[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,…
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…
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).
[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.…
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).
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.
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).
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…
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…
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…
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°.…
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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