Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps - L08407

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Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps

13 November 2008 • London

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Sale Number: L08407

66. Alphabetum Arabicum. Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1592, 4to (202 x 140mm.), 64pp., text in Arabic and Latin, woodcut printer's device on title-page, nineteenth-century (?) calf, minor repairs to title (not affecting text), some light marginal staining, binding heavily stained and repaired

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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67. Six original watercolours of Egyptian scenes, c.1904-1905

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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68. Pi gom Nie pi Psalterion Nie David [edited by Raphael Tuki, bishop of Arsinoe]. (Rome, 17 July 1744)

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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69. Inscriptions in the Himyaritic character discovered chiefly in southern Arabia, and now in the British Museum. London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1863

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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70. Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine, et de la Basse Aegypte. Paris, 1799]

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

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71. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans. Paris: Nepveu, 1812, first edition, 6 volumes, printed on pink paper, 12mo (134 x 77mm.), half-titles, 74 engraved plates, each in 2 states, plain and hand-coloured (of 72 called for, this copy having additional plates in volume 3, at pp.210 and 228), 5pp. 'Avis au relieur' at end of volume 1 followed by one leaf regarding orthography, contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges, binding very slightly rubbed

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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72. Histoire des Wahabis, depuis leur origine jusqu'à la fin de 1809. Paris: Crapart, 1810

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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73. Autograph letter signed, to the president of the Greek Revolutionary Committee

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP

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74. Monuments modernes de la Perse. Paris: A. Morel, 1867

Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 GBP

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75. A collection of 3 volumes, comprising:

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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76. Librum insularum archipelagi. Leipzig and Berlin: G. Reimer, 1824, 2 folding maps, coloured by hand, of Crete and Corfu, nineteenth-century cloth, spine lettered in gilt, [Weber II, 95; Contominas 107]

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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77. A large album of watercolours, with a few oils and prints, mostly topographical views, with some studies of costume and natural history, of travels in the Near East and parts of Europe. [c.1873-1879, a few later]

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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