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Collected works of a 16th century Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire View picture(s) 1 BUSBECQIUS, Ogier Ghiselin de. Omnia quae extant. Leyden, Ex Off. Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt filet borders on sides and gilt coat-of-arms with the order of the Golden Fleece in centre, g.e. With engraved allegorical title by C.C. Dusend. 575, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Cartography  Elzevier  Hungary  Politics  Travel & Voyages  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) 2 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 volumes. 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 Platebooks  Costumes  Engravings  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A late call for a crusade View picture(s) 3 COPPIN, R.P. Jean. 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 & Voyages  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) 4 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 history of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt with a collection of Turkish and Egyptian 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'Arabe & du Turc. Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco title labels, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [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) 6 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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Well illustrated popular description of exotic Turkey View picture(s) 7 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) 8 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  Islamitica  Mission  Travel & Voyages  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) 9 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  Islamitica  Middle East  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sa'd-ed-din View picture(s) 10 KOCYN, Jan. Kronyka Nowa O Narodu Tureckem, na dwa Djili rozdelena. W prmnjm wyprawuge se o puwodu, zacatcyn, zrostu, Sprawe, Mocy, Walkach, Ctustech y nesslechetnostech a poslaunosti Knjzat Osmanskych, od prwnjhe Osmana Chana, az do Sultana Soleimana Chana, a do Leta Pane 1550 gakz to wsse sami Turcy Jazykem swym sepsali. W druhem, doplnuge se tato Kronyka o wecech Tureckych, kterez se zbehly od Leta menssjho rostu Padesatehno, az do Leta Dewadesateho. Wydana w Jazyku Latinskem a Nemeckem od Jana Lewenklaia. A ted nynij w Jazyk Czesky prelozena. Prague, Daniel Adam, 1594. 2 parts in 1 vol. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed, sides richly and fully blind-stamped in panel design, with 2 small brass clasps. First title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut printer's armorial device on the first of the 2 blanks at the end of the first part, small ornamental woodcut ornament on second title, and large ornamental woodcut vignette at the end of the second part. (12), 28, (1), (3 blank); (16), 385, (18), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Czechia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The purchase of freedom of slaves in 1720 View picture(s) 11 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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The second voyage of Paul Lucas through the Levant View picture(s) 12 LUCAS, Paul. Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine and white gilt title label, red edges. Two titles printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces, 9 folding engraved plates with a.o. pyramids, archeological findings and the Holy Grave and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps a.o.  of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, 8 full-page engraved plates. (30), 323; (10), 328 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Asia Minor  Egypt  Greece  Holy Land  Romania  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Persian-Turkish manuscript with astronomical paintings View picture(s) 13 MAHMUD ibn-ADHAM. Mifah al-Lugha (An Ottoman guide for Persian language with an alphabetic Persian dictionary). (Ca. 1628-29). 8vo. (22 x 14 cm.). Contemporary calf, sides covered with old paper. Manuscript on burnished paper in Persian and Ottoman Turkish written in black and red ink, with 10 magnificent pasted handcoloured plates, of which one double-page. (1-3 blank, 4-114, 115 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arabia  Astronomy  Manuscripts  Ottoman Empire  Persia  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Where to go in Constinople View picture(s) 14 MALO, Charles. Constantinople.  Les capitales de  l' Europe. Promenades pittoresques. Paris, Marcilly fils the elder, Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, (1829). 12mo. Contemporary beige boards, frontcover  embossed and with title printed in black. Handcoloured engraved view on Constantinople. 36 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Guide Books  Topography  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Primary source for the history of Byzantium, the 12th century in particular View picture(s) 15 NICETAS CHONIATES (ACOMINATUS) & Francesco SANSOVINO ed. Della historia di Niceta Coniate delle cose dell'Imperio di Costantinopoli. Libri VII. Ne' quali si contengono I fatti de gl'Imperatori Greci, cominciando da Alessio Comneno doue lascia il Zonara, fin'all'anno MCCCCLVII nel qual fu presa quella Citta da Mahomet Secondo. Con le postille a suoi luoghi dinotanti le cose di maggiore importanza. Et con molte altre cose ulti & necassarie a lettori. Venice, Appresso Francesco Sansovino, 1562. 4to. Contemporary (?) boards with title in ms. on spine. Woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. (4), 111, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  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) 16 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. Nuremberg, Christoff Lochner for Johann Sibmacher, 1604. 4 parts in one volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ms. in ink on spine, original ties, blue painted edges. With engraved title in elaborately decorated border with cavalry, arms and armour, large engraved folding map (28 x 51 cm), 30 double-page engraved views, 26 full-page engraved portraits, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. [6], 581, [34], [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Austria  History  Hungary  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting work on the history of the Ottoman Empire, translated into many languages View picture(s) 17 RICAUT, Paul (or RYCAUT). Histoire de l'etat present de l'empire Ottoman: contenant les maximes politiques des Turcs; les principaux points de la religion Mahometane, ses sectes, ses héresies & ses diverses sortes de religieux; leur discipline militaire, avec une supputation exacte de leurs forces par mer & par terre & du revenu de l'etat. Traduit de l'Anglois... par Monsieur Briot. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgank, 1670. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, spine richly and charmingly gilt in compartments with brown morocco title label lettered in gold, triple gilt filet on covers, gilt edges and inner dentelles. With beautiful engraved frontispiece of a historic scene of the Sultan receiving ambassadors with Constantinople in the background, 18 fine engraved folding illustrations of typical Ottoman characters and their costumes, one woodcut illustration of a turban in text. 498, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Costumes  Militaria  Religion  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of the most elaborately illustrated English book on the Levant View picture(s) 18 SANDYS, [George]. Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turckenrijcks: hare wetten, regeeringe, politie, krijghs-macht, hooven van justitie, ende koop-handel. Als mede, van Aegypten; d'antiquiteyt, verborgene characteren, ordinantien, costuymen, discipline, ende religie der Aegyptenaren: Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt; van de Jooden ende verscheydene secten der Christenen aldaer; van Jerusalem, het graff Christi, den tempel Salomons, nevens andere noterens weerdige antiquiteyten. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare naburige eylanden; als Cyprus, Creta, Malta, Sicilië, de Aeolische Eylanden; van Romen, Venetien, Napels, Syracuese, Mesena, Aetna, Scylla, ende Charybdis, &c. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt, door J. G. Amsterdam, Baltes Boeckholt, 1665. 4to. 19th century half calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Wth an engraved title-page, 3 engraved plates and 26 engraved illustrations in text. 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cyprus  Egypt  Holy Land  Italy  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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German translation of an important work on North Africa and the Middle East View picture(s) 19 SHAW, Thomas. Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1765. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine gilt in compartments. 17 folding and 15 full-page engraved plates, one signed by J.D. Philippius, geb. Sysangin, some woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head pieces and initials. XX, 424, (22) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  German  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare suite of 32 etched Turkish costumeplates for the Carnival at Rome in 1748 View picture(s) 20 VIEN, Joseph Marie. Caravanne du Sultan ala Mecque. Mascarade turque donneé a Rome par messieurs les pensionnaires de l'Académie de France et leurs amis au carnaval de l'année 1748. Paris, chez Fessard rue de la Harpe vis à vis la rue Serpente, (1768). 4to. Contemporary wrappers, with the engraved title-page as front. Engraved title, engraved frontispiece, 30  full-page numbered etchings with costumeplates by Joseph-Marie Vien. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Print Series  Theatre  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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