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- ‘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€
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- 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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- AFGHANISTAN: افغانستان [Afganistan / Afghanistan]
- 480.00€
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- 8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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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€
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- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Bindings, 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€
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- 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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- ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]
- 180.00€
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- 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, Science, Turkica
- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
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- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- ANATOMY: خريطه وجود بشر [Harita-i Vücud-i Beşer / Map of the Human Body].
- 450.00€
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- Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
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- Books, History, Iran, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS: ايرانده انكليزلر [İran’da İngilizler / Englishmen in Iran]
- 460.00€
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- 8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).
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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANIMAL RIGHTS / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: حيوانات ايله حسن معامله حقبده. اون اكي درس [Hayvanât ile Hüsn-i Muamele Hakkında On İki Ders]
- 280.00€
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- Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals 8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Antisemitism in the Ottoman Empire: ملت اسرايليه [Millet-i Israiliye / Nation of Israel]
- 350.00€
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- The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies 12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).
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- ARABIAN PENINSULA / HISTORY OF ISLAM / BATTLES OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD: غزوات جليلى پيغميرى
- 2,800.00€
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- [Gazavât-ı Celile-i Peygamberî / Battles of the Glorious Prophet] An exclusively bound Ottoman book on the glorious conquers of the Prophet Muhammad, written by a historian Ahmet Refik. 8°. 224 pp. with decorative vignettes and a small map in text, folding map, bound in dark brown goat with gold ornaments on the covers and lettering on the…
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- AS EL-TIN, ALEXANDRIA – BULAQ, CAIRO: شرح دیوان حافظ شیرازی
- 1,800.00€
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- [Sharh-i Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shirazi / Commentary on the Divan of Hafez] A rare book in Ottoman language in three volumes, partly printed in Alexandria 3 volumes. Small 4°. 4 pp., 411 pp. Old annotations, 455 pp. (first four pages originally coloured yellow with orange detail). , 464 pp. Recent brown calf with embossed decoration (pp. 3-4 of the…
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