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  A translation of an Italian work “On Tyranny” was translated into Ottoman as a propaganda piece at the time of the capitulation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and published in Cairo to avoid the censorship.   8°. 271 pp. with a portrait, original boards with hand splattered paper and black cloth spine (minimal wear to the cover, but overall…

  [The Wreath of Innocence, or Prayers and Lessons Needed for Young Christians, to Keep Their Innocence]   16°, 728 pp., [4 pp.], woodcut frontispiece, contemporary brown calf with gilt decoration and lettering on the spine, original patterned endpapers, red edges (Sporadic tiny worm holes in inner white margins, binding with minor wear, but overall in a good and clean…

  A finely bound pair of algebra books in Ottoman language    

  Very Rare - a colossal (over 1.5 metres wide!) and exquisitely detailed map of the first serious attempt to construct the Panama Canal, overseen in the 1880s by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal; by far and away the finest published rendering of the project, it traces the route of the intended channel across the rugged…

  A very rare and important Arabic language school atlas of Egypt, commissioned by the country’s Education Ministry and Ministry of Finance, emblematic of the country’s emerging national awakening whereby Egyptians gradually regained control over their country’s economy and institutions from the British quasi-colonial regime; in this vein, such cartographic works in the Arabic language, made for the use of…

  Small 4°. 252 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), bound in blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering. Each issue with 28 pp. with colour and black and white illustrations and unnumbered original illustrated wrappers (tiny, partly repaired tears in margins, otherwise in a good clean condition).  

  8°. 75 pp. with black and white illustrations within text, [5 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, stapled (good, clean partly uncut example, unbound as originally published, wrappers brittle with small tears and chips).  

  12°: 56 pp., later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (old repairs to the title page and blank margins on p. 1, minor age toning and staining, old hand-written price on the rear inner side of the rear board).  

  12°: 22 pp., [2 pp.] blank] on pink paper, later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt title, later green endpapers (title page with minimal staining and old collector’s stamp, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Possibly the first detailed history of Bulgaria made after the proclamation of its independence   8°, 191 pp., modern black cloth with gilt lettering and debossed ornaments (light staining and sporadic water-staining in margins, sporadic tiny holes in white margins (paper deformations- as published), title page with stronger staining and a small hole in the margin, first pages with…

  The first Ottoman printed pamphlet on electric telegraphs, introducing the Mustafa Alphabet, the code adjusted to the Ottoman language   12°, 32 pp., folding plate, later marbled paper wrappers (minor staining, soft folds in the corners, old bookseller’s stamp in ottoman on the first blank page, otherwise in a good condition).