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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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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 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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- 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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- 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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- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, IMPRINT: طريق رفاه. فرانقلينك ثروت حقنده كى نصايحى و ترجمه حالى
- 620.00€
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- [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…
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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 / BINDINGS: تذكرة الحكم في طبقات الأمم [Tadhkirat l-Hikam fi Tabaqat al-Umam also Tadhkirat al-Umam]
- 1,400.00€
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- [Note on the Judgement in Periods of Nations] 8°, [2 pp.], 318 pp (wrongly printed 813), [4 pp.] errata and blank, original embossed brown calf with a flap, original pasted-down endpapers with blue stenciled patterns, blank loose endpapers, hand-written title on the spine and on the foot edge (slightly age-toned with minor staining, old minor annotations on the…
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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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- CHAGATAI DICTIONARY – UZBEK AUTHOR: لغت چغتای وترکی عثمانی [Chagatai-Ottoman Dictionary]
- 960.00€
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- Chemistry in the Ottoman Empire: Kemmî ve Keyfî Kimya-i Tahlili / Kimya-i Ziraî. Chimie Agricole
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry 2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…
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- CHICAGO: شيقاغو شهري [Amerika seyahatından Şikago şehri]
- 580.00€
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- [From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago] An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898 8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- China / International Relations: چينه سياحت [Çin’e Seyahat / Travel to China]
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- China / Travelouge / Hitayname: ترجمه تاريخ نوارى جين ماجين
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [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).
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- Christian Missions in the Muslim World: عالم اسلام و انكليز ميسيونەری : انکلیز میسیونەری نصل يتشديريليور
- 420.00€
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- [Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?] A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…
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- Christopher Columbus in Ottoman Literature: بحثه اول ونديك وجنويزلى كميجيلرنيك كشف ايلدكي جزاير و ثانيا قرستوف قولومبك امريقا بولمسى Bahs-i evvel Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerin keṣfeylediği Cezayir ve saniyen Kristof Kolombun Amerikayı bulması
- 650.00€
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- First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…
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- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: قريستوف قولومب [Kristof Kolomb / Christopher Columbus]
- 420.00€
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- An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey. 8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition). …
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- Circassians: چركسلر [Çerkesler / Circassians]
- 340.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).
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- CONGRESS OF BERLIN: برلين قونغره سى بك ديپلوماسى تاريخنه بر نظر
- 320.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin
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- Crete Imprint / Botany – Agriculture / Citrus Growing: حديقه [Ḥadiḳa / The Garden]
- 1,200.00€
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- A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete 4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…
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- CYNOLOGY: آو و صالون كوپكلرى [Av ve Salon Köpekleri / Hunting and Salon Dogs]
- 350.00€
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- An Ottoman book on dog breeds by a pioneer of the Turkish cynology Cafer Fahri Dikmen (1876 - 1962). 8°, 191 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained and aga-toned, old hand-written number on the rear cover, otherwise in a goo condition).
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- Cyprus Imprint / Iranian Literature: Pendnama of Shykh Sadee. Being a Compendium of Ethics, in Verse, by that Celebrated Poet. Translated Into English by W.C. Smyth Esq. Late of the Hon. East India Company’s Bengal Civil Service. Rendered in Turkish Verse by Ali Riza Ibni Emin. Professor of Turkish Language of English School Cyprus. پندنامهء شيخ سعدى
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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).
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- DIPLOMACY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Protocole pour la Réception à la Cour Impériale des Chefs de Mission Étrangers
- 320.00€
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- [Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court] 8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition). The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- EARLY OTTOMAN AMERICANA / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: 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 l’anglais
- 9,500.00€
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- 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…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica, World Maps
- Early Ottoman Lithographed Map of the World: مجموعهء معارف [Mecmua-i maarif]
- 550.00€
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- A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases. 8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…
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- EBRU – LATE OTTOMAN MARBLED PAPER: تاريخ استقبال. مسائل سياسيه
- 320.00€
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- [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).
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- Economie Rurale. اقتصاد زراعى [İktisad-ı Ziraai / Agricultural Economy]
- 1,200.00€
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- An exceedingly rare mimeographed illustrated book on the economy in agriculture, made for an Ottoman school with a stunning multicolour title page showcasing a well-managed farm 8°: 422 pp., [2 pp.] index, mimeographed text with illustrations, charts and vignettes, illustrated title page, old corrections and annotations in pencil and blue ink, original blue cloth with debossed ornaments (minor…
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- EGYPT / TRAVELOGUE: مصور مصر خاطراتی [Musavver Mısır Hâtırâtı / Illustrated Egypt Diaries]
- 250.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 184 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (small tears in margins, small patches with loss of text due to glue on three pages replaced with manuscript in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Engineering in the Late Ottoman Empire:
- 450.00€
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- The two books published by the Ottoman Navy Press present the latest tactics, techniques and constructions on the field of naval warfare and defense. 2 volumes bound-in-one, Small 4°, [8 pp.], 163 pp.,13 illustrations of naval battles on thick paper, separated with blank papers. [8 pp.], 142 pp., [2 pp.], 6 folding plates. Contemporary black cloth boards with…
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- Family Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: رهب صحت [Rehber-i Sıhhat / Guide to Health].
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°: 156 pp. with black and white images, dark green illustrated wrappers (good overall, small tears, small folds and chips to corners, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained, tiny tears and loss of paper to spine, corner of front cover repaired).
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- Female Emantipation / Erotica Silk Bindings: A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
- 2,400.00€
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- A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
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- FEMALE ORIENTALISTS: رد ره نان. اسلاميت و فنون
- 320.00€
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- [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).
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- FEMINISM: فه مينيزم. عالم نسوان [Feminizm. Âlem-i Nisvan / Feminism. Women’s World]
- 1,200.00€
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- First Ottoman book on feminism 12°, 85 pp., [3 pp.], contemporary pink wrappers (very good, wrappers with minor scratches and tiny tears).
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- FIRST AUTOPSY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: مقالات طبيه [Makalat-ı Tıbbiye / Medical Reports].
- 1,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A thesis on the first autopsy ever conducted in the Ottoman Empire, performed by Karl Ambros Bernard in 1841, at the Austrian Hospital in Istanbul, written by Hayrullah Efendi, a future Ottoman diplomat and prolific author 8°: [4 pp., index], 149 pp., 6 folding charts, contemporary marbled boards, restored calf spine, old paste down tile to cover bearing…
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- FIRST LITHOGRAPHED BOOK, ISSUED IN ISTANBUL: نخبة التعليم. طابور تعليمى
- 6,200.00€
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- [Nukhbat al-talim. Tabur talimi also Nuhbetü't-talim. Tabur Talimi / The Elite Education. Education for Battalions] 8°, [1] title page, 13 pp., 79 numbered lithographed plates contemporary binding with marbled boards, calf spine with gilt decoration, lettering and ornaments from original wrappers mounted on boards (binding with rubbed spots, spine with small cracks and chips, ca 10 tiny…
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- First Lithographed Folio Atlas, Printed in the Ottoman Empire: ىگى جغرافىا آطلسى [Yeñi coġrafya aṭlası / The New Geographic Atlas]
- 5,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Folio, 42 chromolithographed double-paged maps, original chromolithographed illustrated boards, recent black cloth spine, original green endpapers (boards with minor wear, light staining, light water-staining in the lower white margin of the rear cover, tiny chips to the margins of the front cover, spine replaced, crack in the joints repaired, a tiny tear in the Great Britain map).
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- FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON MODERN PHYSICS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. اصول حكمت طبيعيه [Usûl-i Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Principals of Natural Science]
- 1,400.00€
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- Freudism in Ottoman: فرويديزم. پسيقوآناليزه دائر بش درس [Fröydizm [Freudizm]. Psikoanaliza Dair Beş Ders / Freudism. Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis / Über Psychoanalyse: Fünf Vorlesungen]
- 420.00€
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- A first Ottoman translation of the Freud’s groundbreaking work on psychoanalysis, sexual origins of neurosis and the Oedipus complex, written by the pioneer of the modern Ottoman psychology Small 4°: 57 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (wrappers with light staining, later spine
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- Gallipoli / Dardanelles: چناق قلعه بوغازى و جوارى
- 280.00€
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- [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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- Gallipoli Campaign / Arabian Peninsula /WWI in The Middle East / Ottoman War Journal: حرب مجموعه‌سى [Harb Mecmuası]
- 3,200.00€
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- A complete set of the richly illustrated Ottoman War Journal, issued during WWI, focusing in the large battles, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and the battles in the Middle East Large 4°. 27 issues bound in one volume (issues 25 and 26 published together), 432 pp., later black linen boards, brown calf spine with gilt Ottoman lettering. Issue 1…
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- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: چاناق قلعه ايزلرى [Traces of Çanakkale: To the Eternal Heroes of the Suvla].
- 550.00€
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- The first edition of the prominent Turkish poet and writer İbrahim Alaaddin Gövsa’s historically important work featuring the report of the official Ottoman artists’ delegation to the active battlefield at Gallipoli in the Summer of 1915 and containing the first printing of his complete collection of his moving poems on Gallipoli; this example featuring the spectacular illustrated cover showing…
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- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: چناق قلعه حقيقتلرى
- 380.00€
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- [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles] 8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).
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- Gardening & Plants / Ottoman Empire: انكليز تخم بازارى [İngiliz Tohum Pazarı (Kataloğu No:1) / English Seed Market]
- 680.00€
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- Tulip, Daffodil and Hyacinth Growing in Istanbul Large 8°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, original taxation stamp (light staining, stains on two pages with partial minimal damage to the text, wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper in one corner).
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- Gardening & Plants / Ottoman Empire: بيك بر چيچك مغازه سى. Magasin au mille et une fleurs
- 420.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Bin Bir Çiçek Mağazası / Magazine of Thousand and One Flower] Large 8°. 80 pp., [2], later red binding with mounted original front and rear wrappers, original taxation stamp on the rear wrapper (light water-staining going throughout the book, old traces of stapled in inner white margins).
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- GEOGRAPHY BOOK / CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: جمهوريت چوجوقلرينه يكى جوغرافيا درسلرى [Republic Lesions in the New Geography for Children]
- 150.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- Georgia: كورجى كويلرى [Gürcü Köyleri / Gerorgian Villages]
- 420.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°: 56 pp., later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (old repairs to the title page and blank margins on p. 1, minor age toning and staining, old hand-written price on the rear inner side of the rear board).
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- Hebrew Printing in Izmir: אלף-בית עברית. الفبای عبرانى [Elifba-yı İbrani / Hebrew Primer]
- 680.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- 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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- HORSE MEDICINE: مواريلره مخصوص جيب كتابى [Süvarilere Mahsûs Cep Kitabı / Pocket Book for Cavalry]
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Large 8°, 314 pp., boards with modern marbled paper, original calf spine with gilt decoration, original marbled paper endpapers (with light foxing and staining, p. 27-28 cracked in the upper part, a tear on p 192 repaired with old transparent paper).
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- HORSES / RIDING: بينيچلك تعليمنامة سى. مسوده حالنده
- 850.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Binicilik Talimnâmesi. Müsvedde Halinde / Equestrian Instructions. In Sketches] A detailed illustrated Ottoman manual on horses, dressage, military training and other equestrian sports 8°, ح, 314 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, last pages (index) printed on turquoise paper, later red cloth binding (index pages partly uncut, last two pages loose, minor staining, a…
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- HORSES: بينيجيلك تعليمنامه سى سرحى و عربه جيلق [Binicilik Talimnâmesi Şerhi ve Arabacılık]
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 87 pp., 36 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original wrapper with lettering (slightly stained, wrappers with tiny tears in margins, old Ottoman annotations on the title page, spine repaired).
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- Illustrated catalogue and price list of publications of the American Mission Press, Beirut, Syria. Founded at Malta, 1822, and at Beirut, 1834.
- 950.00€
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- A historically important catalogue of 721 books on science, religion and other subjects, published in English and Arabic languages by the American Mission Press in Beirut. 8°, 38 pp. in English, [3 pp.] blank, 51 pp. in Arabic, with illustrations in text, original wrappers with lettering (somehow brittle, with loss of paper in the corners, but without loss…
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- INCUNABLE OF OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY: مذكره ضابطان [Officer’s Notes]
- 5,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- Iraq / Petroleum-Oil History: الجزيرة قطعه سنده كى پترول معدنلرى امتيازى مسأله سى
- 650.00€
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- [Extract of the Contract on Mineral Oil on the Segment of al-Jazeera [i. e. Upper Mesopotamia, in this case Iraq]]. 8°: 23 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, stapled (soft folds, minor staining in the upper part, but overall in a good condition).
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- ISLAM – GENEALOGY: سبحة الأخبار [Sübhet ül-ahbar / The Rosary of the Times]
- 700.00€
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- 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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- Islam in North America: استبشار آمريقاده نشر اسلام تشبثى
- 420.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [İstibşar Amerika'da Neşr-i İslâm Teşebbüsü / Foresight ot the Spead of the Islam in America].
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- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: ثلث قره لمه دفترى [Sülüs Karalama Defteri / Notebook for Drafting Thulth]
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)
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- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: ثلث قره لمه دفترى [Sülüs Karalama Defteri / Notebook for Drafting Thulth]
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 8°, [16 pp.], unbound as originally published (light staining, small loss of paper in the upper corner, small lengthy worm holes in the lower corner).
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- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: رهبر صبيان [Rehber-i Sıbyan Primer]
- 160.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).
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- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: عصمت [Ismet / Purity also Honor or Honesty]
- 1,800.00€
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- An eye catching combination of traditional Islamic calligraphy, modern printing technique and contemporary military and political iconography, made to glorify the Turkish War of Independence. Lithography, 48 x 63 cm (soft folds with tiny holes and tears, small holes mostly in margins of the image, minor staining and foxing, small tears in margins, two red Ottoman stamps in…
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- JAPAN: ژاپونيا نك ماضيسى، حالى، استقبالى [Japonya’nın. Mâzisi, Hâli, İstikbâli]
- 1,600.00€
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- Japan. Past. Present. Future The first Ottoman book on Japan. 8°. [2 pp.] index on pink paper, 131 pp., double-page colour map, folding map, later wrappers (folding map with partly repaired tears, otherwise in a good condition).
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- KURDS / PSEUDOHISTORY / ALBANIAN AUTHORS: كردلر تاريحى و اجتماعى تدقيكات [Kürdler: Tarihi ve İctimai Tedkikat / Kurds: Historical and Social Research]
- 1,600.00€
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- 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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- Last Ottoman Book on Darwinism: داروين [Darvin / Darwin]
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 15 pp. with illustrated cover (tiny loss of paper on the spine, light water-staining in the lower corner, lower margin of the cover cut into the low part of the printing, without loss of text, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Late Ottoman Pocket Atlas: جمهوريت جهان اطلاسى [Cumhuriyet Cihan Atlası / Republic Atlas of the World]
- 620.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A charming pocket atlas in Ottoman language, made in the first years of the Republic of Turkey. Long small 8°: [4 pp.], 24 pp., 120 pp., 34 colour lithographed maps and charts, some folding (complete – matching the list in text), contemporary half linen binding, debossed dark faux leather boards (minor staining, mostly on the edges, front endpapers…
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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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- LITHOGRAPHED RUZNAME – OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- 2,600.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A remarkably fine example of an Ottoman Tanzimat Era lithographed calendar scroll (ruzname), headed with an image of a clock, with original rollers and wrappers Paper Scroll (rotulus), mounted upon an original wood roller original patterned brown paper wrappers (Very Good, a few minor tears and light staining, tears in the upper part repaired with modern tape) 205…
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- LOGARITHMIC TABLES / SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / NAVY MATHEMATICS: لغرتما جداولي [Logaritma Cedâvili / Logarithmic Tables]
- 520.00€
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- 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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- Mathematics: جبر درسلرى [Cebir Dersleri / Algebra Lessons]. جبر [Cebir / Algebra]
- 1,600.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A finely bound pair of algebra books in Ottoman language
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- Mecca Imprint / Hejaz Vilayet Press: اسعاد بانت سعاد شرحى [Esad, Banet Suad şerhi]
- 3,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 4°, two volumes bound together (complete). 1 pp. index, 2 pp., 222 pp. with as always missing front wrappers numbered 1 and 2, original black cloth boards with debossed gilt decoration, later cloth spine covering parts of boards. (Slightly age-toned with small tears and loss of paper in margins, first two sheets with loss of upper corners and with…
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- Mecca Imprint / The Hajj: مجموعة إلهى. يطلب من مكتبة النهضة الحديثة لصاحبها. عبد الحفيظ فدا واخوانه. بمكتب باب السّلام
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [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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- Mechanics in the Ottoman Empire / Mimeographed Publications: انفلاق و بخار محركلرى
- 850.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [İnfilak ve Buhar Muharrikleri / Compression Ignition and Steam Engines] A rare illustrated Ottoman mimeographed book on compression ignition and steam engines, made on the eve of WWI, possibly for the technical university. Large 8°, 488 pp., mimeograph in two tons of purple and in black with illustrations in text, contemporary purple cloth boards, black calf spine…
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- Medicinal Chemistry: كمياى عضوى طبى Chimie Organique Medicale [Kimya-i Uzvî-i Tıbbî / Medical Organic Chemistry]
- 1,400.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°, 421 pp. hectographed text, contemporary brown boards with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering (minor age-toning and foxing, minor wear and discoloration to the binding, with a small repaired tear in the upper part of the spine).
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- Medicine / Botany: علم نباتات طبى دفترى
- 1,600.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [İlm-i Nebatât-ı Tıbbiye Defteri / Notebook on the Knowledge on Medical Botany] A rare, seemingly unrecorded hectographed Ottoman book on medical botany, accompanied with charming illustrations and titles and based on the lectures by a veterinarian Mehmed Ali Bey the Imperial Medical School, and edited by Esat Şerefeddin Köprülü, later a famous botanist and professor Small 4°,…
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- MEDICINE / GYNECOLOGY: طوغوم وقادين خسته لقلر ينة داير. .. Sujets libres sur la gynécologie et l’obstétrique
- 680.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare book on gynecology in Ottoman script by a medical doctor, active in Adana, Diyarbakır and Baghdad was only published in 20 examples. With contemporary annotations. 8°. [2 pp.] introduction, 109 pp., [80 pp.] blank paper with three pages with notes in Ottoman and French in black ink. 110-151 pp. with first 7 pp. in Latin characters in…
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- Medicine / Modern Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: Précis de percussion et d’auscultation à l’usage de ses leçons, imprimerie de l’indicateur Byzantine
- 1,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare pioneering work on the modern medicine in the Ottoman Empire was written in French by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard in Istanbul. 8°, [4 pp.], 90 pp. with an introduction in French and Ottoman, original green boards with lettering and illustrations , brown calf spine (binding slightly scuffed on the edges, minor staining, light…
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- MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 3,800.00€
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- 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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- Medicine in the Ottoman Empire / Fevers: حماى راجعه يه قارشى اتخاذ اولونه جق تدابير تحفظيه و مانعه استيلائه يه دار تعليماتنامه
- 420.00€
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- [Humma-yı Raciaya Karşı İttihaz Olunacak Tedâbir-i Tahaffuziyye ve Mania-i İstilâyeye Dair Talimâtnâme / Instruction for Unionized Precautionary Measures and Prevention of Spreading of the Fever]. A pamphlet in Ottoman language, printed on attractive pink paper, summarizing the latest western discoveries on the various types of fevers and giving instructions for prevention of their spreading. Large 12°: 24…
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- MEDICINE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet [also] Nevsâl-i Afiyet.. Third Year]
- 680.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, contemporary brown binding with calf spine with embossed decoration and gold lettering, cloth boards, contemporary endpapers with floral pattern (light staining, mostly to the first and last pages, minor scuffing to the spine, a small loss of paper in the corner of rear lose endpaper, otherwise in a good, used condition).
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- MILITARIA – HORSES / TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE / KONYA IMPRINT: Süvarinin Meydan Muharebesinde Sûret-i İstihdam Hakkında 26 Mayıs 1918 de Neşrolunan Talimât
- 480.00€
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- [Instructions on the Form of Employment in the Pitched Battle of the Cavalry, Issued on May 26, 1918] A rare Ottoman, seemingly unrecorded edition of a military cavalry manual, crudely printed in a military base of Konya during the Turkish War of Independence Long 8°, 80 pp. (first four pages mispaginated, but complete). Original wrappers with lettering…
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- Military Medicine & Hygiene in the Ottoman Empire: حفظ الصهء عسكرى نوطالرى
- 450.00€
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- [Hıfz-ı Sıhha-i Askeriyye Notları / Military Manual of Health. Notes] 12°, [12 pp.], 357 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], 6 folding plates interleaved, original wrappers with lettering, bound in original publisher’s blue cloth binding with gilt debossed lettering and black ornaments (binding with small scuffing on the corners, sporadic old annotations on the endpapers, minor…
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- Modern Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire: عوالم فلكيه [Avâlim-i Felekiyye / Cosmic Worlds]
- 750.00€
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- An Ottoman book on modern western astronomical discoveries, edited by Selih Zeki, the director of the Imperial Observatory 8°. [4 pp.] introduction, folding plate, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [2 pp.] blank, 19 interleaved photographs with irregular numeration, one double-page celestial chart, original broen cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the…
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- Modern Physics in the Ottoman Empire / Electricity: حكمت طبيعيه [Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Wisdom of Nature]
- 950.00€
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- 4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire. 4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…
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- Montenegro / Ottoman Empire: IIIe a Propos de L’Herzegovine. Montenegro
- 650.00€
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- 8°, portrait, 63 pp., folding map, originally coloured in outline, later wrappers (age-toned with light cracks in margins, portrait slightly water-stained).
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- Mosques of the Ottoman Empire: بايرام هديهسى. بدايع اثار عثمانيه
- 650.00€
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- [Bayram Hediyesi. Bedayi-i Âsâr-ı Osmaniye. / Holiday Gift. Beautiful Ottoman Antiquities] A stellar example of a richly illustrated art-historical guide of the most famous mosques of the Ottoman Empire from Istanbul to Mecca with superb illustrations by a famous late-Ottoman painter Hüsnü Tengüz. 8°. Original colour lithographed illustrated front wrappers, 110 pp. with mispagination skipping pp. 97-98, letterpress…
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- MUMBAI: هندستان سياحتندن. بومباى شهرى [Hindistan Seyahatinden. Bombay Şehri / From the Indian Travel. Bombay City]
- 480.00€
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- 8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- ORIENT EXPRESS: آوروپاده نه كوردم .معارف نظارت حليله سنك رخصتيله Ce que j’ai vu en Europe. France, Angleterre, Belgique, Hollande, Alemagne, Suisse, Italie, Autriche & Hongrie.
- 1,200.00€
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- [Avrupa'da Ne Gördüm / What did I see in Europe. [French title:] France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Hungary] A stunning travelogue of Europe by an Ottoman novelist, editor and translator of Jules Verne, Ahmed İhsan, was influenced by a novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Possibly the first travelogue to involve the Orient Express. …
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- ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
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- 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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- Oscar Wilde: English Tales for Turkish People Arranged with Vocabularies and Notes in Turkish and Fenech by H. M. Thompson, B. A. Professor of Galata Serai Lycée. Constantinople. No. 1. The Happy Prince & The Selfish Giant
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 22 pp., [4 pp.], 13 pp., original wrappers with red lettering (minor loss of paper around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Oscar Wilde: بحتيار پرنس [Bahtiyar Prens / The Happy Prince]
- 420.00€
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- 8°, [8 pp.], 64 pp., with two black and white portraits of Oscar Wilde, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a recent black linen with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, signed by the translator (minor age-toning and staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- OTTOMAN ATLAS: مكمل و مفصل جعرافيا عمومى اطلاسى
- 1,500.00€
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- [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Co‎ğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası / Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas] 8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…
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- Ottoman Book of International Naval Flags: دولت عليه عثمانيه سنجاقلريله دول اجنبيه بانديره لرينى حاوي البومدر
- 2,800.00€
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- [Devlet-i Âliye-i Osmaniye Sancaklarıyla Düvel-i Ecnebiye Bandıralarını Hâvi Albümdür / Album of the Flags of the Sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire and Foreign Countries] A rare and lavishly illustrated Ottoman folio book depicting the naval flags, jacks and standards of 50 nations as they appeared on the eve of World War I, published in Constantinople by the Ottoman…
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- Ottoman Book on Cuneiform: آثورى و كلدانيلره مخصوص خط ميخى حقنده معلومات مجمله [Asurî ve Keldanîlere mahsûs hatt-i mihî hakkinda malûmat-i mücmele / General Information on the Calligraphy Specific to Assyrians and Chaldeans].
- 250.00€
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- The first Ottoman book on cuneiform, written by scholar and Armenian nationalist Karapet J. Basmadjian 16°: 27 pp., [5 pp.] blank, later cloth binding with debossed prnaments and gilt lettering (margins slightly age-toned and with tiny tears, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Ottoman Book on Geography: اصول جغرافياى صغير
- 680.00€
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- [Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Sagir / Small Introduction to Geography] An early Ottoman geography book with large, wonderfully originally coloured maps. 12°: 156 pp., [4 pp.] blank and errata, 3 folding plates with maps – lithographs with original colour, original green boards and green cloth spine (binding with small chips and scratches, inside in a good condition with minor…
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- Ottoman Book on Horses – Training, Riding and Medicine: فن اشكال خارجى حيوانات اهليه [Fenn-i Eşkâl-i Hariciye-i Hayvanât-ı Ehliye]
- 1,350.00€
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- 8°, [3 pp.] title page and introduction, 536 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1 pp.], 4 folding plates, contemporary grown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, original green patterned endpapers (slightly age-toned, minor foxing and staining, tiny sporadic folds in corners, sporadic light off-set, printing mistakes on pp. 377-383 with correctly printed images over wrongly…
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- OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY – GEOGRAPHY : سملى خريطه سى جعرافجاى عمومى [General Geographical Maps]
- 960.00€
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- Ottoman Cartography: [Yazısız Harita Defteri] [Notebook of Blank Maps]
- 890.00€
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- A rare Ottoman blank atlas, made for educational purposes at the Military School Oblong Small Folio: 66 lithographed double page maps, original brown boards with debossed decoration, original brown calf spine, recent endpaper, slightly age-toned and stained, sporadic folds, small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, some maps with manuscript annotations in Ottoman in pencil and…
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- OTTOMAN ECONOMY: اقونومى پولتيق [Political Economy]
- 280.00€
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- 12°. 191 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and Ottoman lettering, original yellow endpapers (light ink scribbles on the back endpapers, endpapers slightly dusty, binding with light wear and scratches, otherwise in a good condition).
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- OTTOMAN ELIFBA / PRIMER FOR THE ARABIC SCRIPT: الفبا حزئى (title on the cover) / الفبا حزوى (title on the title page) [Primer]
- 420.00€
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- 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 (binding slightly stained with tiny scratches, repaired hinges in the front ands rear endpapers).
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- Ottoman Empire / Geography: مختصر جغرافيا رساله سى Muhtasar Coğrafya Risalesi
- 850.00€
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- An early modern Ottoman geography school book Small 8°, 54 pp., [2 pp.] blank, 7 colour printed double-page maps, contemporary marbled paper boards and black cloth spine (binding restored with partly repaired loss of paper, tiny holes in the folds and tiny tears in margins, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- Ottoman French Medical Encyclopedia: قاموس طبى / Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Medical Francais-Turc.
- 450.00€
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- [Kamus-ı Tıbbî / Medical Dictionary]. An encyclopedic Ottoman work on medicine, written in Cairo by the physician and public intellectual Şerefeddin Mağmûmî, an invaluable resource for the study of the Ottoman language regarding the field of medicine. 2 volumes-in-1, 8°: vii, 1064 pp., continuous pagination, with title page for the second volume after the page 600, original…
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- Ottoman Geography: المدخل في الجغرفيا [El-Medhal fî’l-Coğrafya / Introduction to Geography]
- 1,200.00€
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- First popular Ottoman book on modern geography and survey 8°. 88 pp., 8 folding plates, original binding with marbled paper covers and brown cloth spine (minor staining, sporadic old annotations and underlined words, old manuscript mathematical drawing in black ink on the inner side of the front cover, binding slightly rubbed mostly around the spine with loss of…
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- OTTOMAN HISTORY / MUSIC: عاشق دردلى [Âşık Derdli, Hayatı, Divânı / Ashik Derdli. Life, Songs]
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 165 pp., [7 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, dedication and signature by the author on the title page (slightly age-toned and stained, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained with pieces of old postal stamps).
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- Ottoman Imperial Institute of Vaccination: The Guest Book of the Imperial Smallpox Vaccine Laboratory
- 1,200.00€
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- A unique, original manuscript guest book of the Ottoman Imperial Vaccine Laboratory, with entries by various prominent local and international guests, praising the innovative techniques and modernity of the institution. 8°: [56 pp.] with 27 pp. in manuscript in black and blue ink and pencil by various hands and 29 pp. blank, original three quarter dark red linen…
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- OTTOMAN LINGUISTICS: لب العروض لمفتى زاده [Lübbü’l-arûz li Müfti Zade]
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, 11 pp. with charts and one folding page, contemporary marbled paper wrappers (light stains to the wrappers and first page, sporadic old annotations, otherwise in a good condition).
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- OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHED RELIGIOUS TEXT: شرح ورد الستار
- 2,000.00€
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- 8°, [2 pp.] blank, 8 pp. letterpress, 207 pp. lithographed text with gold and colour decoration to the first three pages, [4 pp.] blank, contemporary brown Morocco with gold tooling, contemporary embossed purple endpapers, gilt edges (bookseller’s stamp on the first lithographed page, inside in a good, clean condition, binding slightly scuffed on the corners, spine with small loss of…
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- Ottoman Macabre Novels – Izmir Imprint / Ephemera / Silent Movies: باراباس [Barabas]
- 650.00€
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- 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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- Ottoman Manuscript on Shipbuilding
- 3,200.00€
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- A unique Ottoman manuscript on modern shipbuilding Small 4°, [64 pp.] manuscript in black ink with annotations in pencil, drawings in pancil and water-colours, unbound (minor staining and folds in corners, some pages loose, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- OTTOMAN MILITARY ATLAS: محاربات مشهوره عثمانه البومى
- 3,500.00€
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- [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles] A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…
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- OTTOMAN NEW LITERATURE (EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE): جلالالدين خوارزمشاه [Celalettin Harzem Şah also Celalettin Harzemşah or Celâleddin Harizmşah]
- 450.00€
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- This is a first edition of the historical propaganda theatre play by one of the prime representative of the modern Ottoman literature to include Kemal’s famous introduction, inspired by the preface of Cromwell by Victor Hugo. 8°. Portrait, ط س, 414 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black calf spine with gilt lettering (bound inn contemporary binding without…
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- OTTOMAN NEW LITERATURE / EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE: كابوس [Kabus / Nightmare]
- 180.00€
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- 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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- OTTOMAN POCKET ATLAS: ممالك عثمانيه جيب اطلاسى
- 1,200.00€
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- [Memâlik-i Osmaniye Cep Atlası / The Pocket Atlas of the Ottoman Empire] 12°: 6 pp., [2 pp.], 328 pp. text in Ottoman, 64 pp. with single- or double-page maps, lithographed in colour, original dark red cloth binding with black and gold lettering and decoration- (light foxing and staining, last page age-toned, front end-papers replaced, binding slightly rubbed, but…
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- OTTOMAN POP-UP BOOK ON ANATOMY: مرات وجود بشر و اعضاء داخليه و خارجيه لرى و آنلرك وظيفه لرى
- 950.00€
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- [Mir'at-ı Vücud-ı Beşer ve Aza-ı Dahiliye ve Hariciyeleri ve Onların Vazifeleri / View of the Human Body and Internal Organs and Extremities and Their Functions]. Small 4°: 4 pp. in French and Ottoman, composition of chromolithographed moving pieces, joined in 1 colour chromolithographed folding image mounted on the inner side of the front wrappers, original debossed boards with…
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- OTTOMAN POP-UP BOOK ON ANATOMY: مكمل مرات وجود نسا
- 1,600.00€
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- [Mükemmel Mir'at-ı Vücud-i Nisa / The Complete Overview of the Woman’s Parts]. A seemingly unrecorded Ottoman book on female anatomy with chromolithographed folding and movable pieces. 4°: 10 pp., in French and Ottoman, composition of chromolithographed moving pieces, joined in 1 colour chromolithographed folding image mounted on the inner side of the front wrappers, original printed lettering…
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- OTTOMAN POPULAR NOVELS: حكايه شابور چلبى Hikâye-i Şapur Çelebi
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 75 pp. with black and white illustrations within text, [5 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, stapled (good, clean partly uncut example, unbound as originally published, wrappers brittle with small tears and chips).
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- OTTOMAN SATIRICAL MAGAZINE: قلم Kalem [Pen].
- 7,500.00€
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- 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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- Ottoman School Book for Bulgarians: تركى لسانندس علم صرف اثر نسطور مارقوف
- 320.00€
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- [Грамматика за турскыи языкъ отъ Х. Марковъ / Grammar of Turkish Language by H. Markov] 8°. 119 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers stained with small pieces of paper missing, rear wrapper with trimmed margins, inside slightly age-toned, sporadic margins lightly trimmed, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).
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- Ottoman Science Magazine: كونش [Güneş / The Sun]
- 1,200.00€
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- A series of a literary and science magazine The Sun (Güneş) with a rare to find original cover, representing the Sun, Saturn, Moon and Comets 8°: Nos. 2-12 (missing no. 1), 586 pp. running numeration, contemporary green cloth binding, old paper label on the spine (front endpapers with small tears in the gutter, light staining and recent inscripts,…
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- Ottoman Statistics / Economy: ماليه نظارتى احصائيات ماليه واردات و مصارف عموميه يى محتويدر
- 650.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Maliye Nezareti. İhsaiyat-i Maliye. vâridât ve masarif-i umûmiyeyi muhtevîdir. 1325 birinci sene- Financial Report. Financial Statistics. The Content of General Imports and Expenses. First Year 1325 [1909]] Large 4°, [12 pp.], 427 pp. with 3 colour folding and 4 black and white folding charts, original red cloth binding with lettering in the spine, original red endpapers (minor wear…
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- Ottoman Technology / Telegraph: تلغراف رساله سى [Telgraf Risalesi / A Telegraph Report]
- 980.00€
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- The first Ottoman printed pamphlet on electric telegraphs, introducing the Mustafa Alphabet, the code adjusted to the Ottoman language 12°, 32 pp., folding plate, later marbled paper wrappers (minor staining, soft folds in the corners, old bookseller’s stamp in ottoman on the first blank page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Ottoman Wallpaper Binding: شرح مراح الارواح [Sharh Marah Al Arwah / Commentary to „The Soul’s Place of Rest”…]
- 250.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Large 8°, 176 pp. (some mispagination, but complete according to the catchwords in lower margins, slightly age-toned and stained, first and last sheet with tiny losses of paper in lower margins, bords with small cracks, chips and tiny loss of material, old script on the front cover, lower margins of boards reinforced with later paper, but otherwise in a…
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- Ottoman-German Relations – WWI / School System: آلمان مكتبلرى [Alman Mektepleri / German Schools]
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°: 22 pp., [2 pp.] blank] on pink paper, later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt title, later green endpapers (title page with minimal staining and old collector’s stamp, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- PERGAMON MUSEUM, BERLIN: برعمه. رهبر خرابه برعمه
- 480.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Bergama. Rehber-i Harabe-i Bergama (Nüsha-i Türkiye) / Pergamon. Guide to the Ruins of Pergamon. Turkish Edition] A rare pamphlet on the archeological excavations of Pergamon in Ottoman Turkish was printed by Berlin Royal Museum (now Altes Museum) at the time the artefacts were transported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin, where they were exhibited in a new museum.…
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- PHILISOPHY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: فلسفه مجموعه سى [Felsefe Mecmuası. Birinci Cilt / Philiosophy Journal. First volume [All Published]]
- 1,400.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Small 4°: 10 issues in one volume (all published). [4 pp.], 175 pp. with black and white illustrations, 64 pp., contemporary boards with illustrated cover and lettering on the back, cloth spine, original pink endpapers (binding with light staining and scratches, endpapers with small holes, inside with minor staining, overall in a good condition).
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- PRIMER / ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / TURKISH BOOK DESIGN: ياورومك الفباسى
- 280.00€
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- [Yavrumun Elifbası / My Child’s Primer] 8°, 63 pp. zincography with illustrations, original wrappers with colour cover (very good, minor staining, tiny tears in the spine).
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- PROPHET MUHAMMAD: محمديه [Muhammediye also Kitab Muhammediye]
- 960.00€
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- A richly illustrated mystic work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad by an Ottoman author Yazıcızâde Mehmed 4°, 7 pp. [mispagination, actually 8pp.], 4 pp., 478 pp., [2 pp.], lithographed text with illustrations, 3 pages printed in gold ink, contemporary brown cloth, later spine (slightly age-toned and stained, endpapers chipped, tiny cracks in margins, binding slightly scuffed…
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- PROSODY / LINGUISTICS / BULAQ IMPRINT: شرح العروض [title], شرح عروض ملا جامى [first page] [Şerh’ül-aruz Molla Cami / Explanation of Prosody by Jami]
- 550.00€
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- 8°, 158 pp., later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering (old manuscript in colour pencil on first and last page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- PSYCHOLOGY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: پسيقولوژى علم احوال روح
- 280.00€
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- [Psikoloji İlm-i Ahvâl-i Ruh / Psychology. The Science of the Psyche] A late Ottoman work on the modern psychology 8°, 203 pp., [5 pp.], later wrappers (slightly age toned, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Quarantine in the Ottoman Empire: ترجمان حقيقت و مصور ثروت فنون
- 650.00€
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- [Tercüman-ı Hakikat ve Musavver Servet-i Fünûn / Interpreter of Truth and Servet-i Fünun] A special edition of a cultural magazine with a first modern Ottoman article on the quarantine by a prominent author Ahmet Mithat Small Folio, 158 pp., [2 pp.] index, [8 pp.] with portraits printed recto only, original green boards with imperial insignia, later black cloth spine…
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- RACING HORSES: ياريث آتلرىو ادمانى [Yarış atları ve ıdmanı / Racing Horses and Training]
- 550.00€
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- 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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- Radiology – Ephemera – Ottoman Empire: [Radiological Card Sleeve].
- 220.00€
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- Card and paper sleeve with printed lettering, 19.5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.2 inches) (slightly stained, soft folds, repaired old tear).
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- Radiology and Contemporary Medicine / Ottoman Empire: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet. 4]
- 980.00€
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- 8°: [4 pp. titles], 736 pp., with3 interleaved plates, [2 pp.] blank, with original illustrated cover, contemporary three-quarter calf with yellow paper boards with debossed decoration, spine decorated with mounted paper elements, original green endpapers (good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, one page with a small tear, loose endpapers missing, binding with light scratches, tiny worm holes…
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- Radiology and Modern Ottoman Medicine: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet]
- 1,200.00€
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- An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field. 8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).
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- Red Sea Pilots / Maritime / Navigation / Saudi Arabia / Yemen / Egypt
- 32,500.00€
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- A historically important and unique assemblage of three works, including Object A, being the original manuscript of the first modern Ottoman pilot guide to the Red Sea, commissioned by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it was written by Captain Cemal Bey, who later served as the ‘Bahr-i Ahmer Komodoru’ (the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea), and…
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- SARAJEVO / AREBICA: طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا
- 180.00€
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- طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge] A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters 8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…
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- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 650.00€
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- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book 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 the further developing of science.…
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- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
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- 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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- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
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- 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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- Shakespeare in Ottoman: هامله ت [Hamlet]
- 420.00€
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- 8°: 71 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (Ottoman annotations on the top of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN EPHEMERAL SERIES
- 1,600.00€
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- 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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- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN LANGUAGE / BEN HUR: خارق العاده پر و غرام. … بن هور
- 550.00€
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- 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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- Silviculture / Dendrology / Botany
- 260.00€
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- SKOPJE IMPRINT / MODERN EDUCATION: عملى فن تدريس. ابتدائى و رشدى معلم ومعلمه لرينه و بالخاصه دار المعلمين طلبه سنه مخصوص
- 680.00€
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- [Amelî Fenn-i Tedris, İptidaî ve Rüşdî Muallim ve Muallimelerine ve Bilhassa Darülmuallimin Talebesine Mahsûs / For Male and Female Teachers of Primary and Secondary school and Especiallyof the Students of Gymnasiums] 8°, 162 pp., [6 pp.], later marbled wrappers (unread and uncut example, lower margin slightly age-toned and brittle with small chips).
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- Socialism in the Ottoman Empire: سوسياليزم [Sosyalizm / Le socialisme, notions élémentaires]
- 820.00€
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- 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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- SOKOLLU MEHMED PASHA / OTTOMAN HISTORY: صوقوللو [Sokollu]
- 480.00€
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- 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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- Sous le haut patronage de sa majesté impériale le Sultan : Bazar de secours aux invalides et aux familles des victimes de la dernière guerre. تحت حمايه مفخمه حضره پادشاهيده محاربه احيره اولاد
- 960.00€
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- [Taht-ı Himâye-i Mufahhame-i Hazret-i Padişahi'de Muharebe-i Ahire Evlad-ı Şüheda ve Ma'lulin-i Askeriyye İane Sergisi. İş bu sergide bulunan eşyadan boyalı olarak resim ve tab'a en ziyade elverişli olan bazı eşya-ı nefisenin resimleri havi albüm. Under the Patronage for His Imperial Majesty the Sultan. Relief Sale for the Invalides and Famileis of the Victims of the Last War] A colourful…
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- Supplement du Servet-i-Funoun. No 1000. Les Anciens et les Nouveaux Collaborateurs du Sevret-I-Funoun qui vient de célébrer le 1000me numéro hebdomadaire de son existence. 1891-1910.
- 250.00€
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- A rare informative supplement to the 1000 issue of the Ottoman cultural and literary magazine Sevret-i-Funoun contains portraits of the authors of the Ottoman new literature. Folio. [20] with black and white illustrations, unbound as originally published (minor traces of wear and staining, spine of the first sheet and the inner sheet repaired with an old tape, a…
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- 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€
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- 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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- THE GREAT GAME / KHIVA, UZBEKISTAN: خيوه فى محرم ١٢٩٠ [Khiva in the Month of Muharram 1873]
- 950.00€
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- 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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- The Rabies Vaccine: M. Pasteur et ses découvertes et spécialement de la méthode préventive contre le rage. Conférence faite d’abord, à Stamboul, à l’Ecole Impériale de Médicine le 7 mars et ensuite à Péra, au Syllogue Littéraire Grec le 22 mars 1887.
- 480.00€
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- [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887]. 8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…
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- THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / EDUCATION HISTORY / RARE TURKISH PROVINCIAL PRINTING: Cihan İktisat Atlası [Universal Economic Atlas].
- 420.00€
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- 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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- Theory of Relativity in the Ottoman Empire: آينشتايز نظريه سى. مكان، زمان، و كتله مفهوملرينن تبدلى
- 1,200.00€
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- A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916. Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…
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- TRAVELOGUE / MIDDLE EAST & INDIA: سياحت ژورنالى. يستانبولسن بغداده و هندستانه من سنه ١٣٠٠ الى ١٣٠٤
- 720.00€
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- [Seyahat Jurnali. İstanbul'dan Bağdat'a ve Hindistan'a. Sene 1300 ila 1304 / Travelogue. From Istanbul to Baghdad and Istanbul. From 1883-1887]. 8°, 119 pp. with 12 interleaved black and white plates and one double-page plate, original yellow cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration, later calf spine with gilt lettering, later marbled endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers slightly…
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- TREATISE ON ISLAMIC CALENDAR: صلاح التقويم [Islahü’t-takvim]
- 1,200.00€
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- A rare book, printed in Cairo, with parallel texts in Ottoman and Arabic, was written by the military leader and scientist Ahmed Muhtar Pasha and is advocating for the invariant Islamic calendar Small 4°, 72 pp., 45 charts (34 double page charts, 11 single page charts), contemporary blue boards and black cloth spine (slightly age-toned, title pages with…
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- TRIPOLI, LIBYA: طرابلس غرب تارىخى [Trablusgarb Tarihi / History of Tripoli]
- 460.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, [2 pp.], 84 pp., interleaved 15 plates, original covers mounted on modern cloth binding, modern pink endpapers (minor foxing, small holes in inner white margin from old binding with a string, some plates loose, original covers slightly rubbed on the corners, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good condition).
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- TROTSKY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE / COMMUNISM: روسيى ده حقيقى وضعيت Rusyada hakiki vaziyet [The Real Situation in Russia]
- 380.00€
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- 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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- 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€
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- 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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- Turkmen Tribes / Fake News / World War I: توركمن عشيرتلرى [Türkmen Aşiretleri / Turkmen Tribes]
- 450.00€
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- An Ottoman propaganda text on the Turkmen tribes, published during World War I, with partly invented historical texts and statistics, written by an infamous fraudster Naci Ismail under an assumed names of foreign scientists. 8°. 533 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers slightly dusty and soiled with small tears, partly repaired spine, title page slightly age-toned,…
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- VIENNA TRADE FAIR: ويانه پانايرى [Viyana panayırı / The Vienna Fair]
- 350.00€
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- A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language, made for the 1928 Trade Fair in Vienna and printed in error in Western collation Oblong small 8°, [8 pp.] with colour and black and white illustrations, stapled (good, used condition).
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- Voltaire in Ottoman: حكايه حكميه مكرومغا
- 420.00€
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- [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas] A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas 8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).
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- WOMAN EMANCIPATION / OTTOMAN EMPIRE / FASHION: بيچكى نظريات وقواعدى نك تدريسات ابتدائيه قسمى
- 650.00€
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- [Biçki Nazariyat ve Kavâidinin Tedrisat-ı İbtidaiye Kısmı / Primary Training Section of the Theory and Rules of Sewing] A book in Ottoman language with instructions for women on dress-making and utilization of modern sewing machines, written by the first Ottoman seamstress Behire Hakkı. Small 4°, 202 pp. with black and white illustrations, illustrated boards and black cloth…
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- WOMAN EMANCIPATION / OTTOMAN EMPIRE / FASHION: بيچكى نظريات وقواعدى نك تدريسات تاليه قسمى
- 650.00€
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- [Biçki Nazariyat ve Kavâidinin Tedrisat-ı Tâliye Kısmı / Secondary Training Section of the Theory and Rules of Sewing] A book in Ottoman language with instructions for women on dress-making and utilization of modern sewing machines, written by the first Ottoman seamstress Behire Hakkı. Small 4°, 149 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], illustrated boards and…
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- WWI – OTTOMAN EMPIRE / ANTI-ALLIED PROPAGANDA: آرش ايلرى بر مدر فلاح ايلرى
- 550.00€
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- A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).
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- WWI in Ukraine: اوقراينا، روسيا و توركيه : (مقاله‌لر مجموعه‌سى)
- 480.00€
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- [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion] A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I 8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…
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- YEMEN / OTTOMAN-ZAIDI CONFLICT: يمنه استجالب نظر دقت [Yemen‘e İsticlab-ı Nazar-ı Dikkat].
- 1,200.00€
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- 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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- YEMEN, SAUDI ARABIA, MECCA: يمن لايحه سى [Yemen Lâyıhası. Yemen ahvalinin ıslahı hakkında Siverek meb’usı Nureddin Bey tarafından Meclis-i Mebusan-i Osmaniye takdım kılınan layihadır]
- 1,600.00€
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- [Report on Yemen. A Statement about the Improvement of the Situation in Yemen, Presented to the Ottoman Parliament by deputy Nureddin Bey from Siverek] 8°, 48 pp., folding colour map, later brown cloth binding with mounted original wrappers (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny pieces of paper missing, inside in overall good condition).
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- ثروت فنون [Servet-i Fünun / Wealth of Knowledge]
- 7,800.00€
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- A rare complete last series of the legendary Ottoman intellectual magazine Servet-I Fünun, which introduced the popular Western culture to the East 11 issues in 11 volumes (10 volumes with each 20 issues, 1 volume with 11 issues), all small folio, each issue with 16 pp. with black and with illustrations and illustrated cover, sporadic issues with colour…
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- زينونك اوغلى [Zeyno’nun Oğlu / Zeyno’s Son]
- 250.00€
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- 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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- سبحة الأخبار من زبدة الاثار [Sübhatü’l-ahbâr min Zübdetü’l-âsâr / The Rosary of the Times]
- 1,400.00€
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- A rare first lithographed edition of a genealogy, starting with Adam, to Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, Great Seljuk and finishing with the last Ottoman Sultan. 4°. 40 pp. lithographed with illustrations, recent three quarter Bordeaux calf with gilt decoration and grey cloth boards, recent printed marbled papers (miniature Ottoman annotations in red ink,…
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- علم طبقات ارضيه [İlm-i Tabakâtü’l-arz also İlm-i tabakat-i arz / Stratigraphy]
- 1,800.00€
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- A rare first printed Ottoman book on Geology 8°: 9 pp., [6 pp.], 146 pp., colour folding plate, contemporary yellow and black card binding with gilt debossed decoration (rear cover scratched, stained and with small loss of material, minor staining, plate with soft folds, binding scratched on the edges, text pages clean).
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- عنترة [Antere / Antar]
- 550.00€
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- The first Ottoman translation of the popular orientalist French theatre piece Antar by Chekri Ganem, issued one year after the original first edition. 8°: 137 pp., [4 pp.], 2 full size portraits, 1 double-page black and white illustration, original illustrated cover, later red cloth binding with a label on the cover (title page with light staining, double-page illustrations…
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- قيزيل الما [Kızıl Elma / Red Apple]
- 140.00€
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- 8°, 146 pp., [2 pp.] blank, contemporary red goat with gilt lettering, contemporary illustrated endpapers, old Ottoman book-seller’s stamp mounted in the lower part of the front cover (binding slightly scuffed, a small chip in the lower part of the front free endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).
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