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Egypt: Maktab ut Tobjiyya (the artillery press), 1834 Book. As New. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ONE OF THE MOST RARE PRINTING OFFICES IN THE EARLY PRINTING HISTORY IN EGYPTE AFTER THE FRENCH PRESS, MAKTAB AL TOPJIYYA (artillery office) WIHICH ESTABLISHED BY MUHAMMED ALI PASHA FOR MILITARY PRESS. THIS IS THE SECOND AND THE MOST RARE ED. IN 1250AH. AFTER THE FIRST BEFORE FEW YEARS IN MALTA. 143PP OF FULL ARABIC TEXT. MODERN FULL LEATHER DARK GREEN BINDING WITH FINE ORIENTAL DECORATIONS. SCARCE..

Shoueir, Mount Libanon: Deir al- Shuwair, Mar Yohanna al- Sayigh, Kisrawan (Monastry of St. John the Baptist), 1810 Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. TALL QUARTO, 239PP OF ARABIC TEXT PRINTED IN THE PRINTING HOUSE WHICH ESTABLISHED BY ABDULLAH ZAKHIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LIFT ALEPPO TO THE MOUNT LIBANON. ORIGINAL MONASTERY SKIN BINDING, SPINE LOOSE, NEAT HOLES DID NOT AFFECT THE TEXT, LIGHT AGE BROWNING..

QUARTO, 239PP OF ARABIC TEXT PRINTED IN THE PRINTING HOUSE WHICH ESTABLISHED BY ABDULLAH ZAKHIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LIFT ALEPPO TO THE MOUNT LIBANON. ORIGINAL MONASTERY SKIN BINDING, SPINE LOOSE, NEAT HOLES DID NOT AFFECT THE TEXT, LIGHT AGE BROWNING.

Shoueir, Mount Libanon: Deir al- Shuwair, Mar Yohanna al- Sayigh, Kisrawan (Monastry of St. John the Baptist), 1738 Book. Fair. No Binding. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 457PP OF ARABIC TEXT, THE BOOK IS WATER STAIND, BUT THE TEXT STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. ABDULLAH ZAKHIR AL RAHIB ESTABLISHED HIS PRINTING HOUSE IN KASRAWAN, AL SHOUEIR IN 1733 AFTER HE LEFT ALEPPO. THE FIRST ARABIC BOOK WAS PRINTED IN ALEPPO, IN 1706. ONLY 10 BOOKS WAS PRINTED IN ALEPPO BETWEEN 1706 AND 1911 BEFORE ESTABLISHING THE PRIVATE PRINTING HOUST IN 1733 IN LIBANON..

Cairo: Bolacco (Bulak), 1822 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. EXTREEMLY RARE, ARABIC ITALIAN DICTIONARY, VOCABULARY AND TERMS, PAGINATED IN ARABIC AND LATIN, TITLE PAGE IN ARABIC, CONTAINS PRINTING DATE 1238 AND PLACE (TAMMA AL TAB'U FI BULAK BI MATBA'AAT SAHIB AL SA'AADAH), AND PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR IN ARABIC, SUBTITLE, 266 PP IN TOW COLUMNS, ARABIC AND ITALIAN, 4 PP ERRATA IN ITALIAN, 2 PP ERRATA IN ARABIC, AND ONE TITLE PAGE IN ITALIAN CONTAINS PRINTING DETAILS: BOLACCO DALLA STAMPERIA REALE 1822. 4TO. THE FIRST AND ONLY BOOK TO BE PRINTED IN BULAQ AND IN A NATIONAL PRINTING OFFICE IN EGYPT AFTER THE FRANCH EXPEDITION. THE BOOK CONSISTS OF TOW PARTS: (Part I): del dizionario disposto come il solito nell'ordine alfabetico. (Part II): Che contiene una breve raccolta di nomi e di verbi li piu necessari, e piu utili allo studio delle due lingue. THE AUTHOR WAS AN EGYPTIAN BORN FROM ALEPPO AND A CATHOLIC MONK. HE ACCOMANIED THE FRENCH EXPEDITION DURING IT'S DEPARTURE… Read More

Istanbul: Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1731 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ottoman text, Ibrahim Muteferrika press 1143 AH.,- 1731 AD. The first and only published of tow volumes by the author about the history of Bagdad. 5 lvs. + 130 lvs. Limited to 500 copies. Contemporary Ottoman full leather binding with flap. 29.2 cm tall..

Cairo: Bulak, Dar ut Tiba'aa, 1838 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. OTTOMAN TEXT , 512 PP , PRINTED IN BOULAQ 1254 H. ( 1838 AD. ) . VERY EARLY PRINT OF HUMAYOUNNAME ( ROYAL POLICY ) FROM THE ORIENTAL LITERATURE . TALL QUARTO , MINOR VARIOUS MINUTE HOLES IN THE CONTEMPORARY BINDING , INSIDE IS CRISP AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION ..

THE FIRST BOOK TO BE PRINTED IN IBRAHIM MUTEFERRIKA PRINTING HOUSE AFTER IT'S SECOND ESTABLISHMENT, AND BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUHENDISHANE PRINTING HOUSE IN USKUDAR. THIS EDITION CONTAINS THE IMPERIAL PERMISSION ( FERMAN ) OF THE SULTAN ABDUL HAMID I IN 1200 H. , 7 PP OF THE IMPORTANCE OF BOOKS PRINTING ART, 748 PP OF ARABIC SCRIPT , MODERN FINE FULL LEATHER BINDING WITH BOX. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. COMMENTARY ON AL KAFIYA MAINLY WRITTEN BY IBN AL HAJIB. SCARCE.

Istanbul: the Imperial press, Uskudar, 1801 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. TRI-LINGUAL DICTIONARY (TURKISH-ARABIC-PERISAN) EARLY PRINTED BY ABD UL RAHMAN AL MUDARRIS IN THE IMPERIAL PRESS ESTABLISHED ACCORDING THE IMPERIAL ORDER IN USKUDAR AFTER IBRAHIM MUTEFERRIKA PRESS. IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH BINDING OF YELLOWISH-BROWN MOROCCO GILT IN TURKISH STYLE WITH FOLDING FLAP. 2 PAGES OF THE IMPERIAL PRINTING ORDER AND IEASON BY THE HEAD MANAGER OF THE USKUDAR PRINTING HOUSE, Abd ul Rahman al Mudarris, 7 PAGES OF INDEX, 851 PP. UPPER LIFT CORNERS OF THE PRINTING ORDER, INDEX, AND FIRST 6 PAGES OF THE BOOK WITH FINE OLD RESTORATION AFFECTED THE FIRST LETTERS OF THE FIRST 13 LINES IN SOME OF THESE PAGES.ALL PAGES ARE PARTLY WITH LIGHT WATER STAIN. UPPER HALF OF THE COLOPHON PAGE IS STICKED ON THE BACK COVER. OTHER WISE, THE TEXT IS COMPLETE AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. BINDING PARTLY AFFECTED, PARTIAL SMALL MISSINGS IN THE SPINE AND FLAP. COVERS SLIGHTLY RUBBED. SAME TITLE IN… Read More

Cairo: Bulak, 1828 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ottoman Turkish text, 160 p with 1 errata. Printed in Bulak (Matba'at sahib al Futuhat al Bahira) 1244 by the director of the printing house, (Nicola) Masabki, the first or the second director after RAPHAEL ANTOINE ZAKHOUR (DON RAPHAEL). Masabki was born in Aleppo and sent (in the first mission) to Italy by Muhammad Ali Pasha in c. 1815 to learn the printing methods, and directed the printing house in 1821 until his death in 1831. The first work published in Bulak was after one or tow years of it's establishment, Dizionario Italiano e Arabo, by Raphael Antoine Zakhour in 1822 (See inventory no. 000418). The military history during the II Catherine period between Russia and the Ottoman state including the relations with England and France and the Ottoman point of view. This Ottoman Turkish translation was edited by Sa'dullah Sa'id Amidi. Occasional minor holes and light partial marginal age browning. Otherwise, Very good. Later hard cover binding,… Read More

Cairo: Bulak, 1830 Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ottoman Turkish text, 225 p. The military history during the II Catherine period between Russia and the Ottoman state including the relations with England and France and the Ottoman point of view. This Ottoman Turkish translation was edited by Sa'dullah Sa'id Amidi. Occasional minor holes and light partial staining. Otherwise, Very good. Later hard cover binding, loose. Crimea, Russia, the Ottoman state, Egypt, Mehmed Ali Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha, Swiss, Denmark, England,France, Persia, Flemish, battles, treaties, Catherine II and the Russian policy and war in the central Asia. The second edition. For the first edition see inventory no. 000495.. THIS ITEM IS ON HOLD

Tunisia: (Matba'at al- Dawla) The government press, 1867 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. An early printed work in Tunisia of an important personage in the Ottoman policy, Kahyr ud Din Pasha, who also became the Sadrazam (the prime minister) of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The view point of an Ottoman-Tunisian reformist regarding the political world geography, administrative, constitutional, and legal issues. Arabic text, 8vo. 12, 467, 50 p. in contemporary almost loose binding..

Important for the Qur'anic collections.. (1 lv), [120] p. 19.5 x 15 cm. Latin text , in contemporary vellum binding , loose. Tow copies of this rare book are existed in Laval and Pennsylvania Universities. The Koran was translated into Latin for the first time on the order of Peter the Venerable (1092-1156), the well known abbot of Cluny . During a journey to Spain in order to visit Cluniac monasteries (1142) he was able to engage two scholars for various translation projects which were connected with Peter's aim to convert Muslim people in a peaceful way. As the principal requirement for such a task he recognised the knowledge of the genuine sources of the Islamic religion, above all the Koran. The translator of the Koran was Robert of Ketton (Robertas Ketenensis) who did his work with the help of a certain Spanish Muslim named Muhammad. Robert's translation is not as literal as one should expect; sometimes he shortens the text or tries to polish the difficult style of several Koranic passages in… Read More

Seven parts in three volumes, mainly written in fine Ta'liq script. Lithograph print in Bulak in 1268 AH., edited by Mustafa Vehbi. (part1): 15, 7, 155 p. (part 2): 3, 139 p. (part 3): 4, 184 p. (part 4): 5, 147p. (part 5): 2, 171p. (part 6): 1, 187p. (part 7): 68p. One of the finest books to be printed in Bulak printing house. In conteporary hard cover bindings with flaps, with detaching in the first volume.

Germany, 1526 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16th C. No. printing details but According to Carl Gollner (Turcica: Die europaischen Turkendrucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts), only one copy recorded, printed in 1526. 12mo. One title leaf and 17 ff (together 36 pp) in old German. (Gollner: VD 16 no. 1881). This book is a propaganda against the Ottomans and seems that it deals with: how the German Reich should deal, i.e. defend itself against the Turks, discussing military measures that should be taken against the turks and how the costs of these military measures should be shared between the different social groups of the German society, defense of the christian region against the turks. But the contents is mainly about who should be made to contribute to the costs of this military action(s). The christian church, the vatikan, the different political states of germany and the different social groups in germany and what part of the costs these different group should take. Very good,… Read More

Cairo: Bulak, Dar ut Tiba'aa, 1848 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. RABIC TEXT, TRVEL TO INDIA AND KASHMEER , 7 , 163 PP , TRNSLATED BY THE ORDER OF RIFA'AA AL TAHTAWI IN THE DYNASTY OF KHEDIV ABBAS , SON OF MUHAMMAD ALI . CONTEMPORARY MARBLED SOFT COVER ..

Cairo: Bulak, 1832 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. OTTOMAN SCRIPT , 230 PP , TALL QUARTO , HISTORY OF SULTAN SULEYMAN ( THE MAGNIFICENT ) , CONQUEST OF BELEGRAD , RODOS , CAIRO , BAGHDAD ... ETC . CONTEMPORARY BINDING , PARTLY WITH WEAR . SPINE GILTED . MARBLED INTERIORS , FEW PAGES WITH LIGHT STAIN , ELESE , VERY GOOD ..

Alexandria: Printing house of Muhammed Ali (Saray), 1833 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 331 PP IN OTTOMAN SCRIPT , PRINTED FOR IBRAHIM PASHA IN THE LIFE TIME OF HIS FATHER MUHAMMAD ALI , IN THE SARAY OF ALEXANDRIA . LIGHT REMAINS OF TOW STAMPS ON THE BACK OF TITLE PAGE . WIDE MARGINS AND CLEAN TEXT . PRINTED IN 1249 H..

TYPOGRAPHIA MEDICEA 1594, Arabic text of Thrir Usul Iqlidis (Eclid) translated by Nasir ud Din al Tusi. 453 p. iclude many woodcuts. chapter headings are in bold script. Firman (Imperial order) of the Ottoman Sultan Murad Khan IV dated 996 H ( November 1588 AD. ) in 31 lines, ordering the Ottoman citizens not to prevent the book dealers (whos names are mentioned in the Firman and seem to be Italian Book dealers.. Branton and Horacio (?) sons of Bandini ) from traviling in the Ottoman states and selling their Arabic, Turkish and Persian books freely. In early 20th c. dark green hard covers. almost un-cutted wide margins of papers. 32.5 x 22.5 cm. Copy in vey good condition.

Istanbul: Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1733 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. the 12th book to be printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1146 (1733). 6, 3, 247 p. in Modern fine Ottoman style binding ornamented in gilt. .