[OLD TURKIC SCRIPT INTRODUCED TO THE TURKISH & ISLAMIC WORLD] Pek eski Türk yazisi (Türk Dernegi Nesriyati Sayi 2). [i.e. Very old Turkic script (The Publication of Turkish Society No. 2)]

NECIB ASIM [YAZIKSIZ], (1861-1935), Türk Dernegi Nesriyati ( Necm-i Istikbâl Matbaasi, Istanbul, [AH 1327] = 1911. Contemporary cloth bdg. with red boards. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 35 p. Rare early edition of this first work on the Old Turkic Script (Orkhon-Yenisey runic script) introducing the alphabet to the Turkish and Islamic world written by the founder of the Turkology Institute in Darülfünûn [i.e. Istanbul University], two years after the article, in which the inscriptions were deciphered by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen (1842-1927) with the contributions of the Russian Turkologist Vasili Radloff (1837-1918), was announced to the scientific world at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences on December 15, 1893.The book starts with brief information about the first discovery of the inscriptions, their deciphering, the history of the Göktürks who first used the script, the relations of the Göktürks in Central Asia with the Uighu