A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
8°, 156 pp., [4] with illustrated vignettes in the text, contemporary brown cloth binding without bound in wrappers (small tears and minor loss of paper in the gutter, minor staining, binding with light wear and ink staining, some sheets slightly stained in the margins, old bookdealer’s stamp on the last page, old signature and date on the title page, altogether…
A scarce work on the Communism was written by an Azerbaijani author Resulzade Mehmet Emin during his exile in Istanbul. Emin was an influential pan-Turkist, pan-Islamist and communist, who saved young Joseph Stalin in Baku in 1905 from being arrested, which later helped him for not being prosecuted later in the Soviet Union. 8°. 144 pp., 20th century brown…
An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade. 8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…
A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year. 4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…
An important Ottoman first-hand account on the political events of the second half of the 18th century and the relations with the Central Europe by a Baghdad-born author, was printed by the Bulaq press in Egypt. 2 volumes, bound in one, 4°. 14 pp. (index), 210 pp., [1] blank, 7 pp. (index), 190 pp., printed on thick paper, contemporary…
8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)
8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…
The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…
![AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_2044-265x331.jpg)
![ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69043-265x331.jpg)
![AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-11_123117-265x331.jpg)
![AZERI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: تولكى و چاق چاق بك [Tülkü [Tilki] ve Çakçak Bey]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/69203-265x331.jpg)
![BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68988-265x331.jpg)
![Cars / Ottoman Language: شوفور معلمى [Şoför Muallimi / Driving Instructor]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/69326-265x331.jpg)
![CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/69134-265x331.jpg)
![COMMUNISM IN UZBEKISTAN / LENIN: مللييهت مهسئهلهسي [Milliyet Meselesi / национальный вопрос / National Question]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-08-09_162858-265x331.jpg)
![Communism in Uzbekistan / Tashkent Imprint: لينىنىزىم مه سئه له له رى [Leninizim masjalalari / Foundations of Leninism]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/69349-265x331.jpg)