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THEOPHILE LAVALLEE (Gravürler; Thomas Allom) – HISTOIRE DE L’EMPIRE OTOMAN
First edition. Garnier Fréres, Paris, 1855. 528 p., 27x17.5 cm, 18 plate steel engraving. In leather spine decorative luxurious binding with gilded motifs and writing, and gilded page edges. Binding is tight and in fine condition, moderate foxing. Blackmer 963, Atabey 681.
A MASTERPIECE OF OTTOMAN HISTORY ADORNED WITH ALLOM'S ENGRAVINGS…
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LOUIS ENAULT - CONSTANTINOPLE ET LA TURQUIE
First edition. L. Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1855 452 p., 18x11.5 cm. In leather spine with marbled hard cover binding. Atabey 400.
OTTOMAN SULTANS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND ISTANBUL, ‘THE CITY OF SULTANS’…
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ROBERT WALSH (Gravürler; THOMAS ALLOM) –CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SCENERY OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR
2 volumes in one book Fisher, Son & Co., London, 1836-38. Vol.I 84 p., Vol.II 100 p., 28x21.5 cm. 94 steel plate engraving, 1 full page and 1 folding maps. In luxurious decorative blue leather covered bindig, with gilded motives and writing on the back and covers, and gilded page edges. The back is expertly restored, the inside and the engravings are in very good condition.
WITH MISS PARDOE'S “THE BEAUTIES OF BOSPHORUS”, IT IS ONE OF THE TWO MOST CHARACTERISTIC MASTERPIECES NARRATING THE NATURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTIES OF THE MULTICULTURAL CAPITAL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH GREAT APPRECIATION A MASTERPIECE OF AN ISTANBUL TRAVELOGUE BY THOMAS ALLOM, ADORNED WITH 94 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS AND TWO MAPS, ONE OF WHICH IS FOLDED...
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MRS. GEORGE SUMNER – OUR HOLIDAY IN THE EAST
First print. Hurst and Blackett, London, 1881 342 p., 23x16 cm. 1 full page and 1 in-imprint-page engravings. In its publisher’s cloth binding with gilded oriental imag on the front cover and gilded writing on the back.
THE HOLY LAND RULED BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE AUTHOR SUMNER, WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF AN ANGLICAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION AND A BISHOPS WIFE…
IN THE BOOK, WHICH IS TAKEN AS A TRAVELOGUE, SUMNER CONVEYS IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE HOLY LAND AND THE REIGN AND ROLE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THESE LANDS… AFTER THE FIRST EDITION WHICH WAS OFFERED FOR SALE IN 1881, THE BOOK ATTRACTED GREAT INTEREST, RESULTING IN THE PRINTING OF A SECOND EDITION IN 1882…
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WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS - THE TURK AND HIS LOST PROVINCES
Fleming H. Revell Company, London & Edinburgh, Chicago, New York, Toronto 1903. 396 pages, 23x15 cm, 29 plates of pictures and 1 map. Illustrated front cover, in publisher’s own clothbound.
CURTIS' OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE LANDS LOST BY THE OTTOMANS IN THE BALKANS; Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Greece…
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JOHN ANTHONY CRAMER – A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICALDESCRIPTION OF ASIA MINOR; WITH A MAP
First edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1832. 2 volumes; first volume 475 p., second volume 424 p., 22,5x14 cm. Fully covered in leather, ribbed spine and cover edges are with gilding decoration and page edges are with marbled pattern. This book rarely comes out with a map inside, the copy offered for sale is without a map. In the Atabey collection, the map has been printed separately from the book. Atabey 296.
THE MASTERPIECE BY THE FAMOUS ENGLISH LITERARY AND GEOGRAPHER CRAMER, WHICH IS USED AS A REFERENCE BOOK EVEN TODAY…
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT REFERENCE BOOKS ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHY AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF ANATOLIA, AEGEAN ISLANDS AND CYPRUS… IN THE BOOK, THERE ARE CHAPTERS DESCRIBING THE FALL OF ISTANBUL AND THE SIEGE OF TROY…
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MRS. ANNIE BRASSEY - SUNSHINE AND STORM IN THE EAST, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
First edition. Longmans Green and Co., London, 1880 448 p., 23x16 cm. 2 colored folding maps, 9 full-page and 105 in-text wood engravings. Ribbed leather back with gilded writing and motives, and hard cover with leather corners binding.
BRITISH BARONESS LADY BRASSEY'S TRAVELOGUE OF ISTANBUL, THE OTTOMAN COAST, THE AEGEAN ISLANDS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ON HER YACHT ‘SUNBEAM’…
LADY BRASSEY'S ENGROSSING TRAVELOGUE, IN WHICH SHE WROTE INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS AND DETERMINATIONS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ON THE AEGEAN AND EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COASTS AND ISLANDS, EXOTIC DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES IN A DIARY LAYOUT… ACCOMPANIED BY MORE THAN 100 FULL-PAGE AND IN-TEXT ENGRAVINGS…
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OCTAVIEN DALVIMART - THE COSTUME OF TURKEY
Thomas M’Lean, London, 1804. 36x26.5 cm, 60 color engravings. Gilded writings and patterns on the ridge and cover corners, page edges are gilded as well. In its maracon leather decorative binding of its period and in a very good condition. The upper part junction of the spine and back cover is repaired. Atabey 314, Abbey travel 370, Blackmer 444.
THE MOST IMPORTANT MASTERPIECE ABOUT OTTOMAN COSTUMES IN THE 18TH CENTURY WITH 60 COLOR ENGRAVINGS... IN ITS GREAT CONDITION AND LUXURIOUS BINDING…
A FAMOUS MASTERPIECE ON OTTOMAN COSTUMES… 60 COLORED ENGRAVINGS… The engravings, drawn during Octavien Dalvimart's trip to the Ottoman Empire in 1798, show the pre-modern attire of all civil and administrative Ottoman society in 18th century.
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EWALD BANSE – DİE TÜRKEİ
Verlang Von George Westermann, Braunschweig, 1915. 452 p., 24x16.5 cm, 1 plate color painting, 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.
THE LAST PERIOD OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE BEFORE ITS DECLINE THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN GEOGRAPHER, PROFESSOR EWALD BANSE, WHO ADMIRES ATATURK…
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC MOSAIC OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2OTH CENTURY, AS WELL AS THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE OTTOMAN-GERMAN EMPIRES…
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PRINCESS DJAVIDAN HANUM – HAREM LIFE; By Ex Wife of Abbas Hilmi II Khedive of Egypt
Noel Douglas, London, 1931 335 pp., 19x13 cm. In its publisher’s hardcover binding.
CONTROVERSIAL LIVES OF WOMEN IN SULTANI AND HIDIVE HAREMS… The memories of Princess Djavidan Hanum, ex-wife of last Ottoman Khedive Abbas Hilmi II.
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İBRAHİM MÜTEFERRİKA (Editing and Translation) – FÜYUZAT-I MIKNATISİYE
Muteferrika Printing, Istanbul, 1732. 45 p., 19.5 x 14 cm. 2 full-page compass engraving. Containing 23 gilts and page numbers were made according to the gilt method in the work. In its original back of the thin leather cardboard cover skin of the period. The tears on the sides of the 4 pages that did not cover the writing were restored with the papers of the period.
THE BENEFITS OF THE ”FÜYUZAT-I MIKNATISİYE ", THAT IS, THE MAGNET (COMPASS), WHICH IBRAHIM MUTEFERRIKA TRANSLATED AND COMPILED FROM VARIOUS WESTERN SOURCES INTO OTTOMAN…
THE FIRST GEOPHYSICAL BOOK OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…
IT IS THE TENTH OF 17 BOOKS THAT MÜTEFERRIKA PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFETIME…
IN THE ORIGINAL VOLUME OF THE PERIOD…
MUTEFERRIKA SAYS IN HIS WORK THAT THE MAGNET STONE IS ONE OF THE GREAT BLESSINGS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO HIS SERVANTS, REFERRING TO THE FUNCTION AND BENEFIT OF THIS STONE IN FINDING THE DIRECTION OF THE QIBLA AND IN SHIPPING, AND THAT IT WAS NAMED “MAGNET” BECAUSE IT WAS FIRST FOUND IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MANISA… WITH 2 PAGES OF COMPASS ENGRAVING IN THE BACK OF THE WORK…
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WILLIAM COWPER PRIME –TENT LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND
First edition. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1857. 498 p., 20x13 cm. 2 double-page engravings (1 of which is the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), 5 full-page engravings and 17 end-of-chapter mini-engravings. In its hardcover cloth binding.
THE TRAVELOGUE OF THE JOURNEY OF THE AMERICAN TRAVELER AND JOURNALIST WRITER PRIME, IN THE HOLY LANDS OF THE OTTOMAN PERIOD…
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER – CONSTANTINOPLE
Bibliotheque – Charpentier, Paris, 1913. 564 pp., 18x12.5 cm. In its publisher’s cloth-bound cardboard cover.
THE COPY OF THE 1913 EDITION BELONGING THE FIRST PUBLICATION MADE IN 1853 COVERING GAUTIER'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE DAILY LIFE AND HISTORICAL PLACES HE VISITED DURING HIS JOURNEY TO ISTANBUL AND IZMIR IN THE YEARS OF 1852-1853, SOME OF THESE WRITINGS WERE ALSO PRINTED IN “LA PRESS”…
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L’ILLUSTRATION; 3 May - 30 August 1930 deluxe bound book
The weekly L'Illustration magazines, published between May 3 and August 30, 1930, in which some of the issues also include news about the Ottoman Empire, are together in a large format luxury binding with leather spine and marbling cover, 38x29 cm.
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GEORGINA MARY MUIR MACKANZIE & ADELINA PAULINE IRBY - TRAVELS IN THE SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY-IN-EUROPE
Revised edition with 3 additional chapters. Daldy, Isbister & Co., London, 1877 2 vols; 1st vol. 313 p., 2nd vol. 341 p., 22x15 cm. 1 folding color map, 2 folding and 17 full-page engravings. In leather back and cover corners, and pandosite hardcover binding. Atabey; 746.
AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE BOOK ON THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF THE BALKANS AND THE “EAST PROBLEM” IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY…
THE BOOK, WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF A TRAVELOGUE CONTAINING DETAILED RESEARCH AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF THE BALKANS DURING THE TRIP OF TWO ENGLISH TEACHERS MACKENZIE AND IRBY, WHO FOUNDED A TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL IN SARAJEVO, SERBIA AND THE BALKANS BETWEEN 1861-1864, WAS EXPANDED IN 1877 EDITION WITH THE ADDITION OF 3 CHAPTERS REFERING TO THE “EASTERN PROBLEM” AFTER THE BULGARIAN UPRISING OF 1876…
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FRANÇOIS BARON DE TOTT – MEMOIRES DE BARON DE TOTT; Sur Les Turcs et Les Tatars
2 volumes including 4 chapters in one book and 1 Atlas. Amsterdam, 1785 (2. edition). 1. volume 500 p., 2. volume 380 p., a total of 16 engravings, 1 being a full-page, and the others are double page engravings, 26x20,5 cm. In their leather marbled hard covers. There is a wetting-induced paper melt on the lower corner edges of the first 30 pages of the book. Scarce. Atabey 1228, Weber 534, Blackmer 1667.
A MASTERPIECE ABOUT THE REGRESSION PERIOD OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE 18TH CENTURY BY A FRENCH OFFICER OF HUNGARIAN ORIGIN… IT BECAME ONE OF THE 2 MOST WIDELY READ BOOKS ABOUT THE TURKS IN EUROPE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION. THE FIRST EDITION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1784, FOLLOWED BY A SECOND EDITION, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1785…
THE OPERATION OF THE STATE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE DECLINE PERIOD THROUGH THE NARRATION OF A FRENCH OFFICER OF HUNGARIAN ORIGIN, SEEKING OUT FOR FRENCH INTERESTS, WHO CAME TO OTTOMAN ISTANBUL IN THE 18TH CENTURY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WAR ON THE OTTOMAN SIDE IN THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR AND PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE… AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE IN TERMS OF TURKISH LANGUAGE, TRADE AND DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS…
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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 ORIENTAL TRAVELOGUE OF THE FRENCH WRITER AND STATESMAN LAMARTINE
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J. ELLERBECK – EASTERN RAMBLES AND REMINISCENCES
First and only edition. Lythsm: Lytham and St. Annes Standard Newspaper Company, 1909 347 pp., 22x15 cm. 15 photogravure sheets. In its publisher’s original clothbound.
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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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER – IN THE LEVANT
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1901. 568 p., 21x14 cm. 25 plates of photo engravings protected by indian paper. In its fancy cloth binding with gilded image, motives and letters on the cover and the ridge.
THE WELL-KNOWN LEVANT TRAVELOGUE BY THE FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHOR CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER OF 19TH CENTURY… A CLASSIC… REPRINTED MANY TIMES…
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TEVFİK FİKRET–ÖZGÜRSÜN (HALUK’UN DEFTERİ)
First edition. Hasan Tahsin, Tanin Printing House, Istanbul H.1327 (1911). 98 p., 20.5x16 cm. Page edges uncut except the gilded upper edges. In its publisher’s paperback binding with gilded writing in Arabic letters on the front cover. In good condition.
THE BOOK OF POEMS DEDICATED BY TEVFIK FIKRET TO HIS SON HALUK…
THE BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1911 BY REMOVING THE CLICHÉ FROM THE ORIGINAL COPY BASED ON THE POETRY BOOK “HALUK'S NOTEBOOK”, WHICH TEVFIK FIKRET WROTE IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING AND DEDICATED TO HIS SON HALUK…
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FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER – OEUVRES DE FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER
Michel Groell, Paris, 1756 First volume 60+382 p., second volume 391 p., 20x12.5 cm. 1 full page engraving. Leather ribbed and gilded print on the spine, marbling pattern on the inside of the covers, on its hard cover skin.
THE FIRST TWO BOOKS OF THE 1756 DRESDEN EDITION OF THE 8-BOOK SERIES, WHICH CONTAINS THE THOUGHTS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER, WHO WAS THE FRENCH KING XIV. LOUIS'S TEACHER DURING HIS PRINCIPALITY AND WAS LATER AWARDED THE TITLE OF MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR HIS WORK IN MANY FIELDS SUCH AS GEOGRAPHY, RHETORIC, MORALITY, ECONOMICS, POLITICS…
THE FIRST BOOK CONTAINS TOPICS LIKE RELIGION, RHETORIC, MORALITY, MUSIC, GEOMETRY, ASTRONOMY, WAR, ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, ETC., WHILE THE SECOND BOOK CONTAINS LE VAYER'S VIEWS AND THOUGHTS MAINLY ON RHETORIC SITUATIONS...
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CHARLES BARTHELEMY – HISTOIRE DE TURQUIE
Ad Mame et Fils, Imprimeures-Libraires, 1859 405 p., 22x14 cm, 4 plates preserved with perul papers. Hard cover leather binding with imprinted motives on the covers and the back. Page edges with marbling pattern.
THE OTTOMAN HISTORY FROM CHARLES BARTHELEMY, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIANS OF THE 19TH CENTURY... THE MAIN SOURCE BOOK THAT IS STILL TAKEN AS A REFERENCE TODAY...
In his work, Barthelemy talks about the history of the Ottoman Empire, starting from the years of its foundation until the reign of Abdülmecid, in a chronological order of events.
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JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY – VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANACHARSIS EN GRECE
Chez De Bure, Paris, 1789 & 1790. 8 vols; 7 text volumes + atlas. First volume 382 p., second volume 568 p., third volume 560 p., fourth volume 564p., fifth volume 543 p., sixth volume 551 p., seventh volume 130 p., 20x13,5 cm. 31 folding, double-page and single-page maps, engravings and plans in the 8th volume Atlas. The first 7 text volumes are in leather marbled hard cover on their corners with smooth leather backs embellished with gilded motifs and are in a very good condition. A separate volume for the Atlas is completely in its leather skin with a repaired back. Atabey 67, Blackmer 386.
A 232-YEAR-OLD MASTERPIECE BY THE FAMOUS FRENCH HISTORIAN AND INTELLECTUAL BARTHÉLEMY…
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1876 CRONACA ILLUSTRATA - LA GUERRA D’ORIENTE
Fratelli Treves, Milan, 1876 240 p., 30.5x22.5 cm, numerous full-page and in-text engravings. In marbled hard cover binding.
THE UPRISINGS AND WAR THAT STARTED IN THE OTTOMAN TERRITORIES OF THE BALKANS IN 1875, REFERRED AS THE “GREAT EASTERN CRISIS” IN THE WEST… AN IMPORTANT SOURCE ABOUT THE "EASTERN CRISIS”…
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JEROME HART – A LEVANTINE LOG-BOOK
First edition. Longmans, Green, And Co., New York, 1905. 404 p., 21x14,5 cm. 34 plate, 51 photographs. In its publisher’s cloth binding with an oriental image cover, the back cover and the upper edges of the pages are gilded.
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY LEVANT TRAVELOGUE THAT IS READ WITH PLEASURE AND WRITTEN IN A FLUENT STYLE, ENRICHED WITH 51 VISUALS…
HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS OF JOURNALIST JEROME HART'S JOURNEY IN THE LEVANT, WHICH STRETCHES FROM ITALY THROUGH GREECE TO ÇANAKKALE, ISTANBUL, IZMIR, ANATOLIA, THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT…
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