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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..

139 p. of Arabic text with 10 cartographic and diagrams plates. Rare work to be printed in the Jihadiyya general staff in Cairo. Covers smudging and light water stain. Text in excellent condition . Maritime and Geography

205 x 137 cm. extra ordinary Ottoman wall map of the Ottoman Europe prınted ın colors, folding paper on cloth. Signatures by the first lieutenant M. İhsan.

Cairo: Matba'at Misr Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 409PP, 2 PARTS IN 1 VOLUME WITH COLOURED MAP. ARABIC TEXT OF AN IMPORTANT EXPLORATION IN THE LIBYAN DESERT TOWARDS DARFOUR. DEDICATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1929. MANY FINE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE BY AHMAD LUTFI AS SAIYYED, THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE EGYPTIAN UNIVERSITY OF KING FUAD (LATER UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO). THE WORK DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO KING FUAD. CONTEMPORARY HARD COVER BINDING, PARTLY FADED, AND SCUFFED. INSIDE IS VG. 0.

106 p. of Arabic autograph manuscript written by the author in Riq'aa script in back with many diagrams and mathematical shapes. Isma'il Pasha b. Serheng b. Abdullah al Giridi (initially from Crete) born and died in Egypt . He was a historian and admiral in the Egyptian navy . He learned in the naval school where he appointed as a director there , then a deputy of the ministry of war . He participated in the revolutionary movement of Orabi Pasha but didn't judged . Beside Arabic, he was fluent in English , French, Italian, Turkish, and some in Russian. He wrote a comprehensive work on history called : Haqa'iq al Akhbar 'an Doual al Bihar , which printed in three volumes in Bulaq , Cairo. (Khayr du Din al Zirikli : al A'laam vol. 1 p. 310)

Damascus: al- Matba'a al- Haditha, 1925 Book. As New. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A comprehensive work by a well-known scholar and politician from Damasscus about the city including the political, social and the other aspects during the Ottoman synasty in the last period. Six volumes, 4to. in Arabic printed between 1343 and 1347 AH. (1925 and 1927 AD.) in Damascus. (309, 317, 271, 310, 308, 425) p. in later fine bindings..

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..

Sketched by İbrahim Tophanevi (attributed to Tophane) and made by Magradj (?) the Galataian (attributed to Galata in İstnabul). Conteporarily hand colored and hightend in gold, 36.5 x 30.5 cm.

Made by Magradj (?) the Galataian (attributed to Galata in İstnabul). Conteporarily hand colored and hightend in gold. 37 x 30.5 cm.

Conteporarily hand colored and hightend in gold, 37 x 30.5 cm. Made by Ahmad the Crimean (signed).

Contemporarily hand colored and hightend ın gold, 37 x 30.5 cm. The map includes the coastal places of eastern Nejd on the Persian Gulf, as Bahrein and Oman.

Cairo: Bulak, 1841 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio, (23), 564 p. Ottoman Turkish text with some astronomical initials printed in bulak 1257 AH. (1841 AD.). Later hard cover binding. Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi (18 May 1703 - 22 June 1780) was a Turkish and Sufi philosopher and encyclopedist. His work Marifetname (Book of Gnosis) was a compilation and commentary on astronomy, mathematics, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and Islamic mysticism. It is famous for containing the first treatment of post-Copernican astronomy by a Muslim scholar ('alim)..

93 x 64 cm. Colored military map described in Ottoman Turkish. Province of Hejaz, Asir and Yemen by the fifth section in the general staff 1323 H., 1907 AD. Paper on cloth folded to 16 parts.

Uskudar: MuhendisHane-i Berr-i Humatun (The Royal school of military engneering) Atlas. Illus. by YUMNI. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1860's THIRTY NINE HAND COLORED MAPS MOSTLY SIGNED BY (YUMNI). MOST OF THEM ARE DESCRIBED IN THE OTTOMAN TURKISH. ALL MAPS ON DOUBLE PAGES, TITLED AND WITH PRINTING DETAILS. LATER HARD COVER. FOLIO 40 X 28 CM. SCARCE. the maps are the followings: (1)Arabistan (Arabian peninsula) 56 x 47 cm. (2)Tarablus Gharb wa tunus (Libya and Tunisia) 56 x 39 cm. (3)Tarablus Gharb (Libya) 56 x 40 cm. (4)Misir ayalet I mumtaza si (territory of Egypt) 56 x 46 cm. (5)Yemen 69 x 33 cm. (6)Hejaz, 56 x 39 cm. (7)Ankara . (8)Sivas . (9)Ma'muat ul Aziz. (10)Diyar Bekir. (11)Bitlis. (12)Erzurum . (13)Van. (14)Mosul 56 x 39 cm. (15)Bagdad 56 x 39 cm. (16)Basra 55 x 39 cm. (17)Zor mutasarrifligi (Part of Mesopotamia. (18)Halep (Aleppo). (19)Adana. (20)Konya. (21)Kibris (Cyprus). (22)Caza'ir I Bahr I Sefid (the Wilaya of the Mediterranean sea islands). (23)Aydin. (24)Pega… Read More

Photographic album of the Red Sea journey contains 76 photographs of which 20 taken in Jeddah and Mecca in 1902 showing the annual celebration of the coronation day of Sultan Abdul Hamid II , in the government house in Jeddah and Mecca. With tow photographs showing the government and the Emir of Hejaz . 33 x 24 cm. ألبوم صور فوتوغرافية ، رحلة تعود إلى التسعينيات من القرن التاسع عشر الميلادي و تحتوي على 76 صورة فوتوغرافية مختلفة المقاسات ، أكبرها 25سم طولا في 14.5سم عرضا (منها صورتان لامرأتين باللباس الحجازي) و أصغرها 9 سم طولا في 6 سم عرضا. و أكثر الصور من الحجم الكبير و الوسط. الألوم يظهر أنه أعد بواسطة مصور عثماني أثناء بعثة رسمية (عسكرية غالبا) خلال السواحل الغربية للجزيرة العربية. و يحتوي على… Read More

Utrecht: Henricus Van Otterloo, 1780 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1 lv. Title page with engraved view, 1 lv., XL pp, 384 pp with i engraved initial on the first page and 3 full page fine plates: (1) EEN ARABISH RUITER. (2) DE GROOTE EMIR, DER WOESTYNBEWOONENDE ARABIEREN. (3) DE GEMALIN VAN DEN GROOTEN EMIR. 8 LVS INDEX. REBOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FINE FULL LEATHER BINDING, EXPERTLY RESTORATED..

21.5 x 16 cm. Unsigned silver print photograph by Mirza, an Indian photographer.

Jannat al-Mu'alla (Arabic: جَنَّة ٱلْمُعَلَّاة, romanized: Jannah al-Muʿallāh, lit. 'The Most Exalted Paradise'), also known as the "Cemetery of Ma'la" (Arabic: مَقْبَرَة ٱلْمَعْلَاة Maqbarah al-Maʿlāh) and Al-Ḥajūn (Arabic: ٱلْحَجُوْن), is a cemetery to the north of Al-Masjid Al-Haram, and near the Mosque of the Jinn in Makkah, It is the place where the Islamic Prophet Muhammad's wife, grandfather, and other ancestors are buried.

21.5 x 16 cm. Signed on the negative Mirza photographers Delhi.

21.5 x 16 cm , showing the pilgrims and tents in Arafat during Hajj.

20.5 x 15 cm. 112 p. Of Ottoman Turkish text. Front contemporary marbeled cover. Descriptive geographical journey from İstanbul through Syria to Hejaz. The author's Haj report prepared in 1678-1679 and dedicated to the Kethuda Mustafa Pasha.