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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).