Sionita, Gabriel; Hesronita, Joannes (eds.). Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia. Accedunt praeterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur.

Amsterdam: Apud Guilielmum et Ioannem Blaeu, 1635. Second (Blaeu) edition. Hardcover. 11.6cm by 6.3cm.
Important early Blaeu edition of this influential 17th-century compendium on the laws, rites (sacred and profane), customs, institutions and history of the Arabs and neighbouring Oriental peoples, with appended itineraries and travel narratives through Arabia. Edited by the Maronite scholar Gabriel Sionita, with contributions by Joannes Hesronita and others, the work draws together early European scholarship and travel literature relating to Arabia, including material on Islamic religious practice, tribal and civic institutions, and geographic descriptions of major cities and regions.
Bound together with Gyllius, Petrus (P. Gyllii). De Bosporo Thracio Libri III. Leiden: Elzevir, 1632. First edition. 379 pages. A seminal work on the Thracian Bosphorus (modern Istanbul Strait), combining classical scholarship, antiquarian observation, and firsthand accounts. This first Elzevir edition, posthumously published by the author’s nephew Antoine Gyllius, remains a foundational reference for early modern topography and antiquities of the Bosphorus.
Very good copies in contemporary vellum with leather title label for Arabia at the spine. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Mary Hamilton Nisbet Ferguson (c.1800–1874), later Lady Belhaven, Scottish heiress of Dirleton Castle, to the front pastedown.