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4:00 AM PT - Jul 9th, 2009
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Prayers and Recitations, with some Koranic quotations, loose in contemporary antelope skin binding, inserted card written by Cyril Davenport of the British Museum, "said to have been taken from a dead soldier at Battle of Omdurman...given to the Hastings Museum by the late HE Dresser" [1838-1915, ornithologist], 4to., [Sudan], [nineteenth century] § Prayers, including some Haddith, contemporary stamped leather binding, with flap, sm. 4to, [North Africa, perhaps Morocco], [late nineteenth century] § Koran, lacking half the frontispiece, the half remaining repaired with sellotape, serious damage by damp, later wrappers, 8vo, [provincial Turkey] [ late nineteenth century], arabic manuscripts on paper; and a Batik manuscript(4)View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |
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