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  Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry   2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…

  The two books published by the Ottoman Navy Press present the latest tactics, techniques and constructions on the field of naval warfare and defense.   2 volumes bound-in-one, Small 4°, [8 pp.], 163 pp.,13 illustrations of naval battles on thick paper, separated with blank papers. [8 pp.], 142 pp., [2 pp.], 6 folding plates. Contemporary black cloth boards with…

  The first edition of highly popular Turkish poems by Attilâ İlhan, heavily influenced by contemporary French art movement   12°, 109 pp., [3 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, unread example with minimal wear to the spine).  

  8°. 79 pp., original wrappers with lettering (minor chips and a small stain throughout the outer margins,wrappers with light age-toning, later spine).  

Colour Lihograph 65 x 87 cm (25.6 x 34.2 inches), verso German map from 1941. (Soft folds, small partly repaired tears, tiny loss of paper in margins, slightly dusty.

  A detailed guide in Turkish language to the Hajj and Hejaz Region includes maps of Mecca and Medina as well as the instructions for the routes, prayers, tariffs and other various useful tips for the pilgrims.   Large 12°. 63 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, two maps and a chart inserted in a paper…

A rare pamphlet in Russian and Tatar languages is a new program for the first six years of Muslim primary schools, confirmed by the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students, an organization, aiming to uniformize the education and culturally unite Tatars in Russia on the eve of the Russian Revolution.   8°, title in Tatar, 55 pp. including 7 pp. in…

  A governmental Ottoman almanac for 1868, listing hundreds of important names and other information.   12°, 192 pp., [2 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary purple cloth with gilt tooling, contemporary blue endpapers (missing wrappers, tiny wormholes in the lower inner part throughout the book, spine cracked).  

Hitler. Who was He? What did He Do? What Happened to Him?   A Turkish biography of Adolf Hitler, written three days after his death by a prominent writer and journalist Münir Süleyman Çapanoğlu.   8°, 110 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original illustrater front wrapper, contemporary brown patterned boards and brown cloth spine (tear in page 7-8, without loss of…

  A detailed travelogue to Cyrenaica, Libya, by an Italian jurist and artist Giuseppe Haimann.   8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], folding colour map, original blue wrappers with tan colour, later spine (Slightly age-toned and stained, later spine, p. 133 with tiny narrow loss of text in the outer margin, One line of contemporary ink…

  The very first distance-time-route map of the Ottoman Empire, one of the great masterpieces of Hamidian Era thematic cartography, it depicts the entire realm of the Sublime Porte from Albania to Yemen, noting the travel times between hundreds of locations, including various routes of the Hajj; devised by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army and published in Istanbul.…

Large 8°. Title page, XXXII i. e. 17 full page and double page colour maps, original card wrappers with lettering (old stamp with a date on the last blank page, old paper stamp with hand written numbers on the cover, wrappers with minor scuffing on the spine, but overall in a good condition).