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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documents with 27 diaries, expanding over almost 29 years and describing over 9000 days in Istanbul, photographs, an unpublished manuscript on antique monuments of…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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- AZERBAIJANI POETRY / AZERBAIJANI CARICATURE: هوپهوپ نامه [Hophopname]
- 1,600.00€
- An exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- AZERI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: تولكى و چاق چاق بك [Tülkü [Tilki] ve Çakçak Bey]
- 380.00€
- 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…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Turkica
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]
- 450.00€
- 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…
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- Baku Imprint / Operetta: آرشين مال آلان. Аршинъ Малъ аланъ
- 450.00€
- [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…
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