Social History from Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, ESA

Istanbul: Kitabhâne-i Sûdi - Kader Matbaasi., AH 1336 = [1920]., 1920. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21,5x13 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 33 p. Occasional foxing and fading on pages. Otherwise, a very good copy. Extremely rare first edition in… Read more about this item

Manuscript., N.d. [c. 1800 - Early 19th century]., 1800. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original full brown morocco with a miklep (flap). 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [128] p. Naskh script in black and red ink on polished paper, thirteen lines per page.… Read more about this item

Constantinople: Tipois A. Koromila, 1929. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14,5 cm). In Greek and Turkish. [xxiv], 96 p., ills. Occasionally creasing on the front cover's right corner and fading on the pages, slightly chipped on the spine. Otherwise, a very good copy.… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Koç University, 2023. Dust jacket. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Demy 8vo. (23 x 14 cm). In English. 446 p. In this curation of her recent articles, Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, with occasional forays into earlier and later periods. The city s… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Koç University, 2021. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. 276 p., b/w ills. Signed and inscribed by the author as "To my readers, Zeynep Çelik". This important study looks at Orientalism from an unprecedented angle: It deals with the views… Read more about this item

Constantinople: Imprimerie Amire, 1921. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In French. 33, [1] p., tables, and plates. First and only edition of this extremely rare treatise on How Kufic script is applied to print, a brief history of Kufic script,… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Ege Yayinlari / TINA, 2022. Hardcover. New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. HC. Folio. (32 x 25 cm). In English and Turkish. [xvi], 192 p., b/w and color ills. After the world's first scientific underwater excavation took place at Cape Gelidonya in Turkey, in 1960, a group of distinguished scientists pioneered… Read more about this item

Istanbul: N.p. [AH 1309], 1892. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lithographed edition. First and only edition of this extremely rare of this lithographed treatise of "anti-cigarette manifesto", claiming that smoking is "haram" and forbidden according to Islam in 23 articles, the harms of smoking in 43 articles, and the… Read more about this item

Edirne: Türk Kütüphaneciler Dernegi Edirne Subesi Yayinlari, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 279 p., b/w ills. and [16] plates. A comprehensive study on districts of Edirne city (Adrianople) from 16th century to 90's.

Istanbul: YKY: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari , 1999. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. New/New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 543 p., color and b/w ills. A comprehensive monography on Diyarbakir city located in Southeast Anatolia of Turkey.

Ankara: VEKAM / Koç University, 2021. Limited Edition . Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. 4to. (28 x 23 cm). In English and Turkish. 300 p., color ills. and b/w photos. The alphabet reform which came into effect in Turkey on November 1st, 1928, made reading and writing in Turkish easier compared… Read more about this item

Istanbul: MACMEDYA, 2017. Dust jacket. New/New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (33 x 24 cm). Edition in Japanese. 148 p., richly illustrated in b/w and color. Abdurresid Ibrahim (Abdrashit Gumerovich Ibragimov [Gabderrashit bin Gumer bin Ibrahim bin Gabderrashid bin Gabderrahim]), (1853-1944) was a Russia-born Tatar Muslim Alim (singular of Ulama), journalist,… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Cem Yayinevi., (1989-1992), 1989. Dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (34 x 25 cm). In Turkish. 1168 p., color and b/w ills. A comprehensive study on the Princes' Islands throughout the history.

Istanbul: MACMEDYA, 2017. Dust jacket. New/New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (33 x 24 cm). Edition in Turkish. 148 p., richly illustrated in b/w and color. Abdurresid Ibrahim (Abdrashit Gumerovich Ibragimov [Gabderrashit bin Gumer bin Ibrahim bin Gabderrashid bin Gabderrahim]), (1853-1944) was a Russia-born Tatar Muslim Alim (singular of Ulama), journalist,… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Isis, 2021. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 258 p. List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction An Overview of Croatian-Ottoman Relations CHAPTER I Diplomats, Merchants, Physicians, Priests, Sailors and Slaves:Ragusans, Dalmatians and Croatians in Pre-Modern Galata and Pera Franks of Galata and Pera Ragusans and… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Anadolu Grup, 2009. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 144 p., fully color photos. Osmanli'dan Cumhuriyet'e biraya dair objeler, belgeler, fotograflar. Prep. by Erkal Yavi. The history of the beer from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic: Old photographs, documents, objects, et… Read more about this item

Paris: Societe d'Ethnographie, 1980. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In French. 255, [1] p., ills. I. Gündag Kayaoglu ex-libris. Red heads and black mouths: A tribal brotherhood of West Anatolia. "Parties des bords de la Caspienne, fondues au soleil de la Méditerranée selon l'expression… Read more about this item

Moskva-Moscow: Khudojestvennaya Literatura , 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very attractive early Russian edition of this famous Georgian national poem 'The knight in the panther skin', richly illustrated in very well binding. This is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli, and a… Read more about this item

Istanbul: IMKB: Istanbul Menkul Kiymetler Borsasi / Creative Yayincilik, 1999. Dust jacket. New/New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (31 x 23 cm). In Turkish. 2 volumes set: (448 p.; 448 p.), b/w and color ills. Osmanli'dan günümüze Türk finans tarihi. 2 volumes set. Vol. 1: Kurulus'tan Cumhuriyet'e. Vol. 2: Cumhuriyet'ten günümüze.… Read more about this item

Tbilisi (Tiflis): Tbilisi Order of Red Banner State University Chair of Oriental History G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies Acaddemy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, 1987. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original dark green cloth bdg. Large demy 8vo. (22,5 x 15,5 cm). In Georgian, Turkish, Russian, English. 1000… Read more about this item