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A fine example of the first edition of a magnificent, illustrated work on time and astronomy by one of the greatest Ottoman military leaders Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Paşa, printed in Cairo by the Bulaq Press.

  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…

  4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire.   4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…

A rare map of the Bosporus commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and created by Prussian military surveyor Helmuth von Moltke.   Lithography with original colour in outline, 73,5 x 68 cm (29 x 26,77 inches), dissected in 20 segments and mounted on linen. An advertisement of Artaria, Vienna, on green paper mounted on one of the segments verso. Housed…

8°, portrait, 63 pp., folding map, originally coloured in outline, later wrappers (age-toned with light cracks in margins, portrait slightly water-stained).  

  A large wall map of Montenedro, was published in Montenegro in 1948, in the year of the the schism between Yugoslavia ans Albania, an event which had great consequences for Montenegro and surrounding regions.

  A talking map.

[The Book of Genesis [Title in Moon system on the first embossed page]. Simplified System of Exalted Letters for the Use of the Blind [Title of the introduction]]   A rare version of the Book of Genesis, printed in Dutch and embossed in Moon system for the blind   Large oblong 4°, [1 pp.] explanation in Dutch and Moon system,…

  An attractive translucent map of the moon, printed on a thick paper, and backed with thin blue paper.