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The 'Rålamb Costume Book' is a small volume containing 121 miniatures in Indian ink with gouache and some gilding, displaying Turkish officials, occupations and folk types., They were acquired in Constantinople in 1657-58 by Claes Rålamb who led a Swedish embassy to the Sublime Porte, and arrived ...
authore Gregorio Abdul-Pharajio ... ; historiam complectens universalem, à mundo condito, usque ad tempora authoris, res orientialium accuratissimè describens ; Arabice edita, & Latine versa, ab Eduardo Pocockio ..., First title in Arabic characters., Text in Arabic only; marginal annotations ...
Sketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British writer and doctor James John Garth Wilkinson (1812 – 1899). The contents of the sketchbooks stretch over the period 1898–1916, with particular emphas ...