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Lot: 26 » Rare Book

SIR GEORGE WHELER - VOYAGE DE DALMATIE, DE GRECE ET DU LEVANT

2 volumes in one book. Jean Wolter, Amsterdam, 1689. 16x10 cm, 1st vol. 301 pp., 2nd vol. 306 pp., 84 full-page engravings (16 of them on numismatics), 4 folding maps and inscriptions. In fully leather binding of the period. In great condition. Atabey 1328, Weber 413, Blackmer 1786.

FAMOUS TRAVELOGUE OF THE JOURNEY COVERING THE BALKANS, İSTANBUL, ANATOLIA AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS WHICH HAPPENED TO BE A PIONEER AMONG SCIENTIFIC TRAVELBOOKS AND A MILETONE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRAVEL GENRE…

ATABEY 1328, WEBER 413, BLACKMER 1786

VERY RARE POCKET SIZED FRENCH EDITION PRINTED IN AMSTERDAM DATING 1689…

330 YEARS OLD BOOK…

IN EXCELLENT CONDITION…

84 FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS…

THIS BOOK IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MASTERPIECE OF THE BRITISH TRAVEL GENRE…

FAMOUS TRAVELOGUE OF NATURAL SCIENTIST GEORGE WHELER’S JOURNEY WITH ARCHEOLOGIST JACOB SOON BETWEEN 1675-1676 IN DALMATIA, GREECE, İSTANBUL, ANATOLIA AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS WHERE OTTOMAN EMPIRE RULED AT THE TIME AT… THIS BOOK CONTAINS SUCH VALUABLE ARCHEOLOGICAL, BOTANOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS…

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Lot: 27 » Rare Book

FRED BURNABY – ON HORSEBACK THROUGH ASIA MINOR

London, Gilbert & Rivington, 1877. 2 vols; Volume 1: 352 p., 1 portrait photograph, 1 folding map, volume 2: 399 p., 2 folding maps. 22.5x14.5 cm. Ribbed ridge with gild details, leather on the ridge and cover corners, in the hard cover with marbling pattern.

DEDICATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE BOOK…

THE BOOK TELLS ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF BRITISH ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER FREDERİCK BURNABY STARTING FROM ISTANBUL TO THE RUSSIAN BORDER IN THE EAST FOR 5 MONTHS DURING THE WINTER BEFORE THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1877-78…

A COPY OF THIS CLASSIC IS HAPPENED TO BE IN THE ROYAL COLLECTION… STILL BEING PRINTED TODAY, ONE OF THE MOST READ…

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Lot: 30 » Rare Book

LAONIKOS CHALKOKONDYLES (THOMAS ARTUS, FRANÇOIS EUDES DE MEZERAY, MICHEL BAUDIER, BLAISE DE VIGENERE) – HISTOIRE GENERALE DES TURCS

First edition. Chez Augustin Courbe, Paris, 1662. 37x24 cm, 2 volumes; Vol. 1, 905 pp., vol. 2; 766 p. 1st volume 20 full-page wooden engravings of Turkish rulers; Vol. 2, 1 folding İstanbul map and 1 Turkish Army's folding battle plan, 5 full-page wooden engravings of Turkish rulers, 64 full-page engravings of men's and women's clothing, and 17 full-page allegorical engravings. In leather binding of the period. Professionally repaired ridge, water stains on some pages. Overall, a copy in good condition.

VERY RARE… 360 YEARS OLD MASTERPIECE… FIRST EDITION…

ESSENTIAL REFERENCE BOOK ON OTTOMAN HISTORY BETWEEN 1298-1649…

TOTAL OF 106 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, 1 FOLDING İSTANBUL MAP AND 1 FOLDING OTTOMAN ARMY’S BATTLE PLAN… A MASTERPIECE OF 2 VOLUMES COVERING 23 BOOKS… ORIGINAL TEXTS WRITTEN BY CHALKOKONDYLES IN THE FIRST 10 BOOKS…

WRITTEN BY CHALKOKONDYLES, FAMOUS GREEK HISTORIAN WHO LIVED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE CONQUEST OF ISTANBUL… THIS WORK IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST AMONG THE HISTORY BOOKS ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE’S RISE OF THE OF FALL OF BYZANTINE EMPIRE…                                                                                     

CHALKOKONDYLES IS KNOWN AS THE FIRST GREEK AUTHOR TO TREAT ISLAM AS A LEGITIMATE RELIGION…

THE LAST 13 BOOKS CONTAINS ADDITIONS BY THOMAS ARTUS, FRANÇOIS EUDES DE MEZERAY, MICHEL BAUDIER AND BLAISE DE VIGENERE AND UPDATES TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF CHALKOKONDYLES (c.1423-c.1473) ABOUT THE PERIOD 1474-1649…

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Lot: 31 » Rare Book

JULES GERVAIS-COURTELLOMNT – MON VOYAGE A LA MECQUE

Librairie Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1896. 18x11 cm, 252 pp., 1 folding Mecca panorama, a total of 33 pictures, 13 of which are 20 of the author's own photographs, and 20 of them are in-text pictures. In decorative binding with gilded texts on the ridge and covers.

A TRAVEL TO MECCA WITH NEVER PUBLISHED BEFORE PHOTOS OF MECCA, WRITTEN BY JULES GERVAIS- COURTELLEMONT, THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO GO TO MECCA IN 1894 AND CONVERTED TO ISLAM…

THE FRENCH AUTHOR WAS A FAMOUS TRAVELER WHO HAS MADE MANY TRAVELS AMONG THE OTTOMAN LANDS AND ALSO A FRIEND OF PIERRE LOTI…

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Lot: 33 » Rare Book

SIEVR (ANDRE) DU RYER, SIEUR DE LA GARDE MALEZAIR - L’ALCORAN DE MAHOMET

Paris, Chez Antoine de Sommaville, 1649 second edition (first edition in 1647). 416 p., 13.5x7.5 cm. In vellum covered binding of the period. In super condition.

RARE… A 373 YEARS OLD COPY OF QURAN TRANSLATION INTO FRENCH…

FIRST QURAN EVER TRANSLATED INTO A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE…

IN VELLUM COVERED BINDING OF THE PERIOD…

IN EXCELLENT CONDITION…

SINCE THIS WORK IS THE FIRST QURAN EVER TRANSLATED INTO A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE, THIS TRANSLATION WAS ABLE TO REACH TO THE EUROPEAN MASSES, SO THAT THEY COULD READ THIS HOLY BOOK… IT IS ALSO CONSIDERED TO BE THE PIONEER AMONGST QURAN TRANSLATIONS INTO EUROPEAN LANGUAGES…

L'ALCORAN DE MAHOMET HAS BEEN A MEDIUM TO BREAK DOWN THE PREJUDICES IN EUROPE AGAINST THE TURKS AND ISLAM WHICH WAS CALLED THE "RELIGION OF THE TURKS" AT THAT PERIOD…

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Lot: 35 » Rare Book

JEAN BAPTISTE CLAUDE DELISLE DE SALES - HISTORE COMPLETTE DE L’ANCIENNE GRECE

Bureau de l'Histoire des Hommes, Paris, 1786. 20x13 cm, 13 vols. Vol. 1; 343 pp., Vol. 2; 360 pp., Vol. 3; 358 pp., Vol. 4; 340 pp., Vol. 5; 324 pp., Vol. 6; 324 pp., Vol. 7; 328 pp., Volume 8; 324 pp., Vol. 9; 312 pp., Vol. 10; 364 pp., Vol. 11; 320 pp., vol. 12; 316 p., Vol. 13; 100 p., 43 full-page engravings, of which 16 are folding, 11 folding maps and 4 folding tables. In its leather binding with gilding on the ridge. Despite some minor professional repairs on the ridges, the binding is in very good condition for this very rare 13 volume book.

VERY RARE… A 253 YEARS OLD MASTERPIECE OF 13 VOLUMES…

AN INCREDIBLY VALUABLE GEM ABOUT ANATOLIAN HISTORY…

ONE OF THE MOST DEEPLY DETAILED BOOKS ON ANCIENT GREEK CITY STATES…

43 ENGRAVINGS, 16 OF THEM ARE FOLDING, 11 FOLDING MAPS…

THIS SERIES MENTIONS OF THE RELATIONS AMONGST THE ANCIENT GREEK CITIES, THEIR HISTORIES, GEOGRAPHIES, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHERS, MYTHOLOGIES, ARTS, ARCHITECURE AND POLITICS… THEREFORE CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST COMPETENT WORKS…

A MASTERWORK ON THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL WEALTH OF THE ANATOLIAN LANDS…

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Lot: 38 » Rare Book

EDMONDO DE AMICIS (Çeviri; MADAM J. COLOMB) – CONSTANTINOPLE

Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1883. 452 p., 28x19.5 cm, in total more than 100 in-text and full-page engravings. Gilded texts and reliefs on the leather ridge and leather covered corners, with a marbling cover. In super condition. Atabey 19.

THE FAMOUS TRAVELOGUE OF AMICIS’ JOURNEY TO ISTANBUL, TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES AND PRINTED MANY TIMES…

ACCOMPANIED WITH 183 PATTERNS OF FAMOUS ORIENTALIST PAINTER CESARE BISEO…

“İstanbul is a universal and immense beauty before which the poet and the archaeologist, the ambassador and the merchant, the princess and the sailor, the northerner and the southerner shout in the same sense of admiration...”  - Edmondo De Amicis

IN EXCELLENT CONDITION… A MASTERPIECE… A CLASSIC…

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Lot: 39 » Rare Book

OCTAVIEN DALVIMART - THE COSTUME OF TURKEY

Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1804. 37x26 cm, 60 colored engravings. In foil patterned binding with gilded ridge and gilded page edges. Mostly a good copy, with some of the page margins professionally repaired.

A FAMOUS MASTERPIECE ON OTTOMAN COSTUMES WITH ITS COLORED ENGRAVINGS…

60 COLORED ENGRAVINGS…

A CLASSIC… DALVIMART’S FAMOUS OTTOMAN COSTUME… These engravings, drawn during Octavien Dalvimart's trip to the Ottoman Empire in 1798, show the pre-modern attire of all civil and administrative sections of Ottoman society.

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Lot: 40 » Rare Book

HENRY MONTAGUE HOZIER - THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN POWER, HISTORY OF THE EASTERN QUESTION

William MacKenzie, London, 1879. 192 pp., (each) 5 volumes, 27.5x21.5 cm, 24 engravings, 2 partially colored, 6 double pages, 8 maps, pictures and emblems printed on exquisite decorative percaline bindings, the ridge in gilded inscription and ornamented, gilded margins.

A MASTERPIECE ON THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR; STUNNING ENGRAVINGS OF THE WESTERN AND EAST FACADES; PLEVNE, YEŞİLKÖY, İSTANBUL, KARS AND ERZURUM…

HOZIER'S 5-VOLUME 1877-1878 OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR CLASSIC IN ITS EXQUISITE BINDING…

INCLUDING ENGRAVINGS OF SULTAN II. ABDULHAMID, PASHAS, RUSSIAN TSAR II. ALEXANDRE, RUSSIAN COMMANDERS…

SIR HENRY MONTAGUE HOZIER REPORTS ON THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR AND THE BATTLES HAPPENED IN THE BALKAN PENINSULA, ANATOLIA AND THE BLACK SEA IN EXCELLENT DETAIL, THROUGH HIS OWN EYES, THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR, PUTS THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE UNDER THE SCOPE…

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Lot: 41 » Rare Book

EDMUND CHISHULL - TRAVELS IN TURKEY AND BACK TO ENGLAND

First and edition. W. Bowyer, London, 1747. 192 p., 35x23 cm. In its leather binding of the period. Imprint page has been majorly restored; other pages are in excellent condition. Atabey 240; Weber II 452; Blackmer 341.

VERY RARE… A 275 YEARS OLD BOOK…

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION…

ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS, ONLY 25 OF THE 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED ON LARGE SHEETS…

THE ON SALE COPY WAS PRINTED ON LARGE SHEETS…

TRAVELOGUE WRITTEN IN LETTERS BY CHISHULL, PRIEST AT THE “LEVANT COMPANY” FACTORY IN IZMIR, COVERING HIS TRAVELS TO EFES, İZMİR, MANİSA, GELİBOLU AND İSTANBUL…

PUBLISHED BY CHISHULL'S SON AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1747…

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Lot: 43 » Rare Book

ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN (Resimler; WARWICK GOBLE) – CONSTANTINOPLE

A.&C. Black, London, 1906. 282 p., 22.5x16 cm. 63 plates of watercolor paintings preserved with indian paper, 1 folding İstanbul map. In its publisher's gilded and patterned decorative cloth binding, the top of the page edges gilded as well.

A MAGNIFICIENT BOOK ON LATE 19TH CENTURY İSTANBUL IN ITS DECORATIVE BINDING AND ACCOMPANIED BY WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS…

This work, designed for the illustrated world cities series of A. & C. Black Publishing House, brought together a writer and an artist in the daily life of a city that has left its mark on world cultural history, and gave the importance it deserves to İstanbul, which was the capital of a huge empire…

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Lot: 44 » Rare Book

AARON HILL – A FULL AND JUST ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

G. Parker, London, 1733, 2nd edition. 31x20 cm, 312 pp. Hard cover cloth binding, pages yellowed due to aging but no serious flaws, in good condition. There is no engravings in this copy, this book normally comes with 5 engravings in total. Atabey 581, Blackmer 817

290 YEARS OLD BOOK…

AN IMPORTANT GEM FOR OTTOMAN LIBRARY…

ATABEY 581, BLACKMER 817...

TRAVELOGUE OF YOUNG HILL'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTTOMAN LANDS IN THE ACCOMPANY OF A PRIEST…

THE FIRST EDITION WAS PUBLISHED WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ONLY 24 YEARS OLD…

IN THIS TRAVELBOOK HILL WROTE ABOUT THE SOCIAL LIFE, TRADITIONS CULTURAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND ECONOMIC SITUATIONS IN DETAILS OVERLOOKED BY PREVIOUS TRAVELERS…

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Lot: 45 » Rare Book

PROFESSEURS DE NOTRE-DAME DE FRANCE - LA PALESTINE

Maison De La Bonne Presse, Paris, 1932. 814 pp., 16x10 cm. 76 maps and plans. On the publisher's cloth binding. In very good condition.

AN EXCELLENT GUIDE TO THE HOLY LANDS AND THE MIDDLE EAST…

AN EXCELLENT HOLYLANDS AND MIDDLE POCKET BOOK WRITTEN BY THE FRENCH PROFESSORS OF NOTRE-DAME CHURCH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JERUSALEM IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY ACCOMPANIED BY MANY MAPS AND PLANS…

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Lot: 46 » 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 pp., 23x16.5 cm. 49 colored lithographs made from the works of Zonaro and preserved with indian papers. Copy 189 of the limited edition of 300 copies. Cover interiors are gilded and red marbling patterned, ribbed ridge, cover corners and the ridge in Moroccan leather, page top edges are gilded, marbling covered cassette. In perfect condition. Atabey 1214

A RARE GEM ON İSTANBUL…

WITH ITS TEXT AND PICTURES, A HIGHLY VALUABLE BOOK FOR ART HISTORIANS AND PICTURE COLLECTORS…

COPY NUMBER 189 OF LIMITED 300 PIECES…

“Among all the excitement, my book came out. Déri Sé'adet. A seed I have sowed generously in my field, which I have irrigated with meticulous, relentless effort for twenty years.” - Fausto Zonaro

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Lot: 47 » Rare Book

EDWIN AUGUSTUS GROSVENOR – CONSTANTINOPLE

First edition. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1895. 25x18 cm, 2 volumes; Vol. 1, 413 pp., Vol. 2, 398 pp., in-text and full page with more than 200 photographs and illustrations. Ridge and covers are decorated with foil and texts, the top edges of the pages are gilded, in blue cloth binding.

A MUST READ BOOK FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN İSTANBUL AND ITS HISTORY…

WRITTEN BY AMERICAN COSMOPOLIT HISTORIAN AND ROBERT COLLEGE TEACHER EDWIN GROSVENOR, WITH THE HELP OSMAN HAMDI BEY AND ARCHEOLOGIST PASPATI, ACCOMPANIED BY MORE THAN 200 PHOTOS ON İSTANBUL’S HISTORY, OTTOMAN & BYZANTINE ARCHITECURE…

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Lot: 48 » Rare Book

STANWOOD COBB – THE REAL TURK

The Pilgrim Press, Boston, 1914. 21.5x14.5 cm, 301 pp. 20 full-page black and white photographs. On the hard cover binding with a black and white photograph of Rumeli Hisarı.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK THAT ENSURES AMERICANS TO BREAK DOWN THEIR PREJUDICES AGAINST TURKS AND ISLAM WITH SYMPATHY…

THE LIVES, EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF AMERICAN HISTORIC AND AUTHOR STANWOOD COBB IN TURKEY, WHICH WITNESSED THE BIRTH OF THE JON TURKISH PARTY AND THE RISE OF II. ABDULHAMID… ACCOMPANIED BY NEVER PUBLISHED BEFORE PHOTOS…

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Lot: 50 » Rare Book

THOMAS WALSH - JOURNAL OF THE LATE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT

Second edition. T. Cadell, London, 1803. 27x22.5 cm, 145 pp., 26 plate engravings (2 folding, 6 colored), 12 maps (4 folding), 6 battle plans (4 folding). The ridge and corners of the covers are leather, the covers are marbling patterned. Atabey 1317, Abbey (travel) 266, Blackmer 1767.

A MUST HAVE BOOK IN OTTOMAN BOOK COLLECTION…

ONE OF THE MOST DETAILED REFERENCE BOOKS OF THE FRENCH'S 1798-1801 EGYPT EXPEDITION AND THE BATTLE AGAINST THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH ARMIES…

26 ENGRAVINGS, 12 MAPS, 6 BATTLE PLANS…

MAJORITY OF THE ENGRAVINGS, MAPS AND BATTLE MAPS ARE DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR HIMSELF…

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