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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

• THE RUBAIYAT, ILLUSTRATED BY
  THE RUBAIYAT, ILLUSTRATED BY ELIHU VEDDER, 1884 Edward Fitzgerald, trans.; THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884) folio, full pictorial cloth.
• RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM BOOK,
  RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM BOOK, 1947Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Hardcover; cloth covered. Published by Random House Inc. Issued: 1947 Dimensions: 9.75"L x 6.25"W Condition: Overall good
• BOOK: FITZGERALD RUBAIYAT OF OMAR
  BOOK: FITZGERALD RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, POGANYBook: "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," translated by Edward Fitzgerald (English, 1809-1883), published by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., London, printed at the Ballantyne Press, c.1917 (no printed copyright date), burgundy leather binding with gilt embossed design of grapevines, text with decorative green borders, sixteen full-color plates after William [Willy] Andrew Pogany (Hungarian, 1882-1955), not paginated, gift inscription on first page dated 1925, wear and toning to pages, particularly at endpapers, approx 9"h, 6.25"w, 1lbs
• Khayyam (O), Rubaiyat of Omar
  Khayyam (O), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd edition; together with Defoe (Daniel), The Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London: Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, 1890, 4to (2)
• The Ruba\'itat of Omar Khayyam
  The Ruba\'itat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Heron Allen facsimile edition published by H.S. Nichols London 1898 (one tan cloth bound volume) and \'\'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam\'\' translated by Edward Fitzgerald illustrated by Edmund Dulac published by Hodder & Stoughton London (one red cloth bound volume)
• 1 vol. Omar Khayyam. The
  1 vol. Omar Khayyam. The Rubiyat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Folio, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated brown cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; corners bumped, spine ends frayed & worn. Text of Rubiyat illus. throughout. Light to moderate foxing to margins.
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered
  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac London: Hodder and Stoughton ND (1915). Printed from the second edition. Quarto size 3/4 faded blue leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt ruled top edge 20 tipped in colour plates captioned tissue guards each plate bordered by a decorative gilt border. Gilt tooled spine.
• "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam,
  "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, Illustrated and Presented by Willy Pogany London: George Harrap & Co., ca. 1920. 8vo. Edition with 15 tipped color plates. Illlustrated and presented by Willy Pogany. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Full leather binding with gilt tooling on front and back boards. Apprx 9" x 6-1/4".
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Willy Pogany New York: Thomas Crowell Company. ND but reported as 1930 edition. 4to Quarto. Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark LTD. Edinburgh. With tipped in color plates and gold embossed devices illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955).
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Hanscom, Adelaide Illustrator; Fitzgerald, Edward (trans.) New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1905. Oversized 8vo. Leather binding; five raised bands on the spine, gilt tooled title; marbled endpapers; deckled pages; handsomely illustrated with photography on thin tissue paper.
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayym,
  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayym, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, With Decorations by Fish (Bodley Head, London, 1922). Bookplate inside front cover, binding tight, bug stains on a few pages, all pages and illustrations present.
• RUBAIYAT OF OMARKHAYYAM BOOK
  RUBAIYAT OF OMARKHAYYAM BOOK Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Limited Edition, copy #9.
• 1 vol. Omar Khayyam. The
  1 vol. Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat of. Boston: Dana Estes, n.d. [ca. 1910]. 4to, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated two-tone green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; very minor edge wear. With 33 mounted plates after photos by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Bright, tight copy.
• 3 vols. Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of.
  3 vols. Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of. London: Harrap, [ca. 1909]. Illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to, orig. lettered & decorated green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; light to moderate wear. With 24 mounted color plates. Internally slightly toned. * The Thomas Y. Crowell [1930] ed. of the preceding, illus. by Willy Pogany. 4to, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated salmon cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, cover label, d/j. With 12 mounted color plates, other illus. Bright, tight, attractive copy. * The New York E.P. Dutton (1922) ed. of the preceding, illus. by Fish. 4to, orig. decorated bds.; edge wear, slightly warped, color & gold & silver plates, other illus. Scattered internal spotting. 1st Am. ed. thus.
• POGANY WILLY illus. The Rubaiyat of
  POGANY WILLY illus. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: George G. Harrap (c. 1930). 8vo finely bound in full crushed morocco gilt-stamped with foliate design and title in gilt marbled endpapers. With 16 tipped in color illustrations by Pogany. Light wear to boards.
• 2 vols. Illustrated Books:
  2 vols. Illustrated Books: (Lundborg, Florence, illustrator.) Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat. New York: Doxey's, (1900). Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered & paneled pictorial green cloth, t.e.g.; corners & spine ends frayed, hinges stressed, front free endpaper detached. Illus. throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Bookplate on front paste-down. * (Harrison, Florence, illustrator.) Rossetti, Christina. Poems. London, etc.: Blackie and Son, [1910]. 1st trade ed. thus. 4to, orig. gilt-pictorial & lettered cream buckram, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; light edge wear, occasionally slightly smudged. With 36 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards, other illus. Light foxing to front mater.
• COLLECTION OF 6 ORIGINAL
  COLLECTION OF 6 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARVISH FOR THE RUBAIYAT: This lot includes six original illustrations one of which is an exact painting of a print included in illustrated booklet titled Omar Khayyam by Darvish of Tehran, dated 1946, these illustrations are watercolor and gouache: 1) Depicts a young Couple in a Field Relaxing, sight size is 6'' x 8.50'', signed lower right, framed 12.50'' x 14''. 2) Depicted in the Booklet and Shows a Kneeling Man with Young Lady Playing a Mandolin and a Servant Serving Fruit, sight size is 4.25'' x 5.50'', signed upper left, framed 11.25'' x 12.25''. 3) Depicts what Appears to Be a Wizard overlooking Many Different Scenes of Treachery, Gaiety, Genre, Etc., signed lower left, 6.50'' x 4.75, framed 12.50'' x 10.50''. 4) Depicts A Maid Serving Wine to a Man who has his Back to us, sight size 5.25'' x 6.75'', signed lower right, framed 11.50'' x 12.75''. 5) Scene of Merriment with Musicians and Onlookers, sight size 5.50'' x 4.50'' signed right, framed 12.50'' x 10.50''. 6) Depicts A Man Imploring A Nude Woman Who Appears to be Passed Out from Drink, Circular, 7'' in diameter, signed lower left, framed 13'' x 11.50''.
• * (POGANY WILLY) FITZGERALD
  * (POGANY WILLY) FITZGERALD EDWARD The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: George C. Harrap (1930). 4to original turquoise morocco with gilt floral device incorporating red morocco onlay on upper cover marbled endpapers t.e.g. others uncut. Limited one of 700 copies signed by Pogany with an additional etched frontispiece signed in pencil 12 tipped-in color plates by Willy Pogany decorations and mounted illustrations. Spine faded; corners rubbed.
• EROTIC PAGE FROM RUBAIYAT OF OMAR
  EROTIC PAGE FROM RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: Gouache, 10 1/2'' x 6 3/4'' sight size, 2 sided, script verso, back glass is cracked, framed, 21'' x 17''.
• Dulac (E) il. Rubaiyat of Omar
  Dulac (E) il. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Hodder and Stoughton London
• *(BRADSTREET) FITZGERALD EDWARD
  *(BRADSTREET) FITZGERALD EDWARD Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York: The Grolier Club 1885. 8vo bound by Bradstreet in full blue morocco ruled in gilt decorative endpapers. Limited edition one of 150 copies printed on Japan paper for the Grolier Club. Bookplate tipped to front pastedown; evidence of bookplate removal to f.f.e.p.
• Twenty-Nine Books on Exotic
  Twenty-Nine Books on Exotic Locales, Travel and Adventure, including Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with the Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) illustrations, New York and London: Hodder and Staughton, [1909], cream cloth binding with gilt tooling, with twenty color plates printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd., Branbury, along with copies of A. F. Herold's Nala et Damayanti, L. Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia, T. E. Lawrence's Revolt in the Desert and W. Somerset Maugham, ed. The Traveller's Library, with Cook's 1906 Handbook for London, Taride's 1948 fold-out Plan de Paris, a circa 1950 fold-outHandy Map of London, a 1953 British Calendar of Events, a 1951 Destination France guide, a small clothbound dictionary, the cover embossed with a map of the Americas, six 1905-1907 Baedeker guides for the Rhine, Belgium & Holland, Paris, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Northern Italy, and twelve rare 1942-43 U.S. War and Navy Department Pocket Guides as issued to military personnel during World War II, including Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, Egypt, Syria, North Africa, West Africa, India, New Caledonia and China, the last with the infamous anti-Japanese propaganda cartoon by Milton Caniff (1907-1988) of "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" fame. Provenance: The library of the late Gordon Maginnis, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 6 vols. Illustrated & Private
  6 vols. Illustrated & Private Press Books: Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of. Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. Tenth edition on Van Gelder paper, 1/925. 12mo, orig. 3/4 crushed brown morocco & bds., gilt, gilt-lettered & decorated spine, a.e.g.; occasionally scuffed. * _ _. _ _. San Francisco: Johnck, Kibbee, 1926. Illus. by Lawrence A. Patterson. 4to, contemp. 3/4 brown morocco & marbled bds., gilt, gilt-lettered spine; scuffed, occasionally slightly dusty, some edge wear. Full-page & other b/w illus. Scattered, generally light, foxing. * _ _. _ _. New York: Illustrated Editions Company, (1938). Illus. by Hamzeh Abd Ullah Kar. 4to, orig. black pebbled cloth; scuffed. With 9 mounted color plates. * (Riccardi Press.) Irving, Washington. Knickerbocker Papers, Being Rip Van Winkel & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London, 1914. #898/1000 (of 1012). Lg. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered pale green cloth & bds.; light wear, d/j (minor chipping to edges). * (The Riverside Press.) Forbush, William Byron. Ecclesiastes in The Metre of Omar. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. 8vo, orig. brown cloth-backed black bds., paper spine label; minor wear. * (Memorial Series.) Rhys, Ernest, ed. Thomas Mosher. London: T. Fisher Unwin, n.d. [ca. 1900]. #231/250. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, gilt; scuffed, spine & joints frayed. Frontis.
• [Bookbinding] English Arts & Crafts
  [Bookbinding] English Arts & Crafts bookbinding by Roger de Coverly on The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam trans. by Mrs. H. M. Cadell (London: John Lane 1899) 8vo full red morocco gilt with moire silk doublures and flyleaves Estimate $ 300-400
• 3 vols. Illustrated Books: (Dulac,
  3 vols. Illustrated Books: (Dulac, Edmund, illustrator.) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [ca. 1909]. 4to, orig. red cloth, gilt; often rather scuffed. With 20 mounted color plates. Internally generally clean. * (Dulac, Edmund, illustrator.) Poe, Edgar Allan. The Bells and Other Poems. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [ca. 1912]. 4to, orig. richly gilt-decorated green cloth; light edge wear, slightly scuffed. With 28 color plates, tissue guards, other illus. 1913 ownership inscription on 1/2 title, otherwise internally clean. * (Wheelwright, Rowland, illustrator.) Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. New York: Brentano's, n.d. [ca. 1910]. #301/1000 (of 2000) signed by the illustrator. Lg. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, morocco spine label; rebacked - much of orig. spine laid down, occasionally smudged. With 16 color plates. Some spotting to endpapers.
• ORIGINAL CARTOON ALBUM, “THE
  ORIGINAL CARTOON ALBUM, “THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR BLACKSTON...Blackstone, Harry (Henry Boughton). Original Cartoon Album, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Blackstone,” With Art By 26 Editorial Cartoonists and Strip Artists. Harry Blackstone, as the “Super Magician,” was already a comic book hero when he transformed this copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into a self-fashioned rubaiyat of his own. A treasury of original comic artwork dedicated to the master magician, collected over a period of roughly two years at Blackstone’s peak in the late 1940s, the volume is filled with sentimental, humorous, and often risqué full-page artwork playing off touches of Blackstone’s private and public persona, by twenty-six different cartoonists, comprising: Al Capp (a self-caricature, inscribed: “I made Blackstone disappear!! – what other page in this book can make that claim? – Al Capp”); Bud Sauers (“A thousand thanks for your thousand laughs/ Register & Tribune Gang/ Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 18, 1948); Amadee Wohlschlaeger ( “To the better half/ Amadee/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch/ Oct. 29, ‘48”); Daniel Bishop (Nov. 3, 1948; St. Louis Star-Times); Ray Evans (“To Omar Blackstone from his admirer/ Regards and more power/ Ray Evans/ Columbus Dispatch”); Ralph Reichold (1940s; Pittsburgh Press); John Hudson (Cleveland News); Jim Herron (Cleveland Press); Leo Joseph Roche (Buffalo Courier-Express); Ted O’Loughlin (Jan. 20, 1949; Philadelphia Bulletin); Tommy Thompson (San Francisco); Karl Kae Knecht (“Harry – I’ve seen ‘em all since Herrmann – and you are the tops/ Karl 3-12-49; Evansville Courier); Bob Dunn (“For Harry the Hair-Breadth—Best Wishes/ Bob Dunn”); Mel Melson (“All the Best!”); Eric “Jolly” Ericson; Carl W. Jones (October 18, 1948); Carl Anderson (“Best Wishes to Blackstone/ from Henry and Carl Anderson”); Tom Sims and Bela Zaboly (featuring Popeye); Clarence D. Russell (featuring Pete the Tramp); George McManus (featuring Jiggs of Bringing Up Father); Cliff Sterrett (featuring Polly and Her Pals characters); Chic Young (featuring Blondie); Jeff Hayes (featuring Pop, Chip, and Silent Sam of Chip); Al Scaduto (featuring a boy wizard attempting to vanish his poor report card); Fred Lasswell (featuring Snuffy Smith and Jughaid of Snuffy Smith); C.D. Batchelor (1953; New York Daily News); and Harry Herschfeld. 4to. Back page bearing a self-caricature by Blackstone, with an autograph page at the start signed by others including the governor of Michigan, Kim Sigler. Hand-lettered spine title, title page hand-painted and lettered over the original. A few gatherings of original plates and text retained at start, some disbound. Collection of George Hippisley (List No. B1261) with the original mailing parcel, postmarked 1970, from Elizabeth Blackstone to Hippisley.
• Nine 19th and 20th century books,
  Nine 19th and 20th century books, c/o The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Boston, 1912, misdated on the cover as 1812; complete in two volumes); six books of a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling, c/o Under the Deodars, The Light That Failed, Soldiers Three, Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads, Life's Handicap and Plain Tales From The Hills (Doubleday, Page & Co., n.p., 1916-17); and a large 19th century Holy Bible (New York, 1853; incomplete).
• [LITERATURE] EIGHT
  [LITERATURE] EIGHT BOOKS[LITERATURE] , 8 books, "Legends of Skyline Drive...,VA.", "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" illustrated by Willy Pogany, another "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "The Tail of Lonesome Pine", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Field and Stream Treasury", "Men, Women and Dogs", by Thurb, and "Birds of America"
• FINE LEATHER BINDING BY BAYNTUN
  FINE LEATHER BINDING BY BAYNTUN OF BATH Edward Fitzgerald, trans., RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA (London: Macmillan, 1898) 8vo, full crushed brown morocco, with colored leather onlay and brilliant gilding, gilt doublures and marbled endpapers, cloth-covered slipcase (by Bayntun, Bath, England, 1st half, 20th century).
• OTTOMAN EMPIRE QURAN ILLUMINATED
  OTTOMAN EMPIRE QURAN ILLUMINATED PRAYER BOOK, BY CALLIGRAPHER SULEIMAN RUSHDI, CA. 18TH/19TH CENTURY 6 ½" x 4 ?" x 1 ?" Hand written and illuminated Quran prayer book, signed by calligrapher Suleiman Rushdi, with marbleized under cover pages and leather tooled cover boards with gilt highlights. Provenance: old private collection - Carstairs Estate; by descend in the family to the current owner.
• OMAR HAMDI MALVA (SYRIAN /
  OMAR HAMDI MALVA (SYRIAN / AUSTRIAN, 1951-2015) 28" x 32" "Distant River" Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1984 lower left, titled on verso, in gold molded frame, 41½" x 46" x 5½" overall.
• THE ARAB ISLAMIC ART. 3 VOLS.
  THE ARAB ISLAMIC ART. 3 VOLS. Beirut: Khayat Book & Publishing Company [2004]. Deluxe facsimile of an 1877 edition depicting Arab art flourishing in Cairo from the 7th to the end of the 18th century mostly created by Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) a scholar who documented the artwork during his travels in the Middle East. Elephant Folio (24 x 19''). Two color leatherette binding. Edges slightly bumped interior in fine condition. With 200 plates in color and b&w of interior architectural ornaments fabrics glass panes armour carpets and decorations adorning the Koran.
• Ahmad Umarov (Uzbek b. 1957)
  Ahmad Umarov (Uzbek b. 1957) Harem Musician watercolor on wove paper signed A. Umarov (lower right) 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches.
• Fourteen various early 20th century
  Fourteen various early 20th century books, including Poe's Weird Tales and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
• OMAR MALVA, IMPRESSIONIST VILLAGE
  OMAR MALVA, IMPRESSIONIST VILLAGE OIL ON CANVAS Omar Hamdi Malva (Syrian, born 1951). "Village Landscape", oil on canvas. Signed lower right, framed.
• 7 PIECE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE
  7 PIECE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE BOOKS: To include 1) RABAIYAT by Omar Kháyyám. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Introduction by Joseph Jacobs. Designs by Frank Brangwyn. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. [ca. 1920] Octavo, full gilt-stamped black sheep, all edges gilt, 135 pp. 4 color plates, decorative borders, illustrated endpapers. Near-Fine. 2) THE BAREFOOT SAINT by Stephen Vincent Benét. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. 1st edition. Of an edition of 367 copies designed by Ernst Reichl and illustrated by Valenti Angelo, this is No. 151. 24mo, yellow cloth, [71] pp. Illus. Near-Fine in a tape-repaired slip case that lacks its bottom. 3) JOHN LEECH'S PICTURES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ''MR. PUNCH.'' by John Leech. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1886-1887. Set of 3 volumes. 1st editions. Folio, quarter-leather & gilt stamped green cloth, marbled edges, 284 pp. + 276 pp. + 268 pp. Full-page illustrations throughout. One of the joints in each of the volumes is broken; the interiors are clean and tight. 4) THE ADVENTUROUS SIMPLICISSIMUS; BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen. London: William Heinemann, 1912. 1st edition in English. Of an edition of 1,000 copies, this is No. 202. Octavo, quarter brown sheep & boards, uncut, printed in red and black, xvi, 431 pp. Frontis. 5) A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, by Mark Twain [pseudo. Of Samuel Clemens]. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. 1st edition, 2nd printing with p/ [i] black and no ''s'' ornament of p. 59. BAL 3429. Octavo, gilt-stamped illustrated olive cloth, 575 pp. Illustrated. Very Good; front hinge a bit tender.CONDITION: Please note conditions in description