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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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- Modern Astronomy and Calculation of Time in the Islamic World: رياض المختار. مرآة الميقات والادوار
- 4,500.00€
- A fine example of the first edition of a magnificent, illustrated work on time and astronomy by one of the greatest Ottoman military leaders Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Paşa, printed in Cairo by the Bulaq Press.
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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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- Modern Physics in the Ottoman Empire / Electricity: حكمت طبيعيه [Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Wisdom of Nature]
- 950.00€
- 4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire. 4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…
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- Montenegro / Ottoman Empire: IIIe a Propos de L’Herzegovine. Montenegro
- 650.00€
- 8°, portrait, 63 pp., folding map, originally coloured in outline, later wrappers (age-toned with light cracks in margins, portrait slightly water-stained).
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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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- 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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- NECROMANCY: أولولرله نصل قونوشمه لى؟ [Ölülerle Nasıl Konuşmalı? / How to Talk to the Dead?]
- 750.00€
- 8°. 61 pp. with a black and white illustration, [3], stapled (Slightly age-toned, paper slightly fragile with small cracks in the white margins, front cover with light foxing, a very light water-staining in the upper inner corners, a tiny hole in the white margin of the page 33-34, a tiny hole in p. 54-55).
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- NEW TESTAMENT IN OTTOMAN: عهد جديد يعنى انجيل شريف [Ahdı Cedid yani İncili Şerif]
- 350.00€
- An Ottoman pocket Bible, printed in Istanbul in 1877 under sponsorship of American missionaries 12°: [3 pp.], 621 pp., contemporary brown goat with blind tooling and gold title on the spine, gilt to all edges (spine slightly age-toned and scuffed, minor foxing, front loose endpaper detached and with light water staining, overall in a good used condition).
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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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- 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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- Oscar Wilde: English Tales for Turkish People Arranged with Vocabularies and Notes in Turkish and Fenech by H. M. Thompson, B. A. Professor of Galata Serai Lycée. Constantinople. No. 1. The Happy Prince & The Selfish Giant
- 380.00€
- 8°, 22 pp., [4 pp.], 13 pp., original wrappers with red lettering (minor loss of paper around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).
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