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Abu dhAbi 2019 Peter Harrington london We are exhibiting at these fairs: 24–30 April 2019 abu dhabi Abu D habi National Exhibition Centre www.adbookfair.com 7–9 June firsts london Battersea Evolution Battersea Park, London www.firstslondon.com 27 June – 3 July masterpiece The Royal Hospital, Chelsea www.masterpiecefair.com 3–6 October frieze masters Regent's Park, London www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-masters VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London sw19 7jy. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Cover decorations from Alexandre Girardot's original sketchbooks, item 9. Design: Nigel Bents. Photography: Ruth Segarra. 7—9 JUNE 2019 BATTERSEA PARK Peter Harrington 1969 london 2019 ABU DHABI INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR 24–30 april 2019 abu Dhabi NatioNal exhibitioN ceNtre (aDNEC) staND Number 9D18 part i THE ISLAMIC WORLD items 1–31 part ii THE WESTERN CANON items 32–65 mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 dover street 100 FulHam road london w1s 4FF london sw3 6Hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 www.peterharrington.co.uk usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 PART I: THE ISLAMIC WORLD 1 1 The forced expulsion of former Muslims from Spain under the threat of death to convert to Christianity. The problem for these writers was that the expulsion of baptized Christians had 1 been undertaken without papal ratification or the support of all the AZNAR CARDONA, Pedro. Expulsion justificada de Spanish hierarchy. Aznar Cardona used a variety of ingenious the- los Moriscos españoles, y suma de las excellentias ological grounds to justify the expulsion, including the argument that Muhammad was a precursor of Antichrist, his initial success Christianas del nuestro Rey Don Felipe et Catholico having been permitted by God as a punishment for sin. Aznar Tercero. Dividida en dos partes. Huesca: por Pedro Cabarte, Cardona claims to be writing primarily as the amanuensis for his 1612 uncle Fr Gerónymo Aznar, prior of the monastery of St Augustine Small octavo (143 × 95 mm), in 2 parts. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine in Huesca. Although obviously written with a heavily negative bias, gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Ti- Aznar Cardona’s work constitutes a valuable witness to conditions tle within ornamental border. Paper shelfmark label at foot of spine, no oth- of life among Spanish subjects of Muslim heritage, including their er library marks, occasional early marginalia. Small hole in sig. N8 costing dress, diet, and daily customs, and has been a key source for later a couple of letters on three lines either side, paper restoration to lower fore writers on the subject. margin of sig. Dd8 just touching the last letter of 11 line-ends on verso only, Although reasonably well represented in institutional holdings sig. Rr4 turned up at foot and printed over the fold, just shaving a couple of worldwide, the book is rare in commerce, the only copy listed in letters and the signature (a print-shop accident, rather than a major flaw), a little faint staining at foot to early leaves, a couple of minor tears not affect- auction records in the last half-century being one in contemporary ing text, notwithstanding these minor issues, a very good copy. vellum sold at Ketterer Kunst Doerling, 21 November 2005. very scarce first edition, an important early text, one of a Goldsmiths’ C184; Graesse I, 268; Palau 21125 (“obra estimada”). number of works by Catholic apologists who sought to justify the £6,750 [132687] mass expulsion of the Moriscos decreed by Philip III of Spain on 9 April 1609, an act of what would now be called ethnic cleansing. Moriscos were former Muslims and their descendants who had been pressured by the Catholic church and the Spanish Crown 2 ABU DHABI PART I – THE ISLAMIC WORLD 2 Arabic poetry for English readers At the time of the presentation, William Morris’s wife Jane, the muse of several pre-Raphaelite painters, was mourning the death 2 in 1882 of her sometime lover, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A year later (BAKTIAR-NAMA.) CLOUSTON, William Alexander she would meet her next lover, the poet and political activist Wilfrid (ed.) The Bakhtyar Nama: a Persian Romance. Translated Scawen Blunt, who espoused a serious interest in Islam. Although described as a Persian romance, the earliest known ex- from a Manuscript Text by Sir William Ouseley. [Larkhall, ample of the Baktiar-nama is an Arabic version entitled ‘Aja ‘eb al-bakt Lanarkshire:] privately printed [by William Burns], 1883 fi quessat al-ehday ‘asar waziran ma jara lahom ma ‘Ebn al-Molk Azadbakt, Octavo (182 × 120 mm). Contemporary olive morocco by J. Leighton, Brewer dated 1000 ce (published in Egypt, 1886). The earliest known Per- St., covers with gilt-ruled border with small arabesque cornerpieces, spine sian version is dated 663/1265 (Bib. Nat. ms. 2035; see Cat. Bib. Nat. in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third IV, pp. 14–15). Clouston’s argument in his preface that the work ulti- compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt centred on a styl- mately derives from an Indian original is of historic interest but not ized floral sprig tool, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Slight sunning and rubbing, now generally accepted. an excellent copy. first edition thus, one of 300 copies, inscribed to jane £1,250 [132751] morris on the blank preceding the title, “To Mrs. Morris from The Editor”, and probably bound for presentation. Ouseley’s transla- tion was originally published in 1800 but had become rare by the 1880s and the Orcadian scholar Clouston considered it worth re- printing. Noted on the title page as editor of Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881), Clouston also contributed to Burton’s Supplemental Arabian Nights. He and William Morris would have known each oth- er through the Early English Text Society, founded by their mutual acquaintance, the tactless and pugnacious Dr Frederick J. Furnivall, to whom Clouston regularly gave editorial assistance. 2 Peter Harrington 3 3 A European makes the hajj, a classic of travel literature carried considerable risk. During the several days that Burton spent in Mecca, he performed the associated rites of the pilgrimage such 3 as circumambulating the Kaaba, drinking the Zemzem water and BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage stoning the devil at Mount Arafat. His resulting book surpassed all to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, preceding Western accounts of the holy cities, made him famous and became a classic of travel literature, described by T. E. Law- Green, and Longmans, 1855–6 rence as “a most remarkable work of the highest value”. 3 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, spine decoration and panelling to the boards in black, terracotta provenance: Charles Thurburn, with his engraved bookplates to surface-paper endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns, most of vol. 2 the pastedowns and inscriptions to titles and front free endpapers unopened. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chel- in each volume, an interesting association. Of Scottish origin, the sea Bindery. 15 plates of which 5 are chromolithographs (including the fa- Thurburn family were well established as merchants in Alexandria. mous portrait of Burton as “The Pilgrim” mounted as frontispiece to vol. 2), Robert Thurburn (1784–1860) was British consul in Alexandria dur- 8 single-tint lithographs, engraved plate of “Bedouin and Wahhabi Heads”, ing the Napoleonic wars. Burton began his pilgrimage to Mecca 4 maps and plans (3 folding). Edmonds & Remnants binder’s ticket at end of from Alexandria, going by donkey to the home of Robert’s brother, vol. I, contemporary bookseller’s tickets of Charles Haselden, 21 Wigmore John Thurburn, the father-in-law of an old Oxford friend. Street. Corners softened, extremities only lightly rubbed, an excellent copy, hinges intact, generally clean, much better than usually met with. Abbey Travel 368; Gay 3634; Howgego IV B95; Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 111; Penzer, pp. 49–50 (writing in 1923: “Very rare and increasing in value”). first edition, an exceptionally well-preserved copy in the entire- ly unrestored original cloth. Fewer than half a dozen Europeans had £12,500 [130691] made the hajj, or pilgrimage to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, forbidden to non-Muslims, and lived. Of those only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed account. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic and cultural virtuosity which 4 ABU DHABI PART I – THE ISLAMIC WORLD 4 Burton's pilgrimage with moving pictures travaganzas and stage-based illusions . It is tempting to separate the various strands making up the Polytechnic’s programmes and 4 consider each of them in isolation, but in reality the divisions were BURTON, Richard Francis. The Guide-Book. A Pictorial not always as clear-cut as might be imagined. Spectacular dissolv- Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. (Including some of the ing views and mechanical magic lantern effects might accompany a lecture on the mysteries of spectrum analysis, while a topical lec- More Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Mohammed, ture on the horrors of the Indian Mutiny required elaborate sound the Arab Lawgiver). London: Printed for the Author by William effects after the manner of a stage melodrama” (Brooker, “The Poly- Clowes & Sons, 1865 technic Ghost”in Early Popular Visual Culture, V, 2, July 2007, p. 189).