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  An Ottoman primer with additional new letters in attempt to modernize and save the traditional Perso-Arabic script, published on the eve of changing the script to modern Turkish alphabet, based on Latin letters.   8°. 64 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, orange wrappers with illustrated title (author’s seal on the cover, wrappers with small loss of…

An anonymous, probably spying report on the Ottoman fleet was sent to France on August 8, 1793, through a French diplomat Marie Louis Descorches, in the time of the French Revolution, when the old Franco-Ottoman alliance was establishing new relations.

  A highly decorative Ottoman portfolio with initials from the circle or institution of sultan Abdul Hamid II.

  An early modern Ottoman geography school book   Small 8°, 54 pp., [2 pp.] blank, 7 colour printed double-page maps, contemporary marbled paper boards and black cloth spine (binding restored with partly repaired loss of paper, tiny holes in the folds and tiny tears in margins, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).    

The publication contains 15 contemporary treaties and trade agreements between the Ottoman Empire and various states.   Large 8º, 11 pp., 10 pp., 30 pp., 15 pp., 4 pp., 6 pp., 9 pp., 7 pp., 5 pp., 7 pp., 3 pp., 6 pp., 4 pp., 7 pp., 8 pp., 6 pp., 18 pp., contemporary marbled paper wrappers, brown cloth spine…

From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – a very rare and highly important work, being the improved second edition of first book of statistics on the Ottoman Empire; illustrated with ground-breaking thematic maps predicated upon fresh, original data; one of the great landmarks in the era’s rapid modernization of Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; bound in…

  [Kamus-ı Tıbbî / Medical Dictionary].   An encyclopedic Ottoman work on medicine, written in Cairo by the physician and public intellectual Şerefeddin Mağmûmî, an invaluable resource for the study of the Ottoman language regarding the field of medicine.   2 volumes-in-1, 8°: vii, 1064 pp., continuous pagination, with title page for the second volume after the page 600, original…

  [Coğrafya-yı Tabiî İlmine Esas-ı Muhtasar / Physical Goegraphy. The Fundamentals].   A highly sophisticated Ottoman geography education book illustrated with 9 resplendently coloured plates of thematic World Maps, as well as dozens of monochrome diagrams and maps within the text; the work sponsored by American Protestant missionaries for use in their schools throughout Turkey and the Levant, issued in…

  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…

Rare and Important – the first proper geological map of Turkey; a large, separately published work created by the professors Damat Kenan and Ahmet Malik Sayar, issued by the imperial printer in 1920 during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, forming the foundation for scientific and commercial discovery during the upcoming Turkish Republican Era; printed in Ottoman Turkish text with…