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NICOLAS DALLY (Çev. Dal Cavaliere Luigi Cibrario) – USI E COSTUMI; SOCIALI, POLITICI E RELIGIOSI DI TUTTI I POPOLO DEL MONDO

First Italian edition. Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, Turin, 1844-1847. 4 vols; First volume 637 p., Second volume 431 p., Third volume 410 p., Fourth volume 576 p., 26,5x17,5 cm. More than 220 full-page handcolored engravings. With gilt embossed leather spine in its hard cover.

A 4-VOLUME MASTERPIECE THAT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL THE HABITS, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLES OF ASIA, OCEANIA, AFRICA, AMERICA AND EUROPE… FULL-PAGE COLORIZED ENGRAVINGS OF MORE THAN 220 LOCAL PEOPLE AND THEIR COSTUMES… A LARGE NUMBER OF ENGRAVINGS BELONGING TO THE TURKS, TURKISH TRIBES AND PEOPLES LIVING IN THE LANDS RULED BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…

ACCOMPANIED BY NICOLAS DALLY'S COLORIZED ENGRAVINGS OF MORE THAN 220 OF HIS OWN DRAWINGS, THE SOURCE DESCRIBING THE PEOPLES OF THE WHOLE WORLD IN DETAIL BY STUDYING DOCUMENTS AND TRAVELOGUES OF ITS PERIOD AND CONDUCTING GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH…

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Lot: 53 » Rare Book

JOHN GALT-VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, IN THE YEARS 1809, 1810, AND 1811; Containing Statistical, Commercial And Miscellaneous Observations On Gibaltar, Sardania, Sicily, Malta, Serigo, And Turkey

T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1812 30x25 cm, 435s. 2 full-page engravings. In hard-cover cloth binding with marbled page edges. Atabey; 473, Blackmer 644, Weber I 25.

A TRAVELOGUE CONTAINING COMMERCIAL RESEARCH ABOUT RUMELIA AND WESTERN ANATOLIA OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND SOME MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES…

A TRAVELOGUE FROM SCOTTISH ENTREPRENEUR, BUSINESSMAN AND WRITER JOHN GALT CEBELİTARIK, THAT INCLUDES TRADE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE BRITISH, STARTING FROM SARDINIA, SICILY, MALTA AND SERIGO AND EXTENDING TO RUMELIA AND MAINLY WESTERN ANATOLIAN LANDS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, SUCH AS ISTANBUL, EDIRNE, PLOVDIV, IZMIT, IZMIR…

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Lot: 57 » Rare Book

GEOFFROI DE VILLEHARDOUIN (Resimler; YVES BRAYER)–LA CONQUETE DE CONSTANTINOPLE

L’Union Latine d’Éditions, 1951 265 pages, 33x24 cm. 23 full-page watercolor illustrations. In a hard cardboard cassette with marbling and in leather binding.

THE TEXT OF GEOFFREY OF VILLEHARDOUIN, AN EYEWITNESS OF THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE, THE CAPITAL OF BYZANTIUM, BY THE CRUSADER ARMIES, DESCRIBING THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE LATIN EMPIRE IN BYZANTIUM ... WITH 23 WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS BY YVES BRAYER… ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL RESOURCE OF THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE OLDEST EXAMPLE OF HISTORICAL FRENCH PROSE...

The fourth crusade and the Latin empire period in Byzantium…

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Lot: 58 » Rare Book

THOMAS SMART HUGHES – TRAVELS IN GREECE AND ALBANIA

Second edition. H.Colburn & R. Bentley, London, 1830. 2 vols. 1. volume 511 p., 2. volume 511 p.. 22x13,5 cm. In first the volume, 4 full pages, 1 of which is colored, 3 of which are folded, a total of 7 plate engravings, 10 in-text engravings, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan; in the second volume; 5 plate engravings, 4 of which are folded, 8 in-text engravings, 1 map. All-leather luxurious skins with a ribbed back. The backs and cover corners of the skins have been expertly repaired and in good condition. Atabey 599, Blackmere 842, Weber 86.

THE GOVERNOR OF IOANNINA TEPEDENLI ALI PASHA, A GREEK AND ALBANIAN TRAVELOGUE OF THE OTTOMAN PERIOD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY, REBELLED AGAINST THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE… 1 COLOR 5 FULL PAGES AND 7 FOLDING 12 PLATES AND 18 IN-TEXT ENGRAVINGS, 2 FOLDING MAPS AND 1 FOLDING PLAN… IN ITS LUXURIOUS SKIN…

THE TRAVELOGUE OF THE ENGLISH PRIEST AND TRAVELER THOMAS SMART HUGHES, WHICH CONTAINS OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE PLACES HE VISITED DURING HIS JOURNEY THROUGH THE LANDS OF GREECE AND ALBANIA UNDER OTTOMAN RULE IN THE 1810S, AS WELL AS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TEPEDENLI ALI PASHA, WHOM HE MET DURING HIS STAY IN IOANNINA… THE COPY ON SALE IS THE 1830 SECOND EDITION OF THE WORK, ENRICHED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY CHARLES ROBERT COCKERELL…

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Lot: 59 » Rare Book

CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT – CONSTANTINOPLE, THE CITY OF THE SULTANS

Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris, 1905. 772 p., 22x14 cm. Bound in publisher’s paperback with red hard cover on spine. 1 folding Sofia map, 21 full-page maps and 18 text-in maps. The front page is signed by the previous buyer of the book, dated 1943.

ISTANBUL, THE CITY OF THE SULTANS IN THE 19TH CENTURY... THE RIDGE AND COVER CORNERS ARE IN ITS LUXURIOUS LEATHER BINDING…

ACCOMPANIED BY PERIOD PHOTOS THE HISTORY OF İSTANBUL AND ITS TRADITIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY MENTIONED… THE ENDPAPER IS SOOTED WITH A DOUBLE HEART SHAPE, IN A DEDICATED SPECIAL LUXURY BINDING…

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Lot: 60 » Rare Book

ALFRED COLBECK – A SUMMER’S CRUISE IN THE WATERS OF GREECE, TURKEY, AND RUSSIA

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1887 19x13,5 cm, 416 pp. 1 engraved frontpiece. In its publisher’s binding with leather back and cover corners, cloth covered hardcovers.

ENGLISH METHODIST WRITER ALFRED COLBECK'S JOURNEY TO THE “EAST", WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF MANY BOOKS DURING HIS TIME… A TRAVELOGUE WITH RELIGIOUS OBSERVATIONS…

COLBECK'S TRAVELOGUE, WHICH INCLUDES OBSERVATIONS AND VIEWS ON HIS JOURNEY TO THE AEGEAN COAST AND ISLANDS, ISTANBUL, THE BLACK SEA, THE SEA OF AZOV AND SYRIA, THE BIRTH AND RISE OF ISLAM, GREEK AND RUSSIAN TRIBES, AND NIHILISM…

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Lot: 61 » Rare Book

JULIA PARDOE (Gravürler; WILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT) -THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS; Illustrated in a series of VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE and Its Environs

George Virtue, London, 1838. 164 p., 28x22 cm. 80 full page engravings. The ridge is gilded and embroidered and in its hard cover. The ridge and the corners of the cover are in its luxurious leather binding. There is a water stain at the top of some front pages. Atabey 922, Blackmer 1254.

AN EDITION WITH A HIGH COLLECTION VALUE ... AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR JULIA PARDOE WITH A DEDICATORY PAGE TO HER FRIENDSHIP WITH THE VIZIER OF THE TIME, MUSTAFA RESHID PASHA…

A VERY RARE AND VALUABLE COLLECTOR’S PIECE, WITH THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR JULIA PARDOE... DEDICATED TO JULIA PARDOE’S FRIENDSHIP WITH MUSTAFA RESHID PASHA... THE MOST FAMOUS TRAVEL BOOK ON ISTANBUL... ACCOMPANIED BY BARTLETT'S 80 ENGRAVINGS…

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Lot: 62 » Rare Book

EDMONDO DE AMICIS (Çeviri; MADAM J. COLOMB) –CONSTANTINOPLE

Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1892. 392 p., 18x12 cm, 24 full-page photoengravings. In original binding with leather spine and marbled hard covers. Atabey 19.

A MASTERPIECE BY THE FAMOUS TRAVELER EDMONDO AMICIS, ACCOMPANIED BY CESARE BISEO’S ENGRAVINGS THAT INTRODUCES THE 19TH CENTURY ISTANBUL TO THE WORLD IN THE BEST WAY…

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Lot: 63 » Rare Book

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN – THE LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF THE TURKS; In Its Relation to Christianity

James Duffy, Dublin, 1854 295 pp., 20x12 cm. 1 full page map. In hardcover cloth binding.

THE PERIOD OF DECLINE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, THE HOMELAND OF THE TURKS, THEIR TRIBES, RACE, TRADITIONS, INTERACTIONS WITH CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AND THE “EASTERN PROBLEM” THROUGH THE EYES OF NEWMAN, AN ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER AND CHRISTIAN WHO ROSE TO EMINENCE...

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Lot: 64 » Rare Book

CHRISTOPHER OSCANYAN – THE SULTAN AND HIS PEOPLE

First edition. Derby & Jackson, New York, 1857 456 p., 19x14 cm. 5 full pages and 48 in-text engravings. In its publisher’s cloth binding with motives on the covers and the back.

THE LIFE OF THE SULTAN AND THE PALACE THROUGH THE EYES OF AN OTTOMAN ARMENIAN, LIFE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, TURKS AND THEIR CUSTOMS… ACCOMPANIED BY 53 FULL PAGE AND IN TEXT ENGRAVINGS… THE BOOK THAT DREW GREAT INTEREST IN THE U.S. WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THAT SOLD 16,000 COPIES ONLY IN 4 MONTHS…

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Lot: 65 » Rare Book

EDWARD VIZETELLY –THE REMINISCENCES OF A BASHI-BAZOUK

J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1897. 482 p., 19.5 x 14 cm. 14 full page plates of drawing illustration, 11 plates of full page photography, 34 in-text illustrations. In its publisher’s rifle illustrated red hardcover cloth binding.

MEMOIRS OF THE BRITISH WRITER AND WAR CORRESPONDENT VIZETELLY, WHO SERVED AS A BASHI-BAZOUK IN THE LANDS WHERE THE “EASTERN PROBLEM” COMMENCED, WHICH IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY… OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ERZURUM, GÜMÜŞHANE, KARS, ARMENIA, MACEDONIA AND THE NATIONS IN THESE LANDS…

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Lot: 66 » Rare Book

EDSON LYMAN CLARK – THE RACES OF EUROPEAN TURKEY

First edition. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1878. 532 p., 21x15 cm. The ridge and cover are decorated with silver lame, in its decorative skin with ornaments and writings. The fronticepiece is missing, the ridge has been repaired.

A COMPREHENSIVE WORK ON THE RACES LIVING IN THE BALKANS AND THEIR HISTORY…

CLARK, AFTER GIVING INFORMATION ABOUT THE GREEKS, ALBANIANS, TURKS, SLAVS, WALLACHIANS, SERBS, BULGARIANS, AND ROMEN STARTING FROM THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, EXAMINES THE RESULTS OF THE BERLIN CONGRESS AFTER THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1878, WHICH DEEPENED THE “EASTERN PROBLEM” IN THE WORDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD…

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Lot: 67 » Rare Book

LORD BROUGHTON - TRAVELS IN ALBANIA AND OTHER PROVINCES OF TURKEY IN 1809 & 1810

Revised 2. edition. John Murray, London, 1858. 2 volumes. 1. volume; 544 p., 2. volume; 528 p., 14.5 x 23 cm. A total of 11 engravings in the first volume, 10 of which are full page engravings and 1 of which is in-text. 6 engravings, 2 folding maps,1 folding letter and 2 full page solfeggios in the second volume. In its publisher’s original hard cover cloth binding with embossed motifs and gilded ridge.

A TRAVELOGUE OF THE EASTERN TRAVELS OF LORD BROUGHTON, ONE OF THE DEFENDERS OF THE GREEK STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, CONTAINING DETAILED OBSERVATIONS ABOUT GREECE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE… ACCOMPANIED BY 17 ENGRAVINGS, 2 FOLDING MAPS, 1 FOLDING LETTER AND 2 SOLFEGGIOS…

THE GREEK SYMPATHIZER LORD BROUGHTON TRAVELED WITH HIS TRAVEL COMPANION LORD BYRON BETWEEN Dec. 1809-10 AND 1816-17 TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS IN ALBANIA, GREECE, ISTANBUL AND WESTERN ANATOLIA OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, AND COLLECTED HIS EXTENSIVE OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION DURING HIS JOURNEY IN THIS BOOK… THE COPY OFFERED FOR SALE IS AN EXTENDED REVISED EDITION OF THE YEAR 1858…

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Lot: 68 » Rare Book

EDWIN AUGUSTUS GROSVENOR – CONSTANTINOPLE

Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1900 25x18 cm, 2 volumes; Vol. 1, 413 pp., Vol. 2, 398 pp., more than 200 in-text and full page photographs and illustrations. In its publisher’s red cloth binding with gilded amblems and writing on the front covers and backs of both volumes.

A UNIQUE REFERENCE BOOK OF ISTANBUL WITH COUNTLESS PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAVURES…

A MUST-READ BOOK FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN ISTANBUL AND ITS HISTORY… WRITTEN BY AMERICAN COSMOPOLIT HISTORIAN AND ROBERT COLLEGE TEACHER EDWIN GROSVENOR, WITH THE HELP OF OSMAN HAMDI BEY AND ARCHEOLOGIST PASPATI, ACCOMPANIED BY MORE THAN 200 PHOTOS ON ISTANBUL’S HISTORY, OTTOMAN & BYZANTINE ARCHITECURE…

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Lot: 70 » Rare Book

G. CLEMENT - CAMPAGNE TURCO – RUSSE de 1877-1878

Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris, 1905. 772 p., 22x14 cm. Bound in publisher’s paperback with red hard cover on spine. 1 folding Sofia map, 21 full-page maps and 18 text-in maps. The front page is signed by the previous owner of the book, dated 1943.

AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE BOOK THAT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL ALL THE FRONTS OF THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1877-1878, WHICH WAS REFERRED TO AS THE “93 WAR” IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ACCOMPANIED BY 21 FULL-PAGE AND 18 IN-TEXT MAPS, 1 OF WHICH IS FOLDED…

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Lot: 71 » Rare Book

GASİ MUSTAFA KEMAL PASCHA – DIE NEUE TÜRKEI

Verlag Von K.F. Koehler, Leipzig, 1928. 424 s., 22,5x16 cm. Siyah bez cildinde.

1928 GERMAN EDITION OF “THE SPEECH” BY GAZİ MUSTAFA KEMAL PASHA GIVEN TO THE REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY DELEGES AND REPRESENTATIVES BETWEEN 15-20 OCTOBER 1927…

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LA TURQUIE KEMALISTE

Devlet Matbaası, İstanbul. 32x25 cm. There is a slight cut on the side of three pages that does not affect the writing. In its hard cover binding with leather ridge.

A VOLUME CONTAINING 13 ISSUES OF THE MAGAZINE "LA TURQUIE KEMALISTE", WHICH WAS PUBLISHED EVERY 3 MONTHS BETWEEN 1934 AND 1949 UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF VEDAT NEDIM TOR WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF AUSTRIAN OTHMAR PFERSCHY, TO INTRODUCE ATATÜRK'S POLITICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS AND REVOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD…

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MANUSCRIPT MEMORIAL OF SÜLEYMAN SIRRI EFENDİ

4 vols. 2 volumes of manuscript text and 2 volumes of hand-drawn maps. First volume 375p., Second volume 392 p., more than 300 hand-drawn maps. 27x19 cm. The leather ribbed back and cover edges of the period are on the hard cover skin with gilt pattern and writing. The edges of the pages are decorated with gilt.

A DAY-BY-DAY NARRATION OF AN OTTOMAN OFFICER'S EXPERIENCES SINCE 1912, INCLUDING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE, WITH MORE THAN 300 FRONT-LINE MAPS DRAWN BY HIM… WORTHY OF A MUSEUM... UNIQUE... ENORMOUS…

THE MANUSCRIPT OF CAPTAIN SULEYMAN SIRRI EFENDI FROM CETINOGULLARI, COMMANDER OF THE NINTH COMPANY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH INFANTRY REGIMENT, A MEMOIR FULL OF PATRIOTIC LOVE... UPRISINGS IN THE BALKANS, 325 MARCH 31 INCIDENT, THE BALKAN WAR, THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE…

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FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER – SIGHTS AND THOUGHTS in Foreign Churches and Among Foreign People

3 volumes in one book. J.G.F. & J., London, 1842. 645 p., 22x14,5 cm. Leather ribbed back and cover corners, in its decorative marbling hard cover binding.

A TRAVELOGUE CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNEY OF THE ENGLISH PRIEST AND HYMN WRITER FABER THROUGH GREECE, ISTANBUL AND WESTERN ANATOLIA STARTING FROM PARIS AND AVIGNON IN ORDER TO DEVELOP HIS IDEAS AND BELIEFS ABOUT RELIGION AND CLOSELY STUDY THE ANCIENT GREEK CLASSICS AND THE GREEK CHURCH… 

AFTER FABER PUBLISHED THIS BOOK IN 1842, IN WHICH HE CONVEYED HIS OBSERVATIONS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT RELIGION, HE CONVERTED FROM THE ANGLICAN CHURCH TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH IN 1845, AND WAS ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ROMAN CHURCH IN 1847…

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