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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
HORSE MEDICINE: مواريلره مخصوص جيب كتابى [Süvarilere Mahsûs Cep Kitabı / Pocket Book for Cavalry]
- 1,200.00€
- 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€
- [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€
- 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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- Arabic Books, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Illustrated catalogue and price list of publications of the American Mission Press, Beirut, Syria. Founded at Malta, 1822, and at Beirut, 1834.
- 950.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
INCUNABLE OF OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY: مذكره ضابطان [Officer’s Notes]
- 5,200.00€
- 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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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES / LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: أتنوغرافيا. علم اقوام [Etnoğrafya. İlm-i Akvam / Ethnography. Science on People]
- 880.00€
- An Ottoman work on indigenous peoples of the world 8°. 408 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining and cracks on the spine, otherwise in a clean, unbound condition).
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Iraq / Petroleum-Oil History: الجزيرة قطعه سنده كى پترول معدنلرى امتيازى مسأله سى
- 650.00€
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ISLAM – GENEALOGY: سبحة الأخبار [Sübhet ül-ahbar / The Rosary of the Times]
- 700.00€
- 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€
- [İstibşar Amerika'da Neşr-i İslâm Teşebbüsü / Foresight ot the Spead of the Islam in America].
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: ثلث قره لمه دفترى [Sülüs Karalama Defteri / Notebook for Drafting Thulth]
- 120.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
LOGARITHMIC TABLES / SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / NAVY MATHEMATICS: لغرتما جداولي [Logaritma Cedâvili / Logarithmic Tables]
- 520.00€
- 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€
- A finely bound pair of algebra books in Ottoman language
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MECCA / HISTORY OF ISLAM: فتوح مكة. المسمى بالدرر [الدرة] المكللة في فتوح مكة المشرفة [The Conquests of Mecca, Called the Crowned Pearls in the Conquests of the Honorable Mecca]
- 450.00€
- 8°, 48 pp., original rear pink wrapper, modern brown cloth binding (minor chips to the margins, rear wrapper with loss of paper, but internally clean).
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Mecca Imprint / Hejaz Vilayet Press: اسعاد بانت سعاد شرحى [Esad, Banet Suad şerhi]
- 3,200.00€
- 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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