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  [Mir'at-ı Vücud-ı Beşer ve Aza-ı Dahiliye ve Hariciyeleri ve Onların Vazifeleri / View of the Human Body and Internal Organs and Extremities and Their Functions].   Small 4°: 4 pp. in French and Ottoman, composition of chromolithographed moving pieces, joined in 1 colour chromolithographed folding image mounted on the inner side of the front wrappers, original debossed boards with…

  An historically significant and beautifully rendered original manuscript map of Le Chateau de Reduit, the official residence of the Governor of Île de France (Mauritius), today the home of the President of Mauritius, depicting what was then a fortified working indigo plantation, a masterplan capturing the estate at an early stage in its development during the French colonial era,…

8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

[From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago]   An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898   8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

[New Political Map of Greece under D. Dimitrakos] [Neos politikos khartis tes Ellados ipo D. Dimitraki]   Colour lithograph, 100 x 70 cm (39.4 x 27.6 inches) (soft folds, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [The view of the Hut Hills, where the 3rd Regiment, which was dispatched from Istanbul, which was in charge of protecting the city from the attack of the rebels, defended for 45 days until the force needed in Iskodra was replenished] [and:] [Headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Ishkodra Forces. The Rrapshë Plain]   Unique late Ottoman bird’s…

  Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century  

  A colossal composition that has the distinction of being the second ever official Japanese map of the world, with the present edition revised to epitomize the Japanese geographic conception of the globe near the beginning of the Meiji Era, when the country embarked upon a program of hyper-industrialization and international interaction; one of the iconic Japanese maps of the…

  A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916.   Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…

    8°. 15 pp. with illustrated cover (tiny loss of paper on the spine, light water-staining in the lower corner, lower margin of the cover cut into the low part of the printing, without loss of text, otherwise in a good condition).    

  A series of a literary and science magazine The Sun (Güneş) with a rare to find original cover, representing the Sun, Saturn, Moon and Comets   8°: Nos. 2-12 (missing no. 1), 586 pp. running numeration, contemporary green cloth binding, old paper label on the spine (front endpapers with small tears in the gutter, light staining and recent inscripts,…

  [Sabāʼik al-dhahab fī maʻrifat qabāʼil al-ʻArab / The Book of Gold Bullion in the Knowledge of the Arab Tribes]   A very rare and important work of on the genealogy of the Arab tribes, as well as a sophisticated early work of lithography from the Arab World by Muhammad Amin Suwaydi’, a revised and expanded interpretation of the legendary…

  A rare, large format map depicting Greater Bombay just before World War I, when it was one of the busiest ports in the world and the ‘Gateway of India’, drafted by the office of the ‘Times of India’ and published in London by the venerable firm of Edward Stanford.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen, folding, contemporary hand-stamp…

  An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin   8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…

  A rare complete set of famous Ottoman Turkish and French satirical magazines Kalem, published between 1908-1911 in Istanbul, was bound in contemporary original bindings with Ottoman titles and belonged to the library of Anthony Bryer, a founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies.  

  [Map of the Fire of Tokyo. Edited by the Relief Information Bureau of the Tokyo Imperial University]   A very large and impressive map chronicling how the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the resulting inferno, that was the greatest urban fire to date, destroyed much of Tokyo, based upon analysis conducted by academics at the Tokyo Imperial University, it…

  A charming post war pictorial map of Barbados   Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).  

  A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases.   8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…

  A Turkish translation of Gorky’s Lenin by a medical doctor, who believed that the Communism would protect the Caucasus Muslims from Armenian and Georgian imperialism.   8°, 45 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor staining, tiny folds and small tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Seyahat Jurnali. İstanbul'dan Bağdat'a ve Hindistan'a. Sene 1300 ila 1304 / Travelogue. From Istanbul to Baghdad and Istanbul. From 1883-1887].   8°, 119 pp. with 12 interleaved black and white plates and one double-page plate, original yellow cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration, later calf spine with gilt lettering, later marbled endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers slightly…

  8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…

  [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles]   8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).