusitani committunt in quibus cum uxoribus ut plurimum habitant.](jpegs/62369.jpg)
[Arab sailors and Abyssinian dress] Naute Arabes quibus navessuas regenda Lusitani committunt in quibus cum uxoribus ut plurimum habitant. Habitus Abissinorum quibus logo S. Baptismatis frons nutiritur.
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Some spotting and toning.
Portraits of an Arab sailor employed by the Portuguese to guide their ships; and an Abyssinian man and woman. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62369] £350.00
AvLinschoten. Johannes à Doetechum fecit.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving, 16th century watermark. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"), with very large margins. Some spotting and toning.
Portraits of an Arab sailor employed by the Portuguese to guide their ships; and an Abyssinian man and woman. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62369] £350.00
A woman selling bread.
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37806] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37806] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
An Arab on Horseback.
Daniel Lizar[s] [after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title, losing part of the inscription.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37805] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)
Daniel Lizar[s] [after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title, losing part of the inscription.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37805] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)
![[A dhow.]](jpegs/9421.jpg)
[A dhow.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
A moored dhow traditional Arab sailing vessel with its owner sitting on the shore. A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9421] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
A moored dhow traditional Arab sailing vessel with its owner sitting on the shore. A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9421] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)
A Bedouin Woman. A Bedouin Arab.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An bedouin arab man, woman and child. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39154] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An bedouin arab man, woman and child. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39154] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
A Bedouin Woman. Making Butter.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An Bedouin arab woman making butter in an animal skin hung from a tree. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An Bedouin arab woman making butter in an animal skin hung from a tree. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
View of El Medinah, the Burial Place of the Prophet. Taken From the Harrah (Or Ridge) West of the Town.
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Foxing.
Plate 6 from the second volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37263] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Foxing.
Plate 6 from the second volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37263] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Camels] Étude de Chamaeu. No. 44.](jpegs/55560.jpg)
[Camels] Étude de Chamaeu. No. 44.
V. Adam. Imp. Lith. de A. Godard, rue Hautefeuille, 16..
J. Bulla et Delarue, Succ. d'Aumont, rue J.J. Rousseau, 10 [n.d., c.1850].
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"), large margins. Some foxing, tear taped in title left.
A turbanned rider on a trotting camel in a desert landscape, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
V. Adam. Imp. Lith. de A. Godard, rue Hautefeuille, 16..
J. Bulla et Delarue, Succ. d'Aumont, rue J.J. Rousseau, 10 [n.d., c.1850].
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"), large margins. Some foxing, tear taped in title left.
A turbanned rider on a trotting camel in a desert landscape, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Camels] Dromadiare. No. 29.](jpegs/55559.jpg)
[Camels] Dromadiare. No. 29.
V. Adam. Imp. Lith. de A. Godard.
J. Bulla et Delarue, Succ. d'Aumont, rue J.J. Rousseau, 10 [n.d., c.1850].
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18") large margins. Some faint spotting.
A camel in a caravan's camp, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55559] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
V. Adam. Imp. Lith. de A. Godard.
J. Bulla et Delarue, Succ. d'Aumont, rue J.J. Rousseau, 10 [n.d., c.1850].
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18") large margins. Some faint spotting.
A camel in a caravan's camp, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55559] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Infant's School Pictures No. II.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by James Nisbet, 24, Berners Street, and Edmund Fry, 73, Houndsditch. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm. Holes to margin where pinned. Small tear from lower edge. Some soiling.
Desert animals captioned mainly of camels. From a set of educational lithographs for schools.
[Ref: 10913] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by James Nisbet, 24, Berners Street, and Edmund Fry, 73, Houndsditch. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm. Holes to margin where pinned. Small tear from lower edge. Some soiling.
Desert animals captioned mainly of camels. From a set of educational lithographs for schools.
[Ref: 10913] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Pilgrims resting on their route to Mecca.
T. Allom. W.H. Mote.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Rue St. Honore, Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 273 x 209mm. 10¾ x 8¼".
Pilgrims smoking from hookah pipes, resting around a fire on their way to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
[Ref: 22638] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
T. Allom. W.H. Mote.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Rue St. Honore, Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Steel engraving. 273 x 209mm. 10¾ x 8¼".
Pilgrims smoking from hookah pipes, resting around a fire on their way to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
[Ref: 22638] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
View of El Medinah. Taken From the Harrah (Or Ridge) West of the Town.
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Slight foxing.
Plate 1 from the first volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37262] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
R. Burton Del.t. Hanhart Lith.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾"). Large margins. Slight foxing.
Plate 1 from the first volume of Richard Francis Burton's 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca', 1855-1856. In the spring of 1853, noted linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) started his most famous and important journey. Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access.
Abbey: 368.
[Ref: 37262] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Festin du Gouverneur de Mocka. [parallel text in Dutch]
Cochin fil. inventit. J.v. Schley sculp. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾") very large margins.
Feast at the governor's residence in the port city of Mocha (or Mokha) in Yemen, a major marketplace for coffee during the 18th century. The Mocha coffee bean takes its name from the city because it was originally only available there, and sold only after roasting to prevent propagation.
Mocha
[Ref: 40225] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Cochin fil. inventit. J.v. Schley sculp. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾") very large margins.
Feast at the governor's residence in the port city of Mocha (or Mokha) in Yemen, a major marketplace for coffee during the 18th century. The Mocha coffee bean takes its name from the city because it was originally only available there, and sold only after roasting to prevent propagation.
Mocha
[Ref: 40225] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
S.r Henry Middleton escapes from the Turks.
[London, J. Newbert, 1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7").
Sir Henry Middleton (d.1613), Captain of the East India Company ship 'Darling'. escapes from captivity in Mocha, hidden in a cask. Attempting to establish trade in Yemen, he has been greeted warmly then arrested and robbed. From Vol IX of 'The World Displayed: or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 55509] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[London, J. Newbert, 1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7").
Sir Henry Middleton (d.1613), Captain of the East India Company ship 'Darling'. escapes from captivity in Mocha, hidden in a cask. Attempting to establish trade in Yemen, he has been greeted warmly then arrested and robbed. From Vol IX of 'The World Displayed: or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 55509] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Chevaux de Races de tous pays. Avant La Charge!... Chevaux Tartares.
V. Adam. Imp. par Lemercier.
Paris _ Jeannin Édit. Place du Louvre, 20 [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"), with publisher's blindstamp, large margins. Some spotting.
Tartar riders prepare to charge, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55561] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
V. Adam. Imp. par Lemercier.
Paris _ Jeannin Édit. Place du Louvre, 20 [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured tinted lithograph. Sheet 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"), with publisher's blindstamp, large margins. Some spotting.
Tartar riders prepare to charge, by Victor Adam (1801-66).
[Ref: 55561] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Prospect among the Coffee Mountains of Yemen.
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 100 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37803] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 100 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37803] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Dress of the women in the back parts of yemen.
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37804] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Daniel Lizars after Carsten Niebuhr.]
[Edinburgh, 1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A view from 'Travels through Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), translated into English by Robert Heron. The German explorer is renowned for his travels through the Arabian peninsula as a member of an expedition of which he was the only survivor.
[Ref: 37804] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)