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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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KARL KLINGHARDT - ANGORA - KONSTANTINOPEL, Ringende Gewalten
Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei G.M.B.H., Frankfurt, 1924. 265 p., 22.5x15 cm. 124 pictures (2 panoramic), 4 folded maps. In publisher’s decorative cloth binding.
ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BOOKS ABOUT ANKARA AND ISTANBUL OF THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC…
This important work of Karl Klinghardt, one of the most important German-born Istanbul researchers, is one of the most comprehensive studies on Ankara and Istanbul. Accompanied by a total of 124 photographs, 2 of which are panoramic…
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RICHARD KNOLLES & PAUL RYCAUT - THE TURKISH HISTORY, FROM THE ORIGINAL OF THAT NATION TO THE GROWTH OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, WITH THE LIVES AND CONQUESTS OF THEIR SEVERAL PRINCES AND EMPERORS; WİTH A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT YEAR
First compiled edition, 2 volumes. Thomas Basset, London, 1687. A General History of the Turks: 1. volume 1-836; 2. volume 837-990, The History of the Turkish Empire, from the year 1623, to the year 1677: 2. volume 1-338; The Present State of The Ottoman Empire: 2. volume 1-103; The Alcoran of Mahomet: 2. volume 1-128. 21 full-page engravings, mostly of Ottoman Sultans. In full leather binding of its period, with the backs of the volumes restored. The bottom parts of the front cover and first 20 pages got wet and have water stains. Other than those, the volumes are in quite good condition for 336 year old book. Atabey 1076; Blackmer 1466.
ONE OF THE KEYSTONE OF THE OTTOMAN LIBRARY… THE FIRST BOOK OF OTTOMAN HISTORY WRITTEN FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY…
A MASTERWORK THAT HAS BEEN USED AS A FUNDAMENTAL SOURCE BOOK OF OTTOMAN HISTORY FOR CENTURIES… VERY RARE…
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EDMONDO DE AMICIS – CONSTANTINOPLE
Henry T. Coates, Philadelphia, 1896. 2 volumes, 1. volume; 303 p., 2. volume; 309 p., 21 x 14 cm. 50 sheets of pictures and 1 folding color Istanbul map. In the publisher's decorative bindings with leaf motifs and gilded page edges, with a dust cover.
THE FAMOUS TRAVEL BOOK BY AMICIS WHICH WAS TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES AND PRINTED MULTIPLE TIMES…
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COMMANDER EDWARD HAMILTON CURREY - SEA-WOLVES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
First edition. John Murray, London, 1910. 399 p., 22,5 x 15 cm. 16 full page photoengravings preserved with pelur paper. On decorative red cloth binding with gilded lettering on the spine and cover.
THE BOOK ABOUT THE MUSLIM PIRATES, KNOWN AS THE OTTOMAN PIRATES, FOR CENTURIES WHO RELEASED THE PRISONERS AND LOOT THE CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN COASTS.
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GEORGE OTT - LEGENDE VON DEN LIEBEN HEILIGEN GOTTES
Friedrich Buffet, Regensburg, 1859. 2730 columns, 30x23.5 cm. More than 300 in-text engravings and 1 folding map.Leather spine on its hard cover skin.
A DAY-BY-DAY CHRISTIAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS THEOLOGICAL WRITERS OF HIS ERA, GEORGE OTT…
ACCOMPANIED WITH MANY IN-TEXT ENGRAVINGS AND FOLDING CLOTH JERUSALEM ENGRAVING…
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THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DORE
Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London and New York. 38.5x30 cm, 144 full-page engraving. The ribbed and gilt-patterned spine is in full leather with gilt-patterned and embroidered covers. There is another volume containing the Old Testament published by the same printing house.
VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY… VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION...
WITH 114 FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS DRAWN BY FAMOUS FRENCH ARTIST GUSTAVE DORE… THE VULGAR BIBLE, CONTAINING APOCRYPHAL AND THE FULL NEW TESTAMENT AND KNOWN AS THE DORE'S BIBLE DUE TO ITS DRAWINGS...
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER – IN THE LEVANT
Houghton, Mif in and Company, Boston and New York, 1895. 2 volumes, 568 pages, 21x14 cm. 25 sheets of photoengraving, in stylish clothbound with leaf inscriptions and ornaments.
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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