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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).

  Silsilät-ul-Nässäb. Généalogie de la dynastie Säfävy de la Perse par Cheik Hossein fils de Cheik Abdal Zahedi sous le regne de Chach Soleiman.   8°. 116 pp. with an illustration, original wrappers with lettering (small chips in upper corners of the last pages and rear wrapper, but without loss of text, later spine, tiny chips in wrappers).

  [Coğrafya-yı Tabiî İlmine Esas-ı Muhtasar / Physical Goegraphy. The Fundamentals].   A highly sophisticated Ottoman geography education book illustrated with 9 resplendently coloured plates of thematic World Maps, as well as dozens of monochrome diagrams and maps within the text; the work sponsored by American Protestant missionaries for use in their schools throughout Turkey and the Levant, issued in…

  An Ottoman primer with additional new letters in attempt to modernize and save the traditional Perso-Arabic script, published on the eve of changing the script to modern Turkish alphabet, based on Latin letters.   8°. 64 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, orange wrappers with illustrated title (author’s seal on the cover, wrappers with small loss of…

8°, 48 pp. with 3 colour illustrations, contemporary red linen boards with mounted original illustrated cover (good used condition, binding little scuffed on the corners).

[Olive Tree Cultivation, Pruning and Varieties. Ploughing and Fertilization of Olive Groves. Tools Used against Flies and Moths in Olive Groves.Olive Collection, Preservation and Production of Dishes, Olive Growing in Trade: Laws and Regulations on Olive Cultivation]

An anthology of Slovenian modern poetry, concentrated around a liberal student newspaper Tribuna, between years 1965 and 1970. Small 8°, 100 pp., [2 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (minor staining and age-toning, spine slightly age-toned with small tears, but overall ina good condition).

Large 12°. 12 pp., original yellow wrappers with lettering (old owner’s name and annotation on the cover, inside of the cover and title page above, old owner’s small stamp with initials on the top of the title page, old Ottoman stamps, minor foxing with tiny tears in margins).

Photolithography, originally dissected in 8 segments and mounted on linen 74 x 103 cm (29.2 x 40.6 inches), (minor staining, sporadic annotations in pencil in Ottoman in margins, but overall in a good, use condition).

  Offset lithograph, 95 x 64 cm (37.4 x 25.2 inches), (minor abrasions at edges, otherwise in a good condition).  

Lithograph in blue and red, 53 x 33 cm (21 x 13 inches) (soft folds with minor wear and tiny scuffing on the crossings, minor staining, overall in a good condition).

[Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…]   Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).    

Turkish left-wing poetry. Signed by the author. 8°, 63 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author (minor wear to the wrappers and two light scratches on the cover, old signature on the inside of the back cover, old annotations on the last page with the list of the publications by the same author).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing poetry. 8°, 31 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, stapled (minor wear to the wrappers, small old owner’s stamp on the title page, small annotation on the back page, otherwise in a good condition).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing 1960s poetry. 8°, 63 pp., illustrated card wrappers, stapled (wrappers slightly stained on the back and around the spine, a small tear in the front upper part close to the spine, two old signatures on the tile page, old signature on the last blank page, last pages with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°. [2 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] manuscript in black ink in Arabic language, [11 pp.], 357 pp., , [2 pp.] errata, lithographed text with lithographed decorations to first text pages, contemporary straight-grain Morocco binding with blind tooling (old book-seller’s stamps to the first pages, late 19th century annotations, mounted on the inner side of the front board, endpapers…

[Kitab Khoyshtáb ve Zar dest efshár ve Zedah Ruh / The Book of Innate Ardour and Hand-Churned Gold and Great River]   8°. Title page, [8 pp.], 84 pp. lithographed text, contemporary green card wrappers, later green spine, mounted label “ Presented by the Trustees of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board (title…

  A seemingly unrecorded Ronga-Portuguese catechism (Ronga being the language of the indigenous people of the Maputo region of Mozambique) written by Padre António Lourenço Farinha, a prominent Roman Catholic missionary who served in Mozambique before returning to Portugal to become a senior government administrator and prolific author.   12° (15.5 x 10.5 cm): 126 pp., preserving original rose-coloured printed…

  12°, [4 pp.] title and introduction, 338 pp., [2 pp.], contemporary black half goat with gold lines on the spine and a small round paper label on the side, black cloth boards, speckled edges (internally crisp and clean, endpapers slightly age-toned, spine slightly rubbed and with small cracks, endpapers with annotations in pencil, red and bron ink, cracks in…

  An Ottoman work on indigenous peoples of the world   8°. 408 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining and cracks on the spine, otherwise in a clean, unbound condition).

  [Cinlerle Muhabere yahud İspiritizm, Fakirizm, Manyetizm / Talking to Spirits or Spiritism, Fakirism, Magnetism]   8°, 2 parts bound in one volume. 239 pp., 256 pp., original dark red cloth boards and brown Morocco spine with raised bands and gold lettering, original tan endpapers (slightly age-toned with light foxing, sporadic underlining and annotations in pencil and ball pen, old…

Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 15 inches) (soft fold, minor staining).

An unusual, undated Polish edition of Hamlet, published in Lviv and Zlochiv in today’s Ukraine.   12°, 139 pp., old (publisher’s?) brown wrappers (old signature in ink on the title page, tiny folds and tears in white margins, wrappers slightly stained with small cracks around the spine, but otherwise a good condition as published with uneven margins and sporadic loose…

A collection of 10 maps of the Cabo Verde Archipelago, being 9 individual island maps produced between 1922 and 1930 by the special mapping team, the Missão Geográfica de Cabo Verde, being the first maps of the islands predicated upon complete systematic trigonometric surveys; plus, a 1960 official general map of the archipelago featuring extensive manuscript additions of air and…