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…
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…
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…
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…
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).
An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old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…
[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).
[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…
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…
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…
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)
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).
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…
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).
[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
8°. 26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).
روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…
[Tarih-i İstikbâl. Mesaif-i Siyasiye / Reception History. Political Issues] A charming late Ottoman binding made of Ebru – or Islamic marbled paper 8°. 208 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards with envelope flaps and brown calf spines (last 15 pages slightly age-toned and water stained, binding with minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).
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).
[Redd-i Renan. İslâmiyet ve Fünûn / Answer to Renan. Islam and Arts] 12°, 76 pp., [2 pp] blank, later marbled paper wrappers with mounted original cover (one page with a sentence underlined in red ink, front cover with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
[Çanakkale Boğazı ve civarı / Dardanelles Strait and its Vicinity] 12°. 166 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with tile on the cover and decoration on the back cover, recent black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover and spine and debossed decoration (slightly age-toned and stained, small cracks in the inner side of the original cover, otherwise…
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