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  Exceedingly rare – no other examples traced – a Malagasy language work on the history of the Ancient Jewish civilization, as taken from the Bible, as written by the Quaker missionary Henry E. Clark, and printed in Faravohitra (today in Antananarivo), Madagascar by the press of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association – this being the first ‘Section’ (of two)…

  The first Ottoman translation of the popular orientalist French theatre piece Antar by Chekri Ganem, issued one year after the original first edition.   8°: 137 pp., [4 pp.], 2 full size portraits, 1 double-page black and white illustration, original illustrated cover, later red cloth binding with a label on the cover (title page with light staining, double-page illustrations…

  A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.    

    2 French articles on famous blind people in arts and literature, bound in a highly decorative contemporary Ottoman binding   2 titles bound in 1 volume, 8°, contemporary Ottoman red card binding with debosses surface and gilt decoration, contemporary debossed orange endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers with light scratches, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and with small worm…

  The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies   12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).  

  [Al-Itkan fi tarjimati al-Qur’an / Proficiency in Translating the Quran]   Large 4°, 460 pp. in photographic printing, original boards with lettering, later cloth spine (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Грамматика за турскыи языкъ отъ Х. Марковъ / Grammar of Turkish Language by H. Markov]   8°. 119 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers stained with small pieces of paper missing, rear wrapper with trimmed margins, inside slightly age-toned, sporadic margins lightly trimmed, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).  

  [Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian]   8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Les aventures de Télémaque / The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon]   8°, XV, 402 pp., [6 pp.], later brown three quarter calf with bown boards, later patterned endpapers (first blank page missing, sporadic underlinings in red pencil in the first pages, otherwise in a good condition with minimal staining).  

[Los Salmos / Book of Psalms]   An uncommon Book of Psalms in Ladino, printed in Istanbul by an Armenian publisher under a sponsorship of the American missionaries.   12°: [4 pp.,], 217 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original dark blue cloth card wrappers (minor staining mostly to the first and last pages, wrappers slightly rubbed, with light staining, a repaired…

  [Humma-yı Raciaya Karşı İttihaz Olunacak Tedâbir-i Tahaffuziyye ve Mania-i İstilâyeye Dair Talimâtnâme / Instruction for Unionized Precautionary Measures and Prevention of Spreading of the Fever].   A pamphlet in Ottoman language, printed on attractive pink paper, summarizing the latest western discoveries on the various types of fevers and giving instructions for prevention of their spreading.   Large 12°: 24…

  A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla