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  8°. 16 pp., 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A charming, privately issued publication, with poetry in Tatar language, juxtaposed in Ottoman and modern Turkish script, and printed with colour bordures and illustrations was written and published by Hasan Hamidulla in Helsinki in 1973.   8°. [20] mimeographed in black and white and colour, sporadic pages numbered between 341 and 374, 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering…

  Small 4°, 30 pp. photolithography, original blue wrappers, brown cloth spine (staples slightly rusty, wrappers with light age-toning and staining, wrappers slightly stained and age-toned, but overall in a good and clean condition).  

  [Al-Itkan fi tarjimati al-Qur’an / Proficiency in Translating the Quran]   Large 4°, 460 pp. in photographic printing, original boards with lettering, later cloth spine (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

  An extraordinary single-issue Tatar language magazine, largely in Ottoman script, published in Stockholm, in 1952, by exiles from the Soviet Union.

  [Turkic-Russian and Russian-Turkic Dictionary of Political, Legal, Economic and Military Terms, Used in Press]   An important early Tatar-Russian dictionary, written by a famous Azerbaijani playwright, composer and public figure Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who authored the Azerbaijani national anthem   8°, [4 pp.] title page and introduction, 94 pp., [2 pp.], 28, in Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic script, later brown cloth…

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  12°. 88 pp., original front cover with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).

A rare newspaper by the Crimean Tatars, printed in Dobrich in Bulgaria, with a contribution from the Tatars from Warsaw [Kırımın Kurtuluşu Anılması / Commemoration of the Liberation of Crimea] 8°. 34 pp., with two illustrations, [2 pp.] index, modern wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, sporadic old repairs in white margins, small holes, cause from an old binding in the…

  [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow]   A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…

  A stunning lithographed map, designed by Abbas Sahab - Father of Iran's Cartography, in English and partly in Farsi, was the third map by this author, showing a modern city of Tehran in 1964, at the beginning of the White Revolution, which mondernised the infrastructure of Iran.