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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Military Medicine & Hygiene in the Ottoman Empire: حفظ الصهء عسكرى نوطالرى
- 450.00€
- [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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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Modern Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire: عوالم فلكيه [Avâlim-i Felekiyye / Cosmic Worlds]
- 750.00€
- 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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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Modern Physics in the Ottoman Empire / Electricity: حكمت طبيعيه [Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Wisdom of Nature]
- 950.00€
- 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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- Books, Ottoman Books, Slavica
Montenegro / Ottoman Empire: IIIe a Propos de L’Herzegovine. Montenegro
- 650.00€
- 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€
- [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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- Books, Geography, Ottoman Books, Turkica
MUMBAI: هندستان سياحتندن. بومباى شهرى [Hindistan Seyahatinden. Bombay Şehri / From the Indian Travel. Bombay City]
- 480.00€
- 8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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NECROMANCY: أولولرله نصل قونوشمه لى؟ [Ölülerle Nasıl Konuşmalı? / How to Talk to the Dead?]
- 750.00€
- 8°. 61 pp. with a black and white illustration, [3], stapled (Slightly age-toned, paper slightly fragile with small cracks in the white margins, front cover with light foxing, a very light water-staining in the upper inner corners, a tiny hole in the white margin of the page 33-34, a tiny hole in p. 54-55).
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- Bible, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
NEW TESTAMENT IN OTTOMAN: عهد جديد يعنى انجيل شريف [Ahdı Cedid yani İncili Şerif]
- 350.00€
- An Ottoman pocket Bible, printed in Istanbul in 1877 under sponsorship of American missionaries 12°: [3 pp.], 621 pp., contemporary brown goat with blind tooling and gold title on the spine, gilt to all edges (spine slightly age-toned and scuffed, minor foxing, front loose endpaper detached and with light water staining, overall in a good used 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€
- [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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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Slavica
ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
- An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
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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€
- 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€
- 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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