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WILLIAM SMITH MURRAY – THE MAKING OF THE BALKAN STATES
Longmans, Green and Co., Columbia University, New York, 1910. 199 pp., 24x15.5 cm. 1 color double page map. In red cloth binding with marbled side edges.
WILLIAM SMITH MURRAY, AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN WHO WAS A PROFESSOR AT ROBERT COLLEGE IN ISTANBUL, NARRATES 1853-56 CRIMEAN WAR AND ITS RESULTS, OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1877-78 AND ITS RESULTS, THE FACTORS THAT CAUSED THE BALKAN PEOPLE TO GAIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE…
Estimate: 75 EU - 98 EU
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HAROLD COURTENAY ARMSTRONG – GRAY WOLF MUSTAFA KEMAL
Minton, Balch & Co., New York, 1933. 298 pp., 22x14.5 cm. 13 in-text maps and illustrations. In publisher’s hard cover cloth binding, in good condition.
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF ATATÜRK, PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFE, WRITTEN AGAINST ATATÜRK BY A BRITISH HISTORIAN WHO WAS CAPTURED BY THE TURKS...
Estimate: 100 EU - 129 EU
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STEPHEN MESROPE GREGOARY - THE LAND OF ARARAT TWELVE DISCOURSES ON ARMENIA, HER HISTORY AND HER CHURCH
Chiswick Press, London, 1920. 292 pp., 19x12.5 cm. 8 plates of photographs and illustrations. In its publisher’s original cloth binding with “Mount Ararat” illustration on the cover.
THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF ARMENIA FROM A BROAD PERSPECTIVE… PRESENCE OF ARMENIANS IN GREAT EMPIRES SUCH AS PERSIAN, ROMAN, BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN…
Estimate: 69 EU - 92 EU
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CORNELIUS DE BRUYN – A VOYAGE TO THE LEVANT: OR, TRAVELS IN THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF ASIA MINOR, THE ISLAND OF SCIO, RHODES, CYPRUS &C.
First English edition. Jacob Tonson and Thomas Bennet, 1702, London. 288 pp., 34.5x22.5 cm. 1 fold-out map, more than 200 in-text, full-page, double-page and fold-out engravings on 98 plates. In its magnificent, luxurious modern all-leather binding with ribs on the back, gilt writing and patterns, Aleppo engraving professionally repaired. In very good condition… Atabey 160.
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS TRAVELOGUES OF AN EXTENSIVE JOURNEY IN THE OTTOMAN LANDS…
PANAROMIC FOLDABLE ENGRAVINGS OF THE CITIES VISITED, ALL OF WHICH ARE DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR HIMSELF AND SERVE AS A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT OF UNIQUE BEAUTY... ESPECIALLY THE PANAROMAS OF ISTANBUL, IZMIR, RHODES, CHIOS, ALEPPO, JERUSALEM, BETHULLAHIM, ALEXANDRIA AND CAIRO ARE VERY VALUABLE...
MORE THAN 200 ENGRAVINGS, MOST FOLDABLE, AND 1 FOLDABLE MAP…
Estimate: 5.739 EU - 8.608 EU
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JEAN BARON DE REUILLY – VOYAGE EN CRIMEE ET SUR LES BOARDS DE LA MER NOIRE
First edition. Chez Bossange, Paris, 1806. 302 pp., 19.5x 12.5 cm. 2 (one large size) folding maps, one large, 3 folding tables, 3 full-page (one folding) numismatic engravings, and 6 in-text engravings. In marbled hard cover binding with leather spine and ribs, in good condition. Atabey 1034.
A DETAILED TRAVELOGUE OF THE CRIMEA AND THE BLACK SEA IN THE 19TH CENTURY, INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON AGRICULTURE, FISHING AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES…
COMPARISON OF CRIMEA WHEN IT WAS UNDER THE OTTOMAN RULE AND AFTER THE RUSSIAN ANNEXATION IN 1783…
Estimate: 861 EU - 1.291 EU
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HARRY CHARLES LUKACH – THE FRINGE OF THE EAST
First edition. Macmillan and Co., London, 1913. 273 pp., 22x14 cm. 48 plates of photographs and 1 full page map. In its publisher’s decorative binding with gilded writing on the spine and a gilded tomb image on the cover.
A TRAVELOGUE OF LUKACH, WRITER AND ALSO AN OFFICER OF BRITISH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, OF HIS JOURNEY TO ANATOLIA, SYRIA AND PALESTINE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, WRITING IN DETAIL THE RICH HISTORICAL HERITAGE, PEOPLE, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF THE REGIONS HE VISITED...
Estimate: 86 EU - 129 EU
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HUGH PRICE HUGHES - THE MORNING LANDS OF HISTORY
First edition. Horace Marshall & Son, London, 1901. 340 pp., 22x14 cm. 9 plates of photographs and 1 folding map. In its publisher’s original red cloth binding with gilt writing. In very fine condition.
A TRAVELOGUE OF THE JOURNEY OF AN ENGLISH CLERIC TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, WHICH HE CALLED THE “MORNING LANDS”, IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY...
Estimate: 86 EU - 115 EU
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ELIOT WARBURTON – THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS; ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TRAVEL
Hurst and Blackett, London, 1859. 373 pp., 19.5x12.5 cm. 1 full page and 13 in-text engravings. In publisher’s cloth binding with gilded and embossed spine and cover.
FAMOUS LEVANT TRAVELOGUE OF IRISH TRAVELER WRITER ELIOT WARBURTON, INCLUDING THE SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS OF HIS JOURNEY TO OTTOMAN-RULED GREECE, ANATOLIA, SYRIA, LEBANON, PALESTINE AND EGYPT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY…
Estimate: 86 EU - 115 EU
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MARION HARLAND - THE HOME OF THE BIBLE; What I Heard and Saw in Palestine
The Christian Herald, New York, 1896. 446pp., 23x18 cm. More than 250 photographs, illustrations and drawings, many in-text. In its original decorative cloth binding with Holy Land illustration on the cover. In good condition.
THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY LANDS NAMED IN THE BIBLE, THEIR SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES, THE DAILY LIVES AND CULTURES OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE LANDS AT THE DATE WHEN THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN, AND THE EFFECTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATIONS…
Estimate: 100 EU - 129 EU
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OCTAVIEN DALVIMART (METİNLER; WILLIAM MILLER) – THE MILITARY COSTUMES OF TURKEY
First edition. Thomas M’Lean, London, 1818. 36.5x26.5 cm. 30 full-page hand-coloured engravings. The spine and covers are gilded and decorated, the page edges are gilded, in a luxurious all-leather binding of its period. In very fine condition. Abbey Travel 373, Colas 2059.
A MASTERPIECE CONTAINING 30 COLORED ENGRAVINGS ABOUT OTTOMAN MILITARY COSTUMES IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY BY THE FAMOUS ENGRAVING ARTIST OCTAVIEN DALVIMART… ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PUBLISHED MILITARY COSTUME ALBUMS …
Estimate: 2.009 EU - 2.869 EU)
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JAMES WILSON PIERCE (Editör) -STORY OF TURKEY AND ARMENIA
First edition. R. H. Woodward, Baltimore, 1896. 500 pp., 21x14 cm. 64 plates of photographs and drawings. In its publisher’s decorative stylish red binding with gilded and silver illustration on the cover. In very fine condition.
1914 ARMENIAN EVENTS IN THE OTTOMAN THROUGH THE PERSPECTIVES OF CLARA BARTON, THE FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND WHO ESTABLISHED THE FIRST AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS CENTER IN ISTANBUL...
Estimate: 100 EU - 143 EU
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EDMUND DANE – BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN THE NEARER EAST
Second edition. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919. 2 volumes; 1st volume 236 pp., 2nd volume 239 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm. 30 full pages of plans and maps. In in its publisher’s original blue cloth bindings, in very good condition.
CRITICS TO THE BRITISH WAR PLANS FROM A BRITISH HISTORIAN ABOUT THE FRONTS WON BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN WORLD WAR I…
Estimate: 115 EU - 158 EU
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FRANK G. JANNAWAY - PALESTINE AND THE POWERS
First edition. C.C Walker, Birmingham, 1914. 232 pp., 19x12.5 cm. 2 maps, 1 of which is foldable, 15 plates of photographs. In its publisher’s decorative cloth binding with map of Turkey and the Middle East on the cover.
THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND HOW THE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAS SHAPED AND THE RISE OF ZIONISM IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY FROM THE PEN OF BRITISH AUTHOR JANNAWAY...
Estimate: 100 RU - 129 EU
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MAURUS JOKAI – THE LION OF JANINA
Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1898. 295 pp., 17.5x11.5 cm. In its publisher’s decorative red cloth binding with a floral motif on the cover. In superb condition.
JOKAI’S FAMOUS HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT TEPEDENLI ALI PASHA, GOVERNOR OF JANINA KNOWN AS “THE LION OF JANINA”, SET IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY...
Estimate: 100 RU - 129 EU
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KÜÇÜKÇELEBİZADE İSMAİL ASIM EFENDİ - TARİH-İ ÇELEBİ-ZADE EFENDİ
Müteferrika Printing House, Istanbul, 1741. 316 pp., 32x20 cm. It is entirely in leather with a ribbed spine, gilded cover edges and a mikleb decorated with Rumi motifs, professionally repaired spine. In very good condition for this rare book…
15TH BOOK PRINTED BY MUTEFERRIKA PRINTING HOUSE…
SULTAN III. AHMED PERIOD BY THE OFFICIAL OTTOMAN HISTORIAN İSMAİL ASIM EFENDI BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS…
ONE OF THE SOURCE WORKS THAT DESCRIBES THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE “OTTTOMAN TULIP ERA”... VERY RARE… IN VERY GOOD CONDITION… IN THE ORIGINAL MIKLEP LEATHER BINDING, DECORATED WITH RUMI MOTIFS…
Estimate: 5.739 EU - 8.608 EU
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İBRAHİM MÜTEFERRİKA - USÜLÜ’L HEKİM Fİ NİZAMİ’L – ÜMEM
Müteferrika Printing House, Istanbul, 1732. 97 p., 19.5x13 cm. In the original marbled paperback binding of its period. The first work with a mihrab by the Müteferrika printing house. In excellent condition…
9TH BOOK PRINTED BY MUTEFERRIKA PRINTING HOUSE…
MUTEFERRIKA PRINTING HOUSE’S FIRST WORK WITH MIHRAB…
SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM BY IBRAHIM MUTEFERRIKA…
VERY RARE… IN VERY FINE CONDITION… IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING OF ITS PERIOD WITH MARBLED COVER…/strong>
Estimate: 2.582 EU - 4.017 EU
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GEORGE SANDYS - SANDYS TRAVAILES: CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE
John Williams Junior, London, 1673. 240 pp., 31x20 cm. 1 folding Istanbul engraving, 47 in-text and full-page engravings, 1 map missing. In full leather contemporary binding with repaired spine. Atabey 1087, Blackmer 1484, Rohricht 923.
A 17TH CENTURY OTTOMAN TRAVELOGUE INCLUDING AN INTERPRETATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND DETAIL OF THE JOURNEY BY ENGLISH POET AND POLITICIAN SANDYS, STARTING FROM FRANCE, EXTENDING TO ALMOST TO THE WHOLE OF THE OTTOMAN LAND INCLUDING ISTANBUL, AEGEAN ISLANDS, ANATOLIA, HOLY LANDS AND EGYPT, ACCOMPANYED BY MANY ENGRAVINGS…
Estimate: 1.435 EU - 2.009 EU
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JULIA PARDOE (Gravürler; WILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT) - BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS
George Virtue, London, 1838. 164 pp., 28x22 cm. 80 plates full page engraving. In luxurious contemporary binding with gilt writing and embroidery on the leather spine, and hard covers with leather corners. Except for some water stains on front pages, the book is in fine condition. Atabey 922, Blackmer 1254.
THE MOST FAMOUS TRAVELOGUE ON ISTANBUL
JULIA PARDOE CAME TO ISTANBUL IN 1835 AND STAYED FOR NINE MONTHS, BEING CAUGHT BY THE MAGIC OF THE CITY. A MASTERPIECE REVEALING THE IMPERIAL CITY OF ISTANBUL OF THE MAHMUD PERIOD…
ACCOMPANYED WITH 80 WILLIAM BARTLETT ENGRAVINGS …
Estimate: 803 EU - 1.148 EU
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ANTHONY CONINGHAM STERLING - THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE IN THE CRIMEA
John Macqueen, London, 1897. 393 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm. 4 full-page and 14 double-page battle plans. In its publisher’s original cloth binding with gilt writing and illustrations on the spine.
THE CRIMEAN WAR IN ALL ITS ASPECTS FROM THE PEN OF A BRITISH OFFICER WHO WAS DEEMED WORTH OF THE MECIDIYE ORDER BY THE OTTOMANS AND SERVED IN THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE, WHICH PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR…
Estimate: 100 EU - 143 EU
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ALAN OSTLER - THE ARABS IN TRIPOLI
John Murray, London, 1912. 314 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm. 8 full page illustrations. In its publisher’s original cloth binding with an illustration on the cover. In good condition.
OSTLER’S DETAILED EXAMINATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STRUCTURE IN TRIPOLI, AND THE DAILY LIFE AND TRADITIONS OF THE ARAB POPULATION IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIPOLI WAR, WHICH ENDED IN THE DEFEAT OF THE OTTOMANS...
Estimate: 86 - 115 EU
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MAJOR PERCY EDWARD HENDERSON – A BRITISH OFFICER IN THE BALKANS; The Account of a Journey Through Dalmatia, Montenegro, Turkey in Austria, Magyarland, Bosnia and Hercegovina
George Bell and Sons, London, 1909. 294 pp., 15x23 cm. 50 plates of photographs and 1 folding map. In its publisher’s original cloth binding. In quite good condition with moderate foxing on the pages.
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BALKAN REGIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE COMPLEX SOCIO-POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THEIR PEOPLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A BRITISH OFFICER...
Estimate: 86 EU - 115 EU
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ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE – THE LURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN; The Ship Dwellers: A Story of a Happy
Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1921. 393 pp., 22x15 cm., 5 plates of full-page and 23 in-text illustrations, 7 plates of full-page photographs. In its publisher’s decorative blue cloth binding with an illustration on the cover.
FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHOR ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE’S TRAVELOGUE OF HIS OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES DURING HIS MEDITERRANEAN JOURNEY, WHICH HE DREAMED FOR YEARS AND FINALLY ACHIEVED AT EARLY 20TH CENTURY...
ACCOMPANYED WITH MANY FULL PAGE AND IN-TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTOS…
Estimate: 72 EU -100 EU
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WOLFGANG LAZIUS - REIPUBLICAE ROMANE IN EXTERIS PROVINCIS, BELLO AZQUISTO, CONSTITUTAE, COMMENTARIUM LIBRI DUDECIM
Apud Haeredes Andrea Wecheli, Frankfurt, 1598. 1108 p., 37.5x22.5 cm. 2 folding plans, 6 in-text, 2 full pages, 1 double page, total 9 engravings. In full leather binding of the period with ribs and gilded motifs and writing on the spine. In very good condition.
A 426 YEARS OLD RARE WORK …
THE MAGNIFICENT HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, WHICH KEPT THE ENTIRE WORLD, INCLUDING ANCIENT ANATOLIAN CITIES, ALMOST 2000 YEARS UNDER ITS DOMINATION...
ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE WORKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE ROMAN HISTORY…
IN FULL LEATHER BINDING OF THE PERIOD... IN VERY GOOD CONDITION...
Estimate: 1.291 EU - 1.865 EU
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