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ARTICOLI ET CAPITOLATIONI Fatte Tra Il Christianissimo re di francia & di Nauarra & l’Imperatore de Turchi
Re di Francia, & di Navarra, & l’Imperatore de’ Turchi, 1619 10 pp., 19.5x15 cm. Translated to Italian from its French original.
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RENEWAL OF CAPITULATIONS SIGNED BETWEEN I. AHMED AND IV. HENRI…
1691 ITALIAN EDITION OF THE RENEWAL OF THE CAPITULATIONS WITH 39 ARTICLES SIGNED BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1604…
ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE WORK OFFERED FOR SALE AT THE AUCTION IT IS WRITTEN AS: ‘By the grace of God, the haven of the great princes of the world and honorable emperors, the Emperor of Victorious Emperors, the one that gives a crown to the greatest princes of the universe, the protector and warrior of the Holy Jerusalem, the lord of Europe, Asia and Africa, the lord of Anatolia, Rumelia, Karaman, Egypt, Tbilisi and many other countries, Emperor Ahmed, who is the son of Emperor Suleyman, Emperor Selim, Emperor Murad and Emperor Mehmed’.
A COPY OF THE 1619 EDITION OF THE CAPITULATIONS RENEWED BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND FRANCE WITH 39 ARTICLES TRANSLATED INTO ITALIAN…
RENEWAL ARTICLES WERE NEGOTIATED BETWEEN I. AHMED AND HENRY IV AND WERE WRITTEN DOWN BY XIII. LOUIS. THIS 1619 EDITION OF THE RENEWING OF CAPITULATIONS WHICH IS OFFERED FOR SALE, IS AN ITALIAN TRANSLATION...
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WILLIAM ETON – A SURVEY OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE
Second edition. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1799. 526 p., 21,5x13,5 cm. Bound in gilt embossed spine and hard covers. The ridge edges are professionally repaired, in good condition. Atabey 409, Weber 789.
18 OF THE BRITISH CONSUL, THE ORIENTAL SPECIALIST. ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WHICH HE PENNED AT THE END OF THE CENTURY… IT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN 4 EDITIONS IN 10 YEARS, TRANSLATED INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES…
THE STATE ORGANIZATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN ITS PROVINCES, THE REASONS FOR THE REGRESSION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE TRADE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH ENGLAND…
ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF THE OTTOMAN LIBRARY…
THE BOOK IN WHICH THE BRITISH CONSUL AND ORIENTAL EXPERT WILLIAM ELTON, WHO SPENT 20 YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN THE OTTOMAN LANDS AND RUSSIA, DESCRIBES RESEARCH AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, SUCH AS FINANCE, MILITARY SERVICE, NAVY, RELIGION, TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS IN DETAIL…
ETON, WHICH IS OPPOSED TO THE DOMINATION OF FRANCE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SEES BRITAIN'S INTERESTS IN THE “NEAR EAST" AS FOLLOWING A PRO-GREEK POLICY…
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DEMETRA VAKA – HAREMLIK
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1911 19.5x13 cm, 275 p. In itspublisher’s decorative cloth binding with three crescentand a star motives studded on the covers and the back.
THIS BOOK COVERS THE COMMENTARY BY THE GREEK JOURNALIST DEMETRA VAKA’S 1901 DATING VISIT TO HER HOMETOWN ISTANBUL BACK FROM THE STATES WHERE SHE IMMIGRATED TO AT THE AGE OF 17 ON THE DOMESTIC LIFE AND DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN AFTER THE OTTOMAN MODERNIZATION…
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PIERRE GILLES – PETRI GYLLII DE BOSPORO THRACIO LIBRI III
2nd edition. Lugduni Batavorum, Elzevir, Leiden, 1632 379 pp., 10,5x7 cm. Engraved title. In parchment binding of its period, in outstanding condition. Atabey 495, Blackmer 684.
THE FIRST WORK WRITTEN ON THE BOSPHORUS IN ISTANBUL… EVEN TODAY, IT IS AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR GEOGRAPHERS AND HISTORIANS…
A 390 YEAR OLD POCKET BOOK SIZED MASTERPIECE... ONE OF THE VERY FEW FOUNDATIONS EVEN FOR THE EUROPEAN LIBRARIES…
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IN ITS PARCHMENT COVER OF ITS PERIOD... IN A GREAT CONDITION…
THE FIRST WORK WRITTEN ON THE BOSPHORUS IN ISTANBUL… AN EXTREMELY COMPREHENSIVE MASTERPIECE ON ISTANBUL AND THE BOSPHORUS BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIANS OF THE 16TH CENTURY PIERRE GILLES…
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LIEUTENANT MURRAY–THE TURKISH SPIES ALI ABUBEKER KALED AND ZENOBIA MARRITA MUSTAPHA: or the Mohammedan Prophet; A True History of the Russo-Turkish War
A. R. Orton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo,1854. 267 pp., 22x15 cm. 42 full-page engravings. In its publisher’s decorative cloth binding with gilded image, motives and writing on the covers and the ridge.
A RARE BOOK... IN ITS PUBLISHER’S FANCY BINDING… Eight stories, two of which is on Turkish-Russian war, written by American writer Lieutenant Murray…
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ALBERT RICHARD SMITH –A MONTH IN CONSTANTINOPLE
First edition. David Bogue, London, 1850. 236 p., 20x12,5 cm. 2 full-page engravings, 1 in color, 1 in-text map, 4 pages of solfeggio and numerous in-text engravings. Decorated with gilt and inscribed ridge, gilded tughra on the front cover and embossed decorative cloth binding. Atabey 1145, Blackmer 1552, Weber I 430.
A COMMEMORATIVE WORK BY A FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITER WHO TRAVELED TO ISTANBUL IN 1849, IN WHICH HE WROTE HIS OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ISTANBUL AND LIFE IN ISTANBUL IN AN ENTERTAINING STYLE…
DECORATED WITH GILT, EMBOSSED MOTIF COVERS, THE FRONT COVER IS WITH GOLD GILDED TUGHRA OF THE PUBLISHER…
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HARRY GRINGO –SCAMPAVIAS FROM GIBEL TAREK TO STAMBOUL
Charles Schribner, New York, 1857 362 p., 18,5x13,5 cm. 28 in-text engravings. In leather back and cover corner, marbled hard cover binding, wirh gilded motives on the back and marbled page edges.
THE TRAVELOGUE DATED 1857 WRITTEN BY AN OFFICER ON THE AMERICAN WARSHIP ABOUT THE CITIES THEY VISITED AND THE PEOPLE THEY ENCOUNTERED WHILE CRUISING FROM GIBRALTAR TO ISTANBUL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN…
DRAWING OF THE AUTHOR'S FRIEND FROM THE NAVY 28 IN-TEXT ENGRAVINGS…
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PAUL RYCAUT – THE HISTORY OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE; From the Year 1623 to the YEAR 1677
John Starkey, London, 1680. 31x20 cm, 5 full-page engravings. Fully leather binding, professionally restored ridge. Atabey 1074.
THE HISTORIC OTTOMAN BOOK COVERING THE PERIODS OF IV. MURAD, IBRAHIM AND IV. MEHMED (AVCI) BETWEEN 1623-1677 OF THE FAMOUS HISTORIAN PAUL RYCAULT, WHO WAS A CONSUL IN ISTANBUL AND IZMIR… ACCOMPANIED BY 5 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS…
PAUL RYCAULT, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS HISTORIANS OF HIS TIME WHO WAS A CONSUL IN ISTANBUL AND IZMIR, IS A BOOK ON OTTOMAN HISTORY THAT CONTINUED FROM WHERE THE FAMOUS BOOK “A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TURKS” BY RICHARD KNOLLES, ANOTHER VERY FAMOUS HISTORIAN WHO DIED IN 1610, LEFT OFF UNTIL 1677… RYCAULT'S SULTAN IV. DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS A CONSUL IN ISTANBUL AND IZMIR DURING THE REIGN OF MEHMED, THIS BOOK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE ABOUT THE CRUCIAL EVENTS OF THE ERA OF AVCI MEHMED… 1680 LONDON EDITION…
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ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE – THE LURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN; The Ship Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise
Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1921 393 pp., 22x15 cm., 5 plates full- page and 23 in-text illustrations, 7 plates of full-page photographs. In its publisher’s decorative cloth binding with gildede image of Valide Sultan Mosque and sail kaiques on the front cover.
THE FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITER ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE'S TRAVELOGUE, IN WHICH HE WROTE THE OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES HE GAINED DURING HIS MEDITERRANEAN TRIP, WHICH HE DREAMED OF FOR MANY YEARS AND FINALLY REALIZED… IN ITS DECORATIVE SKIN…
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PROFESSEURS DE NOTRE-DAME DE FRANCE - LA PALESTINE
Fourth ediiton. Maison De La Bonne Presse, Paris, 1928 814 pp., 16x10 cm. 76 maps and plans. On the publisher’s cloth binding.
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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LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE–LADY M.W. MONTAGU’S LETTERS
John Sharpe, London, 1820 168 pp., 13.5x8.5 cm. 2 frontispiece engravings. Fully leather luxurious binding with gilded writing and motifs on the back and cover, gilded page edges, in very good condition.
BEAUTIES OF İSTANBUL, THE OTTOMAN SOCIETY AND WOMEN, MUSLIM CULTURE AND TRADITIONS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WIFE OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR DURING THE "TULIP ERA"…
A CUTE POCKET-SIZED BOOK IN ALL LEATHER BINDING…
LADY MONTAGUE, THE WIFE OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR, LIVED IN İSTANBUL DURING THE "TULIP ERA", KNOWN AS THE MOST SPECTECULAR PERIOD OF THE OTTOMAN HISTORY. THE BOOK CONSISTS OF THE LETTERS WRITTEN BY LADY MONTAGUE TO HER NEAREST FRIENDS AFTER SHE RETURNED BACK TO ENGLAND…
LADY MONTAGUE, WHO LEARNED TURKISH WELL ENOUGH DURING HER RESIDENCY IN İSTANBUL, ALSO INCLUDED THE POEMS WHICH WAS WRITTEN OUT OF ADMIRATION FOR TURKISH POETRY IN HER BOOK…
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BAYARD TAYLOR – TRAVELS IN ARABIA
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1892 296 p., 19x13 cm. 14 full-page engravings. In its publisher’s hard cover cloth binding.
A TRAVELOGUE OF ARABIA COMPILED FROM THE TEXTS OF FAMOUS TRAVELERS WHO MADE TRIPS TO THE ARABIAN PENINSULA IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES… ACCOMPANIED BY 14 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS…
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PAUL RYCAUT – HISTOIRE DE L’ETAT PRESENT DE L’EMPIRE OTTOMAN
3 volumes in one book. Chez Abraham Wolfgank, Amsterdam, 1686. 16.5x9cm, 664 pp., a total of 21 engravings, 19 of which are folded (1.5 pages), 1 full-page frontispiece engraving and 1 in-text. In its parchment skin of the period, in excellent condition. Atabey 1069, Weber II 331, Blackmer 1464.
A 336 YEARS OLD RARE GEM… A MASTERPIECE… THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY BOOK OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE BY PAUL RYCAUT, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIANS OF THE 17TH CENTURY…
RARE POCKET SIZE EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS WORK… 3 VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK… THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE BOOK ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WRITTEN DURING THE PERIOD OF SULTAN IV. MEHMED. THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN ON THE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY STATUS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, BY PAUL RYCAUT, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BRITISH DIPLOMATS OF THE PERIOD, WHO RESIDED IN ISTANBUL FOR 8 YEARS AND IN IZMIR FOR 11 YEARS…
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE BOOK ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WRITTEN DURING THE PERIOD OF SULTAN IV. MEHMED... THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN ON THE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY STATUS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, BY PAUL RYCAUT, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BRITISH DIPLOMATS OF THE PERIOD, WHO RESIDED IN ISTANBUL FOR 8 YEARS AND IN IZMIR FOR 11 YEARS…
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EDWARD UPHAM – HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM ITS ESTABLISHMENT TILL THE YEAR 1828
First edition. Constable & Co. And Hurst, Chance & Co., London, 1829 16x10 cm, 1st vol.: 297 pp., 2nd vol: 390 pp.. 2 engraved frontispieces, 1 folding map. Unused/unread piece, uncut pages. Atabey 1260, Blackmer 1705.
AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE BOOK ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ISLAM…
UPHAM, IN HIS WORK, MENTIONS IMPORTANT PERIODS AND EVENTS BEGINNING WITH THE BIRTH OF MUHAMMAD, THE SPREAD OF ISLAM, THE CALIPHS, ISLAM AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE TRANSITION OF THE CALIPHATE TO THE OTTOMAN, THE OTTOMAN SULTANS UNTIL 1828, THE INTERREGNUM (FETRET) PERIOD AND THE AUSPICIOUS INCIDENT (VAKA-İ HAYRİYE)…
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FRANCIS BEAUFORT- MEMOIR OF A SURVEY OF THE COAST OF KARAMANIA
Captain Hurd, London, 1820 First edition. 61 pp., 13.5x21 cm. 1 full page engraving. In paperback cover. Presentation copy from the author.
MEMOIRS OF A 200-YEAR JOURNEY ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST…
MEMOIRS OF THE JOURNEY OF FRANCIS BEAUFORT, THE FOUNDER OF MODERN HYDROGRAPHIC SCIENCE, HONORED WITH THE TITLE OF KNIGHT, WHICH INCLUDED THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RUINS ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION STRETCHING FROM LYCIA (ANTALYA, FETHIYE) TO ISKENDERUN, WHICH WESTERN SAILORS CALLED “KARAMANIA” IN THE YEARS OF 1811-1812… SAILORS BENEFITED FROM THE WORK OF BEAUFORT’S MEMOIRS ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST UNTIL THE 1970’S…
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PAUL RYCAUT-L’HISTOIRE DE L’EMPIRE OTTOMAN
T. Johnson, La Haye, 1694. 16x10 cm, 1 full page engraving. The back is gilded, completely in the leather skin of its era. The back is expertly repaired, in very good condition…
THE HISTORICAL BOOK OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIANS OF HIS TIME, THE BRITISH DIPLOMAT AND WRITER PAUL RYCAUT, DIED IN 1610, ANOTHER VERY FAMOUS HISTORIAN RICHARD KNOLLES' FAMOUS BOOK “A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TURKS”, A BOOK ON OTTOMAN HISTORY THAT CONTINUED FROM WHERE HE LEFT OFF UNTIL 1677… A 328-YEAR-OLD BOOK... ALL IN LEATHER BINDING OF ITS PERIOD...IN VERY GOOD CONDITION…
THE CHAPTERS IN RYCAUT'S BOOK, WHICH IS BEING SOLD AT THE AUCTION, ARE THE CHAPTERS WRITTEN BY THE MASTER HISTORIAN RICHARD KNOLLES FOR THE FAMOUS BOOK “THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TURKS”. HE LATER TURNED THESE CHAPTERS INTO A BOOK BY MAKING A BRIEF INTRODUCTION WITH THE HISTORY OF THE TURKS AT THE BEGINNING… THE COPY ON SALE IS THE 1694 DATED DUTCH EDITION IN FRENCH…
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RENE-JEAN DURDENT – BEAUTES DE L’HISTOIRE DE TURQUIE
Alexis Eymery, Paris, 1818. 478 p., 17,5x10 cm. 6 full page engravings. The back and cover edges are completely in its leather skin of the period with decorative gilded binding.
THE HISTORY OF MUSLIMS, CALIPHS, OTTOMAN SULTANS AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM THE TIME OF MUHAMMAD UNTIL 1808… 6 FULL PAGE ENGRAVING…
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VINCENZO MARIA CORONELLI – MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES & GEOGRAPHIQUES DU ROYAUME DE LA MOREE, Negrepont & Des Places Maritimes, Jusques a Thessalonique
First Dutch edition. Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & Van Someren, Amsterdam, 1686 232 pp., 16x10,5 cm. 5 folding maps, 27 folding, and a double page engravings, 9 folding plans. In its fully leather binding of the period, the ridge and the imprint page have undergone professional repairs, in very good condition for a 336-year-old book.
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PELOPONNESE WAR BETWEEN VENICE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE BETWEEN 1684 – 1669 WITH 42 DOUBLE-PAGE VISUALS… VERY RARE 1686 FIRST DUTCH EDITION IN FRENCH… A MASTERPIECE THAT WAS TRANSLATED INTO 15 LANGUAGES IN TWO YEARS AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION… POCKET-SIZED, IN A GREAT CONDITION FOR A 336-YEAR-OLD BOOK… 28 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, 5 FOLDING MAPS, 9 FOLDING PLANS
A REFERENCE BOOK EXPLAINING THE PELOPONNESE WAR BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND VENICE, WRITTEN BY THE ITALIAN GEOGRAPHER VINCENZO CORONELLI… CORONELLI'S DRAWINGS, WHICH HE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK, WERE USED IN MANY TRAVELOGUES, HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS… VERY RARE FIRST DUTCH EDITION… A VERY VERY RARE BOOK COMPLETE WITH 42 DOUBLE PAGES OF MAPS, PLANS AND ENGRAVINGS…
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ANTON EDVIN LUX –DIE BALKANHALBINSEL
B. Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 1887 276 p., 24x16cm. 1 folding Istanbul panorama and 1 folded colorized Balkan map, 19 full pages including the introduction, 1 double page (photo) engraving, 48 in-text (photo) engravings, 2 colored in-text maps and 1 in-text plan and other images. On a stylish decorative cloth binding with foil ornaments, pictures and embossments.
A PRECIOUS REFERENCE BOOK ABOUT THE BALKANS AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY… ACCOMPANIED BY 90 VISUALS... 1 ISTANBUL PANORAMA, 1 COLORED BALKANS MAP, DOUBLE PAGE, SINGLE PAGE, IN-TEXT ENGRAVINGS… IN ITS PUBLISHER’S GILT DECORATED, ILLUSTRATED AND EMBOSSED EXCLUSI VOLUME…
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CLAUDE ALEXANDRE DE BONNEVAL – MEMOIRES DU COMTE DE BONNEVAL
Three volumes in one book. Aux depends de la Campagnie & Jean Van Duren, London & La Haye, 1737 First volume 192 p., second volume 186 p., Third volume 269 p., 16x11 cm. In parchment binding of its period. Atabey 129, Blackmer 162.
THE MEMORIES OF BONNEVAL, WHO BECAME A MUSLIM AND ROSE TO VIZIER AND IS KNOWN AS HUMBARACI AHMET PASHA IN OTTOMAN HISTORY… THREE VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK, INCLUDING THE THIRD VOLUME TITLED “NOUVEAUX MEMOIRES DU COMTE DE BONNEVAL”… A VERY RARE EDITION… A 385-YEAR-OLD BOOK... IN ITS PARCHMENT BINDING OF ITS TIME... IN AN EXCELLENT CONDITION…
A BOOK OF MEMOIRS IN WHICH COMTE BONNEVAL, WHO TOOK THE NAME HUMBARACI AHMET PASHA AS A MUSLIM, WROTE ABOUT THE INTRIGUES HE HAD EXPERIENCED OR WITNESSED, HIS MILITARY AND POLITICAL SUCCESSES, HIS LOVE ADVENTURES, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND EUROPE…
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WILLIAM HERBERT – ATTILA KING OF THE HUNS & ATTILA AND HIS PREDECESSORS
Henry G. Bohn, London, 1838. 553 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm. The ribbed and gilded ridge, and cover corners are in leather, in its hard cover marbling.
A REFERENCE BOOK ABOUT ATILLA AND THE HUN EMPIRE…
THE EPIC OF ATTILA, THE HUN EMPIRE, THE EMPIRES ORIGIN, LANGUAGE, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS, RELATIONS AND WARS WITH CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES
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CHARLES DE FERRIOL (Engravings; JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR) - RECUEIL DE CENT ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT DIFFERENTES NATIONS DU LEVANT
Chez Le Hay, Chez Duchange avec privilege du roi, Paris, 1714. 50x33 cm. 3 double page and 99 full page, a total of 102 large sized early woodblock engravings, 1 full page sheet music engraving. In its full leather binding of the period, the ridge has been repaired professionally, in super condition for a 308-year-old book. Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Colas 1819-20; Brunet III, 947-8; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Lipperheide 413, 414.
THE KEYSTONE OF THE OTTOMAN LIBRARY, A 308-YEAR-OLD MASTERPIECE… IN SUPER CONDITION...
IN ITS FULLY LEATHER COVER OF THE PERIOD…
A TOTAL OF 102 LARGE SIZED EARLY WOODCUT JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR ENGRAVINGS, OF WHICH 99 ARE FULL PAGE AND 3 ARE DOUBLE PAGE…
THE WORK THAT BROUGHT JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR TO FAME...
AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK, THE KING OF FRANCE XIV. LOUIS GAVE THE PAINTER VANMOUR THE TITLE OF ‘PEINTRE ORDINAIRE DU ROI EN LEVANT / THE KING'S PRIVATE PAINTER IN THE EAST’…
A COMPLETE PRINT OF 102 ENGRAVINGS IS VERY, VERY RARE…
FERRIOL REVEALS THE MOST SPECTACULAR ERA OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE “TULIP PERIOD”, WITH A DETAILED AND VIVID DESCRIPTION OF OTTOMAN LIFESTYLE WITH VANMOUR’S ENGRAVINGS ...
THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE ENGRAVING ALBUMS CONSISTING OF EARLY OTTOMAN CLOTHES…
THE MASTERPIECE THAT PIONEERED THE ‘TURQUERIE’ FASHION THAT HAS INFLUENCED EUROPE FOR MANY YEARS…
JEAN BAPTISTE VANMOUR, WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL IN 1699 WITH THE ENTOURAGE OF THE ARISTOCRAT AND POLITICIAN MARQUES CHARLES DE FERRIOL, PAINTED THE OTTOMAN AMBASSADOR RECEPTION CEREMONIES, THE ‘TULIP PERIOD’ ISTANBUL AND OTTOMAN CLOTHES IN FULL DETAIL… FERRIOL'S DETAILED DESCRIPTION, ACCOMPANIED BY ENGRAVINGS OF VANMOUR'S PAINTINGS, HAS GIVEN THIS MASTERPIECE THE TITLE OF A SOURCE DOCUMENTING DOCUMENTING THE OTTOMAN STATE CULTURE OF ITS PERIOD AND THE HIERARCHY WITHIN THE STATE… THE BOOK ALSO CONTAINS AN ENGRAVING OF THE SHEET MUSIC OF A COMPOSITION FOR THE DERVISHES OF PERA WRITTEN BY SIR CHABERT, WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL WITH FERRIOL…
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JOSIAH BREWER (Derleme; John W. Barber) - PATMOS AND THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA, TOGETHER WITH PLACES IN THE VICINITY FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE YEAR 1850
Bradley and Peck, Bridgeport, CT., 1851. 364 pp., 14x23 cm. It is signed by the author himself. 14 full page engravings and numerous in text maps and engravings. In its original cloth skin with gilt lettering and motifs on the cover and gilded ridge. Presentation copy.
HANDWRITTEN DEDICATED EDITION BY THE AUTHOR HIMSELF… COMPILATION OF DIARIES KEPT BY LEVANTINE MISSIONARY JOSIAH BREWER FROM 1834… 14 FULL PAGE AND NUMEROUS IN TEXT ENGRAVINGS, ACCOMPANIED BY A MAP…
BREWER, WHO SPENT 7 MONTHS IN IZMIR AND ISTANBUL DURING HIS MIDDLE EAST TRIP BETWEEN 1826-1827, THEN MOVED TO IZMIR IN 1830, WHERE HE LIVED FOR 8 YEARS, OBSERVES AND EXAMINES THE ANCIENT AND MODERN STATES OF THE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CENTERS OF THE AEGEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN IN TERMS OF CHRISTIANITY... PATMOS, EPHESUS, IZMIR, TROY, PERGAMON, MILETUS, MANISA, ALASEHIR, ICONIUM (KONYA), LAODICEA, KARAHAYIT (PAMUKKALE), GALIA, PISIDIA, LISTRA, ANTALYA, ANTAKYA, CYPRUS…
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RICHARD ALFRED DAVENPORT - THE LIFE OF ALI PASHA, OF TEPELENI, VIZIER OF EPIRUS: SURNAMED ASLAN OR THE LION
Thomas Tegg and Son, London, 1837. 15x10cm, 418 p. 1 full page engraving. The back is gilded patterned and cover corners are leather, marble patterned hardcover binding.
A RARE BOOK THAT COMES OUT… THE LIFE OF ALBANIAN-BORN ALI PASHA, WHO HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF MANY BOOKS, FROM HIS CHILDHOOD UNTIL HIS APPOINTMENT AS THE GOVERNOR OF IOANNINA BY THE OTTOMAN STATE, THE REVOLT OF SULTAN MAHMUD II AND HIS EXECUTION… AN IMPORTANT SOURCE ABOUT THE "EASTERN QUESTION" IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY…
THE BOOK, ALSO CALLED ”THE LION OF IOANNINA", CONTAINS DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT TEPEDENLI ALI PASHA, WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE REGRESSION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO ESTABLISH HIS OWN DYNASTY IN THE EPIRUS REGION BETWEEN ALBANIA AND GREECE, FOUGHT WITH THE OTTOMAN STATE, WAS EVENTUALLY EXECUTED, AND THE PEOPLES AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION…
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ODYSSEUS – TURKEY IN EUROPE
First edition. Edward Arnold, London, 1900 475 pages, 23x15 cm. 2 folding maps. The cover is with a crescent and star, in the publisher’s cloth binding.
MINORITIES IN THE DECLINING OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM THE EYES OF A BRITISH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATOR …
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