Johann Friedrich Adolph Krug's Hochdeutsches Syllabir- Lese- und Sprachbuch für Bürger- und Landschulen : auch beym Privatunterrichte zu gebrauchen.

Aron 198: Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.

[Calligraphic specimen, 1205?, i.e. 1790 or 1791?].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) of Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).

[Calligraphic specimen, 1206, i.e. 1791 or 1792].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) in imitation of a model executed by the master calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).

[Calligraphic specimen, early to mid 18th century].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) comprising kıt'alar employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756), renowned student of Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (d.1731).

[al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ khayr al-barīyah, 16th century?].

Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Persian and Turkish.

De termino sancti Michaelis anno regni regis Henrici sexti, XXII.

Pages numbered on recto only.

De termino Pasche anno xii E. IIII.

Pages numbered on recto only.

De termino Trinitatis An. xi. E. IIII.

Pages numbered on recto only.

Regola delli cinque ordini d' architettura /

Engraved throughout. Architectural title leaf includes the arms of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, to whom the work is dedicated, and the half-length port. of Vignola facing to the viewer's right. Plates are printed on one side of the leaf only, and are arranged in pairs on a verso and the facing recto. The 5 leaves at the end are from the series of 7 "Porte di Michel Angelo." Over 3 of the doorways are inscriptions relating to the Farnese.

Regola delli cinqve ordini d'architettvra /

Engraved title leaf has port. of Vignola at window in architectural setting. Engraved throughout on rectos only, except letterpress "Ai lettori," leaves II-III recto.

The city of refuge /

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. on half t.p. verso of each volume.

[al-Qurʼān, late 8th century?].

Fragment from an early ʻAbbāsid Qurʼān on parchment dyed orange-red (compare cat.11, p.58 in Déroche, The Abbasid tradition, Nasser D. Khalili collection of Islamic art, v.1 and Metropolitan Museum of Art accession nos. 40.164.1a and 40.164.1b) carrying Sūrat Hūd (11) verses 88 through 103 (11:88-11:103).

[al-Qurʼān, 9th or 10th century].

Fragment from an Early ʿAbbāsid Qur’ān carrying final words of Sūrat al-Mulk (67) verse 23 through opening word of Sūrat al-Qalam (68) verse 19.

The family dyer and scourer : being a complete treatise on the arts of dying and cleaning every article of dress, bed and window furniture, silks, bonnets, feathers, &c., whether made of flax, silk, cotton, wool, or hair : also, carpets, counterpanes, and hearth-rugs, ensuring a saving of eighty per cent /

Includes index.

Les artistes cambresiens du IXe au XIXe siècle et l'école de dessin de Cambrai /

Added lithographed title page dated 1873.