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[Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere]   An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…

  A unique Ottoman manuscript on modern shipbuilding   Small 4°, [64 pp.] manuscript in black ink with annotations in pencil, drawings in pancil and water-colours, unbound (minor staining and folds in corners, some pages loose, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A historically important and unique assemblage of three works, including Object A, being the original manuscript of the first modern Ottoman pilot guide to the Red Sea, commissioned by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it was written by Captain Cemal Bey, who later served as the ‘Bahr-i Ahmer Komodoru’ (the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea), and…

  [Poems from the Prison about my Country and the Things I Love]   A collection of poems by an Egyptian revolutionary writer Ahmed Fouad Negm   8°. 118 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, tiny wear on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).    

  [The Second Separation of Forces Agreement in Sinai 1975 (An Analytical Study)]   8°. 415 pp. with maps in text, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers lightly rubbed and stained with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An usual translation of a popular book Guerrilla Warfare by a Canadian author of Jewish origins printed in Arabic language in the time of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict   8°. 171 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor wear to the wrappers, otherwise an unread uncut example).  

  Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art   Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).  

  Perception of the Balkan Politics in the Arab Countries   An Arab pamphlet on the pact between Yugoslavia, Greece in Turkey,signed in 1953 to prevent the expansion of the Soviet influence to the Balkans   Small 4°. 49 pp., folding map, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor tears in wrappers, otherwise a good example)  

  [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887].   8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…

  A unique, original manuscript guest book of the Ottoman Imperial Vaccine Laboratory, with entries by various prominent local and international guests, praising the innovative techniques and modernity of the institution.   8°: [56 pp.] with 27 pp. in manuscript in black and blue ink and pencil by various hands and 29 pp. blank, original three quarter dark red linen…

  An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field.   8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).  

  [Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life].   A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul.   8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).