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- Radiology and Modern Ottoman Medicine: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet]
- 1,200.00€
- An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field. 8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).
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- Red Sea Pilots / Maritime / Navigation / Saudi Arabia / Yemen / Egypt
- 32,500.00€
- A historically important and unique assemblage of three works, including Object A, being the original manuscript of the first modern Ottoman pilot guide to the Red Sea, commissioned by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it was written by Captain Cemal Bey, who later served as the ‘Bahr-i Ahmer Komodoru’ (the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea), and…
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- ROSES AND ROSE OIL / PERFUME MAKING: كل يتشديرمك و ياغ چيقارمق [Gül Yetiştirmek ve Yağ Çıkarmak]
- 620.00€
- [Growing Roses and Extracting Oil] A rare Ottoman illustrated manual on rose cultivation and making of rose oil by an author from Karlovo, now Bulgaria, one of the centers of rose oil production Small 8°, 48 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a later marbled paper wrappers (paper slightly age-toned and fragile with small chips…
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- RUSSIAN GRAMMAR FOR OTTOMAN ARMY: Сборникъ правильныхъ и неправильныхъ глаголовъ русскаго языка [Rusça Ef’al-i Kıyasiyye ve Gayr-i Kıyasiyye Mecmuası / Collection of Correct and Incorrect Verbs of the Russian Language]
- 420.00€
- Small 4°, 89 pp., original wrapper with lettering, later spine (wrappers slightly stained, tiny ships in the edges, inside with light age-toning, partly uncut, otherwise in a good condition).
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- SALNAME / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: سالنامه سنه ١٢٨٥ [Title Page] [Salname-i Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye [Title In Worldcat, possibly from the wrappers] / Salname for 1285 / 1868]
- 380.00€
- A governmental Ottoman almanac for 1868, listing hundreds of important names and other information. 12°, 192 pp., [2 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary purple cloth with gilt tooling, contemporary blue endpapers (missing wrappers, tiny wormholes in the lower inner part throughout the book, spine cracked).
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- SARAJEVO / AREBICA: طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا
- 180.00€
- طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge] A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters 8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…
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- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…
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- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 650.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for the further developing of science.…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
- The first Ottoman book on the modern geomagnetism and binnacle, including an almost always missing rotating volvelle Small 4°: 332 pp. with an illustrated title page, charts and one illustrations, 3 double-page illustrations including a colour lithograph, folding chart, a page with mounted volvelle, composed of two parts and a string and instructions on the last page, original errata…
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- Shakespeare in Ottoman: هامله ت [Hamlet]
- 420.00€
- 8°: 71 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (Ottoman annotations on the top of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN EPHEMERAL SERIES
- 1,600.00€
- A charming complete series of 12 pamphlets in Ottoman Language with biographies of contemporary American silent movie actors combined with a presentation of one Russian and two Turkish silent movie stars offers a valuable insight in the modern society of the new Republic of Turkey and its perception of the popular culture of the West. 12 issues (complete). 12°.…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN LANGUAGE / BEN HUR: خارق العاده پر و غرام. … بن هور
- 550.00€
- An exceedingly rare illustrated program for the 1925 silent movie Ben Hur with Ramon Novarro was issued for the movie theatre in Konya, Turkey. Large 4°. 6 pp., [2 pp.] with black and white illustrations, printed on thin paper, unbound, as originally published (leftovers of old mounted and rubber taxation stamp on the cover, tiny holes in the…
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