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  Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  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).  

  [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas]   A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas   8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).  

  [The Brazilian Letter. A Letter of the Holy Father to Brazilian Bishops on the Catholic Action]   A rare mimeographed pamphlet with an encouraging message to the heads of the Catholic church by Pope Pius XI was probably published by the Slovenian political and war refugees in a DP camp in Austria in 1946.   8°. 28 pp., [2…

  [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow]   A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…

  Card and paper sleeve with printed lettering, 19.5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.2 inches) (slightly stained, soft folds, repaired old tear).  

  8°: [4 pp. titles], 736 pp., with3 interleaved plates, [2 pp.] blank, with original illustrated cover, contemporary three-quarter calf with yellow paper boards with debossed decoration, spine decorated with mounted paper elements, original green endpapers (good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, one page with a small tear, loose endpapers missing, binding with light scratches, tiny worm holes…

  8°, [2 pp.], 84 pp., interleaved 15 plates, original covers mounted on modern cloth binding, modern pink endpapers (minor foxing, small holes in inner white margin from old binding with a string, some plates loose, original covers slightly rubbed on the corners, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann]   A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office.   Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…

  8°: 71 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (Ottoman annotations on the top of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

  [Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Sagir / Small Introduction to Geography]   An early Ottoman geography book with large, wonderfully originally coloured maps.   12°: 156 pp., [4 pp.] blank and errata, 3 folding plates with maps – lithographs with original colour, original green boards and green cloth spine (binding with small chips and scratches, inside in a good condition with minor…

  Colour lithograph, 24 x 33 cm (9.44 x 13 inches) (soft fold, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).

  Colour print, printed from both sides, 43 x 60 cm (17 x 23.6 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An exceedingly rare mimeographed illustrated book on the economy in agriculture, made for an Ottoman school with a stunning multicolour title page showcasing a well-managed farm   8°: 422 pp., [2 pp.] index, mimeographed text with illustrations, charts and vignettes, illustrated title page, old corrections and annotations in pencil and blue ink, original blue cloth with debossed ornaments (minor…

  A uniquely well preserved example of a short novel with fragile wrappers, published by Slovenians under the censorship of the Fascist Italy   8°, 134 pp., with black and white vignettes, [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old owner’s signature in black ink on the title page, tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).

  A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII   Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete   4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…

  One of the most important, engaging and authentic accounts of Rio de Janeiro at an exciting historical juncture, in the immediate wake of the onset of the ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’ the country’s independence; written by Ernst Ebel, a wealthy Baltic-German merchant from Riga (then in the Russian Empire), who traveled to Rio to investigate the prospects of Russo-Brazilian trade; Ebel’s…

Brazil (Eastern – Core Regions) – Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco / The ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’   Karte Von Ostbrasilien. Carte géographique de la partie orientale de l’empire du Brésil, en quatre feuilles, contenant les Provinces maritimes de Pernambuco jusqu’a Rio de Janeiro, celle de Minas Geraës, et une partie des provinces limitrophes, redigée d’apres leurs propres observations…

  Small 4°. 144 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), contemporary red and black boards, red cloth spine (minor wear to the binding, overall in a good condition).  

  A fine example of the combination of the high-end 1980s punk lyrics and contemporary progressive book design by the IRWIN group.   4°. 29 pp. on printed brown marbled paper, original illustrated wrappers.  

  A rare separately published collection of a punk poetry by a Slovenian poet of Bosnian-Croatian origins Esad Babačić.   Long 4°. [24 pp.] copied typescript with black and white illustrations, text starting on the inner side of the wrappers, original card wrappers with illustrated covers, stapled (Very Good, wrappers with minor staining).  

  Colour lithograph, folding into original printed card covers bearing title and view on front cover and a map of the Léopoldville area on back cover (Excellent condition, Map amazingly clean, bright and crisp, seemingly barely ever opened, only the lightest marginal wear to covers), 86 x 68.5 cm (34 x 27 inches).   A very rare and early cartographic…

  8°, 146 pp., [2 pp.] blank, contemporary red goat with gilt lettering, contemporary illustrated endpapers, old Ottoman book-seller’s stamp mounted in the lower part of the front cover (binding slightly scuffed, a small chip in the lower part of the front free endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare first lithographed edition of a genealogy, starting with Adam, to Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, Great Seljuk and finishing with the last Ottoman Sultan.   4°. 40 pp. lithographed with illustrations, recent three quarter Bordeaux calf with gilt decoration and grey cloth boards, recent printed marbled papers (miniature Ottoman annotations in red ink,…

  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  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A pamphlet in Arabic language with a decorative cover was made as a propaganda against the former Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli after his deposition in 1954.   Large 8°. 96 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn with tiny scratches and holes in the upper margin on the cover, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Small 4°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth decoration with ornaments and lettering, original patterned endpapers (old signature on the top of the frond loose endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Bergama. Rehber-i Harabe-i Bergama (Nüsha-i Türkiye) / Pergamon. Guide to the Ruins of Pergamon. Turkish Edition]   A rare pamphlet on the archeological excavations of Pergamon in Ottoman Turkish was printed by Berlin Royal Museum (now Altes Museum) at the time the artefacts were transported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin, where they were exhibited in a new museum.…

  8°, [3 pp.] title page and introduction, 536 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1 pp.], 4 folding plates, contemporary grown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, original green patterned endpapers (slightly age-toned, minor foxing and staining, tiny sporadic folds in corners, sporadic light off-set, printing mistakes on pp. 377-383 with correctly printed images over wrongly…

  A rare informative supplement to the 1000 issue of the Ottoman cultural and literary magazine Sevret-i-Funoun contains portraits of the authors of the Ottoman new literature.   Folio. [20] with black and white illustrations, unbound as originally published (minor traces of wear and staining, spine of the first sheet and the inner sheet repaired with an old tape, a…

  12°. 191 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and Ottoman lettering, original yellow endpapers (light ink scribbles on the back endpapers, endpapers slightly dusty, binding with light wear and scratches, otherwise in a good condition).

  [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion]   A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I   8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…

  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 49 x 69 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly stained in the upper margin).

  Small 4°. 144 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), contemporary red and black boards, red cloth spine (minor wear to the binding, sporadic pages with a short tear, sporadic puzzles solved, overall in a good condition).  

  12°. 18 pp., original wrappers with lettering and illustrations, stapled (old hand-written number on the upper part of the cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design   2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…

  A Slovenian translation of Oedipus Rex and Antigone with a stunning late art-deco cover, made by an architect Marko Župančič   8°: 158 pp., [2 pp.], original black calf with gilt decoration and lettering on the cover (minor foxing, minimal scuffing to the corners of the binding, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  The first Ottoman book on cuneiform, written by scholar and Armenian nationalist Karapet J. Basmadjian   16°: 27 pp., [5 pp.] blank, later cloth binding with debossed prnaments and gilt lettering (margins slightly age-toned and with tiny tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Extremely rare – possibly a unique survivor - a stellar large format blueprint edition of a military survey of Ismailia, Egypt, the planned city that was long the headquarters of the Suez Canal Company, made by the British Royal Engineers during the tense period between World War II (when the canal was the ultimate strategic objective of the Nazi…

  Colour lithograph, 45,5 x 68 cm (18 x 26.8 inches), verso text and colour images (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition.  

  Ottoman red morocco binding from the circle of sultan Abdul Hamid II.   

  A charming pocket atlas in Ottoman language, made in the first years of the Republic of Turkey.   Long small 8°: [4 pp.], 24 pp., 120 pp., 34 colour lithographed maps and charts, some folding (complete – matching the list in text), contemporary half linen binding, debossed dark faux leather boards (minor staining, mostly on the edges, front endpapers…

  A pictorial map of Hyogo in Japanese and English, made during the American occupation of Japan   Colour lithograph, 76 x 54 cm (30 x 21.3 inches), verso text in blue (soft folds slightly worn, with tiny tears and holes on crossings, minor staining).  

  Exceedingly rare – an early edition of the de facto official liturgical manual of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil, written by Reverend Modesto Perestrelo de Barros Carvalhosa, which remains the basis of the one used to the present day; printed in a delightfully crude technical manner by the Evangelical Press in São Paulo for the exclusive use of church…

  First Ottoman book on feminism   12°, 85 pp., [3 pp.], contemporary pink wrappers (very good, wrappers with minor scratches and tiny tears).

  8°: 98 pp., (some leaves mispaginated, but complete) lithographed text written in Nastaliq, 1 folding lithographed view, 1 folding lithographed map, original green printed boards (boards slightly scuffed, stained and with small loss of paper, small wormholes in the inner margins, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

  8°, 11 pp. with charts and one folding page, contemporary marbled paper wrappers (light stains to the wrappers and first page, sporadic old annotations, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An exceedingly rare book on the Ottoman language for the Lebanese, printed by the Saint George Press in Beirut   8°. 195 pp., contemporary marbled boards and black cloth spine (last two pages with tiny chip in the outer white margin, binding lightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Patmutʻiwn mardkayin patuastman / History of Human Vaccination].   An exceedingly rare, detailed book on the history and importance of vaccines written by a prominent Ottoman Armenian doctor Dikran Paşa Peştemalciyan, published on the eve of the Sublime Porte’s decree on the mandatory application of the smallpox vaccine.   4°: [2 pp.], portrait, [16pp.], 237 pp., with interleaved plates…

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A patten book with crochet and knitting samples 8°, 8 unnumbered black cards with attached 28 original crocheted and knitted samples in silk/cotton white thread, accompanied by titles hand-written in white, black card cover with hand-written title in white, originally bound together with red ribbon (cover with a discrete water-stain, hardly noticeable staining to the back cover, otherwise in…

  Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush.   8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).  

  [Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here]   An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design   8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…

  [The History and Organizations of the Fascism. First Book for Slovenians]   8°: 156 pp., [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering on the cover (wrappers with minor staining and a tiny chip on the rear cover, otherwise in a good, clean, seemingly unread condition).  

  [Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?]   A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…

  First popular Ottoman book on modern geography and survey   8°. 88 pp., 8 folding plates, original binding with marbled paper covers and brown cloth spine (minor staining, sporadic old annotations and underlined words, old manuscript mathematical drawing in black ink on the inner side of the front cover, binding slightly rubbed mostly around the spine with loss of…

  A first Ottoman translation of the Freud’s groundbreaking work on psychoanalysis, sexual origins of neurosis and the Oedipus complex, written by the pioneer of the modern Ottoman psychology   Small 4°: 57 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (wrappers with light staining, later spine  

  6 fascicules mimeographed text, all 4°. [1 pp.] title, 5 pp., 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 11 pp.; 7 pp.; 4 pp.; 6 pp., stapled (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Proletarian. Organ of a Central committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party]   8°. 91 pp. mimeographed text, original wrappers with mimeographed lettering and title in red linocut, stapled (wrappers with minor age-toning, minor wear to the corners, otherwise in a good condition).    

  [Extract of the Contract on Mineral Oil on the Segment of al-Jazeera [i. e. Upper Mesopotamia, in this case Iraq]].   8°: 23 pp., original pink wrappers with lettering, stapled (soft folds, minor staining in the upper part, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Tercüman-ı Hakikat ve Musavver Servet-i Fünûn / Interpreter of Truth and Servet-i Fünun] A special edition of a cultural magazine with a first modern Ottoman article on the quarantine by a prominent author Ahmet Mithat Small Folio, 158 pp., [2 pp.] index, [8 pp.] with portraits printed recto only, original green boards with imperial insignia, later black cloth spine…