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  8°, 77 pp., later blue cloth boards with gilt lettering (binding slightly age-toned, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Small 4°: 10 issues in one volume (all published). [4 pp.], 175 pp. with black and white illustrations, 64 pp., contemporary boards with illustrated cover and lettering on the back, cloth spine, original pink endpapers (binding with light staining and scratches, endpapers with small holes, inside with minor staining, overall in a good condition).  

  [Orthodox Christian Prayer Book for the Laity]   A rare pamphlet with prayers in Russian language, printed by the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul for the immigrants fleeing the revolution from Odessa.    12°, 42 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minimal age-toning and staining, overall in a good condition, sporadic…

  [Amelî Fenn-i Tedris, İptidaî ve Rüşdî Muallim ve Muallimelerine ve Bilhassa Darülmuallimin Talebesine Mahsûs / For Male and Female Teachers of Primary and Secondary school and Especiallyof the Students of Gymnasiums]   8°, 162 pp., [6 pp.], later marbled wrappers (unread and uncut example, lower margin slightly age-toned and brittle with small chips).  

طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge]   A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters   8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…

     

  The first edition of the prominent Turkish poet and writer İbrahim Alaaddin Gövsa’s historically important work featuring the report of the official Ottoman artists’ delegation to the active battlefield at Gallipoli in the Summer of 1915 and containing the first printing of his complete collection of his moving poems on Gallipoli; this example featuring the spectacular illustrated cover showing…

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old light stamps by a Yugoslav textile school on the title page, tiny tears in margins, light discoloration to the spine).  

  An omnibus of Hasan Hamidulla’s early work, bound in one volume:  

  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).  

  2 Volumes, both 8°, 20th century green cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine. Vol. 1: [2] frontispiece and title page printed in green and black, 94 pp. mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, [6] with a portrait, original illustrated wrappers. Vol 2: [2], 89 pp., mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, 6 illustrations printed…

  [Nashryat Kerymi: Kıtaylılar / Kerimi’s Publications: The Chinese]   8°. 24 pp., imprints and advertisements from original wrappers mounted on the first and last page, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (light foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

[On a Tragedy of the National Literature and the Writers of Turkestan]   A rare publication on the contemporary Turkestani writers, published in Ottoman alphabet by an extremist nationalistic Turkestani organisation in Berlin, who immigrated after the Soviet annexed their homeland.    8°. 20 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with title in Ottoman and Latin alphabet, 20th…

  [Ilham Yımislerı. 1925-1945 ınçi yıllarda yazılgan şiyırlar ciyıntıgi. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar. The Fruits of Inspiration. A Collection of Poems, Written between 1925-1945. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar]   A rare collection of poetry by a Finland-based Tatar author Hasan Hamidulla, written between 1925 and 1970, printed in Tatar language in Turkish and Ottoman alphabet in Finland. The collection was published upon…

  Copper engraving, 9,5 x 12,2 cm (3.7 x 4.8 inches).  

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field]   Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).  

  An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia.   8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…

  Small 4°. 531 pp., [12 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers scratched and bumped on the corners and with small tears and scratches on the surface, inside in a good, clean condition with minimal age-toning).  

  Large 8°, 314 pp., boards with modern marbled paper, original calf spine with gilt decoration, original marbled paper endpapers (with light foxing and staining, p. 27-28 cracked in the upper part, a tear on p 192 repaired with old transparent paper).  

  [Redd-i Renan. İslâmiyet ve Fünûn /  Answer to Renan. Islam and Arts]   12°, 76 pp., [2 pp] blank, later marbled paper wrappers with mounted original cover (one page with a sentence underlined in red ink, front cover with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).  

  This is a first edition of the historical propaganda theatre play by one of the prime representative of the modern Ottoman literature to include Kemal’s famous introduction, inspired by the preface of Cromwell by Victor Hugo.   8°. Portrait, ط س, 414 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black calf spine with gilt lettering (bound inn contemporary binding without…

  A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944).   Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…

  A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society   Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).