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).
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.]…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A beautifully handcrafted early 19th century book with the basics of the Arabic alphabet and calligraphy includes gilt manuscript with the letters, their combinations and the basic verses taught in schools.
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 (slightly stained, title page and last page slightly age-toned, small folds in the corners, repaired two split gutters in the first and last part of the book, binding lightly…