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[On a Tragedy of the National Literature and the Writers of Turkestan]   A rare publication on the contemporary Turkestani writers, published in Ottoman alphabet by an extremist nationalistic Turkestani organisation in Berlin, who immigrated after the Soviet annexed their homeland.    8°. 20 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with title in Ottoman and Latin alphabet, 20th…

  [Ilham Yımislerı. 1925-1945 ınçi yıllarda yazılgan şiyırlar ciyıntıgi. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar. The Fruits of Inspiration. A Collection of Poems, Written between 1925-1945. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar]   A rare collection of poetry by a Finland-based Tatar author Hasan Hamidulla, written between 1925 and 1970, printed in Tatar language in Turkish and Ottoman alphabet in Finland. The collection was published upon…

  Copper engraving, 9,5 x 12,2 cm (3.7 x 4.8 inches).  

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field]   Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).  

  An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia.   8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…

  Small 4°. 531 pp., [12 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers scratched and bumped on the corners and with small tears and scratches on the surface, inside in a good, clean condition with minimal age-toning).  

  Large 8°, 314 pp., boards with modern marbled paper, original calf spine with gilt decoration, original marbled paper endpapers (with light foxing and staining, p. 27-28 cracked in the upper part, a tear on p 192 repaired with old transparent paper).  

  [Redd-i Renan. İslâmiyet ve Fünûn /  Answer to Renan. Islam and Arts]   12°, 76 pp., [2 pp] blank, later marbled paper wrappers with mounted original cover (one page with a sentence underlined in red ink, front cover with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).  

  This is a first edition of the historical propaganda theatre play by one of the prime representative of the modern Ottoman literature to include Kemal’s famous introduction, inspired by the preface of Cromwell by Victor Hugo.   8°. Portrait, ط س, 414 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black calf spine with gilt lettering (bound inn contemporary binding without…

  A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944).   Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…

  A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society   Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).