Recent Acquisitions

ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Premier Partie de la Carte d' Asie, contenant La Turquie, L'Arabie, La Perse, L'Inde en deça du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Pers et du Gange.
Paris, 1751 Engraved map on two sheets (75 x 79 cm), with hand-coloured cartouche and coloured in outline. Full description

BEIER, Gottfried and Johann Arnold FRIDERICI. Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.
Jena, Johann Werther, [1670]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Modern half vellum. [28] pp. Full description

[BONAPARTE, Napoleon (attributed)]. Kitāb majmuʻ ḥawādith ʼal-ḥarb ʼal-wāqiʻ bayna ʼal-Faransawīyah wa-ʼal-Namsāwīyah fī ʼawākhir sanat 1805 ʼal-Masīḥīyah ʼal-muwāfiq lahā sanat (translation: A book of summaries of the war between the French and the Austrians at the end of 1805).
[Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1806]. Small 4to. With a woodcut decorative border on the title page, and a woodcut Islamic headpiece at the start of the work.
Mid-19th-century gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a brown morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine and the initials "P. T." lettered in gold at the foot of the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 306 pp. Full description

FER, Nicolas de. Set of four wall maps: America (1698), Africa (1698), Asia (1696), Europe (1695).
Paris, chez lauteur / van Loon, 1695-1698. Approximately 114.3 x 165.1 cm each. Copperplate engravings in original outline colour, tissue-backed for stability, laid down to modern cartographic linen. All with title banner dated 1698 with the Royal Privilege, and text panels dated 1703. Each map printed on four joined sheets with title surmounted and engraved text panels at sides and bottom. Full description

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von [and Marianne von WILLEMER]. West-oestlicher Divan.
Stuttgart, in der Cottaischen Buchhandlung [= Johann Georg Cotta], 1819. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and title page. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter brown calf, with a beige morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, brown marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, turquoise edges. [1], [1 blank], 556 pp. Full description

HUNT, Alan M. (artist). [A hawk perched on a branch].
[United Kingdom], 1980. Gouache on paper (ca. 64.5 x 48 cm). Signed "Alan M. Hunt" and dated "1980" in brown ink in the bottom left corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 80.5 x 60.5 cm). Full description

[INCUNABLE - GOUDA]. Historia septem sapientiu[m] Rom[a]e.
[Gouda, Gheraert Leeu, before 3 June 1480]. 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With 4 full-page woodcuts plus 14 repeats. The first initial is supplied in manuscript, in a rich ornamental uncial style in red and blue with brown penwork. All other initials are supplied by hand in simple red uncials. The text is rubricated throughout. Most of the plates are lightly highlighted in yellow and red, by a contemporary hand. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment without a spine, so that the sewing is completely visible. Kept in a modern brown half morocco clamshell box. [79], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[INDO-PERSIAN SILK PAINTING - after Ustad MANSUR]. [Pair of peafowls].
[20th century?]. Ca. 107 x 74 cm. Painting on silk. The silk canvas is mounted on a fibreboard panel of the same size. Full description

[IRAQ DESERT] 2 lithographic WWII maps: Rutba and Wadi Al Ubaiyidh.
[UK Government], Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1940-1942. 2 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:500,000. 820 x 640 mm and 770 x 648 mm. Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved. Full description

KERIM, Abdul (photographer). Camera Studies in Iraq.
Baghdad, A. Kerim & Hasso Bros., [ca. 1925]. Oblong album (ca. 24.5 x 31 cm). With 73 photogravures. Original black imitation crocodile leather, stitched through 2 holes with brown cord, with the title and publishing (copyright) information in gold on the front board, dark brown endpapers. [50] ll. Full description