Lot 124
  • 124

Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 13 illustrated volumes, 4to and large 8vo, including:
  • paper
Marchebeus, -. Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau è vapeur. Paris, 1839, folding engraved map and 24 plates, illustrations, original cloth gilt, binding marked
Lavallée, T. Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman. Paris, 1855, 18 engraved plates, original cloth, elaborately gilt, occasional slight spotting
Méry, F.J.P. Constantinople et la Mer Noire. Paris, [1855], 21 engraved plates, a few hand-coloured, original cloth, elaborately gilt, spotted, 2 plates discoloured
Duckett, W.A. La Turquie pittoresque. Paris, 1855, 20 engraved plates, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, some spotting
Amicis, E. de. Constantinople. Paris, 1883, first edition in French, wood-engraved illustrations, some full-page, contemporary cloth-backed boards, original upper wrapper bound in, spotted
all but the last first editions, [Atabey 765, 681, 805, 369, 19]; and 8 others (13)

Catalogue Note

The others are:

Pardoe, J. Beauties of the Bosphorus, London, 1838, 2 parts (vol.) only (of 4)

Amicis, E. de. Constantinopoli, Milan, 1882

Russes et Turcs, la guerre d'orient, Paris, 1877

Allom, T. L'empire Ottoman illustré. Constantinople ancienne et moderne... deuxième série, Paris & London, no date [c.1850], one part only (of 3)

Pfeiffer, I. Voyage autour du monde, Rouen, 1885

Lacoste, Bouillane de. Au pays sacré des anciens Turcs et des Mongols, Paris, 1911

Barth, H. Les villes d'art célèbres. Constantinople, Paris, 1906