Ottoman Books Archives - Daša Pahor

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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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- 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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- 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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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
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- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
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- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]
- 350.00€
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- 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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- BEIRUT IMPRINT: كتاب التحفة اللبنانية في أصول اللغة العثمانية
- 1,200.00€
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- An exceedingly rare book on the Ottoman language for the Lebanese, printed by the Saint George Press in Beirut 8°. 195 pp., contemporary marbled boards and black cloth spine (last two pages with tiny chip in the outer white margin, binding lightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BITOLA IMPRINT: مناستر ولايتنك تاريخچه سى [Manastır Vilayetinin Tarihçesi / History of the Vilayet Manastir / Bitola]
- 960.00€
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- 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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- BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: بوسنه و هرسك [Bosna ve Hersek / Bosnia and Herzegovina]
- 550.00€
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- An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…
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- BOSNIAN NATIONALISM / BANJA LUKA: بنالوقة صحراسى محاربه سى
- 550.00€
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- [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field] Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).
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- BULAQ IMPRINT ISLAMIC LAW MULTAQĀ- ملتقى الأبحر: الموقوفات
- 2,800.00€
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- [Mevkufat also Mülteka tercümesi. Mevkufati or Mevkufati. Mülteka tercümesi] The first printed edition of the most important text on the Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire 2 volumes in 1. Large 4°, 2 pp., 356 pp., 2 pp., 314 pp., original calf binding with a flap and debossed ornaments, modern black spine. Margins of the first pages…
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- BULAQ IMPRINT: Tarih-i Vasıf
- 1,800.00€
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- An important Ottoman first-hand account on the political events of the second half of the 18th century and the relations with the Central Europe by a Baghdad-born author, was printed by the Bulaq press in Egypt. 2 volumes, bound in one, 4°. 14 pp. (index), 210 pp., [1] blank, 7 pp. (index), 190 pp., printed on thick paper, contemporary…
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- BULGARIAN HISTORY / TRABZON IMPRINT: بولعار تاريخى [Bulgar Tarihi / History of Bulgaria]
- 1,200.00€
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- Possibly the first detailed history of Bulgaria made after the proclamation of its independence 8°, 191 pp., modern black cloth with gilt lettering and debossed ornaments (light staining and sporadic water-staining in margins, sporadic tiny holes in white margins (paper deformations- as published), title page with stronger staining and a small hole in the margin, first pages with…
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- Bulgarian Primer for Ottomans / Thessaloniki Imprint: رسملى بلغارجه رهبر قرائت
- 420.00€
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- [Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian] 8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CAIRO IMPRINT / YOUNG TURKS: پاريس دن يازدكلرم Paris’den Yazdıklarım [My Writings from Paris]
- 420.00€
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- A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî 8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…
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- Cairo Imprint: استبداد [İsdibdad / Della Tirannide / Of Tyranny]
- 550.00€
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- A translation of an Italian work “On Tyranny” was translated into Ottoman as a propaganda piece at the time of the capitulation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and published in Cairo to avoid the censorship. 8°. 271 pp. with a portrait, original boards with hand splattered paper and black cloth spine (minimal wear to the cover, but overall…
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- Cars / Ottoman Language: شوفور معلمى [Şoför Muallimi / Driving Instructor]
- 350.00€
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- 8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)
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- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
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- 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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- CATHERINE THE GREAT: قترينه تارخى [Katerina Tarihi]
- 650.00€
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- 8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…
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