- RARE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL OFFPRINTS -

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY (of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further 'the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia.').

Collection of 37 original offprints from The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1895-1951, mainly on Arabic, North African, and Middle Eastern subjects.

(London): Royal Asiatic Society, various dates, from 1895 to 1951. A total of 37 original offprints / pamphlets in yellow and sand-coloured printed wraps. Staple-bound. A number illustrated with plates (plus at least one with map). Several with uncut leaves as published. Size: 8vo - approx. 21.5cm x 14cm.

Very Good condition. Minor oxidisation from staples as usual. Minor wear to a few of the wraps. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.

The collection comprises:

The Diwan of Abu Dahbal al-Gumahi. Wahb ibn Zamaʻah Abū Dahbal al-Jumaḥī, Fritz Krenkow. 1910, pp. 1017 - 1075. 2 plates.

Ethnographic notes from Marsa Matruh. Oric Bates. 1915, pp. 717-739. With fold-out plate.

An Assyrian chemist's vade-mecum. R. Campbell Thompson. 1934, pp. 771-785.

The decipherment of the Moscho-Hittite inscriptions. A. H. Sayce. 1930, pp. 739-759

The origin of the ancient northern constellation-figures. Robert Brown, 1897, pp. 205-226.

The "Kitāb al-muntaẓam" of Ibn al-Jauzī. Joseph de Somogyi. Article, 1932, pp. 49-76.

Qadi an-Nu'man, the Fatimid jurist and author. Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee. 1934, 32pp.

The Hittite language of Boghaz Keui. A. H. Sayce (Author). 1920, pp. 49-83.

The Tarikh-Baghdad (Vol. XXVII) of the Khatib Abu Bakr Ahmad b. ʻAli b. Thabit al-Baghdadi short account of the biographies. Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAlī al- Ḫaṭīb al-Baġdādī, Fritz Krenkow. 1912, pp. 31-79.

Arab weather prognostics. Edward Robertson. 1930, pp. 377-389.

Abbasid administration in its decay, from the Tajarib al-umam. H. F. Amedroz, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Miskawayh. 1913, pp. 823-842.

Tarikhs or eastern chronograms. C. J. Rodgers. 1898, pp. 715-739.

The Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew manuscripts in the Hunterian Library in the University of Glasgow. T. H. Weir. 1899, pp. 739-756.

Some rare manuscripts in Istanbul. Viqar Ahmed Hamdani. 1938, pp. 561-564

A Hittite cuneiform tablet from Boghaz Keui. A. H. Sayce. 1908, pp. 985-995

A cuneiform tablet from Boghaz Keui with docket in Hittite hieroglyphs. A. H. Sayce. 1912, pp. 1029-1038.

Coins and seals collected in Seistan, 1903–4. G. P. Tate. 1904, pp. 663-672.

On some cuneiform inscriptions of Sennacherib and Aššurnaṣirpal. S. Arthur Strong. 1891, pp. 145-160.

Further Arabic inscriptions on textiles (III). A. R. Guest. 1930, pp. 761-766. 2 plates.

Further Arabic inscriptions on textiles (II). A. R. Guest. 1923, pp. 405-408. 2 plates.

Further Arabic inscriptions on textiles (III). A. R. Guest. 1930, pp. 761-766. 1 plate.

A list of writers, books, and other authorities mentioned by El Maqrīzi in his Khiṭaṭ. A. R. Guest. 1902, pp. 103-125.

Miṣr in the fifteenth century. A. R. Guest, E. T. Richmond. 1903, pp. 791-816. Folding map with red outline.

The cuneiform inscriptions of Van. Part VIII. A. H. Sayce. 1911, pp. 49-63.

Assyrian prescriptions for diseases of the ears. R. Campbell Thompson. 1931, pp. 1-25.

The cuneiform inscriptions of Van. Part VII. A. H. Sayce. 1906, pp. 611-653.

A Bakhtiari prose text. D. L. R. Lorimer. 1930, pp. 347-364.

A short anthology of Guran poetry. E. B. Soane. 1921, pp. 57-81.

Hajji Mirza Hasan-i-Shirazi on the nomad tribes of Fars in the Fars-Nameh-i-Nasiri. D. Austin Lane. April 1923, pp. 209-231.

A North African folk instrument. Henry George Farmer. January 1928, pp. 25-34. Frontispiece plate.

Note on the Van inscriptions. K. J. Basmadjian. July 1897, pp. 579-583.

An Achaemenian Tomb-Inscription at Persepolis. A. W. Davis. April 1932, pp. 373-377. Two plates.

Was there a Kusana race? A. von Staël-Holstein. January 1914, pp. 79-88.

Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts in the library of the Royal College of Physicians. A. S. Tritton. October 1951, pp. 182-192.

Al-Abrīḳ, Tephrikē, the capital of the Paulicians. Guy le Strange. October 1896, pp. 733-741.

The treatment of Indo-European *o in Armenian. Basil F. C. Atkinson. October 1925, pp. 679-696.

The Story of Yūsuf Shah Sarrāj (the Saddler), and of how the inhabitants of Kazwīn outwitted the heavenly bodies. A Satire. Edward C. Ross. July 1895, pp. 537-569.