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  Exceedingly rare – no other examples traced – a Malagasy language work on the history of the Ancient Jewish civilization, as taken from the Bible, as written by the Quaker missionary Henry E. Clark, and printed in Faravohitra (today in Antananarivo), Madagascar by the press of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association – this being the first ‘Section’ (of two)…

  The first Ottoman translation of the popular orientalist French theatre piece Antar by Chekri Ganem, issued one year after the original first edition.   8°: 137 pp., [4 pp.], 2 full size portraits, 1 double-page black and white illustration, original illustrated cover, later red cloth binding with a label on the cover (title page with light staining, double-page illustrations…

  A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.    

    2 French articles on famous blind people in arts and literature, bound in a highly decorative contemporary Ottoman binding   2 titles bound in 1 volume, 8°, contemporary Ottoman red card binding with debosses surface and gilt decoration, contemporary debossed orange endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers with light scratches, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and with small worm…

  The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies   12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut 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).  

  [Грамматика за турскыи языкъ отъ Х. Марковъ / Grammar of Turkish Language by H. Markov]   8°. 119 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers stained with small pieces of paper missing, rear wrapper with trimmed margins, inside slightly age-toned, sporadic margins lightly trimmed, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).  

  [Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian]   8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Les aventures de Télémaque / The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon]   8°, XV, 402 pp., [6 pp.], later brown three quarter calf with bown boards, later patterned endpapers (first blank page missing, sporadic underlinings in red pencil in the first pages, otherwise in a good condition with minimal staining).  

[Los Salmos / Book of Psalms]   An uncommon Book of Psalms in Ladino, printed in Istanbul by an Armenian publisher under a sponsorship of the American missionaries.   12°: [4 pp.,], 217 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original dark blue cloth card wrappers (minor staining mostly to the first and last pages, wrappers slightly rubbed, with light staining, a repaired…

  [Humma-yı Raciaya Karşı İttihaz Olunacak Tedâbir-i Tahaffuziyye ve Mania-i İstilâyeye Dair Talimâtnâme / Instruction for Unionized Precautionary Measures and Prevention of Spreading of the Fever].   A pamphlet in Ottoman language, printed on attractive pink paper, summarizing the latest western discoveries on the various types of fevers and giving instructions for prevention of their spreading.   Large 12°: 24…

  A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla  

  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).  

  A pamphlet in Arabic language with a decorative cover was made as a propaganda against the former Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli after his deposition in 1954.   Large 8°. 96 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn with tiny scratches and holes in the upper margin on the cover, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Small 4°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth decoration with ornaments and lettering, original patterned endpapers (old signature on the top of the frond loose endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Bergama. Rehber-i Harabe-i Bergama (Nüsha-i Türkiye) / Pergamon. Guide to the Ruins of Pergamon. Turkish Edition]   A rare pamphlet on the archeological excavations of Pergamon in Ottoman Turkish was printed by Berlin Royal Museum (now Altes Museum) at the time the artefacts were transported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin, where they were exhibited in a new museum.…

  8°, [3 pp.] title page and introduction, 536 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1 pp.], 4 folding plates, contemporary grown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, original green patterned endpapers (slightly age-toned, minor foxing and staining, tiny sporadic folds in corners, sporadic light off-set, printing mistakes on pp. 377-383 with correctly printed images over wrongly…

  A rare informative supplement to the 1000 issue of the Ottoman cultural and literary magazine Sevret-i-Funoun contains portraits of the authors of the Ottoman new literature.   Folio. [20] with black and white illustrations, unbound as originally published (minor traces of wear and staining, spine of the first sheet and the inner sheet repaired with an old tape, a…

  12°. 191 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and Ottoman lettering, original yellow endpapers (light ink scribbles on the back endpapers, endpapers slightly dusty, binding with light wear and scratches, otherwise in a good condition).

  [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion]   A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I   8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…

  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 49 x 69 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).