[MONTMIGNON, JEAN BAPTISTE ABBÉ]:

Choix des lettres édifiantes, écrites des missions étrangères, précédé de tableaux géographiques, historiques, politiques, religieux et littéraires, des pays de mission. Seconde édition. 8 volumes. Paris, Grimbert, 1824-1826.

. Pp. (iv), cxx, 380; (iv), iv, 543; viii, 575; (iv), xx, 486; (iv), iv, 516; (iv), 475; (iv), 460; (iv), 494. Contemporary marbled calf, flat spines richly decorated in gilt and with red title labels. Marbled edges with matching endpapers. Armorial Bookplates. Binding somewhat rubbed, top of spine to volume four with wear and slightly chipped, otherwise a very attractive set. Comprises: Vols. i-iii. Missions de la Chine; iv. Missions de l'Inde; v-vi. Missions du Levant; vii-viii. Missions de l'Amerique. First edition was published in 1808-09.

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Book number: 35145

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, china, india, levant, america, tartary, siam, tonkin, cochinchina, cochinchine, travel, travels, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, kina, chine,

[WORTLEY MONTAGU, LADY MARY]:

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M---e: Written, During her travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe. ... Three volumes. London, printed for T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1769.

. Small 8vo. Pp. xii, adv. (iv), 180; (iv), 195; (iv), 230. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt and with title labels. Binding worn and some marginal wormholes to the first and third volumes. Some old annotations. Bookplates. Lady Wortley Montagu was the first lady to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake. When her husband was appointed British ambassador to the Porte in 1716, she decided to join him. They settled in a hilltop palace at Pera, which became their home for 18 months. Lady Mary's letters first published after her death (1763) became enormously popular and reissued many times. She became a great admirer of Turkish culture and her work includes insights that were exceptional for their time. Robinson p.32. Cf Atabey 829. Weber 477.

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Book number: 121275

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, levant, asia, asie, asien, travel, exploration, near east, east, eastern, ottoman, lady traveller,

[GODARD D'AUCOURT, CLAUDE]:

Mémoires turcs, ou histoire galante de deux turcs, pendant leur séjour en France. Par un auteur turc de toutes les Académies Mahométanes, licencié en droit turc, & Maître-ès-Arts de l'Université de Constantinople. Two parts in one volume. Francfort, chez la veuve Knoch & J.G. Eslinger, 1765.

. 12mo. Pp. (Iv), 160; (iv), 234. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title label, worn and hinges weak, spine ends chipped. First edition was published in 1743. It's a novel about Paris seen through the eyes of an observant Turkish man written in the new literary genre developed at this time. Cf Atabey 508. Gay v, 49. Cf Hayn-Got. v, 273.

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Book number: 23117

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, near east, east, eastern, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic

[TURKEY].

Turcici imperii status. Seu discurses varii de rebus turcarum. Lugd. Bat., ex off. Elzeviriana, 1630.

. 16mo. Pp. (viii) including engraved title, 314, index (5). Slightly later half calf, somewhat rubbed. Old annotations and underlinings. First edition. A collection of excerpts and short works by several writers such as Busbecq, Soranzo, Montalbano, Malaguzzi, etc. It's covering the historical and military state of the Ottoman Empire and includes much information about Constantinople at the time. Berghman 1903. Willems 340.

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Book number: 40006

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, explore, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

AVRIL, PHILIPPE:

Voyage en divers etats d'Europe et d'Asie, entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant plusiers remarques curieses de physique, de geographie, d'hydrographie & d'histoire. Avec une description de la grande Tartarie, & les differens peuples qui l'habitent. Paris, Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse, 1692.

. 4to. Pp. (xx), 406, (ii), (24) table. With engraved portrait of Gen. Stanislas Jablonowski, one folding engraved map, 3 engraved plates and 5 large engraved vignettes. Contemporary calf, borders ruled in gilt, flat spine with elaborate gilt decoration and red title label, r.e. Bookplate on front paste down. First edition of Avril's narrative of his two journeys through Central Asia aiming to discover new overland routes to China. Philippe Avril, Jesuit professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris, was summoned by Father Ferdinand Verbiest in Peking to join the mission there. For eight years, from 1682 to 1690, Avril travelled overland reaching North and Northwest China but ultimately failing to reach Peking. This narrative covers both journeys; the first by caravan through Syria, Kurdistan, Armenia, Persia and across the Caspian to Astrakan where he had to turn back, and the second about his attempt to cross Siberia from Moscow to China, with his return to the West through Constantinople, Moldavia, Poland and Lithuania. Avril's narrative is based on earlier Jeusit reports but also on new information given to him by caravan travellers and rulers he met en route, in particular the king of Syria. Cordier BS 2088. Cf Walravens (1987) 55.

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Book number: 100546

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, china, chine, kina, chinese, syria, persia, turkey, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, central asia, kurdistan, siberia, russia, russian,

BARTHÉLEMY, CHARLES:

Histoire de Turquie depuis les temps les plus regules jusqu'a nos jours. Tours 1856.

. Pp. (iv), 411. With engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates. Contemporary blindstamped cloth with gilt decoration on covers, spine richly decorated in gilt ("Cartonnage Romantique").

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Book number: 28123

Catalogue: Near East

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BERGGREN, GUILLAUME / SEBAH, JEAN PASCALE & JOALLIER, POLYCARPE:

An album with forty original photographs. Constantinople (Istanbul) 1880s.

. Oblong folio. Comprises forty albumen photographs mounted on thick cardboard with French hand-written captions below. Half green leather with gilt title label on upper cover. Foxing to the cardboard but the photographs are in very good condition. The collection includes twenty-four photos (ca 27.5 x 20.5 cm) signed by Berggren, depicting famous city scenes, important buildings and sites in Constantinople and its environs. Six similar photos are unsigned but probably some of them are by Berggren. Five photos are signed by Sebah & Joallier and another five coloured (22.5 x 16.5 cm) signed by P.Z. The collection includes photos of the Galata bridge, city scenes from Pera, Hagia Sophia, Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III, Tower of Leandros, Hamidiye Camii Mosque, views along the Bosphorus, the Turkish cemetery at Scutari, etc.Guillaume Berggren (Per Vilhelm), was born in Stockholm but lived most of his life in Constantinople, from 1866 to his death in 1920. He opened a photographic studio in the fashionable area of Pera. In 1885 in connection with king Oscar II's visit to Constantinople he was appointed Photographer of the Swedish Royal Court receiving the Litteris et Artibus royal medal. Jean Sebah was the son of the eminent photographer Pascal Sebah and took over the business after his father's death. In 1888 he went into a partnership with Polycarpe Joaillier, and thereafter the studio was known as Sebah & Joaillier and named the Sultan's official photographers.

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Book number: 100057

Catalogue: Near East

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BERGGREN, JACOB:

Resor i Europa och österländerne. Three volumes. Stockholm, S. Rumstedt, 1826-28.

. Comprises: Pp. (xxii), 375, (1); 558, (2), (ii), 70; 140, one blank leaf (with price information on the verso), 112 + (1) with 5 folding tables. Three engraved titles with vignettes, two folding maps and one engraved plan. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spines ruled in gilt, with title labels, red sprinkled edges, lightly rubbed. Spine ends with some wear, volume two head with small loss. Some very light staining to volume two but overall a very handsome and fresh copy.First edition of an important travel account of the Levant by Jacob Berggren (1790-1868), chaplain to the Swedish embassy in Constantinople. Contains an accurate account of Constantinople at this time and a narrative of Berggren's travels in the area between 1820-22. He visited Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land and Jordania. One appendix (70 pp.) deals with plants collected by Berggren and described by the Swedish botanist Göran Wahlenberg. The other appendix (text in French) contains a guide to certain places of cultural interest in Syria and Palestine. Krok p. 72. Röhricht 1689.

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BERGGREN, JACOB:

Resor i Europa och österländerne. Three volumes. Stockholm, S. Rumstedt, 1826-28.

. Pp. (xxii), 375, (1); 558, (2), bihang (ii), 70; 140, bihang 112 + inskrifter (1). Three engraved titles with vignettes, two engraved maps (of Syria and Bosphorus), one engraved plan (of Jerusalem) and five folding tables of Greek and Latin inscriptions in Syria. One blank leaf with price information on verso is not present (vol. III). Contemporary half calf, flat spines decorated and lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed. Bookplates. Occasionally some minor spotting.First edition of an important travel account of the Levant by Jacob Berggren (1790-1868), chaplain at the Swedish embassy in Constantinople. Contains an accurate description of Constantinople at the time and an account of his travels to Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land and Jordan between 1820-22. An appendix (70 pp.) deals with plants collected by Berggren and defined by the Swedish botanist Göran Wahlenberg. The second appendix (text in French) contains a sort of guide to some places of cultural interest in Syria and Palestine. Krok p. 72. Röhricht 1689.

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Book number: 100378

Catalogue: Near East

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BOSKOVI'C [BOSCOVICH], RUDJER JOSIB:

Giornale di un viaggio da Constantinopoli in Polonia. Con una sua relazione delle Rovina de Troja. Bassano, a spese remondini di Venezia, 1784.

. Pp. xxiv, 231. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed, r.e. Bookplate (Library of Ericsberg castle, Sweden). First Italian edition of a travel account devoted to Turkey, Bulgaria and Moldavia, and includes a chapter about Troy based on Pietro Correr's report from his visit in 1761. First published in French at Lausanne in 1772, translated from Boscovich's Italian manuscript by Pierre Henin. Rudjer Josib Boscovi'c was born in 1711 in Ragusa (Dalmatia) and became a Jesuit diplomat and polymath who made several scientific and diplomatic missions around the world. He joined the British Ambassador Sir James Porter to Constantinople in 1746. On his return journey he travelled through Bulgaria and Moldavia before he reached Warsaw where he stayed for several months. It's possible that his MS was translated during the time in Warsaw since his friend Pierre Henin served at the French embassy there. Cf Atabey 137. Whyte p. 220.

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Book number: 99695

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turque, turkey, turkish, levant, poland, polish, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, jesuits, moldavia, bulgaria

BREMER, FREDRIKA:

Lifvet i gamla verlden. Dagboks-anteckningar under resor i söder-och österland. Six parts in three volumes. Stockholm, Isaac Marcus, 1860 - 62.

. Pp. (iv), xii, 247; (iv), 412; (iv), 239; (iv), 299, (2); (vi), 247; (iv), 299, (1). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spines richly decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed. Bookplate (second volume). A handsome copy of the first edition. Fredrika Bremer was a pioneer in the Swedish women's movement and a renowned novelist of her time. This is her diary kept during a five-year journey to Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Palestine and Greece. She visited many famous sites, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jaffa. In Constantinople she visited the old harem at the Topkapi Palace and Aya Sophia. Volume three describes her stay in Greece. She was particularly interested in social life and the development of society in the countries she visited.Cf Röhricht p. 490. Tobler 199. Wäber 87.

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Book number: 121269

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, switzerland, greece, italy, italian, turkey, palestine, holy land, near east, levant, travel, exploration, lady traveller

DE BRUJN (BRUYN), CORNELIS:

Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse et aux Indes Orientales; ... on y a ajouté la route qu'a suivie M. Isbrants, ambassadeur de Moscovie, en traversant la Russie et la Tartarie pour se rendre à la Chine et quelques remarques contre M. Chardin et Kaempfer. Two volumes in one. Amsterdam, chez les Frères Wetstein, 1718.

. Folio. Pp. (viii), 252; (ii), 253-469. With titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, three folding engraved maps, 273 engravings (numbered 1-262 and eleven unnumbered) and 44 engravings in the text. The beautiful illustrations depict impressive costumes, grand views (including two folding panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan), interesting flora and fauna, animals, monuments, antiquities, etc. Contemporary full calf, expertly restored, original spine preserved, covers ruled in gilt and spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled edges. First French edition, translated from the original Dutch published in 1714.Cornelis De Brujn born at the Hague in 1652 was a Dutch painter and traveller. He made his first journey in 1674 to the Levant where he stayed for seven years. This work is devoted to his second journey which took him to Russia, Persia, India, Ceylon and Indonesia.His account is devoted to the countries visited, their peoples and customs, culture and natural history. It is mainly recognised for the lovely illustrations made after his drawings. He visited the Samoyedic country, Moscow, Astrakhan, Siberia, Isfahan, Persepolis, Garmeroon, Cochin in India, and Batavia and Bantam in Indonesia. Of particular interest is De Brujn's description of the Samoyedic people, one of the earliest, and the account with illustrations of Persepolis. In addition he describes the journey by Everand Ysbrants Ides to China. A magnificent copy with excellent impression of the attractive engravings. Chadenat ii, 5085. Cohen-De Ricci p. 610. Lipperheide Kaa 6. Howgego B177.

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Book number: 120966

Catalogue: Travel general

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DU CANGE, CHARLES DU FRESNE & VILLEHARDOUIN, GEOFFROI DE:

Histoire de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs francois, divisée en deux parties, dont la premiere Contient l'Histoire de la Conquéte de la Ville Constantinople par les François & les Venitiens, écrite par Geoffroy de Ville-Hardouin Maréchal de Champagne & de Romanie: ... La seconde, Contient une Histoire Generale de ce que les François & les Latins ont fait de plus memorable dans l'Empire de Constantinople, depuis qu'ils s'en rendirent maitres, iusques à ce que les Turcs s'en sont emparez: ... Two parts in one volume. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1657.

. Folio. Pp. (xxviii), 370, (7) table (1); (xii), 332 + recueil 86, (1). With engraved arms on titles and engraved vignettes and initials. 18th century full calf, expertly rebacked, spine with six raised bands, richly gilt and with red morocco title label, covers rubbed. Half title and title to the first part with small repair (old signature or stamp erased). Partly with some minor browning. First collected edition. Charles Du Cange is the editor of the first work and the author of the second. The first work contains Villehardouin's account of the Conquest of Constantinople which is the basic source for our knowledge of the sack of Constantinople by the French and Venetian crusader forces and the establishment of the Latin Empire in the East. Geoffrei de Villehardouin (ca 1150 - ca 1212), a French knight and historian, participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade (1202-4), which he began to write in 1207. It is one of the oldest books composed in French prose. The second work on the Latin Empire in the Levant is by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1620-88), an eminent French philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium. He is best known for his Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis (1678). Blackmer 501. Cf Atabey 1291 (Villehardouin 1585 ed.).

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Book number: 99440

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, constantinople, konstantinopel, turkey, turkish, turque, history, historian, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, exploration, levant, byzan, byzane,

LE CHEVALIER, JEAN BAPTISTE / BERGSTEDT, ERIK (Transl.):

Resa till Propontiden och Svarta Havet. Three volumes. Stockholm 1802-05.

. Pp. (xx), 5-275; (vi), 256 (2); (ii), 329, (1). With seven engraved maps, of which one large of Constantinople, and seven aquatint engraved plates. Some staining, a few plates are soiled and some with tear at margin. Half calf, spines with four raised gilt bands and lettered in gilt. A Swedish version of "Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont Euxin" (Paris 1800), translated by Bergstedt and with his comments and addendum. Includes additional descriptions of Smyrna, the Troad, the islands of Zea, Tenedos, Myteline, Chios, Samos, Rhodes, etc, and the ruins of Miletus and Ephesus. Includes Dallaway's descriptions of the Bosporus and Constantinople and a translation of Orpheus' poem about "the Argonautic train". References from works by Peyssonnel, D'Ohsson and William Eton have been used. The translator, Bergstedt, was a Swedish diplomat who travelled extensively to Egypt, Constantinople and Greece between 1794 and 1797. The first part contains mainly his own travel account. Cf Atabey 697.

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Book number: 99992

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, greece, greek, turkish, asia, asie, asien, levant, europe, european, travel, exploration, voyage,

DRYSELIUS, ERLAND BENEDIKT:

Luna turcica eller turkeste måne. Anwijsandes lika som uti en spegel det mahometiske wanskelige regementet, fördelter uti fyra qwarter eller böcker. Jönköping, Petter Hultman, 1694.

. Pp. (xvi), 350, (1), 352-424, 424-515, (3). With 12 plates of which 11 of sultans. Contemporary calf, worn, spine ends gone. Old inscriptions on paste downs. Occasionally some minor staining. Stamps on title page. Dryselius (1641-1708) was a Swedish priest and scholar. This work deals with the origin of the Turks, their history, religion, customs and manners, laws, commerce, churches, etc. The illustrations are done by the printer Hultman himself. It is the first Swedish work on the history of Turkey and the Ottoman empire. Hierta 913.

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Book number: 100245

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, islam, mohamed, east, eastern, levant, ottoman, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, exploration, travel