38. ONLINE Auction; Rare Books, Objects and Ephemera Auction
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EDMONDO DE AMICIS (Çeviri; MADAM J. COLOMB) – CONSTANTINOPLE
Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1892. 392 p., 18x12 cm, 24 full-page engravings. In original binding with leather spine and marbled hard covers. Atabey 19.
THE FAMOUS TRAVEL BOOK BY AMICIS WHICH WAS TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES AND PRINTED MULTIPLE TIMES…
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MRS. WILLIAM GREY (MARIA GEORGINA GREY) – JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, THE CRIMEA, GREECE
First edition. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1869. 203 p., 20.5x14.5 cm. Paper cover book in cloth hard cover binding.
IN HER BOOK GREY PUTS DOWN ON PAPER ABOUT HER JOURNEY WITH PRINCE EDWARD VII OF WALES AND PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF DENMARK, WELCOMING OF PRINCE VII. EDWARD IN DOLMABAHÇE PALACE BY SULTAN ABDÜLAZİZ, THE RELATED SUPPER, HER VISIT TO BEYLERBEYI PALACE AND THE THEATER PLAY WATCHED BY HER AT PERA…
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ALFRED FREDERİCK RAWLINSON – ADVENTURES IN THE NEAR EAST 1918-1922
Andrew Melrose Ltd., London, 1924. 375 p., 43 plates photogravures, 23x14x4.5 cm. In publisher’s original cloth binding.
Memoirs of British intelligence officer Rawlinson about the events that took place in Eastern Anatolia during the War of Independence and the Armenian riot…
ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL BOOKS IN THE ARMENIAN DIASPOR'S RESOURCE LIST ON CLAIMS OF GENOCIDE…
EXTREMELY INTERESTING PHOTOS… THIS WORKS UNFOLDS RAWLINSON’S IMPRISONMENT IN ERZURUM FOR 20 MONTHS DUE TO HIS ACTIONS, HIS RELEASE IN EXCHANDE WITH THE CAPTIVE TURKS IN MALTA AND THE PARTY GIVEN AT ROTHSCHILD'S HOUSE IN PARIS ACCOMPANIED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS WITH THE GOAL OF FINISHING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DIPLOMATICALLY…
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MARIA A. WEST – THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS OR, INSIDE VIEWS OF LIFE AND LABOR IN THE LAND OF ARARAT
Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1875. 710 p., 19.5x13 cm. In publisher’s original decorative cloth binding.
The observations of West during his activities in Anatolia who started his missionary life in Istanbul… An important book of source about the lives of Anatolian women and Armenians…
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LUDOVICIO MARACCI – PRODROMUS AD REFUTATIONEM ALCORANI; IN QUO PER QUATUOR VERAE RELIGIONIS NOTAS MAHUMETANAE SECTAE FALSITAS OSTENDITUR: CHRISTIANAE RELIGIONIS VERITAS COMPROBATUR. (4 CİLT)
First edition. Typis Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, Rome, 1691. 4 vols; 1. Vol. 288 pages, 2. Vol. 526 pages, 3. Vol. 592 pages, 4. Vol. 790 pages, 16.5x11 cm, in Latin language with excerpts from the Kuran in Arabic. In marbled hard cover binding with parchment back and cover corners.
AFTER THE II. SIEGE OF VIENNA, THE HOLY ALLIANCE FOUNDED IN 1683 AGAINST THE OTTOMAN ARMY, LUDOVICIO MARACCI WAS EMPLOYED BY THE POPE XI. INNOCENTIUS, ENDED UP WRITING THE 4-VOLUME BOOK IN ORDER TO "REJECT THE QURAN, CONFUTE THEOLOGICALLY THE QURAN'S SURATIVES AND PROVE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM’S AND THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S FALSEHOOD"…
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HENRY CHARLES WOODS – WASHED BY FOUR SEAS
T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1908. 316 p., 67 plate photos taken by the author and 1 folded map of the Balkan Peninsula, 23x15 cm. In publisher’s original cloth binding.
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS IN THE NEAR EAST AND THE BALKANS FROM A BRITISH OFFICER'S EYES
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JEAN PIERRE EDMOND JURIEN DE LA GRAVIERE – LES CORSAIRES BARBARESQUES ET LA MARINE DE SOLIMAN LE GRAND
Librairie Plon, Paris, 1887. 377 p., 18.5x12 cm, 3 folded maps. In cloth hardcover binding.
The navy of Süleyman the Magnificent, the Naval Battle of Preveza and Ottoman naval victories from Turgut Reis until Piyale Pasha written by the French Navy Admiral Graviere who wrote about maritime history throughout his life.
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PAUL LUCAS – VOYAGE DU SIEUR PAUL LUCAS AU LEVANT
First edition. Guillaume Vandive, 1704. 2 vols. volume 1; 372 p., volume 2; 416 p., 16x10 cm. 9 full-page (some folded) engravings, one 53x33 cm Nile map. In full calf leather binding of the period. In superb condition for a 319 year old book. Atabey 731; Blackmer 1036; Brunet III 1204; Cobham-Jeffrey p.35
NOTICEABLY RARE… THE FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1704…
ONE OF THE RAREST EARLY PERIOD ORIENTALIST TRAVEL BOOKS…
THE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE FAMOUS NATURAL SCIENTIST AND MERCHANT PAUL LUCAS' JOURNEY TO THE EAST BETWEEN 1699-1703…
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CHARLES RODEN BUXTON – TURKEY IN REVOLUTION
T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1909. 285 p., 23x14.5 cm, 33 plates photo engravings and illustrations, 1 color map. In publisher’s original red cloth binding with crescent and star on the cover.
AN IMPORTANT BOOK ABOUT TURKEY BEGINNING FROM THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND ONWARDS THAT IS TAUGHT IN HISTORY LESSONS AT UNIVERSITIES TODAY...
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PAUL GENTIZON - L’ESPRIT D’ORIENT
Les Editions G. Cres et Cie, Paris. 219 p., 18x12 cm. In publisher’s paper binding put into cloth back and leather pasted hard cover binding.
Swiss journalist Paul Gentizon, who is known for his closeness to Atatürk, brings together the humorous stories of the East.
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ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN (Resimler; WARWICK GOBLE) – CONSTANTINOPLE
A.&C. Black, London, 1906. 282 p., 22.5x16 cm, 63 sheets of watercolor painting preserved with pelur paper, 1 folded map of Istanbul. In publisher’s gilded and patterned decorative cloth binding.
A MAGNIFICENT END OF THE 19TH CENTURY ISTANBUL BOOK WITH ITS FANCY COVER AND ITS WATERCOLOR PICTURES… Designed for the illustrated world cities series of A. & C. Black Publishing, this work brings a writer and an artist together in the daily life of a city that has left its mark on world cultural history and gave the importance it deserves to Istanbul, which was the capital of a huge empire.
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LA GUERRA D’ORIENTE – 1876 CRONACA ILLUSTRATA
Fratelli Treves, Milan, 1876. 240 p., 30.5x22.5 cm, numerous full-page and in-text engravings. In marbled hard cover binding.
THIS ESSENTIAL BOOK NARRATES “THE GREAT EASTERN DEPRESSION” THAT STARTED ON 1875 IN THE BALKANS, THE REBELLIONS & WARS AMONG HERZEGOVINA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA AND BULGARIA IN DETAIL WITH MANY FULL PAGE AND IN TEXT ENGRAVINGS COVERING A MAGAZINE SERIES OF 30 ISSUES… AN IMPORTANT FUNDAMENTAL SOURCE…
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JOSEPH PITTON DE TOURNEFORT – RELATION D’UN VOYAGE DU LEVANT
De L’imprimeri Royale, Paris, 1717. 2 volumes. Volume 1; 544 p., volume 2; 526 p., 25.5x18.5 cm, 152 plates engravings. In fully leather luxurious binding.. In very fine condition, some professional restoration at the spine and cover corners. Atabey 959; Weber II 458; Blackmer 1318; Brunet V, 903
A CLASSIC… IT HAS BEEN TRAVELERS' REFERENCE GUIDE FOR CENTURIES AND IS STILL APPLICABLE TO RESEARCH FROM VARIOUS BRANCHES TODAY... Commissioned by the King of France Louis XIV. to bring new plants for the Royal Botanic Garden, Tournefort’s book gives information about his visit to the Aegean Islands, Anatolia, especially the Black Sea, the Caucasus and Iran, the vegetation in the places he visited, as well as the topography, economy, governance, nations and their customs in daily life accompanied by many engravings.
ŞEFİK ATABEY IS THE FIRST AND ONLY TURKISH COLLECTOR TO HAVE HIS BOOK COLLECTION SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S…
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VOR 20 JAHREN VON DEN DARDANELLEN ZUM SUES
Georg Thieme, Leipzig, 1935. 277 p., 22x15 cm, 1 map, 2 full-page and 13 in-text photos. In publisher’s original cloth binding with “Dardanelles War Medal” print on the cover.
Memoirs of German Navy doctors about the cholera epidemic that spread among Ottoman soldiers in the Balkans, Çanakkale, the Suez Canal and the Caucasus Front in 1913-1914…
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MAHMUT CAHİT CONKER - LE BOSPHORE ET LES DARDANELLES; Les conventions de Detroits de Lausanne 1923 et Montereux 1936
Imperimeri Held, Lausanne, 1938, French, 163 p., 23.5x16 cm. In leather back and cover corner, cloth pasted hard cover binding. Inscripted and signed by the author.
THE FRONT PAGE OF THE BOOK IS AUTOGPRAHED AND DECICATED TO NUMAN RIFAT MENEMENCIOĞLU BY THE AUTHOR M. C. CONKER…
A NOTABLY CONTEMPORARY TOPIC, A HIGHLY VALUABLE BOOK… A TURKISH DIPLOMAT'S BOOK ON THE AGREEMENTS OF LAUSANNE AND MONTREUX PUBLISHED IN 1938 IN SWITZERLAND…
This book consists of the PhD thesis of Mahmut Cahit Conker at the University of Lausanne. Mahmut Cahit Conker is the son of Nuri Conker who was one of Atatürk's close friends and one of the first deputies of T.B.M.M. (Grand National Assembly Of Turkey). The front page covers Mahmut Conker's dedication to his son, Numan Rıfat Menemencioğlu.
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EDMUND CHISHULL - TRAVELS IN TURKEY AND BACK TO ENGLAND
First and only edition. W. Bowyer, London, 1747. 192 p., 35x23 cm. In fully calf leather binding of the period. The imprint page is majorly restored, the other pages are in superb condition. Atabey 240; Weber II 452; Blackmer 341.
THIS TRAVEL BOOK IS WRITTEN IN ‘LETTER’ STYLE CONTAINING CHISHULL'S VISIT TO EPHESUS, İZMİR, MANİSA, GELİBOLU AND İSTANBUL WHO WAS THE PRIEST OF THE "LEVANT COMPANY" FACTORY IN İZMİR.
PUBLISHED BY CHISHULL'S SON AFTER HIS DEATH.
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G. YOUNG – CONSTANTINOPLE; Depuis Les Origines Jusqu’a Nos Jours
Payot, Paris, 1934. 22x14 cm. 391 pages, 1 double page map. Binding with leather back and cover corners and marbled covers. Signed by two different buyer at two different dates on the front imprint page.
British writer Georges Young, who made his observations during the early years of the Republic of Turkey, describes in detail the Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods of Istanbul in his work. In the last part of the book, he wrote about Istanbul in the years leading up to the Constitutional Monarchy, World War I and the Republic of Turkey.
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STANLEY LANE-POOLE – THE STORY OF NATIONS; TURKEY
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1888. 373 p., 19.5x13 cm, 43 full-page engravings and 2 folding maps. In the publisher’s decorative original cloth binding.
LANE-POOLE’S WORK ON OTTOMAN HISTORY WHICH IS STILL BEING USED AS A SOURCE BY ACADEMICS TODAY…
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AUGUSTE BOPPE - LES PEINTRES DU BOSPHORE AU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE
First edition. Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1911. 231 p., 18x12 cm. In cloth back leather covered hard cover binding.
AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR THE 18TH CENTURY ORIENTALIST PAINTERS’ WORKS ON TURKEY...
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JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY – VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANACHARSIS EN GRECE
De Bure, Paris, 1788. 5 vols; 4 volumes of text + Atlas. Vol. 1; 553 p., Vol. 2; 646 p., Vol. 3; 599 p., Vol. 4; 383 pp., Vol. 5; 108 p., 27x20 cm, 30 folded plates, double page, full page maps, engravings and plans in the Atlas. Spine is embellished with gilded motifs, gilded page edges, in fully leather luxurious binding of the period.
THIS TRAVEL BOOK OF BARTHELEMY COVERS ANACHARSIS’S JOURNEY TO THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD, INCLUDING THRACE, ISTANBUL, BYZANTINE, ANATOLIA, IRAN, EGYPT, AEGEAN ISLANDS, PELOPONNESIAN PENINSULA AND ATHENS THAT HAPPENED IN 363 BC THROUGH ANACHARSIS’S PERSPECTIVE AND THE JOURNEY’S REVIEW...
VOLUME V OF THE BOOK IS KNOWN AS AN “ATLAS” THAT INCLUDES MANY MAPS, ENGRAVINGS AND PLANS …
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ALEXANDER W. HIDDEN - THE OTTOMAN DYNASTY
Nicholas W. Hidden, New York, 1912 revised (extended) edition. 487 p., 27x21 cm. 190 in-text photoengravings and photos. In fully leather luxurious binding with gilded Ottoman order on the cover and gilded page edges. Spine expertly repaired.
FROM OSMAN GAZİ TO SULTAN REŞAD, EVERY OTTOMAN SULTAN AND THE HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN DYNASTY COVERED IN DETAIL… THIS COPY IS THE EXTENDED EDITION CONTAINING OF 190 IMAGES…
IN FULL LEATHER LUXURIOUS BINDING WITH THE OTTOMAN ORDER IMPRINTED ON THE COVER...
IN THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, THE MARCH NOTES COMPOSED FOR SULTAN II. MAHMUD, ABDÜLMECİD, ABDÜLAZİZ, II. ABDÜLHAMID AND V. MEHMED RESHAD ARE TO BE FOUND…
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JOSEPH MERY – CONSTANTINOPLE ET LA MER NOIRE
Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, Paris, 1855. 495 p., 27x17.5 cm, 21 steel engravings preserved with pelur paper, Sultan Abdul-Medjid engraving on horse facing the imprint page. In luxurious binding with gilded and colored motifs on both covers and the spine, gilded page edges. Blackmer 1116, Atabey 805.
A RARE TRAVEL BOOK ABOUT İSTANBUL AND BLACK SEA WITH ITS EXCELLENT ENGRAVINGS… IN ITS LUXURIOUS AND MAGNIFICENT COVER…
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ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE – VOYAGE EN ORIENT
2 volumes. Librairie Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1913. Vol. 1 484 p., vol. 2 574 p., 18x11.5 cm. In publisher’s original percaline binding with gilded writing and motives on the spine and gilded page edges.
The famous French writer, poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine's travelogue covering his journey through the Ottoman lands in 1832-1833…
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MEYERS REISEBÜCHER; TÜRKEI RUMAENIEN, SERBIEN, BULGARIEN
Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig,1898. 414 p. and 74 pages of advertisement, 15.5x10.5 cm. 6 folding maps, 26 plans, 1 panorama. In publisher’s original cloth binding.
AN EXTREMELY DETAILED TRAVEL GUIDE FOR TOURISTS VISITING THE BALKANS AND TURKEY PUBLISHED AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY…
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M. MOUKHTAR PACHA – LA TURQUIE L’ALLAMAGNE ET L’EUROPE; Depuis le Traité de Berlin jusq’a la Guerre Mondiale
First edition. Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1924. 311 p., 23x14.5 cm. Plate of Mahmoud Moukhtar Pacha portrait in the front section. Paper cover bind put into leather backed cloth covered cardboard cover binding. Imprint page has handwriting and signed dedication of the author in Ottoman writing.
Memoirs of the Turkish Ambassador to Berlin, Mahmut Muhtar Pasha, beginning with the 1878-Treaty of Berlin to the end of the First World War and covering the diplomatic correspondence…
The title page of the book is autographed and dedicated in Ottoman Turkish as “November 1925 -Mahmut Muhtar, who passed the 25 Law of Ikhlas to present to Refik Kadim and reverend Cavit Bey Efendi...
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