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Highlights of the life and career of the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Sa'ud

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian jubilee.
London, Robert Hale Limited, 1954. 8vo. With a portrait of king 'Abdul-'Aziz Ibn Sa'ud as the frontispiece, 1 map of Arabia in 1950, and 16 double-sided plates. Black cloth with title information in gold on spine. XIV, 280 pp. Full description
€ 400
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Bibliography & Biography Saudi Arabia
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First edition of a well-illustrated account of Phipps's arctic expedition

PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773.
London, William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to. With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates, and many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled board edges, rebacked soon after with a richly gold-tooled spine with globes and numerous floral stamps, red morocco spine-label. VIII, 253 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
Arctic & Antarctic Book History, Printing & Typography Charts & Maps Faunas & General Zoology Instruments & Microscopy Navigation Scandinavia Travel & Voyages Europe
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Very rare Bernard Picart print album: Jean Furstenberg's copy

PICART, Bernard. Explication des vignettes de la seconde edition des oeuvres de Boileau ...
Amsterdam, Bernard Picart, 1729. Oblong 4to. With 25 engraved vignettes and 2 engraved initials on 25 leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins. 8 pp., [25] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Art & Art History Book History, Printing & Typography French Literature Wine / Viticulture
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The second edition in English, by the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.
London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Full description
€ 15,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Classical Antiquity Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Faunas & General Zoology Geology Iran / Persia
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Plutarch's famous schoolbook in four languages

PLUTARCH. Aureus libellus, Peri paidoon a'googès, id est, de educatione liberorum, tum interpretatione Latinam, ad verbum ferè applicatam, & paraphrasi Gallico-Germanicam... Petit livret de Plutarche,... Das güldene Büchlein Plutarchi, von der Kinderzucht.
Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempffer, 1612. 8vo. Set in 2 columns. Contemporary green vellum. 175, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics Language & Linguistics Literature School & Textbooks
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In a 17th-century richly gold-tooled Jesuit prize-binding

PLUTARCHUS. Moralia, quae usurpantur. sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinae penus: id est, varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deniq; ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti.
Basel, Thomas Guarini, 1570. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and repeated on last page, some mathematical woodcuts in text and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Early 17th-century Jesuit prize binding in richly gold-tooled light brown calf, sides with arabesques in the style of Gascon, richly gold-tooled double borders and inner panel with small bands in a geometrical pattern. [12], 857, [91] pp. Full description
€ 4,250
Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Jesuits Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history: "It is his greatest work,
and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer)

POCOCKE, Edward. Specimen historiae arabum; ... Accessit historia veterum Arabum ex Abu'l Feda: cura Antonii I. Sylvestre De Sacy. Edidit Josephus White, ...
Oxford, Clarendon Press [= Oxford University Press], 1806. 4to. Title-page with engraved view of the Clarendon Building, aquatint author's portrait and 1 full-page etched plate. Contemporary boards. XV, [1 blank], 573, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Islamic Art, Culture & Science Literature
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Bound by one of the best French binders of the 19th-century, for William I, the first King of the Netherlands

POISSONNIER-DESPERRIERES, Gabriel Adrien Marie. Vie politique et militaire du général A.M.G. Poissonnier-Desperrières ..., écrite par lui-même, et publiée de son vivant.
Paris, C.J. Trouvé, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Dapuhin by Constans after a drawing by Eugénie Lebrun. Contemporary richly gold-tooled straight grained orange/brown morocco, gold- and blind-tooled boards with the arms of William I on each side, gold-tooled spine with plumed helmets, a dark-brown title-label and the name of the binder ("SIMIER.R.DU.ROI"), gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. XII, 512 pp. Full description
€ 3,000
Bindings France Law & Politics Military History (19th Century)
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Complete set of a beautiful Victorian periodical on the history of books, printed on large paper

[POLLARD, Alfred William (editor)]. Bibliographica. Papers on books, their history and art.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1895-1897. 3 parts in 6 volumes. Small folio (ca. 30 x 21.5 cm). With 65 full-page plates, of which some coloured, and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Three quarter brown morocco. VIII, 511; VIII, 503; VIII, 511 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography
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