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CHARLES DE FERRIOL (Gravürler; 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, 98 full-page engravings (3 of which are folding and 4 engravings missing). In its hardcover binding with leather ridge. The ridge has been professionally repaired, the top margins of the pages at the back of the book are water stained. Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Colas 1819-20; Brunet III, 947-8; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Lipperheide 413, 414.
VERY RARE... A 308-YEAR-OLD MASTERPIECE WITH MANY ENGRAVINGS… FERRIOL REVEALS OTTOMAN LIFE WITH HIS DETAILED AND VIVID EXPRESSIONS ON THE TULIP ERA… THE MASTERPIECE PIONEERING THE “TURQUERIE” FASHION THAT INFLUENCED EUROPE FOR A LONG TIME… 98 FULL-PAGE OTTOMAN ENGRAVING FROM DRAWINGS OF THE MOST FAMOUS ORIENTALIST PAINTER, FLAMM JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR, OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY…
IN 1699, ESCORTED BY VANMOR ARISTOCRAT AND POLITICIAN FERRIOL COME TO ISTANBUL, WHILE FERRIOL OBSERVING THE OTTOMAN SOCIETY IN DETAILS, VANMOUR PORTRAYED THE "TULIP ERA" İSTANBUL… GAINING GREAT REPUTATION WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THIS WORK, VANMOUR HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED THE TITLE "THE KING'S PRIVATE PAINTER IN THE EAST" BY KING OF FRANCE XIV. LOUIS… MAJORITY OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF THE ENGRAVINGS IN THIS BOOK ARE AT THE AMSTERDAM RIJKSMUSEUM…
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CHARLES THOMAS NEWTON – TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT
Day & Son, London, 1865. 2 volumes; first volume 360 pp., second volume; 275 pp., 16.5x17 cm. 32 full-page engravings, 7 full-page and folding maps, and 37 in-text engravings. In professionally restored leather binding with ribbed spine. Atabey 869, Blackmer 1193, Weber I 636.
THE TRAVEL AND THE DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT OF THE BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST AND DIPLOMAT SIR CHARLES THOMAS NEWTON, WHO DISCOVERED THE REMAINS OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF HALICARNASSUS…
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M. BAPTISTINE POUJOULAT– RECITS ET SOUVENIRES D’UN VOYAGE EN ORIENT
Second edition. Ad Mame et Cie., tours, 1850. 306 pp., 18.5x11 cm. 6 full-page engraving. The back and lids are in decorative hard cover skin with floral pattern. 983
A DECORATIVE BINDING EASTERN TRAVEL BY POUJOULAT…
A RARE OTTOMAN LIBRARY BOOK…
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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, in acceptable 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… 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… ATABEY 581, BLACKMER 817...
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SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX - THE ISLES OF THE PRINCES, or The Pleasures of Prinkipo
First and only edition. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1887. 381 p., 20x14 cm, 25 full-page sheet of photographs and engravings, 2 maps (1 folded), within-text illustrations. In publisher's original cloth binding with decorative print on the cover.
A PLEASANT BOOK TO READ FOR ISTANBULERS…
İSTANBUL ADALARI HAKKINDA KAPSAMLI YAZILMIŞ NADİR KİTAPLARDAN… 1885-87 yılları arasında Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin İstanbul Elçisi olan Samuel Cox'un (1824-1889) Büyükada ve diğer İstanbul Adaları hakkındaki anıları.
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WILLIAM COCHRAN - PEN AND PENCIL IN ASIA MINOR
William Clowes, 1887, London. 464 p., 23x15 cm. A total of 89 in-text illustrations and photogravure, mostly made from the author's watercolor sketches. On the publisher's red cloth binding with a mosque image, page edges are uncut. Atabey 260; Weber 886; Blackmer 371.
COCHRAN'S BOOK ON RESEARCH ABOUT SILKWORMS IN THE AEGEAN FOR PRACTICE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES...
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CHARLES VARNIER - NOS TROUPIERS EN ORIENT
1855, Paris. Full-page lithographs, 8 of which are colored with watercolor and 59 of which are black and white. 35x27 cm, leather back and cover edges, on hard cover with marbling pattern. There are water stains on the bottom of the pages and moderate foxing.
ENGRAVING ALBUM ON “OUR SOLDIERS IN THE EAST”; THE DRAWINGS OF THE FRENCH PAINTER CHARLES VERNIER'S INSTANTIATION ON THE CRIMEA FRONT…
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GEORGINA MARY MUIR MACKANZIE & ADELINA PAULINE IRBY - TRAVELS IN THE SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY-IN-EUROPE
First edition. Alexander Strahan, Londra & New York, 1866. 687 p., 22,5 x 15 cm. 13 full page, 1 in-text, 2 folding engravings, 1 folding map. In its publisher's cloth binding. Atabey 746 (5th edition); Blackmer 1051.
THE FIRST EDITION OF 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…
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MARIN BARLETI – SCANDERBEG; WARHAFfTE EIGENTLICHE UND KURTZE BESCHREIBUNG ALLER NAMHAFFTEN RITTERLICHEN SCHLACHTEN
Sigmund Feyr, Frankfurt, 1577. 156 p., 32.5x21 cm. 71 in-text engravings. In renewed parcment covered hardcover binding.
446 A WORK… VERY VERY RARE… NOT EVEN IN THE ŞEFİK ATABEY COLLECTION… IN GOOD CONDITION FOR A BOOK OF THIS RARE… A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK IN TERMS OF OTTOMAN HISTORY... THE CATHOLIC CLERIC AND HISTORIAN MARIN BARLETI II FROM SHKODRA, WHO LIVED IN THE SAME PERIOD. MURAD AND FATIH TELL ABOUT SULTAN MEHMED'S PROGRESS IN THE BALKANS…
BARLETI, WHO WAS IN SHKODRA DURING THE OTTOMAN SIEGE OF SHKODRA BETWEEN 1474-1478, FLED TO ITALY AFTER THE CITY WAS CONQUERED BY THE OTTOMANS IN 1479, HAS WRITTEN INTENSE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LOSSES OF THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE AS A RESULT OF THE OTTOMAN ATTACKS THAT INCREASE EVERY YEAR, PASSIONATE PRAYERS AND Decrees FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE LAST SECTION OF THE BOOK IS RESERVED TO THE LAST YEARS AND DEATH OF İSKENDER BEY, FOR WHICH GIVEN THE BOOK NAME. WITH 71 ENGRAVINGS OF JOST AMMAN…
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AUGUST LOCHER – WITH STAR AND CRESCENT
First edition. Aetna Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1889. 634 p., 20.5x13.5 cm. 15 full-page engravings. Publisher's decorative yellow cloth binding with a gilded spine, cover embellished with mosque, palm and crescent and star symbols
WRITTEN İN A FLUENT STYLE AND ENRİCHED WİTH 15 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS BY THE AUTHOR, THE 19TH CENTURY EASTERN TRAVEL BOOK...
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PIERRE-FRANÇOIS VIGUIER - ÉLÉMENS DE LA LANGUE TURQUE, Ou Tables Analytiques De La Langue Turque Usuelle, Avec Leur Développement
Imprimerie du Palais de France, Constantinople, 1790. 460 p., 25.5x21 cm. In its hard cardboard cover with leather spine, water stains in very few pages in front part. Atabey 1290; Brill Turcica 13; Blackmer 1732.
TO TEACH Turkish TO FRENCH MERCHANTS AND MISSIONARIES 18. A BOOK OF GRAMMAR WRITTEN BY THE ORIENTALIST LINGUIST AND MISSIONARY VIGUER AT THE END OF THE CENTURY DEDICATED TO THE FRENCH KING OF THE PERIOD, IN WHICH A NEW METHOD WAS PROPOSED BY SYSTEMATICALLY ORGANIZING THE TURKISH LANGUAGE USING LATIN CHARACTERS… IT IS THE FOURTH BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE PRINTING HOUSE OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN ISTANBUL... IT IS THE 32ND COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION…
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MRS. ANNIE BRASSEY – SUNSHINE AND THE STORM IN THE EAST
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1890. 448 p., 21.5x14.5 cm. 9 full-page and 103 in-text wood engravings. With its green hard cover 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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ADOLPHE JOANNE - VOYAGE ILLUSTRÉ DANS LES CINQ PARTIES DU MONDE EN 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849
Aux Bureaux De L Illustration, Paris, 1860. 396 p., 38 x 27,5 cm. 663 in-text and full-page engravings, including the engraved frontispiece. In its hard cover cloth binding.
AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND PLEASANT WORK TO READ. INTERESTING PLACES IN 5 DIFFERENT CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD, THE IMPORTANT PART OF THE LAND WAS DOMINATED BY THE OTTOMANS, ACCOMPANIED BY 663 ENGRAVINGS...
A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WORLD FAMOUS MAGAZINE "L'ILLUSTRATION" IN 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849…
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LOUIS BERTRAND - LA MEDITERRANEE
Alpina Editions, 1929, Paris. 160 p., 33.5x24.5 cm. 13 full pages of watercolor drawings, numerous in-text and full-page photo engravings. Back and cover edges have been renewed in leather, on hard cover with marbling pattern. The copy offered for sale is copy number 224.
THE COMPREHENSIVE MEDITERRANEAN TRAVEL OF THE FRENCH TRAVELLER LOUIS BERTRAND TO THE MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1929, WITH 8 FULL PAGES WITH WATERCOLOR…
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NICOLAS DE NICOLAY - LE NAVIGATIONI ET VIAGGI FATTI NELLA TURCHIA
Francesco Ziletti, Venice, 1580. 192 pp., 31x21 cm, 66 full-page early wooden cliché engravings. The completely renovated leather-covered hard cover skin has yellowing and some spots on the pages, including the imprint page, 20 of which are engraving pages, have been repaired. Atabey 871, Blackmer 1196, Weber 168.
A TRAVELOGUE OF THE TRIPS MADE BY NICOLAS DE NICOLAY, THE GEOGRAPHER OF KING HENRY II OF FRANCE, WHO WAS APPOINTED AMBASSADOR TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1551, ON THE OTTOMAN LANDS, FAMOUS FOR HIS ENGRAVINGS, WHICH ARE HIS OWN DRAWINGS… FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, DATED 1580… VERY VERY RARE… A 442-YEAR-OLD BOOK… 66 EARLY ENGRAVING…
THE FIRST OTTOMAN CLOTHING ENGRAVINGS PRINTED... THE BOOK CONTAINING THE FIRST ENGRAVINGS ABOUT THE CLOTHING OF THE PEOPLE IN THE OTTOMAN MOSAIC, IN THEIR PERIOD INCREASED ATTENTION TO TURKISH CLOTHING IN EUROPE…
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SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX - DIVERSIONS OF A DIPLOMAT IN TURKEY
Charles L. Webster & Co., New York, 1887. 685 pages, 23.5x16 cm. Full page and in-text 107 engravings/drawings/maps. The publisher's cover is in decorative cloth binding with a picture print. Tight and firm binding, water marks on the bottom of the book pages and wear on the top of the spine. Blackmer 421.
A FAMOUS WORK THAT REFLECTS THE DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL LIFE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY THROUGH THE EYES OF A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT…
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PIERRE JOUSSET (Resimler; RAYMONDE DE LA NEZIERE) - UN TOUR DE MEDITERRANEE
Libraries - Imperimeries Reunies, Paris, 1905. 262 p., 26x20 cm. 148 woodcut engravings and 8 full page of color watercolor paintings. On the publisher's illustrated decorative book with gilded page margins.
JOUSSET’S MEDITERRANEAN TRAVEL BOOK DESCRIBING ISTANBUL DURING THE REIGN OF ABDÜLHAMID II...
ACCOMPANIED BY 148 ENGRAVINGS AND 8 WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS BY LA NEZIERE... IN ITS ILLUSTRATED DECORATIVE BINDING...
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EDMONDO DE AMICIS – CONSTANTINOPLE
2-volume 'Artistique Edition' edition. Merrill and Baker, New York & London, 1896. 2 volumes: 1st vol. 303 pp., 2nd vol. 309 pp., 22x14.5 cm. 1 folding map, 25 full-page photo engravings, 1 in color. Artistic Edition in its luxurious binding with the back with gilded motives and letters, the back, the corners and left sides of the covers in red maroquin leather, marbled cover and inside cover, and uncut pages with upper edges gilded. In excellent condition. Number 625 out of 1000 limited copies.
A MASTERPIECE BY THE FAMOUS TRAVELER EDMONDO AMICIS WHICH INTRODUCES THE 19TH CENTURY ISTANBUL TO THE WORLD IN THE BEST WAY…
A CLASSIC… CORNERSTONE OF OTTOMAN LIBRARY… IN EXCELLENT CONDITION…
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER - IN THE LEVANT
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1907. 568 p., 20,1x14 cm, 24 plates of photoengraving. In its stylish gilded red cloth binding, with gilded motifs on the spine and gilded page edges.
THE FAMOUS LEVANT TRAVEL PRINTED MANY TIMES IN THE PERIOD OF 19TH CENTURY FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHOR CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER... A CLASSIC…
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CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT – CONSTANTINOPLE: THE CITY OF THE SULTANS
Estes and Lauriat Publishers, Boston, 1895. 309 p., 21 x 15 cm. 21 photogravures preserved in tissue paper plate. In its publisher's cover in a stylish decorative binding with foliated crescent and star and picture print.
ISTANBUL, THE CITY OF THE SULTANS IN THE 19TH CENTURY ACCOMPANIED BY PERIOD PHOTOS THE HISTORY OF İSTANBUL AND ITS TRADITIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY MENTIONED…
AN ELEGANT ISTANBUL BOOK WITH EXCLUSIVE BINDING... The history and traditions of Istanbul are masterfully handled together with the photographs of the period.
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ALBUM DES SOUVERAINS OTTOMANS – Ed. Selim Faris Efendi
Matba'at al-Jawaib, Constantinople. 33 p., 22x17 cm. On the hard cover of red cloth with gilt pattern and writing on the covers and black motifs on the cover edges.
FROM OSMAN HAN TO V. MURAD HAN ALBUM BOOK CONTAINING STONE PRINT PORTRAITS OF 34 Sultans of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ACCOMPANIED WITH ARABIC AND FRENCH BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION…
PRINTED IN ISTANBUL IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY… A VERY RARE OTTOMAN LIBRARY WORK, DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS PRINTED IN A SINGLE EDITION AND AS MANY…
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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 pp., 23x15 cm. 26 plates of photogravure, missing map. Illustrated front cover, in its publisher's cloth binding with figurative illustration on the front cover.
CURTIS' OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE LANDS LOSSED BY THE OTTOMAN IN THE BALKANS; Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Greece...
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ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN (RESİMLER; 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 decorative cloth binding.
A MAGNIFICIENT BOOK ON LATE 19TH CENTURY İSTANBUL IN ITS DECORATIVE BINDING AND ACCOMPANIED BY 63 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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THEODOR ROCHOLL - BILDER VON DER ANATOLISHEN BAHN
Dt. Bank u. Disconto-Ges., Berlin, 1917. 29 p., 21 x 29 cm. 28 coloured print. In its cardboard cover.
AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOR PAİNTİNGS OF THE ANATOLİAN RAİLWAY ENVİRONMENT, MADE BETWEEN 1908 AND 1909 BY THE GERMAN SOLDİER PAİNTER THEODOR ROCHOLL, WHO WAS SERVİLE BY THE DEUTSCHE BANK, THE CLOSE ADMİNİSTRATİVE PARTNER OF THE ANATOLİAN RAİLWAY COMPANY, TO PROVİDE THE NECESSARY SOURCE FOR THE ANATOLİAN AND BAGHDAD RAİLWAY LİNE.
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SENNA FREITAS – STAMBUL
Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, Lisboa, 1909. 225 p., 19 x 12,5 cm. 29 full-page photoengravings. In publisher’s original decorative cloth binding with illustrations on the cover and spine.
ONE OF THE RARE PORTUGAL TRAVEL BOOK LITERATURE EXAMPLES THAT DIRECTLY REFERS TO ISTANBUL...
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