Bindings

احمد عاصم Ahmet Asım (Mütercim Ahmed Asım Ayıntabî, 1787 – 1808) Merahü'l-maali fî şerhi'l-Emali also Merahu’l-meâlî fî şerhi’l-Emâlî Istanbul: Takvimhane-i Amire 1266 [1850]. 8°, [4 pp.] index, 222 pp., [2 pp.] blank, printed on paper of natural-colour, yellow, green and greyish-apricot paper with colour of paper changing every 8 or 16 pp., contemporary green straight-grain Morocco with gold tooling, dark…

  A highly decorative Ottoman portfolio with initials from the circle or institution of sultan Abdul Hamid II.

From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – a very rare and highly important work, being the improved second edition of first book of statistics on the Ottoman Empire; illustrated with ground-breaking thematic maps predicated upon fresh, original data; one of the great landmarks in the era’s rapid modernization of Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; bound in…

Small 8°, 96 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with black and red lettering, contemporary red linen binding with gold tooling and lettering, contemporary endpapers with a star and a crescent printed in red, bookbinder’s stamp on the inner side of the front cover (old dedication, dated 1330 Rumi (1914 Gregorian) and a stamp on the front wrapper,…

  Large 8°, 176 pp. (some mispagination, but complete according to the catchwords in lower margins, slightly age-toned and stained, first and last sheet with tiny losses of paper in lower margins, bords with small cracks, chips and tiny loss of material, old script on the front cover, lower margins of boards reinforced with later paper, but otherwise in a…

  A dedication copy of a book on perfumes and cosmetics with a calligraphic manuscript dedication by the author to Marie Henriette Anne of Austria, the Queen of Belgium, and bound in an elegant red Morocco binding by Despierres.   Large 8°, [8 pp.] with manuscript dedication page, 102 pp. [4 pp.], red hard-grained Morocco with gilt and blind tooling,…

8°, XXV, 449 pp., dedication by the author to Ernesta Stern, dated October 5, 1892, on the blank page opposite of the title page, contemporary green Morocco binding with gold initials EES on the cover and embossed title in gold on the spine, raised bands, gilt linear turn-ins, contemporary marbled endpapers (the word ninth edition on the cover crossed out…

    [A Short History of All-Connected Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)]   A rare book on the history of Communism, printed by the Slovenian underground press during World War II, bound in dyed parachute silk   8°, 296 pp., [4 pp.], original silk binding with lettering on the cover (good, used condition with minor foxing and annotations in pencil, old…