Middle East from ARTEM

Description of the world with 645 plates: a rare complete copy Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706). Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V. Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719. 5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves. With 645 plates (618 numbered, 5… Read more about this item

With all folding maps finely handcoloured Biblia, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments. Dordrecht, (colophon: printed by) H. and J. Keur and Amsterdam, M. Doornick in compagnie, 1686. Elephant folio. [20], 302, [2] 134, [11], 164, [2], 66 ff. With 6 folding handcoloured engraved plates (complete) and an engraved title-page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf… Read more about this item

The rarest book from the first printing press in the Arab World Annuaire de la République Française, calculé pour le méridien du Kaire, l'an VIII de l'ere Française. Cairo, de l'Imprimerie Nationale, an VIII [1799/1800]. 4⁰. 119 pp. With a woodcut printer's device on title. Contemporary red painted paper wrappers. One of the first books from the first printing press in the Arab World.… Read more about this item

Almanac from the first printing press in the Arab world Annuaire de la République Française, calculé pour le méridien du Kaire, l'an IX de l'ère Française. Cairo, de l'Imprimerie Nationale, an IX [1800/1801]. 4⁰. 1-58, [4], 61- 68 pp., [2], 48 pp. With a woodcut printer's device on title. Contemporary blank paper covers. One of the first books from the first printing press in… Read more about this item