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Lot: 153 » Rare Book

HALİDE EDİB - TURKEY FACES WEST

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1930. 273 p., 21x14 cm. 7 black and white photographs. In publisher’s original cloth binding with a paper cover with Atatürk’s photo..

The Republic of Turkey caught in the middle of the East-West dilemma…

The work is compiled from the lectures Halide Edib gave at the Williamstown Institute of Politics in the USA.

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Lot: 154 » Rare Book

NICOLAS DE NICOLAY - LE NAVIGATIONI ET VIAGGI FATTI NELLA TURCHIA

Francesco Ziletti, Venedik, 1580. 190 p., 29x20 cm, 63 early period wooden cliche engraving, 4 plates missing. In contemporary parchment binding. Expertly repaired not extending into any text. In fine condition for this book. Atabey 871, Blackmer 1196, Weber 168.

THE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE KING OF FRANCE GEOGRAPHIST’S, NICOLAS DE NICOLAY, JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH ITS FAMOUS ENGRAVINGS…

FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN PUBLISHED 1580… EXTREMELY RARE…

THE BOOK COVERS THE FIRST ENGRAVINGS EVER ABOUT THE CLOTHING OF THE PEOPLE AMONG THE OTTOMAN MOSAIC, IN ITS PERIOD INCREASED ATTENTION TO TURKISH CLOTHES IN EUROPE…

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Lot: 155 » Rare Book

MAHMOUD MOHTAR KATIRJOGLU – LA SAGESSE CORANIQUE

Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1935. 261 p. 22x13.5 cm. In cloth binding. Imprint page signed bu the author’s son.

RELIGIOUS, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL VALUES OF THE QURAN...

COPYRIGHT PAGE IS AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR’S SON…

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Lot: 156 » Rare Book

HENRY MORTON STANLEY - LA DELIVRANCE D’EMIN PACHA

Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1890. 204 pages, 18x11 cm, 1 engraving and 1 map. In leather back pandosite cover binding.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK WRITTEN ABOUT AFRICAN EXPLORER EMIN PASHA ALSO KNOWN AS THE PRUSIAN EMIN PASHA…

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Lot: 157 » Rare Book

GHAZI AHMED MOUKHTAR PACHA - LA REFORME DU CALENDRIER

E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1893. 70 p., 15 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm, 28 folded calendar conversion tables. In hard cover binding.

DETAILED BOOK ON THE TRANSITION FROM THE HIJRI CALENDAR TO THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR...

Ghazi Ahmet Muhtar Pasha, a state official and scientist who took on important duties including the Grand Viziership, examines in detail the conversion rules of solar, lunar and financial calendars, which was awarded with a gold medal by the German State, which includes the translations of the Hijri and Gregorian calendars until the year 2212. This copy is the limited edition of the work "Islâhu’t-Takvîm" published in Germany under the name "La Réforme du Calendrier"...

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Lot: 158 » Rare Book

EDWARD SHEPARD CREASY – HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS; From The Beginning Of Their Empire To the Present Time

Richard Bentley, London, second edition 1858. 2 volumes; volume 1; 413 pp., vol. 2; 548 p., 22x14 cm, 1 folding map and 1 engraving. In luxurious calf leather binding of the period with gilt prints and marbled page edges. Atabey 299.

A MASTERPIECE ON THE OTTOMAN HISTORY… ONE OF THE FUNDATMENTAL RESOURCE BOOKS… IN LUXURIOUS LEATHER COVER WITH MARBLE AND GILT PRINTED PAGE EDGES…

It is the masterpiece of the famous British historian and jurist Sir Edward Creasy about the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Turks. This masterpiece, which was first published in 1854-1856, has been reprinted many times in different languages since the middle of the 19th century.

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Lot: 159 » Rare Book

H. PREHN VON DEWITZ (İLLÜSTRASYONLAR; ERNST WETZENSTEIN) - DER KAMPF UM KONSTANTINOPEL

Gustav Kiepenheuer, Bremen, 1915. 184 p., 19.5x13 cm, 6 full-page and 12 within-text illustrations and 1 folded map. Illustrated front cover, In publisher’s cloth binding with illustration on the cover.

 

Hanns Prehn von Dewitz is a German writer who lived between 1885-1970. Although Dewitz is known for being one of the first to produce science fiction in German, he draws attention with his use of detailed descriptions in his novels. In his novel "Der Kampf um Konstantiopel", translated  to "The Struggle for Constantinople" in English, he described the Dardanelles War that took place in 1914-1915 and the process leading to it from the perspectives of the Turks. The book includes illustrations drawn by Ernst Wetzenstein with ink and a map of Çanakkale.

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Lot: 160 » Rare Book

EWALD BANSE – DİE TÜRKEİ

Verlang Von George Westermann, Braunschweig, 1915. 452 p., 24.44x16.5 cm, 1 plate colored photopgraph, 16 plates both sided black and white photos and 1 folding map. In publisher’s original decorative cloth binding with illustrations on the cover and spine.

AN IMPRESSIVE BOOK… German geographer and professor Ewald Banse, who admired Atatürk, covers the political, economic and ethnic mosaic of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century, the ethnic and geographical settlement relations of the people in the Ottoman geography by dividing in 6 regions, and the detailed explanation of the political and economic relations of the Ottoman-German Empires...

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Lot: 161 » Rare Book

DAVID BREWER EDDY – WHAT’S NEXT IN TURKEY?

First edition. The Taylor Press, Boston, 1913. 191 p., 19x13 cm, 4 plate photos, 2 full-page maps, 1 table. In publisher’s cloth binding with illustration imprint on the cover.

A book about early missionary activities, motivation and methods in the Ottoman Empire, prepared by the Turkey office of the American Missionary Board in 1913.

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Lot: 162 » Rare Book

JULIA PARDOE (Gravürler; WILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT) – THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS; Illustrated in a series of VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE and Its Environs from original drawings by W.H. Bartlett

George Virtue, London, 1838. 164 p., 28x22 cm. 80 full-page engravings preserved with pelur papers. Gilded writings and ornaments, marbled covers, leather binding. In superb condition.

VERY RARE AND VALUABLE, AUTOGRAPHED BY JULIA PARDOE HERSELF… THE MOST FAMOUS TRAVEL BOOK ON İSTANBUL… THE VOLUME WRITTEN FOR THE FRIENDSHIP OF MUSTAFA REŞID PASHA… WITH BARTLETT’S 80 ENGRAVINGS…

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Lot: 163 » Rare Book

CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT – CONSTANTINOPLE, THE CITY OF THE SULTANS

Dana Estes & Company, Boston, 1895. 309 p., 20x13.5x3 cm. 17 photogravures preserverd with pelur paper. In publisher’s decorative binding with gilded illustration on the cover and gilded upper paper edges.

THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF ISTANBUL IN THE 19TH CENTURY ARE COVERED WITH THE PHOTOS OF THE PERIOD…

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Lot: 164 » Rare Book

CARL MUHLMANN –DER KAMPF UM DIE DARDANELLEN 1915

Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, 1927. 195 p., 22x16 cm, 2 folded maps and many photos. In publisher’s binding with cloth back and hard covers with gilded writing and illustration.

The Battle of Gallipoli from military covered through military, strategic and historical perspectives by German officer Carl Mühlmann and from the German archives...

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Lot: 165 » Rare Book

EDWARD MEAD EARLE – TURKEY, THE GREAT POWERS, AND THE BAGDAD RAILWAY

The MacMillan Company, New York, 1924. 364 p., 19,5x13,5 cm, 2 maps. In publisher’s original cloth binding. Inside of the cover page is signed by the owners at different dates.

It tells about the activities of the imperialist forces in the Ottoman Middle East in line with their interests and the importance of the Baghdad Railway for the Ottomans and Germans in this context, but its drawbacks for the Americans, the British and the French.

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Lot: 166 » Rare Book

CARL RAMBERG – PROFETENS SÖNER; Bilder Fran Turkiet

First edition. Åhlén & Åkerlunds Förlag, Göterborg, 1912. 23x16 cm, 225 p. 36 plates of black and white photos. In marbled hard cover binding with cloth spine and cover corners.

SWEDISH JOURNALIST CARL RAMBERG'S JOURNEY TO THE NEAR EAST IN 1910'S WITH 36 PAGES OF TRAVEL PHOTOS…

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Lot: 167 » Rare Book

ADOLPHE THALASSO (RESİMLER; FAUSTO ZONARO) – DERİ SEADET OU STAMBOUL PORTE DU BONHEURSCENES DE LA VIE TURQUIE

L’Edition d’Art H. Piazza & Cie., Paris, 1908. 217 p., 23x16.5 cm, 49 colored lithographs made from the works of Zonaro preserved with pelur papers. The copy number 232 of the 300-unit limited edition, covered with red silk satin on the inside of the covers and with a gilded motif frame, in a luxury all-red Moroccan leather binding, in a marble-covered cassette box, with gilded page edges. Atabey 1214

A VERY RARE GEM ABOUT ISTANBUL…

PUBLISHED ONLY 300 COPIES… A book by the famous art historian Adolphe Thalasso about Istanbul and the Muslim-Turkish life of Istanbul, containing 49 paintings by the famous orientalist painter Fausto Zonaro. The work offered for sale in the auction is the copy numbered 232 in its exquisite binding and box.

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Lot: 168 » Rare Book

SAVAŞ ALİYAZİKOĞLU- MÜKEMMEL YERUSALİM (KUDÜS) TARİHİ

Hanımlara Mahsus Newspaper Printing House, Istanbul 1903. 441 p., 20x14 cm, 12 photos, 1 map. In publisher’s original decorative cloth binding.

THE HISTORY OF JERUSALEM WRITTEN IN KARAMAN TURKISH…

VERY RARE…THERE IS ONLY 340 BOOKS TO BE FOUND ABOUT RELIGION IN KARAMAN TURKISH…

WITH 12 PHOTOS AND A MAP…

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Lot: 169 » Rare Book

MARCELLE TINAYRE – NOTES D’UNE VOYAGEUSE EN TURQUIE

Calmann-Levy, Paris, 1909. 394 p., 18.5x11.5 cm. In red leather spine with marbled hard covers.

JOURNAL OF MARCELLE TINAYRE, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FEMINIST WRITERS OF THE PERIOD,  WHO SPENT 3 MONTHS IN TURKEY DURING THE JON TURKISH REVOLUTION…

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Lot: 170 » Rare Book

İBRAHİM HAKKI - MARİFETNAME

Elhac Muharrem Efendi Printing House, Istanbul, 1294(1877). 534 p., 22x32 cm, 22 engravings. In fully leather decorative red binding.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIC WORK OF TURKISH MYTHIC SCIENTIFIC IBRAHIM HAKKI COVERING INFORMATION FROM MYTH TO ASTRONOMY AND HUMAN ANATOMY…

THE SECOND OF İBRAHİM HAKKI'S 2 MAIN WORKS…

IN ITS FULL LEATHER COVER…

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Lot: 172 » Rare Book

G. E. HUBBARD – THE DAY OF THE CRESCENT

Cambridge University Press, London, 1920. 242 p., 23x14.5 cm, 16 plates photoengravings. In publisher’s original cloth binding with gilded “janissary” figüre imprinted on the cover. The imprint page signed and dated by the owner.

LIFE, WAR, STATE ORDER, CULTURE, MUSIC IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM A WESTERN AUTHOR'S EYES AND A CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE...

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