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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN NEW LITERATURE / EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE: كابوس [Kabus / Nightmare]
- 180.00€
- 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 SATIRICAL MAGAZINE: قلم Kalem [Pen].
- 7,500.00€
- 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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- Archives and Documents, Books, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- PLAGUE – MEDICINE – ISTANBUL: Conseil Supérieur de Santé de l’Empire Ottoman. Messieurs. Dans la séance du 13 Septembre tenue par l‘academie des Sciences à Paris, Mr. le Dr. Aubert lut in Mémoire…
- 980.00€
- An important governmental article in French language was printed in early 1842 in Istanbul to introduce new discoveries on the spreading of plague and start a survey in the ports, connected to the Ottoman Empire.
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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- RACING HORSES: ياريث آتلرىو ادمانى [Yarış atları ve ıdmanı / Racing Horses and Training]
- 550.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN EPHEMERAL SERIES
- 1,600.00€
- 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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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN LANGUAGE / BEN HUR: خارق العاده پر و غرام. … بن هور
- 550.00€
- 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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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SOKOLLU MEHMED PASHA / OTTOMAN HISTORY: صوقوللو [Sokollu]
- 480.00€
- 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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- SPIRITUALISM / SUPERNATURAL: مفتاح الاسرلر. بقاى روح. جلبارواح [Miftah Al-Asarlar / A Key to the Secrets. Surviving Souls – Calling of the Dead]
- 650.00€
- A rare Ottoman pamphlet on calling the spirits of the dead, featuring a ghost appearing at one of the seances. 8°: 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty, wrappers loose with tiny chips, light age-toning, paper fragile, inside in a stable condition).
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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€
- 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€
- 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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