Middle East from Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, ESA

New York: Okey Enterprises, Inc., 2006. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In English. 50 p., includes bibliographical references and index.

Tunis: Concours de Gouvernement Tunisien / Imprimerie Française., AH 1314, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In modern green cloth bdg. Original wrappers mounted on front and rear boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French and Arabic. 34, 58 p. Concordance des eres Musulmane et Chretienne pour les… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original publisher's brown cloth. Titles to spines in gilt. Dust wrappers. 4to. (26 x 20 cm). 2 volumes set: (674 p., 696 p., Doughty's portrait on the frontispiece, 2 large folding maps (colour map on a folded plate at end of each… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Karabet ve Kasbar Matbaasi., AH 1304 = [1886/87], 1886. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original publisher's cloth. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 volumes set: (7, 128 p.; 3, 87 p.). Slight foxing on pages and covers, and light… Read more about this item

[Istanbul]: Müdâfaa-yi Milliye Cemiyeti, Matbaa-yi Ahmed Ihsan., [c. 1915]., 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original chromolithograph illustrated wrappers. Oblong 8vo. (14,5 x 20,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [16] p., fully illustrated by reproduced lithograph b/w photos. Rare second album of the series including sixteen reproduced… Read more about this item

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

Jerusalem: Moslem Orphanage Press, 1930. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original yellowish wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 9, [7] p., 7 numbered lithograph reproduced photographic illustrations. A couple of old staple stains on the left outer margin, two puncher holes in the right outer margin affecting photographic illustrations,… Read more about this item

[London]: War Office, Geographical Section - General Staff No. 2957, 1934. No Binding. Very Good. Original chromo-lithographed map mounted on cloth consisting of 50 adjoining sheets folded in light brown original wrappers. 140,5 x 131,5 cm. Light tear and water stain on the cover label, slightly loose on connections of the cloth. Otherwise, a very good copy. … Read more about this item

Constantinople: Imprimerie Osmanie, 1902. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original wrappers. Folio. (35 x 25 cm). In French. [26] p., 14 tables on double-page spreads. First and only edition of this very scarce report on the regulation of the Hajj organized by the auspices of the Administration Sanitaire… 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: Donanma Cemiyeti, 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original pictorial wrappers. Tabloid size: (38 x 26 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [15] p., (pp. 769-784) richly illustrated. A rare issue of the "Navy" newspaper, published weekly by the Ottoman Naval Society, with a reproduced photograph on… Read more about this item

Constantinople: A. B. Churchill, 1855. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original dark green quarter calf. Five raised bands to spine, title gilt in lettering on the second compartment, marbled cover on the front and rear boards. Foolscap 8vo. (17,5 x 11,5 cm). In Armenian. 272 p. On the recto of… Read more about this item

Kostantiniyye [Constantinople - Istanbul]: Basiret Matbaasi., [AH 1291], 1874. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary fine half and quarter calf. The title ("Tarih-i Yemen") lettered gilt on spine of the first volume with volume no and four decorative elements gilt on the compartments; the second volume's spine is decorated fully.… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Matbaa-yi Âmîre., AH 1285 = [1869]., 1869. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary yellowish wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [3], 31, [1], 25 p. tables of the new measurements. Tear on the spine without loss. Illegible Ottoman stamp… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Matbaa-yi Askeriye., AH 1337 = [1921], 1921. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original illustrated wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [iv], 147 p., 7 folded chromolithograph military plans in the end pocket (lacking two according to Leiden's copy). … Read more about this item

Istanbul: Askerî Matbaa [Military Printing House]., AH 1337 = [1921], 1921. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In modern full brown in Ottoman style, four raised bands to spine, gilt lettering on the first compartment, blind stamped boards. Modern endpapers. The book was bound with the rear original cover, but the… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Seyh Mehmed Sadik Buhari Matbaasi., AH 1285 = [1869], 1869. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary quarter calf with gilt decorations on spine, green boards. Slightly worn to extremities. Otherwise, a very good copy. Rare first printed Ottoman edition of the magnum opus by Ibn Zafar, considered… Read more about this item

Kostantiniyye [Constantinople - Istanbul]: Matbaa-i Âmîre., AH 1260, 1844. 2nd Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original full dark brown leather bdg. Decorated borders on boards, five compartments on the spine, and lettered gilt in the title. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 294… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Millî Matbaa, 1926. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 57 p. Extremely rare first edition in book form of this first Turkish book of the defense of Freud's psychoanalysis in the Islamic… Read more about this item