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Book. Very Good. No Binding. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ARABIC MANUSCRIPT IN NASKH SCRIPT, # 200 PP MISSING PAGES FROM THE BEGINNING. DATED 1130 AH (1718 AD) AND SIGNED BY A MECCAN SCRIBE, MUHAMMAD AL MAKKI AL TUNBARI. DETAILED HISTORY OF MECCA FROM IT'S EARLY ISLAMIC ERA (HERE BEGINNING FROM THE AYYOUBID ERA) TO THE SULTAN MURAD B. SELIM B. SULEYMAN PERIOD IN 985 AH. HISTORY OF MECCA ACCORDING TO THE ISLAMIC DYNASTIES, IT'S STRUCTURE, CULTURAL LIFE, SCHOOLS, POLICY, HISTORY OF THE HOLY MOSQUE FROM THE ASPECTS. THE AUTHOR MAINLY CAME FROM INDIA (ACCORDING TO SOME SCHOLARS) LIVED IN MECCA AS IT'S MUFTI AND STUDIED IN EGYPT. HE WAS A HANAFITE AND WELL-KNOWN HISTORIAN OF MECCA AND YEMEN. HE WROTE HIS IMPORTANT WORK ALSO ABOUT YEMEN WHICH CALLED; Al Barq ul Yamani fi al Fath al Uthmani. THE AUTHOR WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITY AND OTTOMAN OFFICIALS IN MECCA AND YEMEN. VERY RARE WELL-KNOWN WORK ABOUT HISTORY OF MECCA TO BE SCRIBED IN THIS HOLY CITY..

Egypt: Maktab ut Tobjiyya (the artillery press), 1834 Book. As New. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ONE OF THE MOST RARE PRINTING OFFICES IN THE EARLY PRINTING HISTORY IN EGYPTE AFTER THE FRENCH PRESS, MAKTAB AL TOPJIYYA (artillery office) WIHICH ESTABLISHED BY MUHAMMED ALI PASHA FOR MILITARY PRESS. THIS IS THE SECOND AND THE MOST RARE ED. IN 1250AH. AFTER THE FIRST BEFORE FEW YEARS IN MALTA. 143PP OF FULL ARABIC TEXT. MODERN FULL LEATHER DARK GREEN BINDING WITH FINE ORIENTAL DECORATIONS. SCARCE..

QUARTO, 239PP OF ARABIC TEXT PRINTED IN THE PRINTING HOUSE WHICH ESTABLISHED BY ABDULLAH ZAKHIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LIFT ALEPPO TO THE MOUNT LIBANON. ORIGINAL MONASTERY SKIN BINDING, SPINE LOOSE, NEAT HOLES DID NOT AFFECT THE TEXT, LIGHT AGE BROWNING.

Shoueir, Mount Libanon: Deir al- Shuwair, Mar Yohanna al- Sayigh, Kisrawan (Monastry of St. John the Baptist), 1810 Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. TALL QUARTO, 239PP OF ARABIC TEXT PRINTED IN THE PRINTING HOUSE WHICH ESTABLISHED BY ABDULLAH ZAKHIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LIFT ALEPPO TO THE MOUNT LIBANON. ORIGINAL MONASTERY SKIN BINDING, SPINE LOOSE, NEAT HOLES DID NOT AFFECT THE TEXT, LIGHT AGE BROWNING..

Cairo: The government press, 1952 Book. As New. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SECOND EDITION, PREFACE BY LORD CHAMBERLAIN ABDULLATIF TAL'AAT IN 1946 (SAME OF THE FIRST EDITION), 233 PP WITH FINE 45 PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURES, WHICH MOST OF THEM ARE ON THICK PAPER, AND ONE FOLDING OF THE GOLDEN NICKLE OF THE KING FOUAD I. PRIVATELY BOUND IN DARK GREEN FULL LEATHER BINDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF KING FAROUK IN THE SAME YEAR OF THE COUP-D'ETAT. GILT LETTERS ON THE FRONT COVER AND SPINE WITH THE ROYAL CROWN OVER FAROUK'S NAME (FAROUK AL AWWAL). INNER LIMITED EDITION TO 500 COPIES..

Shoueir, Mount Libanon: Deir al- Shuwair, Mar Yohanna al- Sayigh, Kisrawan (Monastry of St. John the Baptist), 1738 Book. Fair. No Binding. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 457PP OF ARABIC TEXT, THE BOOK IS WATER STAIND, BUT THE TEXT STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. ABDULLAH ZAKHIR AL RAHIB ESTABLISHED HIS PRINTING HOUSE IN KASRAWAN, AL SHOUEIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LEFT ALEPPO. THE FIRST ARABIC BOOK WAS PRINTED IN ALEPPO, IN 1706. ONLY 10 BOOKS WAS PRINTED IN ALEPPO BETWEEN 1706 AND 1911 BEFORE ESTABLISHING THE PRIVATE PRINTING HOUST IN 1733 IN LIBANON..

2, 96 p. of Arabic text on calligraphy art by Mehmed Munis zade, an Ottoman Turkish calligrapher lived in Cairo where he taught in the school of improving calligraphy since it's establishment. Printed by the order of Ismail Pasha, Khediv of Egypt in the lithiograph printing house of the Egyptian state.

Facsimile of the first and only edition. 2, 96 p. of Arabic text on calligraphy art by Mehmed Munis zade, an Ottoman Turkish calligrapher lived in Cairo where he taught in the school of improving calligraphy since it's establishment. Printed by the order of Ismail Pasha, Khediv of Egypt in the lithiograph printing house of the Egyptian state.

Cairo: Government press, 1946 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES , OWNERSHIP OF HUSEYN GHALIB RUSHDI TOPUZ ZADE BEY , MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY DELEGATE OF THE KING OF EGYPT . FINELY PRINTED FOR CONSTABLES . 24 PP OF TEXT , 29 FINE ILLUSTRATIONS ON THICK PAPERS ABOUT MILITARY AND CIVIL BADGES OF HONOR OF THE KINGDOM OF EGYPT SINCE MUHAMMAD ALI TO KING FAROUK . ONE FOLDING ..

Cairo: The Khedivial library, 1905 Book. Illus. by MAX JAFFE. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. SIX OLD DIGITAL COPY LEAVES: 1 TITLE LEAF, AND 5 TABLE OF PLATES. 188 FINE BLACK AND WHITE COLLOTYPE ON THICK PAPER BY MAX JAFFE, VIENNA. ALL TEXT LEAVES AND PLATES ARE LOOSE AS ISSUED AND PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH PORTFOLIO WITH IT'S ORIGINAL BANDS. VERY HAVY FINE PRINT OF THE ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY FROM VERY RARE MANUSCRIPTS BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE 10th CENTURIES OF AL HIDJRA (7th - 16th AD). ALL PLATES ARE PRESENT AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. RARE.

Cairo: Dar ul Kutub al- Misriyya, 1934 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. THE COMPLETE ARABIC LIMITED AND RARE EDITION. VOL1: LEGAL TEXTS , DOCUMENTS, AND 20PLATES. 249PP. VOL2: PRINTED IN 1955, LEGAL DOCUMENTS, AND 23PLATES. 255PP. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. SMALL CUT IN DOWNER MARGINAL OF PLATE 23. VOL3: PRINTED IN 1962, LEGAL DOCUMENTS, AND 24PLATES. 237PP. VOL4: PRINTED IN 1967, ADMINISTATIVE DOCUMENTS, AND 28PLATES. 335PP. VOL5: PRINTED IN 1968, ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, 176PP. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. VOL6: PRINTED IN 1974, ECONOMIC DOCUMENTS, WITH 16PLATES. 263PP. LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. VOLS: 2,5, AND 6 IN ORIGINAL SOFT PRINTED COVERS. VOLS: 1,3, AND 4 IN ORIGINAL HARD PRINTED COVERS. GENERAL CONDITION: FROM VG TO AS NEW. VOLS 1TO 4 TRANSLATED INTO ARABIC BY HASSAN IBRAHIM HASSAN AND ABD AL HAMID HASSAN. VOL5 BY ABD AL HAMID HASSAN AND MUHAMMAD MAHDI ALLAM. VOL6 BY ABD AL AZIZ AL DALY. WITH HIS DEDICATION AND SIGN TO DR. ABD AL LATIF IBRAHIM. TOGETHER WITH THE… Read More

20p. Arabic text, in riq'a script, with heading illustration. Copied in Bayindir state by Mustafa the past judge of Akca kazanlik, Turkey, in 1136.

471 p. with many photographic fig. most in colours. about the Islamic architecture; Mosques, schools, Waqfs, Khans, old pazars, homes and Palaces, mausoleum and Shrines... printed on fine smooth wite paper, with picturial DJ.

Introduction by the editor; Ahmad Abd al Majid Haridi, in 1981 with a bibliographic study about the travel and detailed index. Facsimile of the copy scribed by the grand son of the author in 1231 AH. ; Abd al Jalil b. Mustafa b. Ismail. Together with appendex by Nawal Ahmad Shahin.

Encyclopedia on Tafsir, printed between 1933 and 1950. in modern hard cover bindings. 396, 466, 432, 327, 426, 440, 404, 389, 386, 422, 351, 323, 368, 363, 376, 350, 309, 315, 297, 266 p.

139 p. of Arabic text with 10 cartographic and diagrams plates. Rare work to be printed in the Jihadiyya general staff in Cairo. Covers smudging and light water stain. Text in excellent condition . Maritime and Geography

Second and expanded Ed. In original press binding. Frontispiece of the Khediv Abbas Hilmi I, 35 photographic pl. , 2 folding maps and 1 folding diagram. Copy in mint condition.

First Ed. Signed by the author. The Khedivial journey to Hejaz in 1327 AH. 36 photographic pl. including 4 folding maps and diagram. In its orijinal press binding.

Cairo: Matba'at al- Arab, 1908 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arabic text, 216 p, title page with the Ottoman arm and ownership of Choucri Saba (a Lebanise politician in the Ottoman period). The book records the author's travel in thr Arabian peninsula, Between Kuwait and Muhammara, and his daily events with Mubarak al Sabah and the Sheikh Khaz'al Khan, the ruler of Muhammara. Some photographic illustrations show the streets and port of Kuwait, with one portrait of Khaz'al Khan and one of Mubarak al Sabah. The first printed work to record the political and literary events in the early decades of the Arab movements on the western shore of the Gulf, by the well-known Christian journalist and Arabism supporter, Abd al Masih Antaki. For other work of the author see inventory no. 000482..

260 p. of Arabic text with title page and introduction in English. See the images for details about the book. un-used copy, as issued.