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The Islamic World books, photographs, drawings and manuscripts celebrating twelve centuries of Islamic culture and the history and geography of the Arab world The Islamic World books, photographs, drawings and manuscripts celebrating twelve centuries of Islamic culture and the history and geography of the Arab world ’t Goy-Houten, The Netherlands Vienna, Austria 2016 The Islamic World books, photographs, drawings and manuscripts celebrating twelve centuries of Islamic culture and the history and geography of the Arab world ’t Goy-Houten, The Netherlands Vienna, Austria 2016 Jointly offered for sale by: Antiquariaat FORUM, ’t Goy – Houten (Utrecht), The Netherlands Antiquariat INLIBRIS, Vienna, Austria Extensive descriptions and images available on request All offers are without engagement and subject to prior sale. All items in this list are complete and in good condition unless stated otherwise. Any item not agreeing with the description may be returned within one week after receipt. 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GmbH Tuurdijk 16 Rathausstraße 19 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten 1010 Vienna The Netherlands Austria Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Phone: +43 (0)1 40961900 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 Fax: +43 (0)1 40961909 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.forumrarebooks.com Web: www.inlibris.at www.forumislamicworld.com front cover no. 78 inside front cover no. 137 back cover no. 46 The most important voyages from the 15th to the end of the 17th century, including the first edition of Balbi’s travelogue to the Middle East in folio 1. AA, Pieter van der (ed.) and (falsely attributed to) Johann Ludwig GOTTFRIED. De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en Westindiën, midsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks. The Hague and Leiden, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 vols. 1º and 2º. With 7 (of 8) engraved frontispieces (lacking that of volume 4), 4 engraved dedications, 117 engraved maps on 61 leaves, 7 engraved plates and 502 engravings in text. Further with 127 (of 128) title-pages (including a general title-page, a title-page to 7 (of 8) volumes, lacking that of volume 4, and 118 for the separate works). Volume 1–3 & 5–8: contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges; volume 4: modern calf. € 65 000 Large paper copy of the so-called “folio-edition” (although here mostly printed as 1º) of Van der Aa’s voluminous collection of important voyages to the East and West Indies and other countries, undertaken by all European countries, other than the Dutch. Including voyages by Acosta, Balbi, Cabot, Cavendish, Chester, Columbus, Cortes, Coutinho, Da Cunha, Drake, Evesko, Frobisher, Gallonye, Da Gama, Garay, Garcia, Gilbert, Jenkinson, Harcourt, Herberer, Magallanes, Mildenhal and Cartwright, Mouette, Petelin and Andrasko, Raleigh, Saris, De Soto, etc. The work is falsely attributed on the title- page to Johan Lodewijk Gottfried, by Van der Aa, most likely because he made good money publishing Gottfried’s “Chronicle” in 1702. In reality Gottfried had nothing to do with the present work. The work was edited and co-published by Pieter van der Aa, known for his ambitious projects. Where other publishers were primarily concerned about the profits, Van der Aa wanted to publish outstanding books. For the present series of travels he either reused and revised older Dutch translations or had the original accounts translated for the first time into Dutch. In 1706 he already started publishing the translated voyages both in small (8º) and large instalments (folio or 1º), and a year later he published a 28-volume set of the 8º editions. The folio editions were afterwards issued and divided in four large collections of two volumes each. The present issue, is a reissue of these four collections with their own independent tile-pages and frontispieces, and ads a new general title-page and list of subscribers. While all sets seem to be described as “folio” the present set is printed mainly as 1º, with some occasional quires in folio. And as the large editions of the two volume sets were available on normal paper (80 guilders) and on large paper (100 guilders; Hoftijzer, p. 43), it seems very likely the present set is one printed on large paper. All leaves are unwatermarked and the 1º leaves are only slightly trimmed (measuring 396 × 238 mm with the tranchefiles often still visible) the folio leaves are trimmed more and don’t have visible tranchefiles. The fourth volume is from a different set which is trimmed down much more, but also combines both 1º and folio leaves. Some occasional spots, a couple minor restorations and a few wormholes; a very good set, but with the fourth volume from a different and heavily trimmed set (though printed on the same large paper), in a modern binding and lacking the frontispiece and the title- page to the volume. The seven volumes with contemporary bindings slightly worn along the extremities and with some minor wear on the sides, but otherwise very good. Cordier (Sinica) 1942f. Muller, America 1889. Sabin 3 (note). Tiele, Bibl. 10. For Van der Aa: P.G. Hoftijzer, Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), Leids drukker en boekverkoper (1999). 3 Three Portuguese voyages to Arabian Peninsula and the East Indies 2. [AA, Pieter van der]. Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West- Indiën, mitsgaders andere gewesten, ... [volume 5]. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707. Comprising: (1) Held–dadige scheeps-togt van Alfonso d’Albuquerque, na de Roode-Zee, in het jaar 1506. Leiden, Pieter vander Aa, 1707. (2) Twee ongelukkige scheeps-togten na Oost-Indien, van Jorge de Mello, in het jaar 1507. en Jorge d’Aguiar, in het jaar 1508. Leiden, Pieter vander Aa, 1706. 2 works in 1 volume. 4º in 8s (17.5 × 11 cm). With 18 engraved double page plates and 3 engraved folding maps. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. € 2500 First edition of the fifth volume of the “8º edition” (here printed as 4º) of a collection of travelogues, compiled by the publisher and cartographer Pieter van der Aa (1659–1733). The complete collection, consisting of 28 volumes, was published during the years 1707– 1708, covering land and sea voyages from 1246 till “this day” (1696). The work starts with the “heroic sea voyage” by the Portuguese Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515). “In 1506 Albuquerque was dispatched from Lisbon on a second expedition, a voyage intended to consolidate Portuguese supremacy in the Indian Ocean. His instructions were to monopolize trade with East India for Portugal, and to exclude both Venetians and Saracens from Indian waters” (Howgego). By way of Cape of Good Hope, they sailed the coast of East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, where they sieged and sacked several cities (Muscat, Sohar), before continuing to India. Several Arabian cities and places are mentioned, with extensive descriptions of the events in Socotra and Ormus. The work is followed by Twee ongelukkige scheeps- togten na Oost-Indien…, which deals with two unfortu- nate voyages to the East Indies: one by Jorge de Mello in 1507, and the other by Jorge d’Aguiar, who is known for charting the African coast (1492). Lacking the individual title-page of ad 1. With the modern bookplate of J.K. Leeksma on pastedown. Binding rubbed and damaged at top and bottom of spine. Browned with some occasional spots. Overall a good copy. Alden & Landis 707/2; Howgego, to 1800, A23 and A42; Sabin 3; Tiele, Bibl. 5. First edition of a 13th-century history emphasizing the Middle East, in Arabic with a Latin translation 3. ‘ABU A L-FAR AG (Gregorius BARHEBRAEUS) and Edward Pococke (ed.). [Historia compendiosa dynastiorum]. Al-Dhayl `alá Tarikh mukhtasar al-duwal. Supplementum Historiae dynastiarum. Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1663. 4º. (With): Historia orientalis. Oxford, Henry Hall, prostant apud Robert Scott, 1672. (16), 66 pp., (1 bl. f.), 368, (80) pp., (1 bl. f.), (1), 565, (6) pp. In all 3 parts in 1 volume. Contemporary full vellum with ms. spine-title. In modern slipcase. € 12 500 Important chronicle by the great Syriac Orthodox theologian and scholar Bar Hebraeus (1226– 86), also known as Abulpharagus in the Latin tradition, with the Arabic text in one volume and Pococke’s Latin translation in the other. Re-issue with a new title before the Latin text, retitled “Historia orientalis”. “An abridged translation (but also expanded with regard to the medical and mathematical literature of the Arabs) of his Syriac chronicle, undertaken at the request of several prominent Muslims shortly before his death” (cf. GAL). Bar Hebraeus emphasizes the Middle East in general and the East Syriac and West Syriac Christians in particular, also covering the rise and spread of Islam and relations between the Christian and Islamic worlds. His account of the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, placing it at the time of the Islamic 4 conquest of the city in 642 and claiming that the books were used as fuel for the ovens in the bath houses (!), contradicts most sources, which place the destruction much earlier.