First Edition. A 19th century collection of 5742 Turkish proverbs in Ottoman Turkish (written with the Arabic alphabet). 384 pages. 3-1/2 by 5-1/4 inches. This copy has been bound in blue sheepskin, preserving the original wrappers printed in red and black. The title page is dated AH 1311; the wrappers.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A large-format edition of the Qur'an (Koran) handlettered and illustrated with modern American scenes by the artist Sandow Birk. xvii, 443 pages. 16-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine hardcover copy (no jacket, as issued) with the original shrinkwrap around.....
Price: $150
First American edition. A very good first edition of this travelog inscribed by Naipaul to his American editor, Robert Gottlieb. This book reports on Naipaul's travels in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. As a young editor, Gottlieb acquired Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when he was at Simon and Schuster; he spent.....
Price: $850
![Item No: #307481 [On the 1929 Western Wall Riots] Sefer ha-mishpatim: din...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307481.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613884704)
First Edition. In the summer of 1929 a dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated and erupted into a series of violent demonstrations and riots in late August. The violence spread throughout British-controlled Palestine (now Israel), ending in massacres in Hebron. This is.....
Price: $250
A carte de visite image of a man and a woman, possibly Egyptian, possibly a pregnant woman and her husband. The woman wears a long white veil that extends almost to the ground. Her hands are crossed over her stomach. The man, wearing a fez, stands next to her, holding.....
Price: $95
![Item No: #307318 Cafe turc [Albumen photograph]. Sébah Studio](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307318.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1607057422)
Perhaps the most well-known image from the photographer Pascal Sébah or his son Jean, a view outside a Turkish coffee shop of a group of men drinking coffee and smoking. At the center of the image is a seated man with a white beard holding a cup in one hand.....
Price: $1,250
