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- ARABIAN PENINSULA / HISTORY OF ISLAM / BATTLES OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD: غزوات جليلى پيغميرى
- 2,800.00€
- [Gazavât-ı Celile-i Peygamberî / Battles of the Glorious Prophet] An exclusively bound Ottoman book on the glorious conquers of the Prophet Muhammad, written by a historian Ahmet Refik. 8°. 224 pp. with decorative vignettes and a small map in text, folding map, bound in dark brown goat with gold ornaments on the covers and lettering on the…
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- ARCHIVES – LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / A PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF THE DIRECTOR OF “THE WATERS OF CONSTANTINOPLE”
- 14,500.00€
- A stunning, well-rounded private archive of a French engineer, businessman and bibliophile Léon Sellié, giving a detailed insight on the life of an upper-class expat in the Late Ottoman period. The archive includes over 200 documents with 27 diaries, expanding over almost 29 years and describing over 9000 days in Istanbul, photographs, an unpublished manuscript on antique monuments of…
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- AS EL-TIN, ALEXANDRIA – BULAQ, CAIRO: شرح دیوان حافظ شیرازی
- 1,800.00€
- [Sharh-i Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shirazi / Commentary on the Divan of Hafez] A rare book in Ottoman language in three volumes, partly printed in Alexandria 3 volumes. Small 4°. 4 pp., 411 pp. Old annotations, 455 pp. (first four pages originally coloured yellow with orange detail). , 464 pp. Recent brown calf with embossed decoration (pp. 3-4 of the…
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- ASTROLOGY: علم نجوم [İlm-i nücum / Astrology]
- 720.00€
- A rare book on the astrology by a pioneer and foremost authority of spiritualism and spiritism in the late Ottoman Empire Ragıp Rıfkı 8°. 56 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly stained, minor age -toning, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- ASTRONOMY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قوزموغرافيا ياخود علم احوال سما [Kozmografya yahud İlm-i Ahvâl-i Sema / Cosmography or Knowledge of Situation of the Sky. Second Edition]
- 620.00€
- An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882). 8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…
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- Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]
- 350.00€
- 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…
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- BAGHDAD RAILWAY: Emprunt Impérial Ottoman 4% du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad. Deuxième et Troisième Séries. Contrat.
- 220.00€
- [Imperial Ottoman Loan 4% of the Baghdad Railway. Second and Third Series. Contract] 4°, 11 pp. in French, 11 pp. in Ottoman, original tan wrappers with title in French on the front and Ottoman on the rear wrappers (old library stamps, small tears and chips in edges, traces of old paper label on the spine, later spine).
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- BEIRUT IMPRINT: كتاب التحفة اللبنانية في أصول اللغة العثمانية
- 1,200.00€
- An exceedingly rare book on the Ottoman language for the Lebanese, printed by the Saint George Press in Beirut 8°. 195 pp., contemporary marbled boards and black cloth spine (last two pages with tiny chip in the outer white margin, binding lightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / SARAJEVO IMPRINT: طريق رفاه. فرانقلينك ثروت حقنده كى نصايحى و ترجمه حالى
- 620.00€
- Benjamin FRANKLIN (1706-1790), author; REŞAD, translator. [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] Sarajevo: Sultan Beyazıd Saadet Kütübhanesi 1326 [1910] 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], uncut as originally published, later marbled wrappers (uncut, unread example with minor storage wear) (#70725). A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The…
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, IMPRINT: طريق رفاه. فرانقلينك ثروت حقنده كى نصايحى و ترجمه حالى
- 620.00€
- [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…
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