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  [Diagram of Railways in European Russia published by I.F. Zauer 1914].   An extremely rare large format map depicting the railway system in European Russia as its existed on the eve of World War I, executed in an arrestingly Modernist style some years ahead of its time, drafted by the architect Ivan Fedorovich Zauer and published in St. Petersburg…

  [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles]   A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire   Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…

  Rare documentary photographs of the inaguration of the Hindiya Barrage, south of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1891 with Arabic, Ottoman and European participants of the project.   4 photographs: albumen prints, 1 image: circa 11 x 16,5 cm (4.3 x 6.5 inches), 3 images: circa 12 x 17 cm (4.7 x 6.7 inches), contemporary mounted on thick cards: 22 x…

  A set of three photographs, made in the Ottoman Empire, but distributed by a photographic studio Joseph (Papazian) from Iran, touches a little researched subject of documentary photography trade in the Middle East in the late 19th century. The motifs of the photographs concentrate on the formation of controversial Hamidiye Cavalry, which was at the time responsible for the…

The very rare first edition of the seminal work on yellow fever in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and one of the most influential French tropical medicine books of the late Enlightenment, featuring perhaps the era’s most detailed and perceptive description of the symptoms of the disease, backed by twelve valuable case studies, by Antoine Poissonnier-Desperrières, a physician who was one of France’s…

  [Kitāb tawārīkh mukhtaṣar yunbī ʻan mamālik wa-bilād ʻadīdah wa-mā ḥadatha fīhā min qadīm al-zamān ilá ʻaṣrinā hadhā / Concise History Book, Providing Information on Numerous Realms and Countries and What has Happened in Them from Ancient Times to Our Own Era] A rare work in Arabic language, published in Malta for educational purposes of learning history   8°. 136…

8°. 85 pp., [3], original printed wrappers (uncut example, small tears and folds in the corner, wrappers slightly dusty with minor tears in the spine).

Small 4°, 89 pp., original wrapper with lettering, later spine (wrappers slightly stained, tiny ships in the edges,  inside with light age-toning, partly uncut, otherwise in a good condition).

12°. 104 pp., original black cloth wrappers with debossed title (slightly age-toned, wrappers lightly stained with light vertical cracks in the rear cover, tear in front endpapers).

Broadside, 39 x 27 cm (15. 3 x 10.6 inches), (mounted old title in the upper right corner, soft folds, partly repaired sporadic tiny holes, but overall in a good condition).

  A first edition of poetry by one of the founders of the Turkish avant-garde Nâzım Hikmet Ran, inspired by Mayakowsky’s work, accompanied with black and white illustrations by Fikret Muallâ and decorated with blue and black cover design by Ali Suavi.   8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations, [12], original printed wrappers, stapled (uncut and unread condition,…

    8°. 8 pp., 8 pp., with black and white illustrations, original illustrated green wrappers with French and Ottoman title, staple (wrappers with light staining, foxing and old annotations, but otherwise in a good used condition).  

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).    

Turkish left-wing poetry. Signed by the author. 8°, 63 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author (minor wear to the wrappers and two light scratches on the cover, old signature on the inside of the back cover, old annotations on the last page with the list of the publications by the same author).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing poetry. 8°, 31 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, stapled (minor wear to the wrappers, small old owner’s stamp on the title page, small annotation on the back page, otherwise in a good condition).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing 1960s poetry. 8°, 63 pp., illustrated card wrappers, stapled (wrappers slightly stained on the back and around the spine, a small tear in the front upper part close to the spine, two old signatures on the tile page, old signature on the last blank page, last pages with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°. [2 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] manuscript in black ink in Arabic language, [11 pp.], 357 pp., , [2 pp.] errata, lithographed text with lithographed decorations to first text pages, contemporary straight-grain Morocco binding with blind tooling (old book-seller’s stamps to the first pages, late 19th century annotations, mounted on the inner side of the front board, endpapers…

[Kitab Khoyshtáb ve Zar dest efshár ve Zedah Ruh / The Book of Innate Ardour and Hand-Churned Gold and Great River]   8°. Title page, [8 pp.], 84 pp. lithographed text, contemporary green card wrappers, later green spine, mounted label “ Presented by the Trustees of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board (title…

  A seemingly unrecorded Ronga-Portuguese catechism (Ronga being the language of the indigenous people of the Maputo region of Mozambique) written by Padre António Lourenço Farinha, a prominent Roman Catholic missionary who served in Mozambique before returning to Portugal to become a senior government administrator and prolific author.   12° (15.5 x 10.5 cm): 126 pp., preserving original rose-coloured printed…

  12°, [4 pp.] title and introduction, 338 pp., [2 pp.], contemporary black half goat with gold lines on the spine and a small round paper label on the side, black cloth boards, speckled edges (internally crisp and clean, endpapers slightly age-toned, spine slightly rubbed and with small cracks, endpapers with annotations in pencil, red and bron ink, cracks in…

  An Ottoman work on indigenous peoples of the world   8°. 408 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining and cracks on the spine, otherwise in a clean, unbound condition).

  [Cinlerle Muhabere yahud İspiritizm, Fakirizm, Manyetizm / Talking to Spirits or Spiritism, Fakirism, Magnetism]   8°, 2 parts bound in one volume. 239 pp., 256 pp., original dark red cloth boards and brown Morocco spine with raised bands and gold lettering, original tan endpapers (slightly age-toned with light foxing, sporadic underlining and annotations in pencil and ball pen, old…

Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 15 inches) (soft fold, minor staining).

An unusual, undated Polish edition of Hamlet, published in Lviv and Zlochiv in today’s Ukraine.   12°, 139 pp., old (publisher’s?) brown wrappers (old signature in ink on the title page, tiny folds and tears in white margins, wrappers slightly stained with small cracks around the spine, but otherwise a good condition as published with uneven margins and sporadic loose…

A collection of 10 maps of the Cabo Verde Archipelago, being 9 individual island maps produced between 1922 and 1930 by the special mapping team, the Missão Geográfica de Cabo Verde, being the first maps of the islands predicated upon complete systematic trigonometric surveys; plus, a 1960 official general map of the archipelago featuring extensive manuscript additions of air and…

A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

Publication for Russian refugees in Istanbul:  View of the Russian Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "Belozerskaya" on Athos.   4°, [24 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated covers mounted over later wrappers (small tears, chips and folds , minor foxing and staining, small tears in the lower parts of rear sheets).  

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

Bulletin of the Russian Trade Committee in Constantinople.   8°. 32 pp. with two interleaved charts and one folding plate, [12 pp.] advertisements, original brown wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers with small chips and tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

Ottoman cookbook featuring a popular Turkish Caracter from theater plays and magazines Karagöz. Small 8°, 79 pp., later tan linen binding and green endpapers (old Ottoman signature in ink on the title page, light staining and tiny chips in white margins, tiny holes from old binding in the inner margins).

[The reasons for consideration for the spread of the contagion in the Morea, and Rumelia are becoming ever greater…] Broadside, letterpress on thin laid paper with a watermark, 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7.5 inches).  

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

The authoritative chart of the harbour of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo, Mozambique), shown in the wake of World War II, showcasing what was one of Africa’s busiest and most modern ports, published by the British Admiralty.   Polychrome photolithograph on thick paper, contemporary hand-stamped price revision to title, rolled (Very Good, overall clean and bright, light wear along vertical centrefold),…

[Imperial Ottoman Loan 4% of the Baghdad Railway. Second and Third Series. Contract]   4°, 11 pp. in French, 11 pp. in Ottoman, original tan wrappers with title in French on the front and Ottoman on the rear wrappers (old library stamps, small tears and chips in edges, traces of old paper label on the spine, later spine).  

Istanbul: A. H. Boyacıyan  - American Bible House 1880. 8°. XIX, 231 pp., [6 pp.], original blue cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the spine, old plate mounted on the inner side of the front cover, old list mounted on the rear free endpaper, old small annotations on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 18 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original dark green cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Wrappers slightly pale with worm holes on the spine, internally clean), 51 x 70 cm (20 x 27.6 inches).

Stanford's map of West Africa.   Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original red cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 52 x 77 cm (20.5 x 30.3 inches).

A particularly handsome example of Stanford’s map of Denmark and Iceland with original brown covers.   Copper engraved map, originally coloured in outline, dissected into 20 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original brown cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 68 x 55 cm (26.8 x 21.6 inches).

Pilgrim's Game. Memory of Rome 1950.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, 61 x 81 cm (24 x 31.9 inches) (soft folds and light foxing, but otherwise in a good condition).  

8°. 61 pp. with a black and white illustration, [3], stapled (Slightly age-toned, paper slightly fragile with small cracks in the white margins, front cover with light foxing, a very light water-staining in the upper inner corners, a tiny hole in the white margin of the page 33-34, a tiny hole in p. 54-55).

  8°. 21 pp., [3] advertisements and blank, original pink wrappers with lettering, unbound, as originally published (wrappers slightly dusty and with tiny tears in the margins, some words underlined with old red pencil, otherwise in a good condition).  

A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul.   8°. [4 pp.], 277 pp., [3 pp.], original brown cloth with embossed decoration and gilt lettering (spine pale, tiny crack in the hinge of the rear endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with only sporadic light staining inside)

[To New Places and New Tasks. (Through national suffering, social, peace, progress, labor and prosperity. On the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption - 18/1923)]   8°, 31 pp., original wrappers with lettering, stapled (wrappers with light foxing, crudely cut upper margin, internally with light age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).  

12°. 162 pp., later wrappers (first and last page with light water-staining, old annotations on the title page and in the first page above, old stamp on the title page).

Letters for Mothers or a Guide for Mothers in the Good Nutrition of Children. Third Edition   A rare book in Bulgarian language, published by the American Bible House was printed by Boyaciyan in Istanbul and includes instructions for mothers.   Large 12°. XII, 180 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original green cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on…

  Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 3 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).  

A rare Ottoman pamphlet on the importance of the carob for the military during World War I.   Small 8°, 4 pp., original brown letters with lettering.  

[Schoolbook for History of the Homeland for 3 Class]   8°. 164 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original green wrappers with lettering and illustrations (wrappers with light age-toning, foxing and chips, inside with minor foxing and age-toning to first pages, but otherwise a good example).

Copper engraving and etching, 39 x 26 cm (15.3 x 10.2 inches) (minor foxing, but overall in a good condition).

Lithograph, 57 x 84 cm (22.4 x 33 inches) (soft folds with tiny tears, but overall in a good condition).

Mapka narodowościowa i polityczna obszarów b. W. Ks. Litewskiego [Title on the Map] [National and Political Map of the Areas of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with a Statistical Table]   A demographic map of Lithuania, showcasing various population of the area, made by a member of Provisional Political Committee of Kaunas Land, which supported the union of historical…

  [Arşın mal alan. 3. tab'ı / The Cloth Peddlar. 3. Edition]   Lyrics to the legendary Azerbaijani early comic and romantic operetta by the first composer of an opera in the Islamic world, Uzeyir Hajibeyov.   8°. 53 pp. with portrait on the first page, rear wrappers with cover in Russian, later green cloth with title in small gold…

A large-format satirical pamphlet in Latin, written by German early art historian and author on scientific books on many subjects, including on the Jews in China, and Arabic and Chinese literature, Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (1733 - 1811).   Folio, [8 pp.] with 2 woodcuts, unbound (soft folds, repairs to the spine, tiny tears in margins, slightly dusty, sporadic annotations…

  A pair of rare ephemeral Iranian pulp magazines with stunning design was published by Mostafa Alamouti, who would become an esteemed journalist, politician and after the Revolution a valuable source of the recent history.  

[İncil-i Şerîf. Matta, Markus, Luka, Yuhanna / Sharif Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John]   A translation of the Gospels in Uzbek from 1913.   8°, title page, 359 pp., later green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine, embossed gilt name of the collector on the cover, original “Printed in Leipzig” rubber stamp on the title page verso (minor…

8°. [4] titles, introduction and illustration, 155 pp., [5 pp.] original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with wear mostly to the spine and minor water staining in the lower part of the back cover, rear sheets with minor water-staining in the lower part, first page with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°. [2] title, 150 pp., [2] blank, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining, minor water-staining in the margins in the first part, otherwise a seemingly unread copy).

The Artist and The Revolution. An Artist in The Russian Revolution: Notes by an Artist - A text on the role of the art and artists in Russia and the changes of their roles through the revolution was written by a Russian immigrant in Berlin, Georgy Kreskentievich Lukomsky (1884–1952).   12°. 95 pp., original wrapper with lettering (wrappers with light…

  Two volumes bound-in-one. 8°. 96 pp., 128 pp., contemporary marbled paper binding with a flap, Dark brown goat spines (age-toned and stained, small tears in marginsold annotations in black ink in margins, sporadic words underlined in red and black ink, old bookseller’s stamps, hand-written title in lower edge, binding scuffed, rubbed and with small loss of material, corners rubbed…

  [Pious and Christian Prayers with Other Prayers, First , Given to the Light by Many Precious, Serious, Learned Men, Endowed with Abundant Gifts by the Holy Spirit …]   A rare book of prayers in Czech language, written for the Protestant milieu of Bohemia, was published on the eve of the Battle of White Mountain, that sealed the future…

  The New Testament, The Book Attributed to Our Lord Jesus Christ     A stellar example of the first printed Ottoman translation of the New Testament, by a Polish musician Wojciech Bobowski, also known as Ali Ufki. Printed in Paris with Arabic types, previously used in Napoleon’s Cairo press. A fine example form the library of a French diplomat,…

  A collection of folk tales, printed in the Tamil language by the state school for education of civil servants.   12°, [4 pp.], 176 pp., contemporary marble paper boards, brown goat spine with traces of a paper label (binding slightly rubbed, inside in a good and clean condition, old annotations in pencil and brown ink to the front blank…

  [İlm-i Teşrih-i Tavsifi / Descriptive Anatomy]   [2 pp.] illustrated title page and introduction, 282 pp., . hectograph with illustrations in text, later wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, outer margens cut uneven with tiny loss to the text on the first three pages, page 22 marked twice, missing page numbers 46-48, but complete),

John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…

  The very rare first edition of a foundational work of Cypriology, published in Nicosia, it is the first anthology of primary historical sources on the island, featuring 35 accounts, ranging in date from 1196 AD to 1870, collected and translated from 12 different languages into English by Claude Delaval Cobham, who served as the District Commissioner of Larnaca Province…

The most extraordinary, extensive and data-rich manuscript on slavery we have ever encountered – being an original Cuban ‘registro’ (registry book) of ‘licensed’ slaves composed by a slave ‘registrador’s (registrar’s) office, likely either Havana or Matanzas, in 1855-56 (from December 1854 onwards, all slaves in Cuba were required to have a ‘cédula’, that acted as both a license and an…

  An handsome example of an early, seemingly unrecorded printed edition of a highly popular rhyming dictionary of Persian language, written by an Ottoman poet and diplomat Sünbülzâde Vehbî and issued in Bulaq, Egypt.   8°: 60 pp. letterpress, contemporary decorated paper boards an brown goat spine (old title written in ink on the first blank page, old annotations on…

A beautifully executed manuscript diploma for Duke of Brabant, the future Belgian king Leopold II, the honorary president of the Philharmonic Society of Wavre, Belgium.   Small Folio (35,7 x 22,6 cm), [8 pp.] blank, 2 pages with manuscript recto, blank, contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gold and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré paper…

8°: [6 pp.], 107 pp. with black and white advertisements and interleaved advertisements, [7 pp.], original green boards with illustrated cover, green cloth spine (binding slightly age-toned, but otherwise in a good condition with only minor foxing to the first and last pages).

  A photograph of today little known Prague-based Linguistic Society, joining the prominent Austro-Hungarian researchers of Africa, as well as Indian, Arabic and Classical languages.   Gelatin silver photo, contemporary mounted on thick card, manuscript numbers recto in margin, black manuscript in black ink and pencil on the back, 12 x 16,5 cm (4.7 x 6.5 inches), (minor foxing verso,…

  Educational and moral stories in verses, accompanied with illustrations.   Large 8°: 185 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, contemporary green goat with small paper label with title in black ink on the spine, two fragments of lithographed pages from other books used as paste down endpapers (Persian black book-seller’s stamps in white margins, Russian blind book seller’s stamp in…

  An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882).   8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…

A rare illustrated Persian book on geography, written by the leading Tehran-based astronomer and geographer Abdul Ghaffar Najm al-Mulk and published by Dar ul-Funun.   12°. 290 pp. lithographed text with illustrations and a map, folding map, contemporary half reddish-brown goat with black linen boards (binding hardly noticeable rubbed and stained, small old signature in black ink on the inner…

  A fascinating account of the German economist and ethnographer Karl Theodor Stöpel’s tour of Taiwan which occurred just after the island was taken over by Japan, during which he witnessed the island rapid’s economic-political transition and the local Chinese’s rebellion against the new regime, as well as being one of the earliest scientific missions deep into the island’s interior,…

12°. 192 pp., original brown cloth binding with debossed title (binding pale, and stained with minor scuffs to the spine, overall in a good condition).

8°. [8] pp. index, [3 pp.] introduction, 454 pp. letterpress, 24 lithographed folding plated with 337 images, contemporary dark brown morocco with gold tooling and title on the spine, contemporary marbled endpapers, marbled edges (binding slightly scuffed and rubbed with small loss of material on the spine, cracks along the hinges, small scribbles to the rear of the front loose…

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Africa that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear and some…

  A 1923 pictorial map of the world by a Japanese manga artist Ogawa Jihei.   Colour lithograph, 78 x 110 cm (30.7 x 43.3 inches) (soft folds with small holes partly repaired with tape, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

An exquisitely rendered Russian manuscript map of the Battle of Zorndorf (August 25, 1758), a critical showdown of the Seven Years’ War, and one of the most ferocious altercations of the entire conflict, during which Frederick the Great’s forces narrowly prevented the Russians from marching upon Berlin; in beautiful bright hues of watercolour and wash, and with all text in…

Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…

  A lithographed Persian text against Sufism and supporting Sharia, written by a Shah’s son Soleiman Mirza Qajar, with especially fine lithographed ornaments and an excellent provenance.   8°: [148 pp.] lithographed text with illustrated headers, contemporary brown goat, contemporary blue endpapers (old annotation on paper, mounted on the inner side of the rear board, manuscript title in black ink…

[Customs commercial arrangement concluded on September 5, 1902 between the Ottoman Empire and Persia]   4°, 4 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (tears and cracks in margins, wrappers little age-toned in margins).  

  12 °. Engraved frontispiece, 104 pp., 14 interleaved aquatint illustrations, contemporary dark brown goat with linear blind tooling in margins, small old round paper stamp in the upper corner of the front board, patterned endpapers, red edges (binding slightly worn on the edges, tiny cracks in hinges of endpapers, deaccessioned small library stamps, light water-staining in the first part…

8°. [2] title page and portrait, 125 pp., original illustrated wrappers, printed in colour on the inner side of the back cover (wrappers with minor foxing, age-toning and minimal traces of use, otherwise in a good condition).

  Small 4°, 30 pp. photolithography, original blue wrappers, brown cloth spine (staples slightly rusty, wrappers with light age-toning and staining, wrappers slightly stained and age-toned, but overall in a good and clean condition).  

  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).