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A rare survival of a printing device: a woodblock for the cross-cultural printing
of a Hebrew publication of the Song of Solomon

[ARABIC-SCRIPT PRINTER’S WOODBLOCK]. Hand-cut woodblock bearing the text "Safr Nishd al-nishad li-Süleyman ..." (Book of the Song of songs of Solomon) in naskh Arabic script.
[Probably Ottoman provinces, mid-18th century (ca. 1750)]. A single hand-cut woodblock (17 x 9 x 2.2 cm, with protrusions to the left and right making it wider - 11 cm - near the head to accommodate the wider 2nd line) intended for use as printing block, with 6 lines of text, together with an inked impression on 18th century paper (16.5 x 10.5 cm). Full description
€ 18,000
Balkan & Greece Book History, Printing & Typography Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Greek & Non-Western Types Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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The route of the Israelites led out of Egypt by Moses: beautifully illustrated travel book from Cairo to Petra

[BARTLETT, William Henry]. Forty days in the desert, or the track of the Israelites; or, a journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra. By the author of "Walks about Jerusalem".
London, Arthur Hall & Co., [ca. 1862?]. 4to. With a steel engraved frontispiece: a view of Cairo and the valley of the Nile, and an engraved title-page with view on the Approach to Petra, typographic title-page, a folding map (228 x 264 mm) of "Arabia Petraea", embracing the Peninsula of Mount Sinai with the route taken by W. Hughes with a view of Suez in the lower left corner, 25 full page steel engraved plates with protective tissue paper by E. Brandard, J.C. Bently, J. Cousen, and A. Willmore, and 18 illustrations in the text by J. Cooper and others. Original dark purple gold-tooled buckram. vi, 204 pp. Full description
€ 250
Balkan & Greece Egypt North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa
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Belon's account of his extensive travels in the Levant, with 44 woodcut illustrations

BELON, Pierre. Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges.
Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoist Prévost for Gilles Corozet, Guillaume Cavellat), 1555. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With title in woodcut border with Cavellet's device and initials at the foot, each part-title with Cavellet's woodcut device, 1 folding woodcut map (31.5 x 35 cm) showing Mount Sinai, 44 woodcuts in the text (including a portrait of the author by Geoffroy Tory), and numerous fine decorated initials. Overlapping vellum (ca. 1600?). [12], 212, [1] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
Balkan & Greece Early Printing - 16th century Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt Faunas & General Zoology Iran / Persia North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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First Latin edition, printed by Plantin, of Belon's illutrated oriental travel account, with 43 woodcuts

BELON, Pierre. Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Judaea, Arabia, aliisq. exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes, tribus libris expressae.
(2) BELON, Pierre. De neglecta stirpium cultura, atque earum cognitione libellus: edocens qua ratione silvestres arbores cicurari & mitescere queant. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1589. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on each title-page, 43 woodcuts in text (6 full-page), woodcut decorated initials. With an unrecorded 2-page corrigenda leaf. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. [16], 495, [1 blank]; "78" [= 87], [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Arboriculture & Dendrology Balkan & Greece Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Mediterranean Regions Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Souvenir album showing the Holy Land, Egypt, Athens and Venice in the second half of the 19th century

BONFILS, G. LEKEGIAN & CO, Brothers ZANGAKI, Collection MERLIN and Carlo NAYA. [Souvenir album with photographs of the Holy Land, Cairo, Athens and Venice].
[Palestine, Cairo, Athens, Venice, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (41.5 x 31 cm) containing 62 albumen prints, mostly 23 x 28 cm, with 2 smaller prints of ca. 16 x 28 and 5 large prints of 35.5 x 27 cm. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French, and sometimes also in English, on the negative. Contemporary brown half morocco. [59], [11 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Italy Mediterranean Regions Photography
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Luxuriously bound album with pioneering photographs of the Middle East

BONFILS, Felix and Pascal SÉBAH (photographers). [Photograph album of Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece].
[Between 1867-1885]. Oblong folio (ca. 28 x 38 cm). With 75 albumen prints, most signed and numbered in the negative. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco over cushioned covers, gold-tooled turn-ins, watered-silk end papers, gilt edges. [39] ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Balkan & Greece Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Photography Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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17th-century Hungary, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese depicted in numerous engraved plates

BOUTTATS, Gaspar (engraver). Korte en nette beschryvinghe van de koninckrycken Hongheryen en Dalmatien, Midts-gaeders de vorstendommen van Sevenberghen, Wallachien, Moldavien, Burgarien, etc. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunewalt and Gasper Bouttats, 1688.
With: (2) [BOUTATTS Gaspar (compiler) and Vincenzo Maria CORONELLI (engraver)]. Korte, beknoopte, en nette beschryvinghe van het koninck-ryck Morea. ...
Antwerpen, Hendrick van Dunwalt and Gaspar Bouttats, [ca. 1685?].
Oblong 8vo (ca. 12 x 19 cm). With 82 full-page engraved plates (44 in ad 1 and 38 (including 1 folding) in ad 2). Contemporary gold-tooled calf (or sheepskin), sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. 47, [1 blank] and 44 engraved plates; [1], [1 blank], 24 pp. and 38 engraved plates. Full description
€ 4,800
Austria Balkan & Greece Central Europe City Plans, Topography & Views Czech Republic & Slovakia Eastern Europe Fortification & Military Architecture Prints & Print Series
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Profusely illustrated description of the Peloponnese, the Adriatic Sea and Dalmatian coast, copy from the British Military depot

DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus ...
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, firm Janssonius van Waesbergen, Dirk and Hendrik Boom, Joannes van Someren and Rembertus Goethals, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title-page, 2 folding maps, 9 double-page plates and maps, 6 single-page plates and 29 half-page engravings in the text. Further with a woodcut ornament on the typographical title-page (printed in red and black) and 4 woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled speckled brown calf, a red morocco title lable lettered in gold and a black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Both boards show a gold-tooled ornamental frame, with gold-tooled royal coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom beneath a gold-tooled banner lettered in gold "military depot" as a centre piece on the front board. Further with gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. [8], "168" [= 264]; [12], "164" [= 181], [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Balkan & Greece Battle Plans & Siegecraft Geography Italy Military History (17th Century) Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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First French edition of a Dutch work on the rise and fall of the ancient Greeks

DEMETRIUS, Andreas and Johannes POLYANDER (translator). Les actes memorables des Grecs. Contenant leurs haults & vaillans exploits...
Dordrecht, [published by Isaac Jansz. Canin and printed by Guillaume Guillemot] for Andreas Demetrius, 1602. 8vo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title-page and with folding engraved map of ancient Greece, signed Ioan: Doetechomius Jr, inserted before p. 1, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut manicules in the margins. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine and the gold-tooled armorial supralibros of the Signet Library as a centre-piece on both boards. [1], [1 blank], [14], 749, [1 blank] [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,600
Balkan & Greece Classical Antiquity History / 17th Century School & Textbooks
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