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Eight magnificent and very rare suites of eighteenth-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates: the Ottoman Empire - Germany (Nürnberg, Strassbourg) - Switserland (Zürich) - World (incl. American Indians) - French army View picture(s) 1 (COSTUMES). Eight suites with 180 engraved coloured costume plates. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), ca. 1720-1750. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. Two engraved titles, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America, Central  America, South  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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The first Dutch translation of the Koran, together with two other works, all crucial for the relations with Islam and the Ottoman Empire in seventeenth-century Holland View picture(s) 2 ALKORAN, De Arabische -, door de Zarazijnsche en de Turcksche prophete Mahometh. Hamburgh, for Barent Adriaensz. Berentsma, 1641. Sm. 4to. 18th century calf with gilt coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in centre of both sides, spine gilt in compartments. (8), 164 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Bookhistory, Bookcollecting & Collectors  Dutch  Islam  Netherlands  Ottoman Empire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare pamphlet on the Ottoman siege of the city Raab (Gyor) in Hungary View picture(s) 3 ZWO NEWE ZEYTUNG, UND WAHRHAFFTIGER BERICHT von dem erbämlichen Blutbad unnd Uberfallung von den Türcken inn unser Christliches Feldläger  vor der Vöstung Rab inn der Insel oder Schütt genandt, geschehen den 28. Tag Augusti, &c. Die Ander, von der Erschröcklichen Auffgebung, mit Undergrabung unnd Stürmen der Vostung Rab, wie mit dieselbig auff den 29. Tag Septembris vormittag umb 10. uhr, dem Feind mit trawrigem Hertzen unnd Gemüt in seine Händ gegeben diss 1594. Vienna, Leonhardt Nassinger, (1594). 4to. Later mottled calf with gilt title on front cover. With woodcut of a battlefield scene on title. (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hungaria  Ottoman Empire  Pamphlets  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Constantinople at Paris View picture(s) 4 (BALIGOT DE BEYNE, Arthur). Constantinople et le Bosphore. Paris, Imprimerie A. François et Ce, Décembre 1845. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Art  French  Ottoman Empire  Painting & Drawing  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a collection of Turkish and Arabian tales View picture(s) 5 DIGEON, (J.M.). Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Araba & du Turc. Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title-labels, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. VIII, 347; (2), 278, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arabia  Egypt  History  Literature  Ottoman Empire  Poetry  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the few important accounts on Muscovy of the first half of the 16th century View picture(s) 6 GIOVIO, Paolo (Pailus JOVIUS, bishop of Nocera). Operetta dell'ambascieria de Moschoviti, Nella qual si narra il sito della provincia di Moschovia gli costumi ricchezze, il modo della religione, & l'arte militar di quegli. Nuovamente tradotta di latino in lingua volgare. Venice, Bartholomeo detto l'Imperatore, 1545. 8vo. Eighteenth-century (?) paper boards. Woodcut title vignette of the Christian warrior with banner and the eagle on an orb. 16 lvs. (A-D4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Italy  Ottoman Empire  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The purchase of freedom of slaves in 1720 View picture(s) 7 LA FAYE, Jean Baptiste de (& François COMELIN, Joseph BERNARD & Philemon de LA MOTTE). Voyage pour la redemption des captifs, aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis. Fait en 1720. Par les P.P. François Comelin, Philemon de La Motte, & Joseph Bernard de l'Ordre de la sainte Trinité, dits Mathurins, etc. Paris, Louis-Anne Sevestre & Pierre-François Giffart, 1721. 2 parts in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers,gilt binding edges, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece with portrait of Louis XV by P.F. Giffart, engraved folding plate of an audience at the court of the Dey (Regent) of Algiers, engraved full-page plate of the 'rachat des captifs'. (8), 169, (1 blank); (10), LX, 306, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Algeria  Ottoman Empire  Slavery  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An eyewitness of the horrors of the Napoleonic campaigns: Germany, Poland, Moldavia & Turkey in aquatint View picture(s) 8 NEALE, Adam. Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey. London, Straham, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. 4to. Later three quarter morocco with 5 raised bands and richly gilt decorated spine with author's name and title lettered in gold, boards covered with marbled paper, marbled endpapers Root, London. With 15 aquatints on 11 plates by I. Clark after the designs of the author and dated 1818. All plates are exquisitely coloured by hand. XIII, 295 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Plate Books  Germany  Ottoman Empire  Poland  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Ottomans and Europe. The history of the Austro Hungarian region from 1395-1612 View picture(s) 9 ORTELIUS, Hieronymus. (= H. OERTEL, OERTL). Chronologia oder historische Beschreibung aller Kriegsempörungen unnd Belägerungen der Stätt und Vestungen auch Scharmützeln und Schlachten so in Ober und Unter Ungern auch Siebenbürgen mit dem Turcken von Ao. 1395 biss auff gegenwertige Zeit denckhwürtig geschehen. Alles gründlich unnd ordenlich (dergleichen vorniemals in Truck aussgangen) zusammen verfast und beschrieben. Nürnberg, Christoff Lochner for Johann Sibmacher, 1604. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ms. in ink on spine, original ties, blue painted edges. Engraved title in elaborately decorated border with cavalry, arms and armour, large engraved folding map of Hungary, Transylvania, and Moldavia (28 x 51 cm), 30 double-page engraved views of besieged cities in Hungary and executions, 26 full-page engraved portraits of generals, commanders, Ottoman sultans, kings, counts etc., woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (6), 581, (34), (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Austria  History  Hungaria  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On Egypt and the Near East in the first Dutch translation View picture(s) 10 POCOCKE, Richard. Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer. Utrecht, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg; J. Bosch & R. Arrenberg; and M. de Bruyn, 1776 - 1786. 3 parts in 6 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines with 5 raised bands gilt ruled with green morocco title labels lettered in gold. Lavishly illustrated with 205 folding maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc. XXXVI, 219 (I,1); VIII, 221-491 (I,2); X, 262 (II,1); VIII, 265-519 (II,2); XII, 262; VIII, 262 (III,1); VIII, 265-403, (4), 115, 124 (III,2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Egypt  Greece  Middle East  Ottoman Empire  Syria  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Swiss missionary travelling to southern Russia and the Sea of Azov View picture(s) 11 SCHLATTER, Daniel. Bruchstücke aus einigen Reisen nach dem südlichen Russland, in den Jahren 1822 bis 1828. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Nogaijen-Tartaren am Asowschen Meere. Neue wohlfeilere Ausgabe. St. Gallen & Bern, Huber & Comp. (printed by Wegelin & Kätzer, St. Gallen), 1836. 8vo. Orginal boards covered with marbled paper, with a gilt label on spine, yellow painted edges. With lithographed title, one folding and 13 full-page lithographed plates and a large folding map (420 x 320 mm), by J. Locherer and lithographed by H. Bienz, Basel. XX, 496, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Costumes  German  Linguistics  Ottoman Empire  Russia  Switzerland  Travel  Turkey  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the famous library of Paulus van Uchelen, splendidly coloured by himself! View picture(s) 12 VRIES, Simon de (transl.). De doorlughtige weereld; voorstellende een zeer nette genealogische, historische en politische beschrijvingh aller tegenwoordig levende keyseren, koningen, vorsten, en graven; nevens de staten en republiquen des geheelen aerdbodems … Vertaeld door S. de Vries. Amsterdam, Francois Halma (vol. 1) & Johannes van Oosterwijck (vols. 2-3), 1700. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary strong ivory vellum, bound in the style of Albert Magnus for Paulus van Uchelen, sides with double gilt fillet borders, inner triple borders with the gilt crowns at the four corners; spine gilt with five raised bands, titles in ink and red sprinkled edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, an engraved allegorical vignette on all three title-pages, an armorial engraving above the dedication, 5 numbered full-page plates with 129 figs. presenting tinctures, forms and division of coat of arms, orders, helmets, crowns, etc., 137 half-page engravings of coats of arms in the text; 22 small coats of arms of Bishops on 2 full-page engravings; 10 small coats-of-arms on one full-page engraving; 18 crosses, chains, medals, etc. for orders of knighthood on one double-page engraved plate; 76 ships' flags on 14 numbered plates, and a folding plate of a ship with 130 numbered parts (with printed explication in text). All 164 engravings, as well as a woodcut tail-pieces and 5 decorated woodcut initial letters, have been beautifully handcoloured and lavishly heightened with gold and silver by the original owner Paulus van Uchelen. (40), 725, (3); 631, (9); 512, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Bindings  Heraldry  History  House of Orange  Japan  Libraries & Collections  Maritime History  Ottoman Empire  Royalty  Russia  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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