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  Map of the Ottoman Empire with the Arabian Peninsula in the middle. Marked are the most important cities and the Hejaz Railway.   Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 14.9 inches), (soft fold in the middle slightly stained with tiny repaired holes and tears).

ПРОГРАММА ВТОРОГО МУСУЛЬМАНСКАГО ВЕЧЕРА: Вь залахь Бакинскаго Общественнаго Цобранія въ ... Бъ пользу Общества распостраненія грамотности среди мусульманъ Нешръ-Муарифъ جمعيتنڭ نفعنه عايد ايكنجى مسلمان مسامره سنڭ مرامنامه سى [PROGRAM OF THE SECOND MUSLIM EVENING: In the halls of the Baku Public Council in ... For the benefit of the Society for the dissemination of literacy among Muslims Neshr-Muarif]   An…

  8°. 128 pp., later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover and spine (old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, binding with minor staining and scuffing on the edges, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [The Gospel of Wealth. According to the English Text of Andrew Carnegie]   A rare Greek translation of The Gospel of Wealth by an American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, a text especially important for the history of foundation of public free libraries   8°. 75 pp. with a full page portrait, [4 pp.], original card pink wrappers with illustration…

  [Bin Bir Çiçek Mağazası / Magazine of Thousand and One Flower]   Large 8°. 80 pp., [2], later red binding with mounted original front and rear wrappers, original taxation stamp on the rear wrapper (light water-staining going throughout the book, old traces of stapled in inner white margins).  

  Tulip, Daffodil and Hyacinth Growing in Istanbul   Large 8°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, original taxation stamp (light staining, stains on two pages with partial minimal damage to the text, wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper in one corner).  

  Lithograph with a pasted down instructions and manuscript annotations in pencil and pink colour, 70 x 102 cm (27.6 x  40.1 inches) (Very Good, soft folds).  

  Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Coulour lithorgraph, 70 x 62 cm (27.6 x 24.4 inches), (soft folds, overall in a good condition).  

  A rare book on gynecology in Ottoman script by a medical doctor, active in Adana, Diyarbakır and Baghdad was only published in 20 examples. With contemporary annotations.   8°. [2 pp.] introduction, 109 pp., [80 pp.] blank paper with three pages with notes in Ottoman and French in black ink. 110-151 pp. with first 7 pp. in Latin characters in…

  The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters   Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…

  [Turkic-Russian and Russian-Turkic Dictionary of Political, Legal, Economic and Military Terms, Used in Press]   An important early Tatar-Russian dictionary, written by a famous Azerbaijani playwright, composer and public figure Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who authored the Azerbaijani national anthem   8°, [4 pp.] title page and introduction, 94 pp., [2 pp.], 28, in Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic script, later brown cloth…