Paris: c. 1874. Binding: Contemporary 1/4 morocco over cloth, boards with gilt rules and central gilt emblem, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt motifs, title in gilt on spine., Size: Oblong Folio, Illustration: 45 beautiful watercolour flowers (roses, tulips and etc.) with manuscript description in period handwriting on the.....
c. 2001. Binding: Single manuscript., Notes: A beautiful calligraphic work from the poetry of Abdu'l Baha, the son of the Prophet/Founder of the Baha'i faith, Baha'u'llah. The calligraphy is by Hesam Sabetian in fine broken Nasta'liq script. It is beautifully illumined in gold and colours by Farhad Sabetian. The poetry.....
c. 2001. Binding: Single manuscript. , Notes: A beautiful calligraphic work from the poetry of Abdu'l Baha, the son of the Prophet/Founder of the Baha'i faith, Baha'u'llah. The calligraphy is by Hesam Sabetian in fine broken Nasta'liq script. It is beautifully illumined in gold and colours by Farhad Sabetian. The.....
![Item #B5594 [Calligraphy of a Persian Poem from the Gulistan-e-Sadi]. Akbar Saboonchi Rad](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646684900)
Iran: c.1979. Binding: One leaf., Notes: A beautiful work of Persian calligraphy from one of the important contemporary Persian calligraphist. The poem in Persian: اي قناعت توانگرم گردان که وراي تو هيچ نعمت نيست. گلستان سعدي/ باب سوم - در فضيلت قناعت , Size: 8vo (115x195mm)., Illustration: Persian text in.....
c. 1992. Binding: Single manuscript. , Notes: A beautiful calligraphic work from a quote of the Prophet Founder of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah. It is from the Tablet to Manikchí Ṣáḥib. The corresponding English translation is: "At a time when darkness had encompassed the world, the ocean of divine favour.....
Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Manuscript, c. 1821. Binding: Contemporary calf boards with gilt rulings. Spine expertly rebacked with matching calf, in six compartments of raised bands with gilt rulings and decorative devices. Gilt title on red label on 2. , Notes: Attar (1145-1221) was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and.....
c. 1926. Binding: Lacquered Boards featuring bold floral composition of red and orange flowers surrounded with vines and leaves on black background and elaborate gilt paneling. rebacked in black calf, spine with blind rules. , Notes: The Masnavi of Yusuf and Zuleikha is a poem that was written after Ferdowsi.....
Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co., c.1885. Binding: ), Original full calf with tooled gilt rules, 5 raised bands in 6 compartments, tooled gilt lettering on spine, black calf label on two, tooled gilt dentelles, marbled free and pasted end papers, title in black and red. Bottom and front edges are.....
Qajar Persia (Iran): Late 18th to early 19th century. Binding: Illuminated lacquer boards, illustrated with central image of woman holding baby and dense floral patterning, with contemporary goatskin spine. , Notes: Persian manuscript. Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shirazi, known by his pen name Hafez or Hafiz, (1325–1390) was a Persian lyric.....
Safavid Persia (Iran): Rabī‘ I 964 AH / January–February 1557 AD. Binding: eighteenth-century or early nineteenth-century Persian maroon goatskin with inlaid stamped centre- and corner pieces, 19th century rebacking with new endpapers., Notes: An elegant mid sixteenth-century manuscript of the collected poems of Hafiz, carefully remargined in the late eighteenth.....
Binding: Original ½ calf with gilt borders and pebbled paper boards, spine defective., Notes: This is a record book of meterological reports recorded several times a day, intermittently over a period of 19 years. Reports include wind readings, sky and precipitation conditions, and barometric readings in inches. Time period covered.....
Ottoman Empire. c.1824 (1239 AH). Notes: Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is often described as the human understanding of the sharia, that is human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the Sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and His companions).....
Persia (Iran). C.1845. Binding: contemporary light brown calf over board, flat spine, upper and lower board with decorative ruling and devices. , Notes: Jafar Kashfi, an Iranian Muslim philosopher, was born at Darabgard in Fars in 1775 or 1776, lived all his life at Borujerd and died in 1850-1851. His.....
![Item #B3435 Haghayegh Alteb [Haqayeq al-Teb ; Haqaiq al-Tib ; The Fundamentals of Medicine]....](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B3435.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646684548)
Iran (?): c. 1264-1267 A.H. (1847-1850 A.D.). Binding: Original hand-painted green and speckled gilt on papered boards, with gilt-lined borders enclosing floral motifs (all hand-painted), rebacked expertly in matching green morocco, spine in five gilt-lined compartments of raised bands, gilt black morocco label on two. , Notes: Text in Arabic.....
Persia (Iran). C.1875. Binding: contemporary full red calf, flat spine, upper and lower board with blind decorative ruling., Notes: Sheikh Abdullah Ansari, also knowns as Pir-i Herat ("Sage of Herat") was born in Herat, in Western Afghanistan. Although his father was a shopkeeper, Ansari was well educated in traditional subjects.....
Persia: c. 1796. Notes: A fine leaf from an illuminated Koran, Persia, 1796, on cream paper (190 x 110mm). Both sides with seventeen lines of neat black naskh script within a gold frame, text area (145 x 80 mm)., sura headings in red thulth script on gold backgrounds within blue.....
Persia: c. 1796. Notes: A fine leaf from an illuminated Koran, Persia, 1796, on cream paper (190 x 110mm). Both sides with seventeen lines of neat black naskh script within a gold frame, text area (145 x 80 mm)., sura headings in red thulth script on gold backgrounds within blue.....
Persia: c. 1820. Notes: A fine leaf from an illuminated early Qajar Koran during the rule of Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar (1772 - 1834), Iran, Tehran, c. 1820 manuscript on cream paper (220 x 200 mm). Both sides with fourteen lines of text of bold naskh script in a competent hand.....
Persia (Iran). Circa 1346 AH (1924). Binding: contemporary black sheep over boards, flat spine., Notes: The subject of the present book is to explain the effect of prayer and the pursuit of prayer in human life. The author has tried in ten chapters to explain the impact of the various.....
![Item #B4990 Hedayat-i-Sarf [ Grammar ] Rah-i-Jennat [The Way to Paradise]. Mohammad...](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B4990.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646684781)
Middle East, possibly Iran: Mohammadi printers, c. 1239 AH or c. 1824 AD and c. 1255 AH or c. 1839 AD. Binding: Contemporary brown half calf with marbled boards; spine with 5 raised gilt bands; , Notes: First work ‘Hedayat-i-Sarf’ is composed of 7 parts introducing Arabic grammar: Second work.....
Persia: c. 1760. Binding: Contemporary full calf with tooled rules and decorative centerpiece on covers. Pasted and free endpapers. , Notes: Manuscript is in Persian and written in nastaliq script in black and red ink. There are 125 unpaginated leaves with 22 lines to a page. The first work (leaves.....
Persia (Iran). c.1709. Binding: contemporary full black morocco, flat spine., Notes: The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect, known as Four Journeys, is an extended compendium of Islamic philosophy written by the 17th century Islamic scholar, Mulla Sadra. The book explains his philosophy of transcendent theosophy. It.....
India. C.1820. Binding: Contemporary calf rebacked expertly, saving the original spine, flat spine with blind tooling, upper and lower boards with decorative blind tooling and devices. , Notes: The Quran, meaning "the recitation", is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah).....
Ottoman: c.1820. Binding: contemporary calf rebacked expertly saving the original spine, flat spine, upper and lower boards with decorative blind ruling and illuminated devices, spine with decorative gilt motif. , Notes: The Quran, meaning "the recitation", is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation.....
c.1830. Binding: Contemporary decorative jewelled silver plated and calf boards, end papers renewed., Notes: Manuscript selection of Quran in Arabic., Size: 8vo (185mm x 138mm), Illustration: Manuscript selection of Quran in Arabic, on cream paper written in Thalth with 5 lines per page I black ink, 47 leaves, each leave.....