Books

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…

The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar   8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

  The first edition of the monumental Japanese work on insects.  

A charming notebook containing useful information for Japanese immigrants in the United States was given as a New Year’s gift to regular guests of Aki Hotel, located in Japantown, San Francisco. The hotel also served as an unofficial home for the Japanese Consulate. The owner of the hotel, Ichiro Kataoka, who immigrated from Hiroshima, was the first Japanese man in…

[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).  

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

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…

  [Arşın mal alan. 3. tab'ı / The Cloth Peddlar. 3. Edition]   Lyrics to the legendary Azerbaijani early comic and romantic operetta by the first composer of an opera in the Islamic world, Uzeyir Hajibeyov.   8°. 53 pp. with portrait on the first page, rear wrappers with cover in Russian, later green cloth with title in small gold…

  [The Expulsion of the Germans from China. An Account of the Events Based on English Shanghai Newspapers from October 1918 to April 1919]   Small 4°. Illustrated frontispiece, XI, 402 pp., bound in publisher’s green linen binding with lettering on the cover and spine (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).  

A resplendent and unique presentation piece given to Pieter Meijer, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), being the very rare economic yearbook for the colony for 1867, custom bound in sumptuous full red morocco with elaborate gilt neo-rococo designs and bearing a dedication to the His Excellency; published locally by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Batavia,…