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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
- ‘The Invisible Sultan’ Artistic Curiousity Fine Watermarks Ottoman Court Patronage: [A Stationary Sheet featuring Elaborate Watermarks of the Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the Imperial Coat of Arms].
- 1,780.00€
- A stationary sheet with extraordinary, elaborate watermarks featuring a portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the imperial coat of arms, a curious work of court patronage. Stationary sheet bearing elaborate watermarks, original vertical centrefold (Good, a couple light irregular folds and a crease emanating from centrefold into watermarks, stain in lower-left side), 20.5 x 25.5 cm…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
- AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books
- Albanian Scientists / First Ottoman Popular Science Book: تاريخ تكوين [Tarih-i Tekvin yahut Hilkat/ The History of Creation of the World] & اساس علم هيئت [Esas-i ilm-i heyet / The Basis of Astronomy]
- 680.00€
- Two groundbreaking modern Ottoman works by a Sorbonne schooled Albanian scientist Hoxha Tahsin Two titles bound together. 12°. [12 pp.] blank paper, 60 pp., [4 pp.] blank paper, original back cover with advertisements. 109 pp. with illustrations, original photograph mounted on the first page with printed margins, original printed wrappers, [12 pp.] blank paper. Contemporary black boards, brown calf…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]
- 180.00€
- 8°, 156 pp., [4] with illustrated vignettes in the text, contemporary brown cloth binding without bound in wrappers (small tears and minor loss of paper in the gutter, minor staining, binding with light wear and ink staining, some sheets slightly stained in the margins, old bookdealer’s stamp on the last page, old signature and date on the title page, altogether…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]
- 350.00€
- A scarce work on the Communism was written by an Azerbaijani author Resulzade Mehmet Emin during his exile in Istanbul. Emin was an influential pan-Turkist, pan-Islamist and communist, who saved young Joseph Stalin in Baku in 1905 from being arrested, which later helped him for not being prosecuted later in the Soviet Union. 8°. 144 pp., 20th century brown…
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- BITOLA IMPRINT: مناستر ولايتنك تاريخچه سى [Manastır Vilayetinin Tarihçesi / History of the Vilayet Manastir / Bitola]
- 960.00€
- 8°. 111 pp., portrait with red printing and lettering in margins, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, one white margin trimmed, an old typed title mounted on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
- 8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- China / International Relations: چينه سياحت [Çin’e Seyahat / Travel to China]
- 220.00€
- Long 8°, 38 pp., later brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (pp. 28 and 29. bound tightly with tiny glue marks in the text, last pages with trimmed white margins, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE / NEW LITERATURE: مائى و سياه [Mai ve Siyah / Blue and Black]
- 320.00€
- One of the first Ottoman novels, written in its contemporary European form 8°, original front wrapper printed in blue black and gold, tile page, 231 pp. with black and white illustrations, contemporary brown cloth with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt debossed decoration, contemporary marbled endpapers (old annotations in pencil, binding slightly rubbed, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- GEOGRAPHY BOOK / CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: جمهوريت چوجوقلرينه يكى جوغرافيا درسلرى [Republic Lesions in the New Geography for Children]
- 150.00€
- 8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Other, Ottoman Books
- Hebrew Printing in Izmir: אלף-בית עברית. الفبای عبرانى [Elifba-yı İbrani / Hebrew Primer]
- 680.00€
- A rare Hebrew – Ottoman Primer, printed in Izmir, Turkey, in 1913 on the eve of WWI. 8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained and ink-stained, wide margins with small tears and loss of white paper, slightly age-toned, sheets inside in a good clean condition).
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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- HORSE BREEDING / VETERINARIAN MEDICINE: بار كيرلرك و باشلوجه حيوانات اهليه نك اشكال خارجيه سنك احوالى [Beygirleriñ ve başlıca ḥayvānāt-ı ehlīyeniñ eşkāl-ı h̲āricīyeniñ aḥvāli / Traité de l’Extérieur du Cheval Et des Principaux Animaux Domestiques]
- 550.00€
- 8°. [3 pp.], 445 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated cloth binding, old taxation stamp, rubber-stamp owner’s initials on the title page, original illustrated cloth binding, original pink endpapers (light staining, age-toning and foxing, sporadic small tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- INCUNABLE OF OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY: مذكره ضابطان [Officer’s Notes]
- 5,200.00€
- A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. 8°: [6 pp.]…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAM – GENEALOGY: سبحة الأخبار [Sübhet ül-ahbar / The Rosary of the Times]
- 2,500.00€
- A rare lithographed book in Ottoman language represents the genealogy from Adam, Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, to Great Seljuk and Anatolian Seljuk sultans. The work finishes with a portrait of the Ottoman sultan Abdulmejid I (1823 –1861). 4°. 42 pp. lithographed with illustrations, later marbled wrappers (upper margin unevenly, last margin cut into the outer bordure,…
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- Ottoman Books
- KURDS / PSEUDOHISTORY / ALBANIAN AUTHORS: كردلر تاريحى و اجتماعى تدقيكات [Kürdler: Tarihi ve İctimai Tedkikat / Kurds: Historical and Social Research]
- 1,600.00€
- This is a rare first edition of a highly influential first separately published Ottoman work on the Kurds, written under a false name of a German scientist by an Albanian author in the time of the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The text, which diminishes the Kurdish minority, played a major role in the formation of the Turkish opinion…
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- LAW IN ARABIC COUNTRIES AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: حقوق الحقوق [Hukuk / Al-Hukuk – Huquq]
- 1,800.00€
- The complete first year of one of the first newspapers on law, written under the Western influences and parallelly issued in Ottoman and Arabic languages. 8°. 12 parallel issues in Ottoman (203 pp.) and Arabic languages (199 pp.) (all together 24 units with 402 pp.), bound together. Original cloth boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, original…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- LOGARITHMIC TABLES / SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / NAVY MATHEMATICS: لغرتما جداولي [Logaritma Cedâvili / Logarithmic Tables]
- 520.00€
- This is an early Ottoman publication with the logarithmic tables, published by the Imperial Naval Press in Istanbul in the time of the Tanzimat. 8°. [30 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] blank, 26 numbered book sections, with 8 pp. each (i. e.208 pp.) + 1 p. with tables, 45 pairs of tables (i. e. 90 pp.), 45 pairs of…
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- Arabic Books, Books, Ottoman Books
- Mecca Imprint / The Hajj: مجموعة إلهى. يطلب من مكتبة النهضة الحديثة لصاحبها. عبد الحفيظ فدا واخوانه. بمكتب باب السّلام
- 1,200.00€
- [Mecmua-i İlahi. Ordered by the Maktabah al-Nahdah al-Hadithah by its Propietor. Abd al-Hafid and His Brothers, at the Baab-As-Salaam Press] A rare ephemeral spiritual guide to the architecture of the Great Mosque of Mecca in Ottoman language, printed in the Baab-As-Salaam, one of the gates of the Mosque, circa 1910 Long 8°, 22 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, [1…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
- MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 4,500.00€
- The first printed pharmacopeia in the Ottoman Empire with an original text by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard, was published by Henri Cayol, the first lithographer in Istanbul. A uncut example with original wrappers. 4°, [4 pp.] titles, IV, 161 pp., [2 pp.] errata, original blue wrappers with lettering, book-seller’s stamp in Ottoman on p. 1 (good, uncut…
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Slavica
- ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
- An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- Ottoman Alefbe (Alifbe) – Manuscript
- 2,000.00€
- A beautifully handcrafted early 19th century book with the basics of the Arabic alphabet and calligraphy includes gilt manuscript with the letters, their combinations and the basic verses taught in schools.
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN ALEFBE / PRIMER FOR THE ARABIC SCRIPT: الفبا حزئى (title on the cover) / الفبا حزوى (title on the title page) [Primer]
- 420.00€
- A rare, beautiful expensively lithographed Ottoman Alefbe or a primer of the Arabic basic script 8°, 36 pp. colour and gilt lithograph, original binding with illustrated boards, red cloth spine (slightly stained, title page and last page slightly age-toned, small folds in the corners, repaired two split gutters in the first and last part of the book, binding lightly…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Ottoman Macabre Novels – Izmir Imprint / Ephemera / Silent Movies: باراباس [Barabas]
- 650.00€
- An exceedingly rare complete ephemeral series of the Ottoman version of Maurice Level’s macabre story Barabas, based on the silent movie from 1919 was issued in Izmir. 10 volumes, each 8°, 158 pp. continuous pagination, each volume with an illustrated cover, illustrated pink wrappers attached to the first volume, new staples (lightly age-toned, stained and water-stained, white margins with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN NEW LITERATURE / EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE: كابوس [Kabus / Nightmare]
- 180.00€
- The first edition of Halit Ziya’s drama Kabus (Nightmare), published in Ottoman language in 1918 8°. 222 pp., original wrappers with lettering, modern black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor staining, original wrappers with light age-toning and staining, a tiny piece of paper missing in the rear wrappers).
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- OTTOMAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE: قلم Kalem [Pen].
- 7,500.00€
- A rare complete set of famous Ottoman Turkish and French satirical magazines Kalem, published between 1908-1911 in Istanbul, was bound in contemporary original bindings with Ottoman titles and belonged to the library of Anthony Bryer, a founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- PLAGUE – MEDICINE – ISTANBUL: Conseil Supérieur de Santé de l’Empire Ottoman. Messieurs. Dans la séance du 13 Septembre tenue par l‘academie des Sciences à Paris, Mr. le Dr. Aubert lut in Mémoire…
- 980.00€
- An important governmental article in French language was printed in early 1842 in Istanbul to introduce new discoveries on the spreading of plague and start a survey in the ports, connected to the Ottoman Empire.
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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- RACING HORSES: ياريث آتلرىو ادمانى [Yarış atları ve ıdmanı / Racing Horses and Training]
- 550.00€
- 8°. Original front wrappers with lettering, [4 pp.] introduction, 186 pp., [2 pp.], contemporary purple cloth, contemporary stencilled endpapers (minor staining, age-toning and foxing, light scratches on the front wrappers, binding slightly bumped and scratched, traces of old paper label on the spine, overall in a good used condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
- The first Ottoman book on the modern geomagnetism and binnacle, including an almost always missing rotating volvelle Small 4°: 332 pp. with an illustrated title page, charts and one illustrations, 3 double-page illustrations including a colour lithograph, folding chart, a page with mounted volvelle, composed of two parts and a string and instructions on the last page, original errata…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN EPHEMERAL SERIES
- 1,600.00€
- A charming complete series of 12 pamphlets in Ottoman Language with biographies of contemporary American silent movie actors combined with a presentation of one Russian and two Turkish silent movie stars offers a valuable insight in the modern society of the new Republic of Turkey and its perception of the popular culture of the West. 12 issues (complete). 12°.…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN LANGUAGE / BEN HUR: خارق العاده پر و غرام. … بن هور
- 550.00€
- An exceedingly rare illustrated program for the 1925 silent movie Ben Hur with Ramon Novarro was issued for the movie theatre in Konya, Turkey. Large 4°. 6 pp., [2 pp.] with black and white illustrations, printed on thin paper, unbound, as originally published (leftovers of old mounted and rubber taxation stamp on the cover, tiny holes in the…
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- Socialism in the Ottoman Empire: سوسياليزم [Sosyalizm / Le socialisme, notions élémentaires]
- 820.00€
- The first book on socialism, published in the Ottoman Empire, in the year of the foundation of the Ottoman Socialist Party. 8°, 124 pp., [4 pp.] index and blank, later marbled wrappers (missing front original wrapper, very light staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SOKOLLU MEHMED PASHA / OTTOMAN HISTORY: صوقوللو [Sokollu]
- 480.00€
- 8°. 334 pp., [1 p.], 20th century cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine (sheets with light foxing and staining, old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- SPIRITUALISM / SUPERNATURAL: مفتاح الاسرلر. بقاى روح. جلبارواح [Miftah Al-Asarlar / A Key to the Secrets. Surviving Souls – Calling of the Dead]
- 650.00€
- A rare Ottoman pamphlet on calling the spirits of the dead, featuring a ghost appearing at one of the seances. 8°: 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty, wrappers loose with tiny chips, light age-toning, paper fragile, inside in a stable condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- TATARS – MUSLIMS IN RUSSIA / CAIRO IMPRINT: روسيه ده مسلمانلر ياخود تاتار اقوامنك تاريخچه سى [Rusya’da Müslümanlar Yahud Tatar Akvaminin Tarihçesi / Muslims in Russia or a Short History of the Tatar People]
- 1,200.00€
- 12°. 88 pp., original front cover with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- THE GREAT GAME / KHIVA, UZBEKISTAN: خيوه فى محرم ١٢٩٠ [Khiva in the Month of Muharram 1873]
- 950.00€
- 12°: [2] blank, 135 pp., folding map, original printed cover, bound in a mid-20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, old typed annotations on the inner side of the back cover (old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, map with minor tears in margins and pin-size holes on the crossings of…
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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
- THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / EDUCATION HISTORY / RARE TURKISH PROVINCIAL PRINTING: Cihan İktisat Atlası [Universal Economic Atlas].
- 420.00€
- A rare and highly attractive little Turkish thematic atlas featuring 11 World maps detailing the locations of key agricultural and mineral resources; made by Ömer Lütfi, a secondary school teacher in Adana, in the spirit of President Atatürk’s sweeping educational reforms; published in Mersin, a stellar example of provincial Anatolian printing.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- TROTSKY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE / COMMUNISM: روسيى ده حقيقى وضعيت Rusyada hakiki vaziyet [The Real Situation in Russia]
- 380.00€
- This is an uncommon version of Leon Trotsky’s work, printed in Berlin in Ottoman script at the time of his exile in Turkey, which was strictly controlled by the government. The script, at the time not anymore used in Turkey, would be understood by most of the inhabitants of the former Ottoman Empire, expanding from the Balkans to the…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books
- TURCICA: Canons ou Règlements de Sultan Sélim II à son retour à Constantinople après une Victoi[re] complette sur les Allemands, concernant les Odgiaks et Casernes des Janissaires. Traduit de l’idiome Turc en idiome Français Par Jean Bapte Adanson
- 5,500.00€
- A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- YEMEN / OTTOMAN-ZAIDI CONFLICT: يمنه استجالب نظر دقت [Yemen‘e İsticlab-ı Nazar-ı Dikkat].
- 1,200.00€
- A seminal source on the history of Yemen written at the critical juncture towards the end of the rebellion of the Zaidi Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din and before World War I, written by the pro-Ottoman popular author İbnü’l-Hatib Cemaleddin. Tall 8°. 386 pp., [2 pp.], original wrappers with printed lettering and ornaments on the front cover, original green cloth…
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- زينونك اوغلى [Zeyno’nun Oğlu / Zeyno’s Son]
- 250.00€
- A first edition of a novel Zeyno’s Son by a famous Ottoman / Turkish female author Halide Edib Adıvar 8°. 411 pp., 13-16 pp., original grey wrappers with lettering, contemporary black linen binding with debossed and gilt lettering and decoration, old taxation stamp on the title page (binding slightly bumped, small cracks on the spine, small tears in…
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