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‘ABD AL-RAHMAN ‘AZZAM (ed.).

'Ard al-hukumat al-mamlaka al-'arabiya as-sa'udiya.
[Cairo], al-Maaref Press, AH 1374 [AD 1955]. 3 volumes. Folio. Numerous illustrations and maps. With the maps (supplement to vol. II) in separate matching slipcase.

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‘ABD AL-RAHMAN ‘AZZAM (ed.).

Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia. Arbitration for the settlement of the territorial dispute between Muscat and Abu Dhabi on the one side and Saudi Arabia on the other.
[Cairo], al-Maaref Press, 1955. 3 volumes. Folio. Numerous illustrations and maps. Modern library cloth. With the maps (supplement to vol. II) in separate matching slipcase.

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AL-HAMDANI and David Heinrich MÜLLER.

Al-Hamdânî's Geographie der arabischen Halbinsel nach den Handschriften von Berlin, Constantinopel, London, Paris und Strassburg.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1884-1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a folding letterpress table in the second volume. Contemporary half cloth.

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[ARABIAN HISTORY].

Hedendaagsche historie; of het vervolg van de algemeene historie; … Behelzende het leeven van Mohammed; en het begin van de historie der Arabieren, onder de drie eerste Khalifs …
Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling (vols. 1-2), Leiden, Amsterdam, P. van der Eyk, G. de Groot and Son, K. van Tongerloo and P. Schouten (vol. 3), 1760-1764. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. With 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved coat of arms and 6 folding plates. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper.

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BALBI, Gasparo.

Viaggio dell'Indie Orientali.
Venice, Camillo Borgominieri, 1590. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and navigational diagram on l. 144. 19th-century polished tan calf, richly gold-tooled spine.

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[BALBI, Gasparo]. DE BRY, Johann Theodor.

Indiae Orientalis pars septima [...].Including: Icones, hoc est verae variorum populorum et regum, ceremoniarum item, superstitiosorum rituum et rerum aliarum, ...
Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, 1606. Folio (32.5 x 20 cm). With the letterpress title within an engraved architectural border, an individual letterpress title-page for the Icones, an engraved coat of arms on the dedication leaf, 20 engravings in text and 2 double-page engraved plates. 20th-century green half morocco.

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BRASAVOLA (BRASSAVOLA), Antonio Musa.

Examen omnium syruporum, quorum publicus usus est. Omnia ab authora recognita. Cum Indice.
Lyon, Jean & François Frellon (colophon: Jean Barbou), 1540. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum.

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BRASAVOLA (BRASSAVOLA), Antonio Musa. Examen omnium trochiscorum, unguentorum, ceratorum, emplastrorum, cataplasmatum, & collyriorum : quorum apud Ferrarienses pharmacopolas usus est : ...
Venice, (colophon: Lucas Antonius Juntas), 1551. 8vo. With a woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, restored. Full description

CLAYTON, Robert (editor)

Dagverhaal van eene reize van Groot Cairo na den Berg Sinai en terug.
Amsterdam, Dirk Swart, 1754. 8vo. With folding engraved plate showing Egyptian deities, among them Isis nursing Horus. Near contemporary boards covered with decorated paper printed from woodblocks in black and white paste, red edges.

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CNUTIUS (CNUZIO), Justus.

Compendium universae medicinae iuxta doctrinam Hippocratis, & Galeni.
Vicenza, Pietro Bertelli, 1608. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page. 18th-century half vellum.

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