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  [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).  

  [1945 Declaration of the New Yugoslavian Government of Marshal Tito].   The official declaration of the foundation of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the temporary state formed by the Partisans as World War II was in its final stages, printed by an underground Slovenian Partisan press   12°. 12 pp. original wrappers with linocut in red and blue, stapled (old hand-written annotation…

  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…

  An exceedingly rare – possibly unique – artifact from the World War II Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, being a indigo photographic print of a Red Army map of Kursk, Russia, made on a portable printing press by one of the German Army’s ‘Motorized Surveying and Map Detachments’; Kursk, occupied by the Germans from November 1941 to…

  8°, 443 pp., [4 pp.], contemporary pink boards and brown spine, endpapers made of old stationary paper with printed grids (binding with light staining and recent hand-written title on the spine, old manuscript annotation in pencil on the title page and in black ink on p. 85, endpaper with small loss of material and pieces of mounted paper, minor…

  [Commemorative Map of the World War. The Great Footprint of Meiji, the Great Undertaking of Taisho].   An extremely rare and very large format Japanese propaganda map, a grand pageant of imagery celebrating Japan’s military triumphs during the Meiji and Taishō Eras that made her an Asian-Pacific superpower and gave her a great empire, showcasing elements of the just-concluded World…

  Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition).   A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods  

  An unusual visualization of the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the World War I, representing the last stages of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, connecting rotating nationalistic thoughts in a flower-shaped pattern, centralized on the word “Homeland” Colour print, 57 x 40 cm (22.4 x 15.7 inches) (minor staining, soft folds, verso proof state…

  A whiteprint issue of an apparently unrecorded official large-format transportation map of Panama made by the engineers of the U.S.-run Panama Canal Zone Government, issued early in World War II, when the canal was of special geostrategic concern; signed as “Approved” by Glen Edgar Edgerton, the Governor of the Canal Zone.   Photographically reproduced print from original manuscript (Very…

  A rare complete last series of the legendary Ottoman intellectual magazine Servet-I Fünun, which introduced the popular Western culture to the East   11 issues in 11 volumes (10 volumes with each 20 issues, 1 volume with 11 issues), all small folio, each issue with 16 pp. with black and with illustrations and illustrated cover, sporadic issues with colour…

  An Ottoman book on modern western astronomical discoveries, edited by Selih Zeki, the director of the Imperial Observatory   8°. [4 pp.] introduction, folding plate, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [2 pp.] blank, 19 interleaved photographs with irregular numeration, one double-page celestial chart, original broen cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the…

  A rare first printed Ottoman book on Geology   8°: 9 pp., [6 pp.], 146 pp., colour folding plate, contemporary yellow and black card binding with gilt debossed decoration (rear cover scratched, stained and with small loss of material, minor staining, plate with soft folds, binding scratched on the edges, text pages clean).  

[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).