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1990Fine Fine Turkmen Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Introduction in Turkmen, facsimile in Arabic. [2], 28, 256 p., color facsimiles of the earliest of all copies, dating 1206 (preserved in the Library of Topkapi Serai, Istanbul, No. 3472), color ills. [The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices] Adatdan dasari mehanik gurallayn maglumaty hakda kitap. Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician. He is best known for writing 'The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'. Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, (lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks') in 1206, where he described 100 mechanical devices, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them. The only biographical information known about him is contained in his famed Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Artuqids which ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zengid dynasty of Mosul and later of Ayyubid general Saladin. Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial and error rather than by theoretical calculation." His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices appears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book. Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers for his fountains, al-Saghani for the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors. The most significant aspect of al-Jazari's machines are the mechanisms, components, ideas, methods, and design features which they employ. (Source: Wikipedia). There are 50 devices that Al Jazari designed and explained how they function in his book and created technical drawings of them in such detail that allow to reconstruct in its original size, make, model and full functionally. This nice facsimile edition, fully executed in color, is based on a manuscript present in the Library of Topkapi Palace, (ms. no. 3472). It is dated 1206, andaccording to the foreword, is the earliest extant copy of al-Jazarî's work.
1924Fine Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In Ottoman script. 9 p. Süleyman Sirri Aral, (1874-1925), was the pioneer of water engineering in Turkey. He was born in Thessaloniki (Salonica), his father was Müderris Yusuf Efendi. Her mother Zühre Hanim and Atatürk's mother Zübeyde Hanim were sibling grandchildren. He was a graduate of the Turkish School of Engineers. He worked as Deputy Chief Engineer of Syrian Public Works, Yanya [i.e. Ioannina] Central Engineering and "Idâdî" Teacher, Baghdad Geometry and Flood Barrier Engineering for the Hindiyye Flood Barrier between 1906-1908, Jerusalem and Bursa Public Works Chief Engineer. He played an important role in the Konya Irrigation Project, (1907-1913). This report is the first one on the Menderes [= Meander] river improvement in 1924. The Büyük Menderes River (historically the Maeander or Meander), is a river in southwestern Turkey. It rises in west-central Turkey near Dinar before flowing west through the Büyük Menderes graben until reaching the Aegean Sea in the proximity of the ancient Ionian city Miletus. The word "meander" is used to describe a winding pattern, after the river. The river rises in a spring near Dinar and flows to Lake Isikli. After passing the Adigüzel Dam and the Cindere Dam, the river flows past Nazilli, Aydin, and Söke before it drains into the Aegean Sea. The Maeander was a celebrated river of Caria in Asia Minor. It appears earliest in the Catalog of Trojans of Homer's Iliad along with Miletus and Mycale. In this report, there's usual information on the Meander River with its geography and history. The second chapter includes the reasons for the improvement of the river and accounts about it with a detailed table. This is an early water engineering book printed in the Ottoman Empire. Extremely rare. First and Only Edition. Not in Özege.; Not in OCLC.; Four copies in the National Library of Turkey.
1987Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English, Turkish and reprint of original vakfiyye in Ottoman Turkish with Arabic letters. [vi], [3], 58, 57, [3] p. A bilingual preface in Turkish and English by Ates; pp. 1-19 transcription; pp. 20-34 text in modern Turkish; pp. 35-58 translation into English; pp. [57] facsimile of original vakfiyye. This book is compiled and published to interest readers in the deed of trust concerning water supply to the city of Istanbul [Constantinople - Kostantiniyye] -known as Kagithane waters- made by Sultan Suleyman theMagnificent -the greatest philanthropist ever and a man peerless in magnanimity. There have been innumerable such water supply projects large and ssmall for which deeds of trust were penned -as part pf a collection or in an overall charity. But Sultan Suleiman was the first and the only person to found a work of charity for the sole purpose of supplying his capital with"... clean, pure, healthy and sweet fresh waters". Amongst host of other deeds of trust that allocate revenues for the maintenance, repair and restoration of water works, public fountains, Turkish baths etc. that of Sultan Suleiman's philanthropy, allocation ad infinitum of revenues of a sizeable township and five villages with most extensive lands, is unique. This man of greatest magnanimity laid down conditions to keep the water supply system in good working order. Parts of revenues and incomes from his other pious foundations were to be used should revenues from this township and five villages prove insufficient. A careful study of this book will display the most exalted consciousness of this truly great sovereign in matters related to man's destiny.
1844Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original full dark brown leather bdg. Decorated borders on boards, five compartments on the spine, second lettered gilt in the title. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 294 p., 17 folded engraved plates, and richly engraved illustrations. Early edition of this extremely rare encyclopedic book of the first comprehensive Ottoman engineering including the firsts in Ottoman literature of science, especially on various subjects of modern physics and mechanics, cartography, map making, surveying, arrangement of army camps, construction of pulleys, cannon shooting, etc. This book was written by Hüseyin Rifki, who was the chief professor of the Mühendishâne [i.e. Ottoman Engineering School] and was assigned to Medina, Arabia in 1816 to repair the holy buildings in Medina, Arabia. Another important aspect of the book is that it contains the ratios between the measurements used in various European countries before the meter system and the Ottoman measurements, as well as French measures and scales. Early typographic imprint on European paper with a watermark. Hüseyin Rifki translated the ancient mathematician Euclid's book Elements, in which he laid the foundations of geometry, from the English original of the English mathematician John Bonnycastle (1760-1821) in 1789, into Turkish with the name of "Usul-i Hendese", together with Selim Efendi, a converted English engineer. He was appointed as "Engineering-i Berri-i Hümâyûn Serhocasi" [i.e. The Chief Professor of the Engineering School] after the Code of Engineers was put into effect in 1806. He served as the chief teacher between 1806 and 1816. He was sent to the Balkans in 1816 and then was assigned to repair the holy buildings in Medina, Arabia. He died in 1817, just after returning from Mecca to Medina. Özege 12620.; TBTK 14349.; This edition is not located in OCLC.
1928Fine Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 727 p., richly illustrated. Lithography from the chapograph text. Rare complete translation of this early Turkish edition by French mathematician and rector of the University of Paris Paul Emile Appell. In mathematics, an Appell sequence (or equations, or polynomials), is named after him, as is rue Paul Appell in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and the minor planet 988 Appella. "In mechanics, he proposed an alternative formulation of analytical mechanics known as Appell's equation of motion. He discovered a physical interpretation of the imaginary period of the doubly periodic function whose restriction to real arguments describes the motion of an ideal pendulum" (Wikipedia). The translator Mustafa Salim (1873-?) gave lectures on differential and integral calculations, high algebra, technical mechanics, and mathematical mechanics at Hendese-i Mülkiye-i Sâhâne, Darülfünûn [i.e. House of Sciences] and Darüssafaka, which were outstanding schools of the time. (Kökcü). Özege 13550.; TBTK 749, 4573.; This edition is not located in OCLC.
2004Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 200, [2] p., color and b/w ills., Ottoman documents. Eksioglu tarihi, (1460-2004). Hakki Eksi'den Aksi Ali'ye. History of Eksiogullari family.
1991Fine Russian Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Russian. 123, [2] p. Energetiki Turkmenistana b 60-70-e gg. Power engineering of Turkmenistan in the 60-70-ies.
1908Very Good English Original bdg. In decorative hardcover. Very good. Foolscap 8vo. [viii], 222, [2] p. B/w ills. Deuxieme edition.
2013New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Mint. 4to. (31 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 255, [1] p. Color and b/w ills. Nuri Demirag (born 1886 in Divrigi - died 1957 in Istanbul) was an early Turkish industrialist. He was one of the first millionaires of the Turkish Republic. His first enterprise was the production of cigarette paper. Demirag then invested his capital in the development of the Turkish railway network. Because of this investment, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave him the surname Demirag, which translates as "Network of iron". In 1936 he started an aircraft factory employing 500 people at Besiktas, Istanbul (later nationalized by the government and now occupied by the Istanbul Naval Museum). Construction of the Nu D.38 twin engine high wing light transport followed. In 1946 he founded the first opposition party, which was named Milli Kalkinma Partisi (National Development Party), but his party was dissolved in 1958. He was elected deputy of Sivas for the Democratic Party as an independent candidate in 1954. Demirag donated his aircraft to his flying school (Gök Okulu) in Yesilköy, created to interest young Turks in aviation. The land upon which the school was built was later nationalized by the Turkish government and is now the Atatürk International Airport. Demirag died in 1957 from diabetes.
2003New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 15 cm). In French. 387 p. B/w ills. L'atelier de recherche "Elites urbaines et savoir scientifique dans la societe Ottomane. XIX-XXe siecles" qui s'est tenu a Istanbul du 21 au 23 Mars 2002 et dont est issu le present ouvrage a beneficie du soutien du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Contents: Meropi ANASTASSIADOU-DUMONT / Science et engagement: la modernite Ottomane à l'âge des nationalismes / Seculariser, reformer, eduquer. / Ismail KARA / Les notions de "science" (ulûm, funûn) et d'"art" (sanat) à l'âge des Reformes Ottomanes. Henri NAHUM / Charisme et pouvoir d'un medecin Juif. Moïse Allatini (1809-1882), "le pere de Salonique". Meropi ANASTASSIADOU-DUMONT / Medecine hygieniste et pedagogie sociale à Istanbul à la fin du XIXe siecle. Le cas du docteur Spyridon Zavitziano. Yesim ISIL ULMAN / Besim Omer Akalin (1862-1940): ange gardien des femmes et des enfants. / L'acclimatation d'un savoir venu d'ailleurs. / Nuran YILDIRIM / Le rôle des medecins Turcs dans la transmission du savoir. Feza GUNERGUN / Dervis Mehmed Emin Pacha (1817-1879), serviteur de la science et de l'État Ottoman. Stoyanka KENDEROVA / Construire une nation saine et vigoureuse: les medecins Bulgares au XIXe siecle. Anne KAZAZIAN / Meguerditch Margossof (Trieste 1840-Le Caire 1919). Un notable Armenien d'Égypte presque ordinaire. May DAVIE / Manouk Avedissian, alias Bechara Afandi al-Mouhandis. Itineraire Beyrouthin d'un ingenieur Ottoman à la fin du XIXe siecle / De l'allegeance Ottomane à la construction des États-nations. / Maria GEORGIADOU / Expert knowledge between tradition and reform. The Caratheodorys: a Neo-Phanariot Family in 19th Century Constantinople. Bernard LORY / Un homme dans l'air du temps: le docteur Konstantin Michaykov. (1807-1880), nationaliste et evergete à Bitola/Monastir. Gueorgui PEEV / Gueorgui Valkovitch (1833-1892): un medecin militaire Ottoman au service de l'État Bulgare. Vangelis KECHRIOTIS / Between professional duty and national fulfillment: the Smyrniot medical doctor Apostolos Psaltoff (1862-1923). Hans-Lukas KIESER / Turkey's elite diaspora in Switzerland (1860s-1920s).
1989Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). 46 p., 1 folding b/w map. Ills. Istanbul ve çevresi tas - dogal agrega ocaklari.
1968Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [viii], 356 p. First Edition. Insan ve mühendis. Is hayatinda insan, kendisi ve çevresi.
1953Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 123, [2], [8] p., color and b/w plates. Istanbul'da Fatih II. Sultan Mehmed devri Türk su medeniyeti.
2017New English Paperback. 4to. (27 x 20 cm). In English, German, and Turkish. 250 p., ills. Health and water-culture in history.= Gesundheit und wasserkultur in der Geschichte.= Tarihte saglik ve su kültürü.
1991Very Good Russian Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Russian. 79, [2] p., b/w plates. Karakumskii kanal i ego djizn'. [= The Karakum Canal and its story]. The Karakum Canal in Turkmenistan is one of the largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its 1,375-kilometre (854 mi) length, and carries 13 cubic kilometres (3.1 cu mi) of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. The canal opened up huge new tracts of land to agriculture, especially to cotton monoculture heavily promoted by the Soviet Union, and supplying Ashgabat with a major source of water. Unfortunately, the primitive construction of the canal allows almost 50 percent of the water to escape en route, creating lakes and ponds along the canal, and a rise in groundwater leading to widespread soil salinization problems. The canal is also a major factor leading to the Aral Sea environmental disaster. The current Karakum Canal was not the first major attempt to bring the Amu-Darya water to the Karakums. In the early 1950s, construction began on the Main Turkmen Canal which would start at a much more northerly location (near Nukus), and run southwest toward Krasnovodsk. The canal would have used around 25 percent of the Amu-Darya's water. The works were abandoned after the death of Joseph Stalin, the current Karakum Canal route being chosen instead. Reservoirs such as Hanhowuz Reservoir were created to help regulate it.
2017Fine English Paperback. 4to. (26 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 520 p., color and b/w ills. Osmanli dönemi Istanbul su tarihi.
2018New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 98 p., ills. II. Abdülhamid'in tarimsal kalkinma hamlesi: Konya Ovasi sulama projesi.
1933Very Good Turkish Paperback. Some rubbed on cover. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 16, [6] p., 6 unnumbered b/w plates. Cümhuriyet Türkiyesi, elektrikli Türkiye. Book includes first works from on the electricity supplied and opening of the last electric factory in Turkey, first ten years of early Republican period, 1923-1933, with fine plates and statistical tables. Hasan Halet Isikpinar, was a Turkish engineer and professor. He initially graduated from Robert College as an electrical engineer in 1916, being the first Turkish graduate of the engineering department. He advanced his studies to receive a degree of mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1922. After his assistantship in Robert College from 1923 to 1925, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1928 and graduated as the first Turkish student of the university. He kept his tenure as a professor in Robert College in the department of engineering until 1934, where he contributed to the advancement of the department of electrical engineering to a significant extent. He led over 800 engineering projects in Turkey, majority of which being the first examples within the newly founded Turkish Republic. He was fluent in multiple languages including English, French, German and Italian, with his most notable works including widely sourced engineering books in these languages, including "L'Industrie Electrique et les Ressources Motrices de la Turquie", in which he stressed the importance of Turkey as a petroleum resource. He later presented his findings on the topic to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He is the son of Mehmet Halit Taspinar, a government officer with civilian Pasha rank equals to Ferik in the government of Abdul Hamid II, best known for passing critical government correspondence to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence to support 'Kuva-yi Milliye' (National Forces). First and Only Edition. Extremely rare. Only 2 copies in OCLC 254443059.
1932Very Good French Paperback. Some rubbed on spine and little stains on last pages. A good copy. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In French. [vii], [1], 66, [17] p., 37 numerous b/w plates. Hasan Halet Isikpinar, is a Turkish engineer and professor. He initially graduated from Robert College as an electrical engineer in 1916, being the first Turkish graduate of the engineering department. He advanced his studies to receive a degree of mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1922. After his assistantship in Robert College from 1923 to 1925, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1928 and graduated as the first Turkish student of the university. He kept his tenure as a professor in Robert College in the department of engineering until 1934, where he contributed to the advancement of the department of electrical engineering to a significant extent. He led over 800 engineering projects in Turkey, majority of which being the first examples within the newly founded Turkish Republic. He was fluent in multiple languages including English, French, German and Italian, with his most notable works including widely sourced engineering books in these languages, including "L'Industrie Electrique et les Ressources Motrices de la Turquie", in which he stressed the importance of Turkey as a petroleum resource. He later presented his findings on the topic to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He is the son of Mehmet Halit Taspinar, a government officer with civilian Pasha rank equals to Ferik in the government of Abdul Hamid II, best known for passing critical government correspondence to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence to support 'Kuva-yi Milliye'. First and Only Edition. Extremely rare. Not in OCLC.; Not in TBTK.
1990New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Introduction in English and Turkish; [360] p. color facsimiles of the earliest of all copies, dating 1206 (preserved in the Library of Topkapi Serai, Istanbul, No. 3472), color ills. The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices.= Olaganüstü mekanik araçlarin bilgisi hakkinda kitap. [FACSIMILE]. Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician. He is best known for writing 'The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'. Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, (lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks') in 1206, where he described 100 mechanical devices, some 80 of which are trick vessels of various kinds, along with instructions on how to construct them. The only biographical information known about him is contained in his famed Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Artuqids which ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zengid dynasty of Mosul and later of Ayyubid general Saladin. Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial and error rather than by theoretical calculation." His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices appears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book. Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes. He also cites the influence of the Banu Musa brothers for his fountains, al-Saghani for the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors. The most significant aspect of al-Jazari's machines are the mechanisms, components, ideas, methods, and design features which they employ. (Source: Wikipedia). There are 50 devices that Al Jazari designed and explained how they function in his book and created technical drawings of them in such detail that allow to reconstruct in its original size, make, model and full functionally. This nice facsimile edition, fully executed in color, is based on a manuscript present in the Library of Topkapi Palace, (ms. no. 3472). It is dated 1206, andaccording to the foreword, is the earliest extant ccopy of al-Jazarî's work.
1964in 4°, tela edit. con titoli oro al piatto e al dorso, tracce di scotch ai fogli di guardia
1983in 4°, bross. edit. con sovrac. e cofanetto rigido muto
1941in 16°, tela edit. con titoli e logo impressi al piatto e al dorso, tagli colorati, piccole rotture alla cuffia inf., firma di appartenenza, leggermente allentato
1963bross. edit. ill., lievi fioriture
cartone edit. con titoli al piatto ant. e al dorso, minima rottura al dorso, lievi bruniture