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STARK, Freja.
The Lycian Shore.
London: John Murray, [1956]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 204. folding map, plates & text illus. after photographs & drawings by the author. wood-engraved title vignette by Reynolds Stone. index. cloth (foxing to edges & endpapers). dw. (price-clipped, few short tears & slightly soiled). First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: dola2217 Order / Enquire
[STEPHENS, John Lloyd] [1805-1852].
Incidents Of Travel In Egypt, Arabia Petraea, And The Holy Land. By An American.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. vii [ie. ix], 240; v, [6]-286. folding engraved map & 18 engraved plates (incl. 2 frontis.). several wood-engraved text illus. original blind-stamped cloth (spine ends chipped, 1 plate browned, significant foxing throughout). Tenth Edition, Enlarged. Stephens visited Greece and Asia Minor in 1835, and in 1836, travelled through Egypt and the Holy Land. A very popular work, which went through eight editions within twelve months. cfBlackmer 1607. cfIbrahim-Hilmy II 259. cfSmith S147. cfTobler p. 158.
$205 USD Book Number: MTEci[ST17 Order / Enquire
TEMPLE, Sir Richard [1826-1902].
Palestine Illustrated.
London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1888..
large 8vo. pp. xx, 296. 4 maps (2 double-page). 2 lithographed & 32 chromolithographed plates (incl. frontis.). original gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, all others uncut (extremities & rear joint frayed, tissue adhesion on a few plates, light foxing mainly to margins). armorial bookplate & signature (dated 1894) of Edward Browne [perhaps Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926)]. First Edition. A description of the author's 1883 travels in Palestine with reproductions of his thirty-two oil studies of the Holy Land.
$599 USD Book Number: elala4008 Order / Enquire
[THACKERAY, William Makepeace] [1811-1863].
Notes Of A Journey From Cornhill To Grand Cairo, By Way Of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, And Jerusalem: Performed In The Steamers Of The Peninsular And Oriental Company. By Mr. M.A. Titmarsh [Pseud.].
London: Chapman And Hall, 1846..
12mo. pp. xiv, 301, [1] + 16 pp. of publisher's ads. with half-title. hand-coloured frontis.& 15 wood-engraved text illus. original gilt & blind-stamped pictorial cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, preserving endleaves. armorial bookplate of Richard Penn and noted book collector Major John Roland Abbey, the latter dated 1933. First Edition. An account of Thackeray's travels in Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Holy Land and Egypt in the autumn of 1844. Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 282. NCBEL III 857. Röhricht 2068 (citing incorrect date).
$500 USD Book Number: elala2229 Order / Enquire
TOTT, [François], Baron De [1733-1793].
Mémoires Du Baron De Tott, Sur Les Turcs Et Les Tartares.
Amsterdam: 1785..
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxxiv, 146; 160; 133; 112. with half-titles. woodcut head & tailpieces & title vignettes. Uncut & partly unopened in original drab blue wrs. with added paper labels (some chipping & tearing to spines, neat armorial rubberstamp on titles, occasional light foxing). First published in 1784. Several editions appeared in 1785, including a two-volume quarto illustrated with sixteen aquatint plates. The author, a French officer of Hungarian extraction, was attached to the entourage of the French ambassador de Vergennes to Constantinople from 1755 to 1763, and was appointed consul to the Crimea in 1767. He subsequently resided for many years in Turkey (c1769-1776), where he was engaged in improving their artillery and military fortifications following the outbreak of war with Russia. Appointed inspector general of the consulates of the Levant in 1776, he immediately departed on a two-year tour of inspection accompanied by Sonnini. "According to Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt, De Tott was in fact an agent of the French secret service, and his inspection tour was a cover for exploring the possibility of a French seizure of Egypt; he prepared a special report on this subject for the French Foreign Office. His memoirs had a great success; they provide objective information and a new unromantic view of the Ottoman Empire." (Blackmer) cfBlackmer 1667. cfBrunet V 901.cf Cox I p. 234.
$599 USD Book Number: MTTmoTOT96 Order / Enquire
TOZER, Henry Fanshawe [1829-1916].
Researches In The Highlands Of Turkey; Including Visits To Mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, And Pelion, To The Mirdite Albanians, And Other Remote Tribes.
London: John Murray, 1869..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xi, [1], 397, [1], [2]ads; vii, 390, [2]ads. 1 folding map, 8 plates (incl. 2 frontis.), & 5 maps & plans in text. original blind-stamped cloth (ex-lib., 1 leaf loose in Vol. I, slight fraying to headpieces, but a good tight copy). First Edition. "A very interesting work describing what is now northern and western Greece, the southern parts of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and including Mount Ida and the Troad. Tozer visited these areas in three separate journeys made in the summers of 1853, 1861 and 1865...". (Blackmer) Included are chapters on Mount Ida, Troy, Mount Athos, Salonica, Monastir, Ochrida and Elbassan, Berat and Corfu, Montenegro, Scodra and the Mirdita, Orosch, Prisrend, Uskiur, the Vardar Valley, Olympus, Temp and Ossa, Pelion, Thessaly and Meteora, Pindus, Yanina and Zitza, Suli, the vyrkolaka, or eastern vampire, Romaic ballads, modern Greek popular tales, and the classical superstitions existing among the modern Greeks. Blackmer 1669.
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TWEEDIE, [William King].
Ruined Cities Of The East.
London, Edinburgh & New York: T.Nelson And Sons, 1863..
small 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-viii, [9]-193. 4 coloured wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis.). A nice bright copy in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (joints & extremities trifle frayed). prize bookplate. Including descriptions of Ephesus, Sardis, Petra, Gaza, Jerusalem, Caesarea, Tyre, Baalbek, Antioch, Palmyra, Babylon, Chaldaea, Susa, Ninevah, Persepolis, &c. cfBlackmer 1691.
$154 USD Book Number: MEEinTWE50 Order / Enquire
[VEGESACK, Alexander Von & Mateo KRIES] (Editors).
Leben unter dem Halbmond: Die Wohnkulturen der arabischen Welt.
[Berlin]: Vitra Design Museum, [2003]..
folio. pp. 348, [4]. German text. profusely illus. (most colour). biblio. pictorial wrs. Fine copy. First Edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2381 Order / Enquire
VIGUIER, [Pierre Fran ois] [1745-1821].
Élémens De La Langue Turque Usuelle, Avec Leur Développement, Dédiés Au Roi, Sous les auspices de M. Le Comte De Choiseul-Gouffier, Ambassadeur de Sa Majesté Très-Chrétienne près de la Porte Ottomane.
Constantinople: De L'Imprimerie du Palais de France, Mars 1790..
4to. pp. xxxii, 462, [1 leaf]errata. with half-title. contemporary vellum (upper joints partly cracked, portions of text browned, some foxing, 3 library rubberstamps in margin of title - 1 partly erased with resulting small holes). First Edition of this Turkish grammar, compiled by Pierre Fran ois Viguier. Viguier was apostolic prefect at Constantinople from 1783 to 1802. 'His grammar was the first to distinguish in Turkish the use of either guttural or palatal vowels within one word. The subscribers include the English ambassador Ainslie, Count von Ludolf, Pierre Guys. and other diplomatic figures in Constantinople.' (Blackmer) The book was printed on the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where the French ambassador Choiseul-Gouffier, established a printing press in 1787. It is the fourth known book to have been printed there. Seven copies cited in NUC. Barbier V 1222. Blackmer 1732.
$4100 USD Book Number: TGUémVIG39 Order / Enquire
VOLNEY, C[onstantin] F[ran ois Chasseboeuf, Comte De] [1757-1820].
Voyage En Syrie Et En Égypte, Pendant Les Années 1783, 1784 Et 1785.
Paris: Volland, Desenne, 1787..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, [10]-14, [2]errata & advice to binder, 383; 6, [1 leaf]errata, 458, [3]approbation & privilege. 2 folding engraved maps & 3 folding engraved plates. woodcut head & tailpieces. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (corners & head of spines worn). First Octavo Edition (also published in quarto format the same year). Volney's narrative, relating his observations during three years of travelling in Syria and Egypt, includes remarks on politics, commerce and industry, the manners and customs of the Turks and Arabs, an account of the Arabic press established at the convent of Marhanna, with a catalogue of books printed there, and an extensive discussion of the diseases prevalent in Egypt: blindness, smallpox, cutaneous eruptions, the plague, and 'Neapolitan Disease' or French Pox. '.the best exposé of Ottoman Egypt at the end of the 18th century.' (Blackmer) 'One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published.' (Cox) Cox I 235. Gay 2275. Ibrahim-Hilmy I 186. Tobler p. 135. cfBlackmer 1748.
$1538 USD Book Number: MLNyaVOL36 Order / Enquire
WALPOLE, Robert [1781-1856] (Editor).
Memoirs Relating To European And Asiatic Turkey; Edited From Manuscript Journals.
London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1817.
4to. pp. xxii, 607. tipped-in errata slip. 8 engraved maps & plates (1 folding), 2 aquatints (1 double-page), & 4 panoramic views of Athens drawn by William Haygarth & etched by C.Turner. aquatint title vignette & tailpiece. several text illus. modern half calf (scattered foxing mainly affecting plates & adjacent leaves). First Edition of this collection of important previously unpublished material on the natural history, commerce, topography, and architecture of Greece and Asia Minor by John Sawrey Morritt, John Squire, and other noted travellers, scientists, and classical scholars. Included are papers on monasteries and libraries by Dr. Hunt, the antiquities of Egypt by Nathaniel Davison, the mines of Laurium and the gold and silver coinage of the Athenians by the editor and the Earl of Aberdeen, the flora and fauna of Greece and Cyprus by botanist John Sibthorp, &c. Blackmer 1762.
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WARBURTON, [Bartholomew] Eliot [George] [1810-1852].
The Crescent And The Cross; Or, Romance And Realities Of Eastern Travel.
London: Henry Colburn, 1848..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xii, 326 + 24(ads); viii, 332, [2]ads. with half-titles. 2 tinted lithographed plates (frontis.). 13 wood-engraved text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, joints & spine ends repaired (some foxing to plates). Seventh Edition. "In 1843 Warburton made an extended tour of Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He wrote accounts of his travels for the Dublin University Magazine, then under the editorship of Charles Lever, who persuaded him to make a book out of them. The work achieved great popularity; seventeen editions appeared by 1880. It enjoyed even greater success than Eothen, which had been dedicated to Warburton by [Alexander] Kinglake, a life-long friend. Warburton dedicated his own work to Richard Monckton Milnes.' (Blackmer) The last chapters are devoted to Constantinople and Greece. cfNCBEL III 1404. cfAbbey, Travel, 363. cfBlackmer 1771. cfRöhricht 2028. cfTobler p. 170.
$400 USD Book Number: elala170 Order / Enquire
WASHINGTON, D.C. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Art Treasures of Turkey Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution 1966-1968.
Washington, D.C.: 1966..
8vo. pp. xiv, 120, [97]. profusely illus. (many full-page) & 2 colour plates. wrs. (extremities bit rubbed). Exhib. Cat.
$36 USD Book Number: MSHtWASH17 Order / Enquire
WELLS, Charles [1838-1917].
The Literature Of The Turks. A Turkish Chrestomathy, Consisting Of Extracts In Turkish From The Best Turkish Authors (Historians, Novelists, Dramatists, &c.), With Interlinear And Free Translations In English, Biographical And Grammatical Notes, And Facsi
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891..
8vo. pp. xix, 272, [4]ads. with half-title. text in English & Turkish. 1 folding facsimile, 4 others in the text. original cloth (cloth soiled & stained, spinal extremities chipped, institutional bookplate & small label on lower spine). First Edition.
$308 USD Book Number: MLLeWELL17 Order / Enquire
WILSON, Sir Charles [William] [1836-1905].
Picturesque Palestine.
London: J.S.Virtue And Co., [1880-84]..
4 Volumes. 4to. titles in red & black. 2 double-page maps, 42 steel-engraved plates (include. titles), & numerous wood-engravings in the text (some full-page). contemporary half chagrin, t.e.g. (rubbed, short split in one joint, endleaves replaced, library markings on verso of titles, small paper labels on spines, occasional foxing). Röhricht 2891.
$1499 USD Book Number: elala3032 Order / Enquire
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