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 exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.
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…
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).
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…
One of the first Ottoman novels, written in its contemporary European form 8°, original front wrapper printed in blue black and gold, tile page, 231 pp. with black and white illustrations, contemporary brown cloth with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt debossed decoration, contemporary marbled endpapers (old annotations in pencil, binding slightly rubbed, overall in a good condition).
An illustrated work on the battle of Gallipoli in Turkish language. Second edition. 8°. IX, 423 pp., [1 pp.] index, [16 pp.] black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (light traces of wear to the wrappers, minor staining).
8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).