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JOSEPH MARIE JOUANNIN (Gravürler; Jules VanGaver) - TURQUIE
Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1840. 462 pages, 21.5x14 cm. 96 full-page engravings and two double-page maps. Bound in a cover
with gilded lettering and design on the spine, and marbled paper covers. Blackmer 889, Atabey 614.
OTTOMAN HISTORY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO II. MAHMUD...
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT SOURCE BOOKS ON OTTOMAN HISTORY...
Estimate: 160-215 USD
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HERBERT FOSTER BALDWIN - A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER IN THRACE
First edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. 312 pages, 22.5x16 cm. 34 full-page photographs. Publisher’s spine with gilt lettering, cover in decorative original red cloth binding, edges of the spine worn.
THE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY THE OTTOMAN ARMY DURING THE 1912-1913 BALKAN WARS, THE MOODS OF THE SOLDIERS, CHANGES IN DEMOGRAPHIC AND POLITICAL BALANCES IN THE REGION...
Estimate: 114-170 USD
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EDMONDO DE AMICIS (Çizimler; CESARE BISEO - Çeviri; MADAME J. COLOMB) - CONSTANTINOPLE
First edition in French... Paris, Libraire Hachette, 1883. 452 pp., 27.5x20 cm. More than 300 engravings and drawings. Red morocco leather, gilded spine and covers and inscriptions, gilded page edges, in a delightfully decorative binding. In superb condition... Atabey 19.
EDMONDO DE AMICIS ANSWERED HIS OWN RHETORIC QUESTION “WHO DARE DESCRIBE CONSTANTINOPOLIS?” BY WRITING A RICH AND VIVID MASTERPIECE ABOUT ISTANBUL...
Estimate: 515-740 USD
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MRS. ANNIE BRASSEY – SUNSHINE AND THE STORM IN THE EAST
London, Longmans Green and Co., 1881. 448 pp., 19.5x13 cm. 2 color folding maps, 9 full-page and 105 in-text woodcut engravings. Publisher’s original luxurious decorative cloth binding with pictorial stamping to spine and cover, in excellent condition.
THE INTERESTING TRAVEL DIARY OF ENGLISH BARONESS LADY BRASSEY, IN WHICH SHE RECORDED HER OBSERVATIONS AND FINDINGS ABOUT THE OTTOMAN’S AEGEAN AND EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COASTS WITH HER YACHT “SUNBEAM,” INCLUDING EXOTIC DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES IN A DIARY FORMAT...
Estimate: 285-428 USD
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER – IN THE LEVANT
Boston, James R. Osgood and Compamy, 1877. 391 pp., 19.5x12 cm. In publisher’s decorative elegant cloth binding with decorative leaf decoration and a picture of the Aqsa Mosque on the cover.
THE FAMOUS LEVANT TRAVELOGUE OF THE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN REPUTED AUTHOR CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, WHICH ATTRACTED GREAT ATTENTION DURING THE PERIOD WAS WAS PUBLISHED MANY TIMES...
Estimate: 85-115 USD
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PIERRE AUGUSTIN GUYS - VOYAGE LITTERAIRE DE LA GRECE
Paris, Chez La Veuve Duchesne, 1776. 2 volumes; Volume 1: 540 pages, Volume 2: 558 pages, 20x12.5 cm. 4 fold-out engravings, 3 full-page engravings, totaling 7 engravings. Bound in the period’s ribbed spine, gilt-decorated and lettered, with red-edged pages, all in leather bindings. Atabey 547, Blackmer 769, Weber II 529, Cohen-de Ricci 968-9.
GUYS, WHO IS INTERESTED IN ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE, HAS WRITTEN HIS MASTERPIECE THAT EXAMINES THE IMPACT OF ANCIENT GREECE ON WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, WHICH HAS BECOME ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF BOTH OTTOMAN AND EUROPEAN LIBRARIES…
GUYS’ WORK INCREASED THE INTEREST IN GREEK CULTURE AND HISTORY IN EUROPE WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED...
Estimate: 857-1.140 USD
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ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN – CONSTANTINOPLE
London, A.&C. Black, 1906. 282 pp., 22.5x16 cm. 63 plates of watercolor paintings protected with plush paper, 1 folding map of Istanbul. In publisher’s decorative patterned decorative binding cloth in a refurbished binding.
PREPARED FOR A. & C. BLACK PUBLISHERS’ ILLUSTRATED WORLD CITIES SERIES, THIS WORK BRINGS TOGETHER A WRITER AND A PAINTER TO PRESENT THE DAILY LIFE OF ISTANBUL, A CITY THAT HAS LEFT ITS MARK ON WORLD CULTURAL HISTORY AND SERVED AS THE CAPITAL OF A GREAT EMPIRE, IN THE FORM OF 63 WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS, SHARING IT WITH READERS...
Estimate: 170-230 USD
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PIETRO DELLA VALLE – VOYAGES DE PIETRO DELLA VALLE GENTILHOMME ROMAIN DANS LA TURQUIE, L’EGYPTE, LA PALESTINE
Paris, Chez Ganeau, 1745. 8 volumes; 1st volume 426 pp., 2nd volume 430 pp., 3rd volume 452 pp., 4th volume 424, 5th volume 432 pp., 6th volume 410 pp., 7th volume 420 pp., 8th volume 416 pp., 17.5x9.5 cm. 2 full-page engravings and 5 full-page plans. Rebound in full leather bindings with gilt lettering and spine ribs.
A DETAILED ACCOUNT IN 8 VOLUMES OF A JOURNEY THAT STARTED IN 1614 AND SPANNED 12 YEARS, TRAVELING FROM ISTANBUL TO THE HOLY LAND AND EGYPT...
A VERY IMPORTANT BASIC SOURCE WITH INTELLECTUAL DEPTH THAT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL THE 17TH CENTURY CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ATMOSPHERE OF THE PLACES THE AUTHOR VISITED ALONG HIS TRAVEL ROUTE THANKS TO HIS CLOSE RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLES OF THE REGION...
Estimate: 1.140-1.715 USD
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HERMAN BARTH - CONSTANTINOPLE
Paris, Libraire Renouard, H. Laurens, 1906. 180 pp., 26.5x19.5 cm. 103 plates and full-page photographs. Publisher’s original decorative cloth binding.
AN ACCOUNT OF ISTANBUL IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY WITH 103 PHOTOGRAPHS...
Estimate: 71-100 USD
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CHARLES DE MOUY – LETTRES DU BOSPHORE; BUCAREST – CONSTANTINOPLE – ATHENES
Paris, E. Plon et Cie, Imprimeurs - Éditeurs, 1879. 326 pp., 18.5x12 cm. 8 full-page wood engravings. Bound in marbled boards with leather spine and ribbed boards.
CHARLES DE MOUY, A FRENCH DIPLOMAT WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL ON A SECRET MISSION DURING THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1875-78, IN THIS WORK, CONTRARY TO ITS TITLE, DEVOTED ALMOST THE ENTIRE BOOK TO ISTANBUL, A CITY HE LOVED AND FOR WHICH HE HAD GREAT SYMPATHY...
IN HIS BOOK, MOUY EXAMINES THE BEAUTIES OF ISTANBUL, ITS PALACES, MONUMENTS, MOSQUES, BYZANTINE RUINS, NEIGHBORHOODS, AS WELL AS OTTOMAN STATE ORDER, POLITICAL RELATIONS AND EASTERN CULTURE...
Estimate: 114-170 USD
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MADAME MOREL BAY – FROM AN EASTERN EMBASSY
First edition. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920. 301 pp., 22x15.5 cm. 16 full-page illustrations. In publisher’s original cloth binding.
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST THROUGH THE EYES OF A DIPLOMAT’S WIFE SERVING IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY...
Estimate: 70-100 USD
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JOHN MACDONALD KINNEIR - VOYAGE DANS L’ASIE MINEURE, L’ARMENIE ET LE KOURDISTAN
First French edition. Paris, Libraire de Gide Fils, 1818. 2 volumes; 1st volume 428 pp., 2nd volume 401 pp., 15x22 cm. 1 folding map. Leather spine, gilt lettering, marbled covers. Atabey 636.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION...
A COMPREHENSIVE TRAVEL AND STUDY BOOK ON THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL STRUCTURE OF THE REGIONS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE SUCH AS ANATOLIA, ARMENIA AND KURDISTAN...
Estimate: 742-1.142 USD
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE - EOTHEN, OR, TRACES OF TRAVEL BROUGHT HOME FROM THE EAST
New York, Phinney, Blakeman and Mason, 1860. 232 pp., 19x13 cm. In publisher’s original cloth binding.
KINGSLAKE’S 8-MONTH JOURNEY IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY FROM THE BALKANS TO ISTANBUL, GALLIPOLI, IZMIR, CYPRUS, BEIRUT, THE HOLY LAND, AND EGYPT...
Estimate: 100-142 USD
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HENRY CHARLES SEPPINGS WRIGHT – TWO YEARS UNDER THE CRESCENT
London, James Nisbet, 1913. 306 pp., 22.5x15 cm. 30 full-page photographs. Publisher’s illustrated decorative cloth binding.
THE EXPERIENCES OF THE TURKS ON THE FRONT LINES IN TRIPOLITANIA AND THE BALKANS, THOUSANDS OF KILOMETERS APART, DURING WORLD WAR I, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST AND WAR CORRESPONDENT WHO HAD ESTABLISHED A CONNECTION WITH THE TURKS, ALONG WITH THE RAW TRUTHS OF THE WAR...
Estimate: 100-130 USD
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JOHN MASEFIELD – GALLIPOLI
London, William Heinemann, 1916. 183 pp., 19x13 cm. 19 pages of illustrations and 3 maps. In the publisher’s original cloth binding, with fading on the spine.
THE BATTLE OF ÇANAKKALE FROM THE BRITISH PERSPECTIVE THROUGH THE EYES OF MASEFIELD, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT FIGURES OF BRITISH LITERATURE AND ALSO A WAR CORRESPONDENT...
Estimate: 70-100 USD
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J. CASTELL HOPKINS – THE SWORD OF ISLAM, OR, SUFFERING ARMENIA
Toronto, The Bradley-Garretson Co., 1896. 450 pp., 19.5x11 cm. 48 full-page illustrations. In publisher’s original navy blue cloth binding with patterned cover.
THE VIEWPOINT OF AN ENGLISH AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST, WHO LIVED IN THE FINAL PERIODS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND MADE STUDIES, PARTICULARLY ON THE ARMENIAN QUESTION, REGARDING THE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THE ARMENIAN ISSUE...
Estimate: 100-142 USD
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HESTER DONALDSON JENKINS - BEHIND TURKISH LATTICES: The Story Of A Turkish Woman’s Life
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1911. 180 pp., 19.5x13 cm. 24 full-page photographs. Publisher’s original cloth binding with decorative cover.
THE PLACE OF TURKISH WOMEN IN OTTOMAN SOCIETY THROUGH THE EYES OF JENKINS, WHO TAUGHT FOR 9 YEARS AT ROBERT COLLEGE...
Estimate: 100-157 USD
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CLAUDE VANEL - ABREGE NOUVEAU DE L’HISTOIRE GENERALE DES TURCS
Paris, 1697. 4 volumes; Volume 1: 468 pages, Volume 2: 508 pages, Volume 3: 592 pages, Volume 4: 555 pages, 16x9 cm. 27 full-page engravings. In period ribbed spine, gilt-lettered and patterned, fully leather bindings, with professionally repaired spines. Atabey 1273, Blackmer 1714
THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE OTTOMAN SULTANS FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE TO THE END OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THEIR WARS, CONQUESTS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE COURT ORGANIZATION, AND A DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THE MILITARY SYSTEM..
A HANDY BOOK WRITTEN AT THE END OF THE 17TH CENTURY FOR WESTERNERS, CURIOUS ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ITS SULTANS, COURT LIFE, POLITICAL EVENTS, AND MILITARY SYSTEM...
Estimate: 1.285-1.715 USD
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SAMUEL GAMBLE BAYNE – A FANTASY OF MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELER
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1909. 104 pages, 22x14 cm. 34 full-page photographs. Publisher’s spine and cover in decorative original cloth binding.
BAYNE’S MEDITERRANEAN TRAVEL BOOK, WHICH CHRONICLES HIS JOURNEYS FROM THE OTTOMAN LANDS INCLUDING ISTANBUL, ANATOLIA, THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND THE BALKANS TO GREECE, ITALY, AND SOUTHERN FRANCE, WRITTEN IN A HUMOROUS STYLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY...
Estimate: 85-140 USD
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CHARLES BARTHELEMY - HISTOIRE DE TURQUIE; Depuis Les Temps Plus Recules Jusqu’a Nos Jours
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1872. 416 pp., 21.5x13 cm. 4 full-page engravings. Decorative spine and cover edges, in green cloth binding. Atabey 66, Blackmer 82.
TURKISH AND OTTOMAN HISTORY FROM THE TIME OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO THE REIGN OF SULTAN ABDÜLMECID, WRITTEN BY CHARLES BARTHELEMY, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORIANS OF THE 19TH CENTURY...
Estimate: 100-128 USD
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CLAUDE GODARD D’AUCOURT – MEMOIRES TURCS
Two books in one volume. Amsterdam, La Societe, 1776. Volume 1: 176 pages, Volume 2: 238 pages, 16.5x10 cm. 4 full-page engravings. Bound in the period’s ribbed spine, gilt-lettered and decorated, in full leather binding.
A FAMOUS WORK THAT REFLECTS THE “TURQUERIE” MOVEMENT AND THE WESTERN LITERATURE’S INTEREST IN TURKS, NARRATING THE ADVENTURES OF A TURK LIVING WITH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN...
Estimate: 285-430 USD
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JANE ANTHONY EAMES – THE BUDGET CLOSED
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 368 pp., 20x13 cm. In publisher’s original cloth binding with embossed pattern on cover.
THE TRAVEL DIARY OF AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITER EAMES, STARTING FROM IZMIR, WITH A WIDE SECTION DEDICATED TO ISTANBUL, AND ENDING IN PARIS, TRAVELING THROUGH ISTANBUL AND THE BALKANS...
Estimate: 100-157 USD
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JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL – HISTORIE DE L’EMPIRE OTTOMAN DEPUIS SON ORIGINE JUSQU’A NOS JOURS
Paris, Bellizard Barthes Dufour et Lowell, 1835-43. 18 volumes + atlas; Volume 1: 433 p., Volume 2: 527 p., Volume 3: 457 p., Volume 4: 476 p., Volume 5: 558 pages, Volume 6: 536 pages, Volume 7: 439 pages, Volume 8: 432 p., Volume 9: 424 pages, Volume 10: 495 pages, Volume 11: 491 p., Volume 12: 554 p., Volume 13: 391 p.,, Volume 14: 543 p.,, Volume 15: 401 p.,, Volume 16: 507 p.,, Volume 17: 294 p.,, Volume 18: 398 p.,. A total of 8 fold-out plates in the volumes, and 38 full-page maps, 4 of which are fold-out, in the atlas. Bound in cloth with gilded lettering on the spines, with the atlas in a period ribbed leather binding, gilt-lettered, with marbled paper covers. Atabey 557 (18 volumes) - 569 (atlas), Blackmer 788 (atlas).
THE MASTERPIECE OF THE OTTOMAN HISTORIAN HAMMER, WHO EXPLORED ARCHIVES AND SOURCES IN DEPTH COMPARATIVELY, AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL (ENCÜMEN-İ DANİŞ), WHICH RECEIVED INTENSE INTEREST AMONG TURKISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORIANS, THINKERS, AND INTELLECTUALS SINCE ITS PUBLICATION, AND HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES...
EVEN TODAY, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SOURCES FOR OTTOMAN HISTORY...
Estimate: 7.140-10.000 USD
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SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX - DIVERSIONS OF A DIPLOMAT IN TURKEY
New York, Charles L. Webster & Co.,1887. 685 pp., 23.5x16 cm. 108 full-page and in-text engravings, drawings and maps. Publisher’s decorative cloth binding with an image of an Ottoman coffeehouse with a crescent moon on the cover. Blackmer 421.
THE FAMOUS BOOK OF SAMUEL COX, WHO SERVED IN THE U.S. EMBASSY IN ISTANBUL IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, DRAWING ATTENTION FOR HIS ROLE IN THE ARMENIAN ISSUE, RELATIONS WITH MISSIONARIES, AND EFFORTS TO INTERFERE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE...
Estimate: 100-140 USD
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RENE PINON - L’EUROPE ET L’EMPİRE OTTOMAN
Paris, Perrin et Cie Librarie Academique, 1911. 500 pp., 19x12.5 pp. 2 full page maps. Spine and cover corners with pendos, covers and page edges marbled.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY, A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE BALKANS, THE SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTION AND THE YOUNG TURK MOVEMENT...
Estimate: 71-100 USD
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