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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Medicine / Modern Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: Précis de percussion et d’auscultation à l’usage de ses leçons, imprimerie de l’indicateur Byzantine
- 1,800.00€
- A rare pioneering work on the modern medicine in the Ottoman Empire was written in French by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard in Istanbul. 8°, [4 pp.], 90 pp. with an introduction in French and Ottoman, original green boards with lettering and illustrations , brown calf spine (binding slightly scuffed on the edges, minor staining, light…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 3,800.00€
- 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…
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Medicine in the Ottoman Empire / Fevers: حماى راجعه يه قارشى اتخاذ اولونه جق تدابير تحفظيه و مانعه استيلائه يه دار تعليماتنامه
- 420.00€
- [Humma-yı Raciaya Karşı İttihaz Olunacak Tedâbir-i Tahaffuziyye ve Mania-i İstilâyeye Dair Talimâtnâme / Instruction for Unionized Precautionary Measures and Prevention of Spreading of the Fever]. A pamphlet in Ottoman language, printed on attractive pink paper, summarizing the latest western discoveries on the various types of fevers and giving instructions for prevention of their spreading. Large 12°: 24…
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MILITARIA – HORSES / TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE / KONYA IMPRINT: Süvarinin Meydan Muharebesinde Sûret-i İstihdam Hakkında 26 Mayıs 1918 de Neşrolunan Talimât
- 480.00€
- [Instructions on the Form of Employment in the Pitched Battle of the Cavalry, Issued on May 26, 1918] A rare Ottoman, seemingly unrecorded edition of a military cavalry manual, crudely printed in a military base of Konya during the Turkish War of Independence Long 8°, 80 pp. (first four pages mispaginated, but complete). Original wrappers with lettering…
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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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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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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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NATURAL SCIENCE: علم الارض والمعادن [İlmü’l-arz ve’l-maadin / Geology and Mineralogy].
- 2,800.00€
- A rare first and only edition of the Ottoman book on mineralogy, geology and natural science by an Istanbul-based Austrian scientist Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt, who changed his name to Abdullah after converting to Islam. 8°, [4 pp.], 584 pp., with 42 full-page and folding illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, contemporary green cloth boards with debossed decoration, original black calf spine…
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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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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
OTTOMAN ATLAS: مكمل و مفصل جعرافيا عمومى اطلاسى
- 1,500.00€
- [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Coğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası / Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas] 8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…
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