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  Possibly the most powerful Hikmet’s revolutionary poem on Mona Lisa falling in love with a Chinese man and starting a rebellion in China after seeing his execution tries to connect various nations in the revolution.   Small 8°. 40 pp with two full page black and white illustrations within text, original illustrated wrappers (pages slightly age-toned, light wear on…

  8°. 111 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minor traces of use, but overall in a good condition, lowe margin cut into the lettering of the cover).  

8°. 198 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], interleaved black and white illustrations and maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn an scuffed on the edges, text with sporadic underlining, sporadic annotations, minor staining).

  [Mevkufat also Mülteka tercümesi. Mevkufati or Mevkufati. Mülteka tercümesi]   The first printed edition of the most important text on the Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire   2 volumes in 1. Large 4°, 2 pp., 356 pp., 2 pp., 314 pp., original calf binding with a flap and debossed ornaments, modern black spine. Margins of the first pages…

  [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies]   A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author   8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…

  8°. [4 pp.], 620 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 4 full page colour maps and one double-page map, contemporary red boards with black cloth corners and brown calf spine (minor wear to the binding, small cracks in the gutters of the endpapers, minor foxing, old pencil annotations on front endpapers, overall in a good condition).  

  8°, original illustrated front wrapper, 307 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown cloth spine, green endpapers (binding slightly loose and scuffed on edges, title page cut with a tiny loss of lettering, endpapers partly split in gutters, otherwise in a good condition).  

  12°. original illustrated cover, 62 pp. on darker paper, [2], (cover trimmed with a small loss of lettering on the right-hand side. inside good, clean, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with light foxing and minimal wear on the edges).  

  An exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.  

  8°, 158 pp., later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering (old manuscript in colour pencil on first and last page, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The rare Mexico City sheet from the famed ‘Carta de la Republica Mexicana’, the awesomely ambitious, but ultimately unfinished mega-project to map all of Mexico to a scale of 1:100 000, conducted by the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora; importantly, this sheet was separately issued and is a complete publication in and of itself; one of the seminal maps of the Metropolitan…

  [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944]   A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…

  A very rare large format work from the sequence of the first broadly accurate maps of the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), created by the Intelligence Division of the British War Office, with exceedingly detailed coverage of travel routes into the interior and the labelling of the domains of tribal nations, the present edition was made to guide British forces,…

  A rare and important work predicated upon the latest reconnaissance that was the most advanced map of the Khartoum-Omdurman region of Sudan to date, made by the British War Office as a vital strategic aide in the immediate run up to the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898), the decisive showdown of the Mahdist War, the 18-year-long contest for…

THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT   Rare – the first scientific treatise on mining in the Himalayas, in this case a sophisticated analysis on how to best exploit the iron, copper and gold deposits of the Kumaon and Garhwal Districts of India (today’s Uttarakhand State) in preparation for the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and the Railway Boom on the…

  A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî   8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  [Evlâdların Sevenlere Teberrüken Tahsis Kılınan Bebeklere Kitabdır]   8°, 52 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, inserted errata on orange paper (minor staining, wrappers with light stains, soft folds, and tiny tears, a tiny loss of margins on the first pages).  

  8°, 171 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (deaccessioned library example with sporadic notes and small stamps, minor cracks to the wrappers, otherwise a seemingly unread example).

  Colour print, folding into original printed paper wrappers (Excellent, clean and crisp with vibrant colours), 75 x 58 cm (30 x 22.8 inches).  

  Colour lithography, 96 x 63 cm (37.9 x 24.8 inches), (minor staining, tears repaired with modern tape and partly age-toned).  

[Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819.   An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…

  First modern, separately printed geological map of Mount Fuji   Colour print on thin paper 95 x 75 cm (38.2 x 29.5inches) (slightly age-toned, soft folds, small holes on the crossings of the folds).  

  One of the first etchings made by Queen Victoria and representing her niece. With original signature of the Queen, possibly given by the author to her step-sister Feodora of Leiningen   Etching on India laid paper, platemark: 12,5 x 8 cm (4.9 x 3.1 inches), sheet: 22 x 14 cm (8.7 x 5.5 inches), mounted on a 19th century…

  One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…

  A highly decorative pictorial map of Rhodes, representing the newly built Fascist urban structures, was printed by the Italian State Tourist Department.   Colour lithography, 69 x 49 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) verso black and white illustrations and text (soft folds, overall in a good condition).  

  A charming small Quran was printed on pink paper in Bakhchysarai, a city in central Crimea which was for decades the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars    16°, 522 pp., [6 pp.] blank, printed on thin pink paper, original full calf with flap, gilt and silver decoration, gilt edges. Housed in an original calf slipcase with gilt and…

  Copper engraving, 50 x 67 cm (inches) (minor age-toning and staining, old stamps and inventory numbers and a stamp Erledigt (meaning ‘Deaccessioned’).  

  [Maps of the Moon Hemispheres]   A scarce set of 6 maps of the Lunar surface, based on the latest American explorations and the  Soviet Lunokhod programme was made by a Czech astronomer and cartographer Antonín Rükl    Book, oblong small 4°, 15 pp., stapled. 6 colour prints (each 62 x 54 cm / 24.4 x 21.3 inches), folded in…

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  [Avrupa'da Ne Gördüm / What did I see in Europe. [French title:] France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Hungary]   A stunning travelogue of Europe by an Ottoman novelist, editor and translator of Jules Verne, Ahmed İhsan, was influenced by a novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Possibly the first travelogue to involve the Orient Express.  …

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China]   8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).  

  A rare first Azerbaijani newspaper to promote the new Azerbaijani alphabet with Latin characters, developed as a part of the latinisation of the Soviet Union, which would soon become an official script for all non-Slavic languages in the country.   5 issues. All folio, 4 pp. with illustrations (slightly age-toned, soft folds with tiny tears, overall in a good…

  A rare Polish edition of Animal Farm was printed in London for the Polish market, where the work was banned   8°, 94 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor damages in the margins of the wrappers).  

  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…

  An extremely rare, large format work that is the first edition one of the seminal maps of Wellington, depicting the New Zealand capital when it was one of the fastest growing cities in the British Empire, with a wealth of finely executed and intriguing details, granting a peerless record of the city as it was, as well as prefiguring…

Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint   An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India.   Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…

An important Ottoman first-hand account on the political events of the second half of the 18th century and the relations with the Central Europe by a Baghdad-born author, was printed by the Bulaq press in Egypt.   2 volumes, bound in one, 4°. 14 pp. (index), 210 pp., [1] blank, 7 pp. (index), 190 pp., printed on thick paper, contemporary…

[Ismail Sayahati also Ismail Seyahati / Ismail’s Travels]   An exceedingly rare first known Hajj travelogue by a Russian subject   8°. 32 pp., later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned,  tiny tears in the margins of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An Azerbaijani translation of a Russian short novel by Alexander Neverov was published in Baku as a part of the program to introduce the Soviet proletarian literature to Azerbaijan in the 1920s.   8°, 18 pp., later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the last board, old signature…

[Bayram Hediyesi. Bedayi-i Âsâr-ı Osmaniye. / Holiday Gift. Beautiful Ottoman Antiquities]   A stellar example of a richly illustrated art-historical guide of the most famous mosques of the Ottoman Empire from Istanbul to Mecca with superb illustrations by a famous late-Ottoman painter Hüsnü Tengüz.   8°. Original colour lithographed illustrated front wrappers, 110 pp. with mispagination skipping pp. 97-98, letterpress…

  Colour lithography, 27 x 19 cm (10.6 x 7.5 inches), (slightly age-toned and stained in the margins, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)  

  8°.  114 pp., later marbled paper wrappers (transcription of the title and date in Latin letters and Roman numbers in brown and black ink on the cover, tiny tears in the tile page, otherwise in a good condition).  

First Turkish translation of Das Kapital   8°. 6 pp. 205 pp. [as always falsely starting with unnumbered p. 5], [2 pp.] contemporary black boards with mounted original cover (minor staining, binding slightly scuffed and cracked, front cover slightly stained and scratched with a missing corner, inside in a good condition).

  A complete set of the richly illustrated Ottoman War Journal, issued during WWI, focusing in the large battles, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and the battles in the Middle East   Large 4°. 27 issues bound in one volume (issues 25 and 26 published together), 432 pp., later black linen boards, brown calf spine with gilt Ottoman lettering. Issue 1…

  A rare pioneering work on the modern medicine in the Ottoman Empire was written in French by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard in Istanbul.   8°, [4 pp.], 90 pp. with an introduction in French and Ottoman, original green boards with lettering and illustrations , brown calf spine (binding slightly scuffed on the edges, minor staining, light…

  8°.  26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).  

  Rare - a highly engaging travel guide and overview of the Indian Subcontinent written by George Aberigh-Mackay, one of India’s most talented popular authors, illustrated with a map and a view of the Times of India publishing house, written in honor of the upcoming visit to India of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King-Emperor Edward VII), and…

  Colour lithograph, 64 x 94 cm (25. 2 x 37 inches), originally dissected in 16 segments and mounted on linen (minor staining, overall in a good clean condition).  

  Colour lithograph, originally dissected on 25 panels and mounted on linen, printed title page mounted verso on one of the panels, 118 x 85 cm (46.4 x 33.4 inches) (linen slightly age-toned, tears in the folds repaired with modern linen, soft folds in the corners, otherwise in a good condition).  

[Robinson. Parents, His Travels and Marvelous Adventures]   A rare first Slovenian translation of Robinson Crusoe, owned by the artist Božidar Jakac as a child, with possibly the earliest known artist’s signature.   8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1] index, contemporary black boards with calf spine with embossed lettering, signed, stamped and blind-stamped by the…

A rare Hebrew – Ottoman Primer, printed in Izmir, Turkey, in 1913 on the eve of WWI.   8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained and ink-stained, wide margins with small tears and loss of white paper, slightly age-toned, sheets inside in a good clean condition).  

An extremely rare early issue of Charles Kennedy Jardine’s directory and almanac for British Guiana, an unusually comprehensive work of its kind, featuring a vast wealth of information available nowhere else, a critical resource for the study of the colony during this critical period, compiled and published in Georgetown by the ‘Daily Chronicle’ newspaper.   8° (16.5 x 10.5 cm):…

  The first book on socialism, published in the Ottoman Empire, in the year of the foundation of the Ottoman Socialist Party.   8°, 124 pp., [4 pp.] index and blank, later marbled wrappers (missing front original wrapper, very light staining, otherwise in a good condition).  

An exceedingly rare complete ephemeral series of the Ottoman version of Maurice Level’s macabre story Barabas, based on the silent movie from 1919 was issued in Izmir.   10 volumes, each 8°, 158 pp. continuous pagination, each volume with an illustrated cover, illustrated pink wrappers attached to the first volume, new staples (lightly age-toned, stained and water-stained, white margins with…

[Çanakkale Boğazı ve civarı / Dardanelles Strait and its Vicinity]   12°.  166 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with tile on the cover and decoration on the back cover, recent black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover and spine and debossed decoration (slightly age-toned and stained, small cracks in the inner side of the original cover, otherwise…

[A Memoir of a Terrible Murder of Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth on September 10th, 1898]   12°, 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing, cover slightly stained with a ink stain, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A very rare wall map of the Federation of Malaya (today’s peninsular Malaysia) made only the year after its independence from Britain, an entirely bilingual work (Chinese-English) executed by a Chinese draftsman, Li Menphy, and published in Hong Kong for the benefit of Malaya’s large Chinese population and the many Hong Kongers who had strong connections to that country…

A Slovenian novel with a stunning expressionistic design by an academic painter Tone Kralj was published by a Slovenian press in Trieste, which would in the next years became one of the centers of the Italian Fascism.   8°, 198 pp., later three-quarter dark red linen binding with marbled boards and original cover pasted on the front board (minor staining,…

A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language   8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…

A Polish translation of an Italian erotic novel by a futuristic artist Tullio Alpinolo Bracci, here signed as Kiribiri, with a superb cover design by a Polish graphic artist Mieczysław Berman, later known for his Communist propaganda posters and photomontages.   8°, 224 pp., [4 pp.], original illustrated card wrappers (minor age-toning and staining, small cracks and loss of paper…

A fine example of the first Slovenian translation of Verne’s Mysterious Island with a highly decorative cover design by an academic painter Rudi Gorjup   8°, 585 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (minor wear to the wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean, seemingly unread condition).  

  A first edition of a novel Zeyno’s Son by a famous Ottoman / Turkish female author Halide Edib Adıvar   8°. 411 pp., 13-16 pp., original grey wrappers with lettering, contemporary black linen binding with debossed and gilt lettering and decoration, old taxation stamp on the title page (binding slightly bumped, small cracks on the spine, small tears in…

  Long 8°, 38 pp., later brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (pp. 28 and 29. bound tightly with tiny glue marks in the text, last pages with trimmed white margins, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of  South America, that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear and…

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…

Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…

[Chalma la tuplě, kam, Zoyg Chalmanere / Jalma la Double. Mysterious Stories]   A rare book in Armenian language, printed in Alexandria, Egypt, is a translation of a French orientalist novel and is accompanied with monochrome photographs from a contemporary popular French silent movie Jalma la Double.   8°. 365 pp. with 16 interleaved colour photographs, [1], newer three-quarter calf…

The first edition of the first comprehensive, scientifically accurate geological map of Libya, a grand, bilingual (English - Arabic) separately issued production primarily made to aid the country’s burgeoning oil industry; the result of a collaboration between Louis Conant and Gus Goudarzi, two of America’s most esteemed geologists, fulfilling a joint project of the U.S. State Department and the pro-Western…

[Bulgar Harabeleri hem Burunegi Bulgarları / The Ruins of Bolghar and the Ancient Bulgars]      A rare Tatar publication with an illustrated text on the ruins of the ancient city Bolghar, the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th until 15th century, was printed in Kazan in 1908.                 8°. 44 pp. with black…

An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade.    8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…

A collection of avantgarde poems with a decorative cover design by Stanisław Ryszard Dobrowolski (1907-1985). With a dedication by the author   8°. 46 pp., [2 pp.] index, original wrappers with illustrated cover, dedication of the author on the first page (wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise in a good, clean condition).  

The complete first year of one of the first newspapers on law, written under the Western influences and parallelly issued in Ottoman and Arabic languages.   8°. 12 parallel issues in Ottoman (203 pp.) and Arabic languages (199 pp.) (all together 24 units with 402 pp.), bound together. Original cloth boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, original…

This is an early Ottoman publication with the logarithmic tables, published by the Imperial Naval Press in Istanbul in the time of the Tanzimat.   8°. [30 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] blank, 26 numbered book sections, with 8 pp. each (i. e.208 pp.) + 1 p. with tables, 45 pairs of tables (i. e. 90 pp.), 45 pairs of…

The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar   8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

[Skiing Manual. (With Particular Emphasis on Skiing at School). Methodological Manual for Teachers, Students and Self-Taught Skiers]   An attractively designed, illustrated skiing manual in Polish language was published in Warsaw. The cover was lithographed in Vilnius.   8°. XVI, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], errata on blue paper, inserted original advertisement on blue paper, original…

A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…

A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII.   12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…

An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia.   Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…

A seemingly unrecorded special ‘emergency’ issue of Max Moisel’s groundbreaking map of Deutsch-Ostafrika (today’s mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), issued in haste by British War Office immediately following the outbreak of World War I, whereupon East Africa became a surprisingly intense conflict theatre; the present example bearing evidence of field use, featuring contemporary manuscript additions.   Photolithographic print, with contemporary…