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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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Helping the Venetians during the war of Candia against Turkey View picture(s) 2 JOURNAL de l' expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire. Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, some woodcut ititials and head-and tailpieces and one folding plate (200 x 285) of the fortress of Candia, Le bastion de S. André under siege, with the legend printed on the left. (8), 198, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia Minor  Europe  Greece  Italy  Militaria  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Of great importance for the understanding of the problematical Turkish-European relationship during the 17th century View picture(s) 3 TRADUCTION d'un exemplaire en langue Turque contenant le detail & la description des processions des jeunes, & des penitences que le grand seigneur dit Mahomet Soliman, empereur Turk du soleil levant, & du couchant, souverain seigneur des seigneurs, & veritable successeur de la race du grand prophete Mahomet, a commandé de faire en tout son empire. Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1687. 4to. Marbled wrappers. With a full-page engraved portrait of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski, by F. Jollain. (2), 7, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Habsburg  Pamphlets  Poland  Politics  Propaganda  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Costumes of Naples, Venice, Turkey and Greece in a 19th century almanach View picture(s) 4 VAN ZWAAMENS EN THOMPSON'S ALMANAK Op 't Jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christus 1825. Voorzien met de  jaarmarkten, kermissen, paarde- beeste- en leermarkten, 't openen en sluiten der poorten en bomen, en de maans op- en ondergang. Rotterdam, J.J. Thompson, (1825). 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ms. on spine. Title in red & black, with woodcut vignette, calendar printed in red and black. (40) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Almanacs & Calendars  Costumes  Netherlands  Turkey  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) 5 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) 6 (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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A Franciscan discovering the Holy Land - from the library of king Louis-Philippe View picture(s) 7 (BEAUGRAND, Felix). Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage. Par un religieux de S. François Observantain, qui a fait le voyage trois fois. Paris, Gabriel Valleyre, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, yellow morocco title lable lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. Small woodcut vignette on title, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. (4), 248, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cyprus  Greece  Holy Land  Malta  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive collection of the most famous travel accounts in pocket-size View picture(s) 8 (COOK, BRUCE, NORDEN, MACARTNEY, BARROW & TAVERNIER). BIBLIOTHÈQUE PORTATIVE DES VOYAGES traduite de l'anglais par MM. Henry et Breton. Paris, Le Petit, An VII (1799)- 1810. 49 vols. (= 41 text vols. and 8 atlas vols.). 18mo. Nineteenth-century half green calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold; blue marbled boards and edges. With in total 189 full-page engraved plates and folding engraved maps. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Australia & New Zealand  Circumnavigation  Cook  Egypt  India  Persia  Travel  Turkey  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous and influential print-series of costumes of the Ottoman Empire, together with a series of emblems prophesying the fall of that Empire View picture(s) 9 (NICOLAY, Nicolas de, Laonikos CHALKOKONDYLE, & Artus THOMAS). Plusieurs descriptions des accoustremens, tant des magistrats et officiers de la Porte de l' Empereur des Turcs, que des peuples assujectis à son Empire. Avec les figurs des representant le tout au naturel, tirees des medailles antiques & descriptions de ceux qui ont frequenté parmy ces nations, ou des bons autheurs qui en ont escrit. (Paris, Widow of Abel L'Angelier, 1620). 2 parts in one vol. Folio. 19th century three-quarter green morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, boards covered with marbled paper, gilt edges. With 62 large full-page engraved costume plates (ca. 275 x 175 mm.) after the famous engraver Nicolas Nicolay in the first, and 17 emblematical and allegorical plates in the second part. Added to the first part is a loosely inserted engraving of a 'Marchant Juif'.All the plates have explanatory texts on the versos of the preceding plates. Woodcut initials and head-pieces. Part 1: fols. 1-64; part 2: fol. 64, pp. 65-114, (3). Collation (both parts together): A-X4, Y6, Z2. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Print Series  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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American re-edition of a rare series View picture(s) 10 (VENNING, Mary Anne?). A geographical present; being descriptions of the countries of Asia, &c. Compiled from the best authorities. With representations of the various inhabitants in their respective costumes. New York, R. & G. S. Wood for William Burgess, 1831. 12mo. Half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, and lettered in gold. With 12 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates, all depicting the costumes of the inhabitants of several parts in Asia and Australasia. (4), 144 pp. with a List of other childern's books also published by Burgess: 7 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Australia & New Zealand  Children's Books  China  Costumes  Education  Ethnography  Geography  Korea  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How unlucky can one man be? View picture(s) 11 BARANSHCHIKOV, (Vasilii). Neshchastniya priklucheniya Vasiliia Baranshchikova, meshchanina Nizhnego novgoroda v trekh chastiakh sveta: v Amerike, Azii i Europe, s 1780 po 1787 god. (The misfortunes of Vasilii Baranshchikov, A merchant of Nizhnii Novgorod, in three parts of the world: America, Asia and Europe between 1780 and 1787). St. Petersburg, Vil'kovskiii Galchenkov, 1787. 8vo. Original blue paper boards. 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, Central  Imprints  Piracy  Russia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Ottoman Empire from a beautiful French miniature perspective View picture(s) 12 CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès. Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 vols. 18mo. Contemporary black morocco, spines gilt, sides with blind tooled floral border and gilt corner ornaments, gilt inner dentelles over marbled endpapers, g.e. 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece to each of the 6 volumes and 17, 17, 9 and 26 plates to resp. volume 3, 4, 5 and 6. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. 20, XXXI, (1), 120; (4), 225, (3); (4), 251, (1); (4), 282, (2); (4), 231, (1); (4), 235, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Colour Plate Books  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A late call for a crusade View picture(s) 13 COPPIN, R.P.J. Relation des voyages faits dans la Turquie, la Thebaïde, et la Barbarie. Contenant des avis politiques qui peuvent servir de lumières aux Rois & aux Souverains de la Chrétienté, pour garentir leurs Etats des incursions des Turcs, & reprendre ceux qu'ils ont usurpé sur eux. Lyon, les Frères Bruyset, 1720. 4to. Contemp. brown calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, red morocco title label, lettered in gold. Vignette on title page, interesting woodcut head- and tailpieces of fruits and flowers, and 4 plates visualising the position of soldiers, divisions, army and artillery. (6), 496, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia Minor  Militaria  Religion  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best description of Constantinople - with a letter by the author View picture(s) 14 DALLAWAY, James. Constantinople ancient and modern, with excursions to the shores and islands of the archipelago and to the Troad. London, T. Bensley, 1797. 4to. Contemporary black calf, spine ribbed and gilt, covers richly decorated with arabesque central design, and with floral decoration, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved title with aquatint, 10 full-page aquatints with scenic views, sites where scenes from the Trojan War presumably took place, archeological sites with ruins from classical Greece, drawn by Marcati and engraved by Stadler. XI, (1), 415, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Etchings  Mythology  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) 15 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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The key work to an understanding of Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century View picture(s) 16 GILLIS, Pierre. De topographia Constantinopoleos, et de illius antiquitatibus libri quatuor. Ad reverendiss. & illustriss. D. Georgium Cardinalem Armaignacum. Lyon, Gulielmus Rovillius, 1562. 4to. Seventeenth-century limp vellum with gilt coat of arms of 'D. Jacobus Conrad Praetorius' in the centre of the front cover; rests of ties; blue painted edges. With woodcut printer's device on title and many decorated woodcut initials and headpieces; an engraving of Gillis's coffin at the end of his epitaph on p. (8). (8), 245, (3) pp. including the often lacking last blank leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Topography  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Marking the end of the Ottoman threat to the Portuguese in India View picture(s) 17 GOES, Damiao de. De bello Cambaico ultimo commentarii tres. Louvain, Servatius Sassenus de Dienst, 1549. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, ms. title in ink on spine. Interesting emblematical woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on verso last leaf. 32 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  India  Portugal  Trade  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well illustrated popular description of exotic Turkey View picture(s) 18 GUER, Jean Antoine. Moeurs et usages des Turcs, leur religion, leur governement civil, militaire et politique, avec un abrégé de l'histoire Ottomane. Paris, Widow Delatour, for Coustelier, 1746-1747. 2 vols. Large 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red title-labels, gilt tripple fillet borders on sides, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With 2 engraved frontispieces, engraved vignette on 2 titles, beautifully engraved head- and tailpieces, most of them illustrating the text, interesting engraved initials. Large folding view of the Serail in Constantinople (280x920mm, mistakingly bound in vol. 1),  folding view of the city of Constantinople, 4 double-page engraved views and plates, and 22 full-page engraved plates, all within decorative borders, and all engraved by Cl. Duflos, several after F. Boucher and N. Halle. XXIV, 453, (19); VIII, 537, (2, 3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bethlehem in America and Bethlehem in Israel. Two very rare travelaccounts bound together View picture(s) 19 HECKEWELDER, Johann Gottlieb. Reise von Bethlehem in Pensilvanien bis zum Wabashflusz in nordwestlichen Gebiet der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika. Mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von M.C. Sprengel. Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1797. 8vo. Original marbled boards. 94 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Holy Land  Islam  Mission  Travel  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The primary source of information on the Islamic world untill well into the nineteenth century View picture(s) 20 HERBELOT de Molainville, Bartholomé d'. Bibliotheque orientale ou dictionnaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions véritables ou fabuleuses; leurs religions, sectes et politique, leurs gouvernement, loix, coutumes, moeurs, guerres, & les revolutions de leurs empires; leurs sciences et leurs arts, leurs théologie, mythologie, magie, physique, morale, médicine, mathématiques, histoire naturelle, chronologie, géographie, observations astronomiques, grammaire & rhétorique; les vies et actions remarquables de tous leurs saints, docteurs, philosophes, historiens, poetes, capitaines, & de tous ceux qui se sont rendus illustres parmi eux, par leur vertu, ou par leur savoir; des jugements critiques, et des extraits de tous leurs ouvrages. De leurs Traités, traductions, commentaires, abrégés, recueils de fables, de sentences, de maximes, de proverbes, de contes, de bons mots, & de tous leurs livres écrits en Arabe, en Persan, ou en Turc, sur toutes sortes de sciences, d'arts, & de professions. Maastricht, Jean Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1776. Folio. Later half mottled calf, ribbed spine with red morocco title label lettered in gold, red painted edges. Title printed in red and black, with 3 folding printed tables and woodcut head- and tail pieces. (4), XXI, 22-26, 954 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Egypt  Encyclopædic Works  Islam  Middle East  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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