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Rare manual on Galenic medicine

SCHÖNBORN, Samuel. Manuale medicinae practicae Galeno-chymicae accessere purgantia. Secundum humores peccantes disposita.
Strasbourg, Eberhard Zetzner, 1657. 12mo. With engraved title-page. Modern boards. [8], 328, [20], [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 950

Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)

Six lithographs depicting people from the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Athens

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

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First edition of “the first actual dispensatory”, with 271 numbered medicines

SCRIBONIUS LARGUS ( Jean RUEL ed.). De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...
(Colophon: Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528). Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois's woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats. Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment. [9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll. Full description

€ 12,500

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea

Beautiful photographs of Arabic men demonstrating raka'ah in the late 19th century

SÉBAH, Jean Pascal (photographer). [Raka'ah demonstration].
[Late 19th century]. Two albumen prints (each ca. 27 x 21 cm), signed and numbered in the negative. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [2] photographs. Full description

€ 500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Islam & Qurans Islamic Art, Culture & Science Photography

Very rare photograph of the feast of the Dosseh in Cairo

SÉBAH, Pascal (photographer). [Festivities in Cairo].
[Late 19th century]. Three albumen prints (each ca. 19.5 x 26 cm).
Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [3] photographs. Full description

€ 250

Egypt North Africa Photography

Important collection of oriental tales, known as the "Forty Viziers"

SHAIKHZADE, Ahmed Misri. Istoria della Sultana di Persia. Novelle turche. Composte in lingua turca da Chéc Zadé e tradotto dal francese nellidioma italiano.
Venice, Andrea Mercurio, 1752. 12mo. Marbled paper with a manuscript label on the spine. 236, [4] pp. Full description

€ 2,800

Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Literature

Stories by an editor of Alf layla wa-layla

SHIRWANI, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-. Nafhat al-Yaman fi-ma yazulu bi-dhikrihi al-shajan. [= Breezes from Yemen].
Calcutta, printed by Mawlawi Kabir Ud Din Ahmad at the Urdoo Guide Press, 1881. 8vo. Original publisher's pebble-grain lilac cloth. [2], 276, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,800

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy India & Sri Lanka Language & Linguistics Literature School & Textbooks

Complete run for January 1984 - December 1985

SHUR, Chaim. New Outlook Middle East Monthly [15 issues].
Tel Aviv, Tatzpiot Ltd (under auspices of Jewish-Arab Institute at Givat Haviva), 1984-1985. Original wrappers, staplebound. Various pagination. Full description

€ 450

Complete run for the year 1986

SHUR, Chaim. New Outlook Middle East Monthly [9 issues].
Tel Aviv, Tatzpiot Ltd (under auspices of Jewish-Arab Institute at Givat Haviva), 1986. 9 volumes. Original wrappers, staplebound. Various pagination. Full description

€ 275

First edition of the Arabic Infancy Gospel, with text in Latin and Arabic

SIKE (SIECKE), Heinrich (editor). Evangelium infantiae. Vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris. Ex manuscripto edidit, ac latina versione & notis illustravit ...
Utrecht, François Halma, Willem vande Water, 1697. 8vo. With the main text in Arabic with a parallel Latin translation on the facing pages. Contemporary vellum. [22], 161, [7], 93, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

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