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  The first modern middle school atlas for children in Turkey was published in 1928 in Istanbul by a Turkish geographer and a founder of the department for Geography at the Istanbul University Faik Sabri Duran.

  [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).  

  A series of a literary and science magazine The Sun (Güneş) with a rare to find original cover, representing the Sun, Saturn, Moon and Comets   8°: Nos. 2-12 (missing no. 1), 586 pp. running numeration, contemporary green cloth binding, old paper label on the spine (front endpapers with small tears in the gutter, light staining and recent inscripts,…

  [Maliye Nezareti. İhsaiyat-i Maliye. vâridât ve masarif-i umûmiyeyi muhtevîdir. 1325 birinci sene- Financial Report. Financial Statistics. The Content of General Imports and Expenses. First Year 1325 [1909]]   Large 4°, [12 pp.], 427 pp. with 3 colour folding and 4 black and white folding charts, original red cloth binding with lettering in the spine, original red endpapers (minor wear…

  The first Ottoman printed pamphlet on electric telegraphs, introducing the Mustafa Alphabet, the code adjusted to the Ottoman language   12°, 32 pp., folding plate, later marbled paper wrappers (minor staining, soft folds in the corners, old bookseller’s stamp in ottoman on the first blank page, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The first edition of one of ‘Dukhter-i Hindu’ [The Girl of India], a ‘romantic and exotic drama’ by Abdulhak Hamid, a foremost late Ottoman poet, playwright and statesman, immortalized in Turkish literature as ‘Dahi-i Azam’ [The Grand Genius]; the work is of profound historical importance for its daring poetry which transcended traditional rhyming schemes, embracing controversial social questions of…

  Exceedingly rare – one of the great monuments of Late Ottoman cartography, being the only official large-format Ottoman transportation atlas, including 26 double-page maps of an original, ingenious proto-modernist design, of which 8 maps concern the Arab World, including 1 map showcasing Hejaz and 1 map depicting Mecca & Jeddah; backed by detailed text explaining numerous itineraries for the…

  Large 8°, 176 pp. (some mispagination, but complete according to the catchwords in lower margins, slightly age-toned and stained, first and last sheet with tiny losses of paper in lower margins, bords with small cracks, chips and tiny loss of material, old script on the front cover, lower margins of boards reinforced with later paper, but otherwise in a…

  A rare, elaborately printed world almanac with portraits of politicians and royalties from all over the world was made in Istanbul for the years 1894 / 1895. It includes texts or China, Russia, Prussia, Afghanistan, Austria, Japan, France, Iran etc.  

  A rare and intriguing contemporary map of the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on December 1914, which was a prelude for the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), one of the most important naval battles of World War I, was printed in Ottoman script.

  12°: 22 pp., [2 pp.] blank] on pink paper, later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt title, later green endpapers (title page with minimal staining and old collector’s stamp, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Very rare and historically important – an official Ottoman government printing of the 1862 comprehensive trade agreement between the Sublime Porte and the Zollverein (the German Customs Union), an epic accord that formed the basis for Germany’s dramatic expansion into the Ottoman economy from the 1880s towards World War I.