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AGRICOLA, George. Oratio de bello adversus Turcam suscipiendo, ad Ferdinandum Ungariae boemiaequ regem & principes Germaniae Basel, Froben, 1538.4to. Modern boards. With 2 woodcut printer’s devices. 18 lvs. First Latin translation of Oration, Anred und Vermanung Herrn Ferdinandum zu Ungern, Nuremberg, Peypus,1531, a pamphlet on the Turkish wars in Hungary which began with the siege of Vienna in 1529. 'Agricola gives a long-winded account of the Turks' cruelties and warns that Germany is now threatened by the Turkish forces. Hungary must be given every assistance. No writer has so praised the superiority of the Imperial armaments over the apparently weak Turkish weaponry. He stressed the superior arms of the German mercenaries, while the Turks had but flimsy pikes. Victory over a so poorly equipped enemy is nothing less than certain. His oration was written a few months after the siege of Vienna, which may explain his excessive optimism' (Kertbeny, p. 89 etc.). With preface by Georg Fabricius dedicated to Chemnitz and at the end a letter of Laurentius Bermannus to king Ferdinand, ex valle Joachimi April, 1530. A catholic with a broad humanistic education, George Agricola spent most of his life in Saxony as an educator, physician, scientist, and expert on mining and metallurgy. His outlook was more secular than that of the other pamphleteers. He viewed the Turkish question primarily as a militair and economic problem rather than as a divine visitation. In one respect his views resembled those of the other Catholic writers: he envisaged the eventual extirpation of the Islamic religion at the point of the sword. (Bohnstedt p.14). - (3 blank corners restored).Göllner 617; Apponyi I, 268; Sturminger 234;Jöcher 63; Hubay 165. [Boeknr.: 35267 ]

€ 2950,00

BAEDEKER, Karl. Konstantinopel. Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien, Archipel, Cypern. Handbuch für Reisende. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914.12mo. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. With 18 maps and 65 plans (some folding). LXXIV, 484 pp. Second edition, first edition was published in 1905. - Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (1801 - 1859) was a German publisher whose company, Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. The first edition included Constantinople and the western portion of Asia Minor, together with Cyprus. The second edition was extended with the Balkans and the Aegean islands.Contominas Collection 25. [Boeknr.: 35714 ]

€ 275,00

BARGRAVE, Robert. The travel diary of Robert Bargrave Levant merchant (1647-1656). Edited by Michael G. Brennan. London, 1999. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 17 plates and illustrations. XIX,288 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 3. - The introduction provides an assessment of the historical, literary, and geographical importance of Robert Bargrave's journal. [Boeknr.: 34636 ]

€ 45,00

BARTOLI, Domenico. Buda ritolta a’Turchi dall’armi chistiane. Canzone del Sig. Domenico Bartoli Lucchese dedicata all’illustriss(imo) a reverendisss(imo) Sig. Monsig. Giuseppe Archinto Arcivescovo di Tessalonica, e Nunzio Apostolico appresso il Srereniss(imo) Granduca di Toscana. Firenze, Piero Matini 1686.Modern wrappers. With woodcut head and tail pieces. (16) lvs. Canzone (lyric) in celebration of the recapture of Buda from the Turks. The present edition is appartly unrecorded. The poem, consisting of 24 twelve-line stanzas, is edited to Giuseppe Archinto, Archbisschop of Thessalonica in partibus and Apostolic Nuncio to Florence. According to Bartoli’s dedication, dated from Florence on 10 september, Archinto’s brother Ludovico had taken part in the recapture of Buda. Apponyi 2239 (Lucca, 1686) . [Boeknr.: 35312 ]

€ 750,00

BAUER, Marius. Marius Bauer 1867-1932. Oriëntalist. Zutphen, Bauer Documentatie Stichting, 2001. 4to. Pictorial cloth. With 10 illustrations and 87 coloured plates. 266 pp. Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26). With contributions by P. Ankum, J. de Hond and A.J. Vervoorn [Boeknr.: 35843 ]

€ 25,00

BAUER, Marius. Marius Bauer 1867-1932. (Samenstelling tentoonstelling Mariëtta Jansen en Saskia Zwiers). Zeist, Zeister Kunststichting, 1994. 4to. Wrappers. With coloured plates. 48 pp. Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26). [Boeknr.: 35844 ]

€ 15,00

BIRKEN, Sigmund von. Der vermehrte Donau-Strand/ mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen/ angelegenen Königreichen, Provintzen, Herrschafften und Städten/ auch dererselben alten und neuen Namen/ von Ursprung bis zum Ausflusse .. vorgestellet: auch sampt kurtzer Verfassung einer Hungar- und Türckis. Chronick/ und des Anno 1663. und 1664. geführten Türken-Krieges. Mit einer kurzen Continuation der merkwürdigsten Türkischen Kriegs-handlungen .. Nurnberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684.16mo. Contemporary vellum. With 50 engraved plates (including 4 maps and 8 folding plates). (8), 231 pp. First published in 1664, later editions appeared in 1674, 1684, 1686, 1688 and 1690; an Italian edition was issued in 1684. Sigmund von Birken (1626 -1681), a German poet, was a member of the most important literary societies. He primarily wrote pastoral poetry and theatre plays, but also spiritual devotional literature and historiographical writings such as the present one.The plates depict the fortress along the Danube and includes views of Constantinople, Adrianople, Belgrade, etc. Sandrart produced many engravings of the Balkan and the Levant, mainly plans and views of cities and maps. (Atabey 108).Atabey Collection 108 (incomplete copy); not in Blackmer; Apponyi 1092 (Italian ed.). [Boeknr.: 28854 ]

€ 2750,00

BORSUM, J.F.J. Reise nach Constantinopel, Palästina und Egypten. Ueberarbeitet von David Traugott Kopf. 2. Auflage. Berlin, J.W. Boicke, 1826.Contemporary marbled boards. XVI,238 pp. First published in 1825. - The description of the pupil tailor Borsum (born 1796) from Feldbergen (Hildesheim) went through many editions and was also translated into Danish. - (Age-browned).Rohricht 1662; Tobler 1818; Kainbacher p.52; Hilmy I, p.83; Engelmann I, p. 118. [Boeknr.: 36640 ]

€ 275,00

BOSCHMA, C. & J. PEROT. Antoine-Ignace Melling (1763-1832), reizend kunstenaar. Met medewerking van H. Sorbé, Th. Laurentius en R. Anhegger. Abcoude, Uniepers, (1991). Folio. Original boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 240 pp. Melling was a painter, architect and voyager who is counted among the 'Levantine artists'. In this book his journey in 1812 to the Netherlands and Germany is documented. [Boeknr.: 31810 ]

€ 45,00

BOSQUIER, Philippe. Orator Terrae Sanctae, et Hungariae; seu, Sacrarum Philppicarum in Turcarum barbariem. Douai, Ex typographia Laurentii Kellam, sumptibus Petri Borremans, 1606.Sm.8vo. Contemporary limp vellum (sl. soiled). With engraved device on title of Sts. Peter and Paul and engraved plate signed Waldor, woodcut floriated initials. (32),422,(2) pp. With bookplate of the Mount Street Jesuits and their small library stamp in blank margin of titlepage, ‘Chris Hunt: lege age’ in contemporary manuscript on flyleaf. - Rare first edition of these 'Philippics' by the Flemish Franciscan Philippe Bosquier (1561-1636), in which he excoriates the Turks for their persecution of Christians especially in Hungary. The engraved plate depicts with gruesome detail the torture upon the Hungarians, including the feeding to the dogs of Christians, by the Ottomans. Bosquier was born at Mons, studied theology at the University of Paris, and was sent to Rome where Cardinal Caesar Baronius became his patron. He was the author of thirty volumes of sermons and several plays, populist with strong moral themes, in which he attacks the Huguenots and the 'mondains'. Bosquier employs the same populist tone against the Turks, though he uses many classical and religious sources to back his arguments. He also includes a powerful plea for unity in the Church in face of the Ottoman threat and he addressed a letter to Pope Paul V, with the aim of instigating a new crusade against the Turks. A rare work, that provides much insight into the Counter Reformation Church's reaction to the Ottoman invasion of Europe. Not in Apponyi, Blackmer or Atabey [Boeknr.: 32482 ]

€ 1650,00

BUDAPEST. DESCRIPTION HISTORIQUE DE LA GLORIEUSE CONQUESTE de la ville de Bude, capital du Royaume d’Hongrie, par les armes victorieuses de nostre tres-auguste & invincible Empereur Leopold I. Sous la conduite de .. Duc de Lorraine & l’electeur de Baviere. Cologne, Jean Jacques le Jeune, 1686.16mo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut title-vignette. 142 pp. First edition. - History of the 1686 siege and re-capture of Buda, under Turkish rule since 1541, by Duke Charles V of Lorraine and Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria. An English edition was published in London in 1687 (?) An historical description of the glorious conquest of the city of Buda, the captial city of the kingdom of Hungary, by the victorious arms of the thrice illustrious and invinciple Emperor Leopold I. Under the conduct of his Most Serene Highness, the Duke of Lorraine, and the Elector of Bavaria ...A day by day account of the Allied advance on Buda and Pest in Hungary, resulting in the withdrawal of the Ottoman garisson and a Treaty of Peace. The wry joke "the operation was successful, but the patient died" might describe the liberation of Buda and Pest by the united Christian armies in 1686. The two towns were utterly destroyed, with only a few thousand people remaining alive inside the walls by the time the Turks were vanquished. Having survived the Turkish period intact, the royal palace was destroyed in the siege. Resettlement and rebuilding were gradual, and formerly Gothic Buda took on a decidedly baroque appearance during the process. Though it would never again be a royal seat, the palace was rebuilt and expanded over the years. Hungary was to be ruled by the victorious House of Habsburg until the collapse of the Habsburg empire in World War I. - Extremely rare, unrecorded variant. - Not in Apponyi. [Boeknr.: 35355 ]

€ 950,00

BUDAPEST. Il tradimento ordito contro la citta di Buda. Da un tenente del reggimento Salm, e scoperto per divina providenza. La morte d'un villano, che gli seruiva à trapoertargli lettere dal Bassà d'Alba Reale. Il discoprimento della congiura d'esperies, con la morte de traditori, Todi, Vincenzo Galassi, 1687.12mo. 19th century sheep-backmarbled boards. 6 lvs. First edition. - A resumé of notable events in the war against the Turks in Hungary from the beginning of 1687 until the authum of that year. Recounted are details of a treacherous plot against the city of Buda following its recapture from the Turks, the death of a peasant who couriered letters from the pasha of Szekesfehervar and the recovery of a plot at Eperjes.Apponyi 2296. [Boeknr.: 35313 ]

€ 495,00

CAPRARA, Alberto. Relatione del presente governo Ottomano fatta dal Sig. Conte Alberto Caprara, stato ultimamente internunzio à quella corte per la maestà dell' imperatore Leopoldo Primo. Venetia, per il Bosio, 1684.Disbound. With fine half-page woodcut portrait of Mehmet IV on title-page. (8) pp. Albert Caprara (1627-1691) was Leopold's ambassador to the Sultan. Apponyi 1094 (Lucca 1684); Sturminger 949-950 (Bologna & Lucca 1684). [Boeknr.: 30764 ]

€ 1650,00

CHESNEY, Francis Rawdon. The Russo-Turkish campaigns of 1828 and 1829: with a view of the present state of affairs in the East. 2nd edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., Bombay, Smith, Taylor & co, 1854.Original embossed green cloth. With two folding maps, coloured in outline. XXXVIII, 448; (16) pp. Three editions were issued in 1854. - Colonel Francis Rawdon Chesney went to Constantinople in 1829 with the intention of joining the Turkish forces, but he was delayed by a tour of inspection of Syria and Egypt, and the peace of Adrianople was announced just as he arrived. In this work, composed of materials collected on the spot, he has provided an account of the Russo - Turkish war of 1828-29, and in the final chapter he gives a history of past and present Russo-Turkish wars and a background to the Eastern Question. (Atabey p.118). Chesney was clearly an explorer of the first order and his courage and perseverance were matched only by his attention to detail and thoroughness in the surveys he produced. - (Some foxing).Atabey Collection 235; not in Blackmer. [Boeknr.: 35184 ]

€ 225,00

CLEMENT, C.E. Constantinople. New York, H.M. Caldwell Company, (1895).Original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With photographic plates. IV,302 pp. With library stamp of the Minnesota Historical Society. [Boeknr.: 15172 ]

€ 45,00

COLLINOT, E. & A. de BEAUMONT. Ornements Turcs. Recueil de dessins pour l'art et l'industrie. Paris, Canson, 1883.Large folio. Contemporary half green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt. With 30 chromolithographed plates. Encyclopédie des arts décoratifs de l'Orient. - 500 numbered copies printed, of which this copy is numbered 112. - This influential design book, with beautiful coloured plates, revealed the arts of the Islamic world as a new source of inspiration. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 21653 ]

€ 3250,00

CONSTANTINOPLE. Prospectus septem turrium in urbe Constantinopolitana, Vüe des sept Tours ou Prisons d'etat a Constantinople, Vista della sette Torri, osia Priggioni di Stato a Costantinopoli, Prospect der Sieben Thürne, oder Staats-Gefängnus zu Constantinopel. (Augsburg), Georg Balthasar Probst, (ca. 1770).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) depicting a street scene with the prison in Constantinople. Ca 26 x 39 cm. View inside Istanbul showing the state prison, the seven towers to Constantinople. A fine street view with on both sides buildings with slender towers and several local peope and horsemen. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35345 ]

€ 175,00

CRAMPRICH, Daniel Joannes. Memorie overgelevert aen d'Heeren Staten Generael, den 12 February, 1685. Door den Minister van Sijne Keyserlycke Majesteyt. (No pl.), 12 February, 1685.4to. (4) pp. Request from Spain's ambassador Cramprich to the Dutch Republic for financial support to fight the Ottoman Turks. Knuttel 12373 (French edition only); Tiele 8230. [Boeknr.: 33358 ]

€ 125,00

DAILEY NEWS. The war correspondence of the 'Daily News' 1877 with a connecting narrative forming a continuous history of the war between Russia and Turkey. Including the letters of Archibald Forbes, J.A. Macgahan and many other special correspondents in Europe and Asia. 2nd edition containing a full description of the taking of Kars. London, Macmillan and Co., 1878.Original red cloth (sl. rubbed, spine ends sl. damaged). XVI,643 pp. With the bookplate and stamp of Girton College. - Of the letters 'may be said, that they were welcomed by the public as affording the earliest, fullest, and most specific information at critical moments of the campaign, and if it should further be found that these same letters, hastily written in the bivouac, on the field of victory, or in some hovel on the line of retreat, have at the same time the merit of being among the most vivid and truthful pictures of war that have at any time been offered to the public, the popularity they have attained would be accounted for (Preface). [Boeknr.: 35188 ]

€ 125,00

DAILEY NEWS. The war correspondence of the 'Daily News' 1877-8 continued from the fall of Kars to the signature of the preliminaries of peace. With a connecting narrative forming a continuous history of the war between Russia and Turkey. London, Macmillan and Co., 1878.Original red cloth (sl. rubbed, spine ends sl. damaged). XVI,599 pp. With the bookplate and stamp of Girton College. - 'The collection, which now forms a complete history of the war, comprises the correspondence of Archibald Forbes, J.A. MacGahan, F.D. Millet, E. Pears, E. O'Donovan, J.H. Skinner, V. Julius, and other correspondents - in all seventeen in number - to each of those letters a conventional sign has been affixed' (Preface). [Boeknr.: 35189 ]

€ 125,00

DREW GAY, J. Plevna, the Sultan and the Porte; reminiscences of the war in Turkey. London, Chatto and Windus, 1878.Original red cloth (sl. soiled). VI,(1),298; 40 pp. First edition. - With the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. - 'During my stay in Turkey as Special Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, it was my high privilege to have unusual facilities for obtaining information respecting what inspired within the Palace, the Seraskierate, and the Porte. It was, moreover, my fortune to be present at the heavy fighting which, early in September 1877, took place at Plevna. What I heard at Constntinople, and what I witnessed on the memorable battlefields where Osman Pasha and his gallant army gained for themselves and their country undying renown, I have transcribed, and to my observations appended sundry notes respecting the present condition and what I take to be the needs of Turkey in the future' (Preface). - Rare.Not in the Blackmer Collection. [Boeknr.: 35210 ]

€ 375,00

DUCKETT, William Alexander. La Turquie pittoresque. Histoire - moeurs - description. Préface par Théophile Gautier. Paris, Victor Lecou, 1855.2 volumes in 1. 8vo. Original decorated gilt cloth with large gilt mosaic decoration on front cover and gilt decorated on back cover, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. With 20 steel-engraved views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus. XVIII,304 pp. First edition. - The work is divided into two parts, the first containing a history of the Turkish empire, and the second a description of habits, customs, etc. The fine plates are after Thomas Allom. - (Foxed as always). - A fine binding.Blackmer Collection 504; Atabey Collection 369; Chadenat I, 2285. [Boeknr.: 10355 ]

€ 275,00

DWIGHT, H.G. Constantinople old and new. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915.Original blue cloth, top edge gilt. With many photographic illustrations. XXI,567 pp. First edition. - Harrison Griswold Dwight, was born in Constantinople in 1875, died in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1959. He prepared for Amherst College at the preparatory school of Robert College, Constantinople, with which his father was connected, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont Academy. After graduation from Amherst, he entered the consular service. [Boeknr.: 36061 ]

€ 65,00

EGIDIO DA VITERBO. Oratio prima Synodi Lateranensis habita per Egidium Viterbiensem Augustiniani ordinis Generalem. (Rome, Johann Beplin), 1513. Modern half brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With woodcut border on title-page. 10 lvs. First edition published in Rome in 1512. - Aegidius of Viterbo (1470-1532) was an Italian Augustinian cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist and poet. He was born at the Villa Canapina, near Viterbo, of rich and noble parents. He entered the Augustinian Order at an early age. After a course of studies with the Augustinians he was made doctor of theology and in 1503 became general of his order. Aegidius is famous in ecclesiastical history for the boldness and earnestness of the discourse which he delivered at the opening of the Fifth General Council, held in 1512, at the Lateran Palace. It is printed in Harduin's collection of the councils. Pope Leo X made him cardinal, confided to him several in succession, employed him as legate on important missions, gave him (in 1523) the title of Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. Egidius schildert die Verwüstungen in Ungarn, die er mit eigenen Augen gesehn hatte. In der einleitented Zuschrift des J. Sadolete an Bembo berichtet dieser über den ungeheuern Eindruck, den die Rede gemacht hatte (Göllner 52 ). - A nice copy.Apponyi I, 83. [Boeknr.: 35521 ]

€ 1450,00

EISENSTEIN, Richard von. Reise nach Konstantinopel, Kleinasien, Rumänien, Bulgarien und Serbien. Beschreibung mit Erörterungen, um zu Reisen und Unternehmungen auszuregen. Wien, Karl Gerolds Sohn, 1912.Original decorated cloth. With 6 maps (1 folding) and 458 photographic illustrations. 416 pp. First edition. - A fine illustrated copy. [Boeknr.: 36057 ]

€ 75,00

(ELIOT, Charles Norton Edgcumber). Turkey in Europe. By Odysseus. London, Edward Arnold, 1900.Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 folding coloured maps. 475 pp. First edition. - Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot (1862 - 1931) was a British diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist. He describes the Turks, the Greeks, the Bulgarians and Serbs, the Albanians and Vlachs, and the Armenians. [Boeknr.: 36070 ]

€ 95,00

EYL, Franciscus & Antonio VANOSSI. Decas Augusta seu lustrum geminum imperii Augustissimi Caroli VI. Cum accurata belli Turcici relatione dum authoritate, & consensu perillustris, consultissimi, & maginifci domini universitatis rectoris .. Viennae, typis Mariae Teresiae Voigtin, (ca. 1723).Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum with written number on spine. With folding engraved allegorical frontispiece by Heinr. Martin and 5 folding engraved maps and plans. (4),225,(3) pp. First edition. - Dealing with the first years of the reign of Karl VI and the war against the Turcs in 1716-1717 under Prince Eugen. With maps of Hungary, Petri-Varadinum, Temesia Expugnata, Transitus Danubii and plan of Belgrade. - (Aged-browned). - Scarce. [Boeknr.: 35334 ]

€ 2675,00

FEHMI, Youssouf. Histoire de la Turquie. Préface de M. Antoine Baumann. Paris, Perrin et Cie., 1909. Original printed wrappers. With portrait of the author. XVIII,360 pp. [Boeknr.: 15725 ]

€ 55,00

FEKETE, Ludwig. (Red.). Türkische schriften aus dem Archive des Palatins Nikolaus Esterhazy 1606 - 1645. Im auftrage des Fürsten Paul Esterhazy. Budapest, 1932 . 8vo. Original wrappers, uncut. With folding map and 10 folding plates of facsimile documents. LXXI,501,(2) pp. First printing of 150 Osmanli documents directed to the Palatine Nikolaus Esterhazy (1606-1645). The volume comprises the Turkish original texts, their translations into German, together with notes on spelling and language. [Boeknr.: 35283 ]

€ 125,00

Francisci Erasmus / Theophilum URBINUM. Türckisches Stadt-Büchlein: darinn Hundert und etliche der auserlesensten Städte/ Vestungen und Schlösser/ so der Ottomannischen Herschaft/ theils im Königreich Ungarn/ theils in andern Reichen und Theilen der Welt/ unterworffen; samt deren Belägerung/ Eroberung/ Slachten/ Antiquitäten und andern Gelegenheiten .. Aus unterschieslichen glaubwürdigen historicis ..mit allem Fleiss beschrieben/ durch Theophilum Urbinum. Nürnberg, Johann Hofmann, 1664.12mo. Contemporary vellum, with clasps. With folding frontispiece and 24 engraved plans.(20),455 pp. First and only edition. - Alphabetical description of the most important cities of the Ottoman world. - Fine copy of a rare lexicon. [Boeknr.: 22990 ]

€ 950,00

FRANCISCI, Erasmus. Der blutig-lang-gereizte / endlich aber Sieghafft-entzündte Adlerblitz / wider den Glantz dess barbarischen Sebels / und Mord-Brandes / in historischer Erzehlung der Kriegs Empörungen Ungarischer Malcontanten / wie auch grausamen Kriegs-Verwüstung der Ottomannisch - Tartarischen / in Ungarn / und dessen Nachbarschafft / sonderlich aber vor der belägerten Kaiserlichen Residentz Stadt Wien entsetzlich wütenden/ endlich aber / vermittest göttlicher Hülff-Verleihung / von Römisch-Keyserlichen und Königlich-Polnischen / wie auch anderer Hohen Alliirten Chur-Fürsten und Stände Waffen / tapffer gebrochenen / und siegreich überwundenen Heer-Macht / hervorleuchtend / nebst vor Erzehlung der Fürnehmsten Händel / und Feindseligkeiten / die seit dem vorigen Türcken-Kriege und dessen Friedens-Schluss / in Ungarn / wie auch Polen / zwischen den Christen / Türcken / Tarten / und Cossacken / sich gegeben. Nürnberg, Johan Andrea Endters Seel. Söhne, 1684.Contemporary calf over wooden boards, with 1 (of 2) clasp. With engraved frontispiece, titlepage printed in red and black, 3 engraved folding plates by J. Sandrart and 10 engraved portraits. 375, (2) pp. (Added manuscript index, 2 lvs.). First edition. - Erasmus Finx (1627 ? - 1694), alias Erasmus Francisci, was a German Polymath, author and writer of Christian hymns. Finx was born in Lübeck, the son of a lawyer and received higher education at Lüneburg and Stettin. He studied law and was travelling through Italy, France and the Netherlands afterwards. As of 1657, he worked as a reader at Endter publishing at Nuremberg, where he also published some of his books. With portraits of Sultan Mehmed IV, Grossvisir Kara Mustafa, Kaiser Leopold I, Graf Rudiger von Starhemberg, Johann Sobiesky from Poland and others. The folding plates depict the siege of Vienna and recapture of Gran.Sturminger 1268. [Boeknr.: 35318 ]

€ 1250,00

FRANCISCI, Erasmus. Neue und kurtze Beschreibung des Königreichs Ungarn: dessen fürnehmsten Städten und Vestungen. Wobey vieler Belägerungen, und vergleichen Denckwürdigkeiten; absonderlich, was in dem jetzigem Türcken-Krieg von An. 1663 bis an den Hornung dieses 1664 Jahrs, bey diesem und jenen Ort fürgelauffen, gemeldet, auch, zum Anhang, die vormahlige Belägerung der Stadt Wien ausführlich erzehlet wird. Nürnberg, Wolf Eberhard Felssecker by Johan Hofmann, 1664.16mo. Early 19th century half calf, spine richly gilt with 2 title-labels. With folding engraved titlepage, 4 engraved folding maps and 6 folding engraved plates. (20),379,(5) pp. Four editions were published the same year. Published under pseudonym Caspar Minsicht. Contains a detailed description of the siege of Vienna. Erasmus Francisci (1627-1694), born Erasmus von Finx, was a prolific polyhistor and is considered to be among the most influential figures in the German Baroque period. He became a secretary in the Endter publishing house and later rose to the position of corrector. Considered a literary celebrity, Francisci was one of the best selling authors for this period. This book describes cities and strongholds during the fourth Austro-Turkish War (1663-1664). - (Age-browned).Sturminger 99; Apponyi 886. [Boeknr.: 31732 ]

€ 1750,00

FRESCHOT, Casimir. Idea generale del regno d'Ungheria, sua descrittione, costumi, regi, eguerre; con i motiui dell'ultima solleuatione, inuasione de' Turchi, assedio, e liberatione di Vienna, e progressi dell' armi christiane. Al reuerendissimo D. Pietro Sagredo. Venetia, Lorenzo Marchesini, 1684.12mo. Contemporary vellum. With woocut title-vignette and initials. (22),356 pp. First edition. - An interesting work on the history, civilization and rulers of Hungary, as well as comments on the Turkish invasion and the sieg and liberation of Vienna. Casimir Freschot (1640 - 1720) was a French historian and chronicler. He was the author of about fifty works in French , Italian and Latin, the most notable being Origine, progressi e ruina del calvinismo nella Francia, ragguaglio istorico di D. Casimiro Freschot (1693) and Histoire du congrès et de la paix d'Utrecht (1716). Born in Morteau around 1640, he became a novice in the benedictine Saint-Maur congregation, and was ordained on March 20, 1663 in the Saint-Vincent de Besançon monastery. In 1674 he moved to Italy, joining the benedictine congregation in Montecassino. Around 1700 he returned to the lay state and moved to Utrecht, where he earned a living teaching literature and history. Having returned to France, Freschot was reintegrated as a monk in the Saint-Vanne congregation in 1718 and died in 1720, in the Abbey of Luxeuil .Sturminger 1281; not in Blackmer, Attabey or Apponyi. [Boeknr.: 32492 ]

€ 1450,00

GROTHE, Hugo. Auf türkischer Erde. Reisebilder und Studien. 2. Auflage. Berlin, Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1903.Original red cloth. With 22 photographic illustrations. 456 pp. Albert Louis Hugo Grothe (1869 - 1954) was a German cultural politician, scientist, geographer and orientalist. [Boeknr.: 36050 ]

€ 65,00

HAMLEY, E. Bruce. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol written in the camp. Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1855.Original red embossed cloth (spine damaged; 1 hinge weak). With folding plan of Sevastopol, 4 coloured lithographed plates (1 folding) and 5 tinted lithographed plates (1 folding) after E.B. Hamley by M. & N. Hanhart. XV,339 pp. First edition. - Edward Bruce Hamley went out to the Crimea as adjudant to Colonel Richard Dacres,commanding the batteries in the First Division. On the death of General Strangways at Inkerman, Dacres was promoted to chief command of the artillery, Hamley becoming his aide-du-camp. Originally submitted to Blackwoord’s as a serie of letters, with work probably represents the most vivid published portrayal of the siege. The attractive lithographs are from the author’s own sketches. Includes descriptions of the charges of the Heavy Brigade and of Florence Nightingale in her hospital. - (Some spotting).Abbey, Travel, 236; Bibl. Russica 125. [Boeknr.: 1849 ]

€ 375,00

HASAN PASHA. ERSCHRECKLICHE NÄWE ZEITUNG/ aus Newheusel / Carlstadt / und Rab / den 12.13.14. October von dem wütenden Erbfeind dem Türcken / disz 92. Jahrs. Copey des Türckischen Keisers Absagbrieffs / an den Römischen Keyser im Septemb. disz 92. Jars. Nürnberg, Lucas Meyer, 1592.Modern speckled boards. With nice woodcut on title page and woodcut medaillon portrait. (4) lvs. First edition. - Extremely rare 'newsletter' on the raids of Hasan Pasha of Bosnia in Central Europe in the period 1591 - 1592. Hasan Predojevic (c. 1530 - 1593), also known as Telli Hasan Pasha was the fifth Ottoman beylerbey of Bosnia and a notable Ottoman Bosnian military commander, who led an invasion of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia during the Ottoman wars in Europe. From July to October 1592, he led devastating raids into Slavonia, Bohemia, Croatia, and Hungary resulting in the capture of 35,000 people and the enslavement and death of more than 20,000 people. Not in Apponyi or Göllner; only 1 copy in Worldcat. [Boeknr.: 35275 ]

€ 1650,00

HELLWALD, Friedrich von & Louis Constantin BECK. Die heutige Türkei. Schilderung von Land und Leuten des Osmanischen Reiches .. vor und nach dem Kriege von 1877/78. 2. vielfach verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, Otto Spamer, 1878.2 volumes in 1. Modern half cloth. With 2 double-page coloured maps, 10 plates and 220 woodengravings. VIII,478; VIII,496 pp. With bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey; Bibliothek der Länder- und Völkerkunde. - Volume I European Turkey, Volume II Asian and Arabian Turkey. Fine illustrated account.- (With library stamp on titlepage; 1 tear rep.). [Boeknr.: 36044 ]

€ 95,00

HOUT, Syrine Chafic. Viewing Europe from the outside. Cultural encounters and critiques in the eighteenth-century. Pseudo-Oriental travelogue and the nineteenth-century 'voyage en Orient'. NewYork, Peter Lang, 1997. Decorated boards. 288 pp. [Boeknr.: 36099 ]

€ 45,00

HUNGARY & VENICE. HUNGARISCH- UND VENETIANISCHES KRIEGS-THEATRUM, auff welchem die höchst-glücklichen Feld-Züge, so die Röm. Kayserl. und Venetianischen Armeen, in dem mit Gott zurückgelegten 1716. Jahre, in Hungarn und Griechenland wider die Türcken gethan, das Hungarische in einer besondern Beschreibung, und Neun nach und nach darauff erfolgten Fortsetzungen derselben, das Venetianische aber in drey Eröffnungen .. Leipzig, Johann Theodoro Boetio, 1716-1719.5 volumes in 1. Contemporary half vellum. With 5 separate title-pages (4 printed in red and black), 7 double-page maps and plates, 10 frontispieces, 33 title-vignettes, mainly of city views, showing fortifications, and decorative woodcut head and tail pieces and initials and other illustrations in text (1 page damaged with some loss of text). I. Hungarisches Kriegs-Theatrum, so mit Anfang der Türckischen Niederlage bey Carlowitz, den 5. Aug. 1716 eröffnet worden. II. Venetianisch-Türckisches Kriegs-Theatrum, auff welchem vorgestellet wird die Insul Corfu. III. Vorstellung des höchst-beglückten Zweyten Feldzugs, auff dem Hungarisch- und Venetianischen Kriegs-Theatro. .IV. Der Höchst-erwünscht und beglückte Schlutz Dritten Feldzugs, auf dem Hungarisch- und Venetianischen Kriegs- und Friedens-Theatro.V. Das Hungarisch- und Venetianische Kriegs-Nunmehro/ Gott Lob ! mit bessern Fug so zu nehmende Friedens-Theatrum. .The eighth war between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice was initiated by Karl VI and was fought in the Peloponnese (Morea) in 1714-1718. The troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) arrived on this front in 1716 and the Turks were first defeated at Peterwadein in 1716. In the same year the last Turkish possessions in Hungary, Temesvar, also fell. In 1717 Eugene defeated the Ottomans at Belgrade. Accounts of these battles and others are included in this work, as are the details of the Treaty of Passarowitz, signed on July 21st, 1718, when the Ottomans ceded territories in Serbia and Bosnia to Austria. - (Age-browned). - Very scarce.Not in Apponyi [Boeknr.: 35336 ]

€ 3950,00

JANSEN, Mariëtta & André KRAAYENGA. Marius Bauer 1867-1932. Reisimpressies uit India en de Oriënt. Heino Wijhe, Hannema - de Stuers Fundatie, 1991. Pictorial wrappers. With many illustrations. 176 pp. Travel impressions from India and the Orient by the Dutch artist Marius Bauer. [Boeknr.: 35862 ]

€ 30,00

JENKINS, Hester Donaldson. Behind Turkish lattices. The story of a Turkish life. London, Chatto & Windus, 1911.Original decorated green cloth, top edge gilt. With 24 photographic plates. IX,180 pp. First edition. - Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941), a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople from 1900-1909, wrote enthusiastically about the Young Turks who seemed to promise new freedoms for Ottoman women. Jenkins uses her own observations of Constantinople, her students, and their families to construct an account of a "typical" Turkish Muslim woman's life cycle at this turning point in Ottoman history. She directs her comments toward childhood, education, marriage, polygamy, and divorce, in order to correct Western misapprehensions. In its confidence in the bright prospects of American influence and Ottoman reform, this book captures an optimistic moment in which social progress seemed to be thriving (Text from the reprint). [Boeknr.: 36081 ]

€ 175,00

JONG, Cornelius de. Reize naar de Middellandsche Zee, in de jaren 1777, 1778 en 1779. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1806.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved costume plate of Milos and folding view of Gallipoli. XVIII,293,(1) pp. First edition. - The first voyage (1778 - 1779) to the Mediterranean by the Dutch naval-officer Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838), made in the ship Thetis, includes Malta, Cerigo, Zea and Negroponte to Constantinople and Asia Minor. - (Some waterstaining at the end).Tiele 552; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Atabey Collection 620; Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104. [Boeknr.: 28817 ]

€ 550,00

KRAAYENGA, A. Marius Bauer 1867-1932. Oogstrelend Oosters. Zwolle, Waanders, 2007. 4to. Half cloth. With 154 coloured illustrations. 208 pp. Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26). [Boeknr.: 29569 ]

€ 35,00

KRAYENBELT, J(an). Het Heilige Land. Reis door Egypte, Palestina en Syrië. Rotterdam, Wenk & Birkhoff, 1892.8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g. With plan of Jerusalem and 12 photolithographed plates by Emrik & Binger. 343, XXII pp. First edition. - Adaptation of Carl von Orelli's Durch's heilige Land. Tagebuchblätter. Basel 1878 (Rohricht 594). - Travel account of Egypt, Holy Land, Syria and Turkey. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 33364 ]

€ 125,00

LAFRERI, Antonio (Hendrick van SCHOEL). Il Vero ritratto de Zighet con Il suo Castello, fortezza nuova, Paludi, Lago fiume & ponte, & alter Cose Notabili per lettera annotate, con monstra del monte fatto da Turchi Roma 1602.Engraved plan. 34 x 49 cm. The second state of Antonio Lafrere’s map of the Battle of Szigetvar, which saw the death of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The battle was fought between the defending Magyar forces under the leadership of Nikola Subic Zrinski, former Ban of Croatia, and the invading Ottoman army under the nominal command of Sultan Suleiman.The map shows a meticulous image of the battle, with the Magyar forces battling from the walled castle and “fortezza nova”, defending the Ottoman forces firing across the water, with mounted horseman and canon shown. The location of the tent of Suleiman (Padiglione del gran turcho) is shown in the top of the map. The siege lasted from August 6 to September 8 1566 and though it resulted in an Ottman victory, there were heavy lossen on both sides. Both commanders died during the battle - Zrinski in the final charge and Suleiman in his tent from natural causes. [Boeknr.: 35268 ]

€ 2950,00

LANE - POOLE, Stanley. The life of the right hounourable Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe; from his memoirs and private and official papers. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. 2 volumes. Later blue cloth with green morocco title-labels. With 2 steelengraved portraits of Stratford Canning by G.J. Stodart (1 foxed), portrait of Mrs. Canning and folding facsimile. XXIX,519; XVIII,475; 24 pp. First edition. - Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880) was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He held his first appointment as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1825 and 1828. He intermittently represented several constituencies in parliament between 1828 and 1842. In 1841 he was re-appointed Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, a position he held for the next 17 years. Canning came to be seen as one of the leading figures in Constantinople, as British influence over the Porte increased.I [Boeknr.: 35198 ]

€ 375,00

LE CLERC, Sebastian. Les actions gloreuses des S.A.S. Charles Duc de Lorraine en Hongrie, Transylvania, etc. Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg), Jeremias Wolff, (1690). Large 8vo. Marbled boards. With engraved titlepage (lower margin restored), frontispiece depicting the funeral monument to Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, plan of Vienna, and 13 engraved plates after Sebastian Le Clerc by Johanna Sybilla Kräusin. First edition. - The fine engraved plates represent the military exploits of Charles V Duke of Lorraine. Three plates with 2 images, nine with a decorative border. Charles Duc of Lorainne (1643-1690) was born in Vienna , became the brother in law of Emperor Leopold. He was from a long established family of Lorraine, who had to take refuge from the forces of France. He managed to become the titular Duke of Lorraine in 1675 at a time when Lorainne was occupied by France. Since 1663 he had been in imperial Habsburg service and had a very notable military career. He was able to first distinguish himself at the Battle of Saint Gotthard in 1664, where he was under the service of Montecuccoli In 1683 he became an imperial generalissimo right before the Siege of Vienna. With the Siege of Neuhausel in 1685, Charles was able to take all of upper Hungary. After this Charles besieged Buda for two months, claiming victory in 1686. - (2 blank margins restored). - A fine cpy. [Boeknr.: 35347 ]

€ 1950,00

LEFAIVRE, Albert Alexis. Les Magyars pendant la domination Ottomane en Hongrie. Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1902. 2 volumes. Original half cloth, with green morocco title-labels. 441; 459 pp. First edition, with autograph dedication by the author. - The Magyars or Hungarians are originally a Finno-Ugric ethno-linguistic group originating in Central Asia and whose successive migrations, first towards the Urals, then towards the Black Sea, finally led to the creation of Hungary. [Boeknr.: 35284 ]

€ 95,00

LEU, Thomas de. Nagykanizsa. Paris, 1602.Etching and copper engraving, mounted on a larger piece of contemporary paper, text panels contemporarily separated from print and mounted on verso. Bird’s eye view of a battle fought in Nagykanizsa (Canisa) in Hungary. Ca. 43 x 56 cm. Thomas de Leu (c. 1555 - c.1612), engraver and printseller, born in Northern France or in Flanders, moved to Paris where he worked in the studio of Jean Rabel in 1576. This view, one of separately issued views, was published to commemorate the victories of Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercśu against the Turks. He distinguished himself as one of the leading Habsburg commanders of the war and won important battles at Nagykanizsa and Györ. He besieged Nagykanizsa at the head of 15,000 troops against Ibrahim Pasha’s army of 60,000. - Scarce. [Boeknr.: 35276 ]

€ 2450,00

(LISOLA, François Paul de.) Türckische Raths-Stube/ worinnen des Türckischen Kaysers Mahamats IV. nebst dessen Vornehmsten Bedienten Kriegs-Berathschlagungen/ wegen des aufs Früh-Jahr gegen Ungarn und andere Länder vorhabenden grossen Feldzugs/ entdecket/ und mit vielen curiösen Denckwürdigkeiten vorgestellet werden. Freystadt (= Linz, Rädelmeyer), 1684-85.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Modern marbled boards. Title printed in red and black. 96; 70 pp. First and only edition of this important pamphlet dealing with the Turkish wars. - Baron François-Paul de Lisola (1613 - 1674) was an eighteenth-century diplomat and pamphleteer from Salins, France-Comté. Bitterly anti-French, he served the Austrian Habsburgs. Apponyi II, 1167. [Boeknr.: 20475 ]

€ 950,00

LYNCH, W(illiam) F(rancis). Togt door het Heilige Land, vooral tot onderzoek der Jordaan en der Doode Zee. Naar den 6e druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door J.P. Stricker. Dordrecht, P.K. Braat, 1855.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces after L. de Koningh by F. Böger and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,251; XII,263,(1) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Philadelphia in 1849: Narrative of the United States' expedition to the river Jordan and the Dead Sea.- The official report was not published until 1852. Lynch carried out the first succesful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Ephesus, Smyrna and Constantinople were also visited.Blackmer Collection 1043 (English ed.); Rohricht p.432; Tobler p.176; Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 23923 ]

€ 225,00

MACKENZIE, Georgina Mary Muir & Adelina Paulin IRBY. Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe. With a preface by W.E. Gladstone. 3rd edition. London, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877.2 volumes. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (1 coloured and folding) and 17 plates. XVII,313; II,342 pp. First published in 1867; revised edition, with three additional chapters by Miss Irby, and with a preface by Gladstone. Three editions appeared in 1877. - 'The number of editions may be due to the events of 1876, but this book by two British school teachers is still important for an understanding of the complex nature of this part of the Balkans. Miss Irby and Miss MacKenzie travelled in Serbia and the Balkans from 1861 to 1864, during which time they established a teacher-training school in Sarajevo (Atabey p.377). Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie (1833-1874) and Adelina Paulina Irby (1831-1911) spent 1861-1864 where few outside women had been before. They undertook researches to a much greater degree than their more genteel contemporaries. Their descriptions of landscapes and people are not over-romantic, but they provide ample local colour (Theakstone p.170). Valuable information on the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, i.a. Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. - A fine set.Blackmer Collection 1051 (first ed.); Atabey Collection 746 (5th ed.); Contominas Collection 429.. [Boeknr.: 16802 ]

€ 650,00

MICHAUD, (Joseph) & (Jean J.F.) POUJOULAT. Correspondance d'Orient (1830-1831). Bruxelles, N.J. Gregoir, V. Wouters et Cie, 1841.8 volumes in 4. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With folding map. First published in Paris in 1833-1835. - 'Michaud, the historian of the Crusades, and his secretary Poujoulat travelled together through Greece, Constantinople and the Archipelago to Jerusalem, where they separated. Poujoulat explored Syria and Michaud went on to Egypt, but they wrote regularly to each other, and these letters constitute in great part the voluminous Correspondance d'Orient. The first three volumes, dealing with Greece and Turkey, contain mostly Michaud's letters. Both Michaud and Poujoulat were interested in the contemporary state of the countries they visited than archaeology and antiquities' (Blackmer 1122). - A very fine set.Atabey Collection 807; Blackmer Collection 1122; Contominas Collection 465; Weber 211; Tobler p.151; Röhricht p.367; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.33. [Boeknr.: 32445 ]

€ 475,00

MILLS, Dorothy. Beyond the Bosphorus. London, Duckworth, 1926.Original blue cloth (sl. discoloured). With portrait of the author and 34 photographic illustrations. 224 pp. First edition. - Lady Dorothy (1889-1959) was a glamorous society gal, daughter of the Earl of Oxford. Although never quite shaking off her former image - touring Istanbul in a chauffeur-driven Ford - she nevertheless earned herself a reputation as one of the most daring and adventurous of all those crowds of ladies travelling between the two world wars (Robinson, Wayward women, p.187). After leaving Constantinople the author continues her journey visiting Ankara, South Anatolia, Syria, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Jordan and Iraq. [Boeknr.: 36068 ]

€ 95,00

MOLTKE, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von. Briefe über Zustände und Begebenheiten in der Türkei aus den Jahren 1835 bis 1839. 4. Auflage. Berlin, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1882.Later half cloth. With portrait. VI,431 pp. First published in 1841. - Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. He was seconded by the Prussian government to the service of the Porte. He spent two years in Constantinople charged with the reorganisation of the army and the refurbishment of the fortifications in the Dardanelles. He fought in the Syrian campaign against Mehmet Ali in the 1840’s (Atabey p.429). He surveyed the city of Constantinople and made many journeys to the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Wallachia, Bulgaria, Rumelia, etc. 'No other book gives so deep an insight into the character of the Turkish Empire, and no other book of travels better deserves to be regarded as a German classic' (Encyclopaedia Britannica). [Boeknr.: 35193 ]

€ 175,00

MOLTKE, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von. The Russians in Bulgaria and Rumelia in 1828 and 1829; during the campaigns of the Danube, the sieges of Brailow, Varna, Silistria, Shumla, and the passage of the Balkan by Marshal Diebitch. London, John Murray, 1854.Original red cloth. With folding map and 12 battle-plans on 11 folding plates. VI,476 pp. With armorial bookplate of Mountgarret. - First English edition of Moltke's Der russisch-türkische Feldzug in der europäischen Türkei 1828-1829, Berlin 1845. Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. 'He was seconded by the Prussian government to the service of the Porte; he spent two years in Constantinople charged with the reorganization of the army and the refurbishment of the fortifications in the Dardanelles' (Atabey p.429). He learned Turkish and surveyed the city of Constantinople, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles and travelled through Wallachia, Bulgaria and Rumelia, and made many other journeys on both sides of the Strait. [Boeknr.: 35186 ]

€ 175,00

MONTAGU, MARY WORTLEY. 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 ... which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks. New edition. London, T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1767.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf with gilt fillets round sides (some hinges weak), spines ribbed with red morocco title-labels (extremities dam.). XII,(4),180; (4),195; (4),230 pp. First published in 1763; with written owner's name Moseley 1767. - Lady Mary Worthly Montague (1689-1762) was the first lady to travel abroad for mere curiosity's sake. In 1716 she accompanied her husband, Edward Montague, on his diplomatic mission to Constantinople, making the journey overland. The letters she wrote back home are justly ranked among the most celebrated of their kind in a century richly endowed with excellent letterwriters. She became a great admirer of Turkish culture and her work includes in sights that were exceptional for their time. A year after her death, her Turkish letters were published for the first time and they have not been out of print since. 'She was one of the most generous and accurate chroniclers of life in Constantinople since Busbecq'' (O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 138). 'She established the genre of European women's travel writting. Opinionated, energetic and flamboyant, they present a seductive, sophisticated and challenging vision of the European encounter with the Orient and they set a standard to which many subsequent writers aspired but few ever achieved' (Tuson, Western women travelling East, p.31).Blackmer Collection 1150; Atabey Collection 829; Contominas Collection 478; Gay 94; Paulitschke 682; Robinson, Wayward women, p.32-34. [Boeknr.: 22794 ]

€ 350,00

MONTALBO, Francisco de. Historia de las guerras de Ungria desde el anno de 82. hasta el de 88. Palermo, Pedro Copula, 1693.Small folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, with green title-lable to spine. With full-page engraved coat of arms of the Duke of Uzeda. (18,454,(19) pp. Der Verfasser sagt in der Vorrede, er habe dieses Werk in Rom geschrieben, und nur aus den glaubwürdigsten Quellen geschöpft, wie Briefe des Kaisers an den Papst, Briefe des Kurfürsten von Baiern an seinen Agenten, Gesandtschaftsberichte an die Kònigin von Schweden, Berichte der spanischen Gesandten u.s.w. (Apponyi 1440).Extremely rare contemporary account of the Siege of Vienna by the Turcs. The account dicided into six books, described in detail all events leading up to the siege of Vienna and its aftermath up to the official recognition and crowning of Leopold I in 1689 as King of Hungary. With an extensive index at the end. Nothing personal could be found of the author except what he himself noted on the title-page : « Fray Francisco de Montalbo de la Sagrada Religion de S. Geronimo, Doctor Theologo y Predicator de Su Magestad », so he was a priest, theologian and court preacher. He was also the author of an emblem book for the funeral of the Spanish Queen, Marie Louise de Bourbon, married to Charles II, King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. A very fine copy. [Boeknr.: 30913 ]

€ 2450,00

MONTECUCULI, Raimond de. Mémoires de Montecuculi, generalissime des troupes de l'empereur. Divisés en trois livres. I. De l'art militaire en général. II. De la guerre contre le Turc. III. Relation de la campagne de 1664. Nouvelle edition, revûe & corrigé en plusieurs endroits par l'auteur, & augmentéee de plus de 200 notes historiques & géographiques. Amsterdam, Weststein, 1760.3 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt. With engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 (2 folding) engraved plates. XL, 520, (3) pp. 4th edition in French; first published in Venice in 1703 Memorie della guerra ... - Montecucculi (1608-1680) was an Italian military commander. At sixteen he began as a private soldier under his uncle, Count Ernest Montecucculi. Four years after active service in Germany and the Low Countries, he became a captain of infantry. He fought in Pomerania, Bohemia and Saxony and in 1639 he was taken prisoner by the Swedish army at Melnik and detained for two and a half years in Stettin and Weimar. In captivity he studied military science, geometry, history and architecture and planned his great work on war. In 1645-46 he served in Hungary against Prince Rákóczy of Transylvania. In 1657 he commanded an expedition against Rákóczy and the Swedes, who had attacked the king of Poland. He became field-marshal in the imperial army, and with the Great Elector of Brandenburg completely defeated Rákóczy and his allies. From 1661 to 1664 Montecucculi with inferior numbers defended Austria against the Turks and at St. Gotthard (Aug. 1, 1664) he defeated an Ottoman army under Wesire Köprülü Fazil Ahmad.Atabey Collection 832; not in the Blackmer Collection. [Boeknr.: 37081 ]

€ 450,00

NADANYI, Janos. Florus Hungaricus sive rerum Hungaricarum ab ipso exordio ad Ignatium Leopoldum deductarum compendium. Amsterdam, ex off Joannis à Waesberge, 1663.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half vellum (lower end of spine sl. dam.). With engraved titlepage and woodcut device on pinted titlepage. (24),380,(28) pp. First edition. - Nadányi's family had ruled his home town of Körösladány in Hungary since the thirteenth century, but during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Turkish invasions radically altered the power dynamics of the area. János was sent to the Low Countries for his education, where he published this short history of Hungary in Latin in 1663. - (Some waterstaining).Apponyi II, 862. [Boeknr.: 35364 ]

€ 450,00

ORIENT. Bilder und Seenen aus dem Kriege im Orient. München, K. Braun & F. Schneider, (ca. 1860).Broadsheet with 8 handcoloured woodengraved illustrations. Ca. 41 x 32 cm. Münchener Bilderbogen 145. - A fine catchpenny print (Dutch centsprent) depicting the Russo-Turkish War. [Boeknr.: 37556 ]

€ 95,00

ORTELIUS, Hieronymus. Ortelius redivivus et continuatus, oder der Ungarischen Kriegs- Empörüngen/ historische Beschreibung/ darinnen enthalten alles/ was sich bey vorgenommenen Beläger/ und Eroberungen der Stätte/ Vestungen und Schlösser/ desgleichen in veranlassten Schlachten/ und vorgelauffenen Scharmützeln/ zwischen theils Christlichen Ungarischen Königen und dem hochlöbl. Ertz-Hauss Oesterreich/ auss auffener/ und dem Turcken und dessen Anhang/ auff der andern Seiten/ in Ober- und Nider-Ungarn wie auch Siebenbürgen/ von dem 1395 biss in das 1607 Jahr / und zwar biss nach glücklich wieder gestillter Botschkayschen Unruh/ und dem darauff erfolgten längst verlangten Türckischen Friedens Schluss/ denckwürdig zugetragen. ... auch mit einer neuen Beschreibung dess gantzen Königreichs Ungarn .. Mit einer Continuation, von dem 1607 biss an das 1665 Jahr vermehret durch Martin Meyern. Franckfurt am Mäyn, Daniel Fievet, 1665.2 volumes in 1. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, with green title label on spine. With engraved allegorical titlepage, 2 titlepages printed in red and black, engraved plate, engraved portrait of Fürst Christian, 117 portraits on 13 engraved leaves and 32 (of 34) full page engraved portraits. (8),431,(11); (8)362,(20) pp. Third most extensive edition, first published in Nürnberg in 1602. - Chronicle on Hungary containing notes on the Hungarian kings and Turkish sultans and emperors with their portraits. - A principal work on the history of the Turkish wars including eyewitness reports on the Turkish invasions in the region. - (Without the engraved views). Sturminger 300. [Boeknr.: 35278 ]

€ 2250,00

OTTENS, Joachim. Theatre de la guerre d'Hongrie et lieux circonvoisins, selon les plus exacts auteurs geographiques Nouvellement represente. Novissima tabula regni Hungariae et regionum quondam ei unitarum ut Transilvaniae, Valachiae, Moldaviae, Serviae, Romaniae, Bulgariae, Bessarabiae, Croatiae, Bosniae, Dalmatiae, Slavoniae, Morlachiae et reipublicae Ragusanae. Accedit pars magna dominii Veneti, Maris Adriatici et Regionum adjacentium. Amsterdam, Joachim Ottens, (ca. 1730). Handcoloured engraved map of the eastern Adriatic and the northern Balkans by Jacob Keyser printed on two leaves joined. Ca.51 x 89 cm. - Framed. A large and impressive map of Central Europe including Hungary, the Danube Delta, Transylvania, Walachia, Moldavia, Croatia, Bosnia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Morlachia and the Republic of Ragusa.Distressed and warring figures appear alongside the title cartouche, while the powerful and triumphant Hapsburgs, as indicated by the double-headed eagle, stand above the defeated figures of the Ottoman Empire. The map emphatically depicts this European supremacy. [Boeknr.: 35354 ]

€ 975,00

PERCY, (Henry Algernon George). Highlands of Asiatic Turkey. London, Edward Arnold, 1901.Original red cloth gilt, spine lettered in gilt. With frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 8 plates and 31 photographic illustrations. X,338 pp. First edition. - Account of the author's third expedition into the highlands of Asiatic Turkey, undertaken in Turkey in 1899. This book 'was inspired by his sympathy for Turks, but also by a deepened sense of evils of Hamidism, whose downfall he foreshaw' (DNB p.104). [Boeknr.: 17071 ]

€ 275,00

PLAYFAIR, Robert Lambert. The scourge of Christendom. Annals of British relations with Algiers prior to the French conquest. London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1884.Original cloth with gilt illustration on cover (spine discoloured). With 7 plates. XIV,327 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of Thomas Baron Brassey; with autograph dedication by the author. - Sir Robert Lambert Playfair (1828 - 1899) was a British soldier, diplomat, naturalist and author and was appointed Consul-General in Algeria in 1867. [Boeknr.: 36092 ]

€ 150,00

POUJADE, Eugène. Chrétiens et Turcs. Scènes et souvenirs de la vie politique, militaire et religieuse en Orient. 3me édition. Paris, Didier et Cie., 1867.Modern boards, original printed wrappers mounted. IV,556 pp. Three editions had appeared by 1867; first published in 1859. - Important publication on the historical and diplomatical history of Turkey with France, England, Russia, Austria and Hungary dealing with nation-state situations still creating problems in the Balkans today. Poujade was a French consular official who served in many posts in the Levant, including Beirut, Malta, Tarsus and the Danubian principalities. - With autograph dedication by the author. - (Library stamps on title-page).Blackmer Collection 1339; Atabey Colledction 980. [Boeknr.: 21209 ]

€ 175,00

ROBERT, Cyprien. Les slaves de Turquie. Serbes, Monténégrins, Bosniaques, Albanais et Bulgares. Leurs ressources, leurs tendances et leurs progrès politiques. Paris, L. Passard et Jules Labitte, 1844.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half morocco (top of spine sl. dam.). III,(1),360; (4),416 pp. Treatise on the history and culture of the Slavs in the Orient. - (Age-browned; last lvs with small waterstain in blank corner). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 14061 ]

€ 275,00

RUETE, Emily. Herinneringen van een Arabische prinses. Vertaald door Tinke Davids. Nawoord Annegret Nippa. ('s Gravenhage), Pandora, 2003. Wrappers. With 10 illustrations. 304 pp. First published in German Leben im Sultanspalast, Memoiren aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. 1886. Emily Ruete (1844 - 1924) was born in Zanzibar as Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. [Boeknr.: 36120 ]

€ 15,00

RYCAUT, Paul. The history of the Turks. Beginning with the year 1679. Being the full relation of the last troubles in Hungary, with the Sieges of Vienna and Buda, and all the several battles both by sea and land, between the Christians and the Turcs, until the eind of the year 1698 and 1699. In which the peace between the Turks, and the confederate Christina princes and states, was haippily concluded at Carlowitz in Hungary, by the mediation of his majesty of Great Britain, and the States General of the United Provinces. London, Robert Clavell and Abel Roper, 1700.Folio. Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, corner front board skilfully restored. With 6 engraved portraits by M. vander Gucht. (8), 607, (9) pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of Earl of Rosebery. - This is Rycaut's continuation of his history of Turkey, the first part of which was printed in 1680 as The history of the Turkish Empire from 1623-1677. It forms the third volume of the first collected edition of Rycaut's histories and his edition of Knolles' history of the Turks. The plates include portraits of Rycaut, of Mehmet IV, Count Tököly, Soliman, Achmat, and Muustapha (Atabey p. 577). A one-volume supplement covering the period 1679-1699 in great detail (Blackmer p.310). Paul Rycaut (ca. 1630-1700) was a diplomat and Middle Eastern scholar. In 1661 he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Winchelsea, who became ambassador to the Ottoman court at Constantinople. Rycaut accompanied his employer to Turkey and remained there for eight years, during which he acquainted himself with the manners, customs, and religion of the Turks (Howgego p.919). - A fine copy written by an authority on the Ottoman Empire.Blackmer Collection 1466; Atabey Collection 1077; Apponyi 2100 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 37067 ]

€ 1875,00

SALAMON, Franz. Ungarn im Zeitalter der Turkenherschaft. Ins Deutsch ubertragen von Gustav Jurany Leipzig, H. Haessel, 1887. Modern half cloth. XIV, (2), 408 pp.. [Boeknr.: 35273 ]

€ 85,00

SAMBERG, Jan Willem. De Hollandsche Gereformeerde Gemeente te Smirma. De geschiedenis eener handelskerk. Leiden, Eduard IJdo, 1928. Wrappers. With 2 plates (1 folding). X,254 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 6311 ]

€ 60,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SCHAEPS, J., K. van OMMEN, A. VROLIJK. (Red.). Oostersche weelde. De Oriënt in westerse kunst en cultuur. Met een keuze uit de verzamelingen van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Leiden, Primavera Pers, 2005. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 272 pp. Dealing with centuries of interaction between Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East. [Boeknr.: 28879 ]

€ 30,00

SCHUSTER, David. Mahomets und Türcken Grewel/ Vorgestellt durch eine kurtze historische Entwerffung/ so viel desselbigen an sein Mahomets selbst eygener Person/ abschewlichen Lehr/ seinen Nachfolgern an Mord/ Regiment/ Lehr und Glauben sich befindet: woraus das Ottomanische Reich ensprungen .. Wie der Türckische Hoff an Amptleuthen und officiren bestellt ... Wie lang dieser Mahometisch und Turckische Grewel etwan annoch wehren solle. Alles dem gemeinen Teutschen Mann zum besten .. Francfurt am Mayn, Johann Baptista Schonwetters. 1664.5 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (sl. soiled). With engraved title-page, 4 engraved half-titles and 7 engraved plates (5 folding). (8), 418 pp. Apparently first collected edition, compiled from various sources, including early Turkish histories. (Blackmer 352.) Rare popular description of the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on the wars of the Ottomans with Austria in the 16th and 17th century. Schuster has prefaced his historical narrative with an account of Islam. With fine engraved battle-scens.Apponyi 2080; Atabey 1111; Weber 1663 - 712. [Boeknr.: 17329 ]

€ 1450,00

SCHUYLER, Eugene. Turkistan. Notes of a journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja. New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876.2 volumes. Original decorated cloth gilt (top of spines sl. dam.). With 3 folding maps and woodengraved plates and illustrations. XII,411; VIII,463 pp. First edition. - Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. 'The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the despotism of the Khans. In this I was a measure successful' (Preface). Volume I contains chapters on the Syr Darya, Tashkent, Muslim life in Tashkent, bazaars and trade, Samarkand, the Zarafshan Valley, and Hodjent (present-day Khujand, Tajikistan) and Kurama (present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Volume II contains chapters on Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul (present-day Kyrgyzstan) and Semiretch (present-day Semirech'e, Kazakhstan), and Kuldja ( present-day China). Including a summary of early Chinese and medieval European travelers to Central Asia and the accounts of their voyages. - A nice set.Cordier, BS, col. 2616; Nerhood 313; Yakushi S99b. [Boeknr.: 11555 ]

€ 625,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Original pictorial cloth (1 hinge dam.).. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 21472 ]

€ 150,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Later half cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. - (With library stamp).Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 36025 ]

€ 125,00

SEYFRIED, Johann Heinrich. Türckische Gross-Macht/ Türckisches Prahl-sacht/ und Türckisches Hab-Acht: oder Türckische Reichs-Beschreibung/ Zusamt den Gewinn und Verlust/ auf Christlich- und Türckischer Seiten/ was sich/ seit Anno 1683. bis zu Anfang des 1687sten Jahrs, für herzliche Siege und Eroberungen/ unterschieslicher Städte/ Landschafften/ und berühmter Vestungen.. zugetragen. Alles nervös und lesswürdig/ dem Curiösen Liebhaber zur Belustigung verabfasset/ in Acht sonderbaren Theilen. Nürnberg, Joh. Leonhard Buggel, 1687.12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece. 312 pp. Second edition. - History of the Turkish power and influence and their customs and religion. This work was inspired by the victories of the Austrians against the Turcs, 1684 - 85, following the unsuccesfull siege of Vienna. The map, mentioned on the title-page, probably was never published. Atabey 1129 (Latin edition of 1685 only). - (Age-browned). [Boeknr.: 23071 ]

€ 1150,00

SHEYKH-ZADA. The history of the forty vezirs or the story of the forty morns and eves. Written in Turkish .. done into English by E.J.W. Gibb. London, George Redway, 1886.Original decorated cloth (stained). XL,420 pp. First edition. - Important collection of oriental tales known as the Forty Viziers with the similar frame-narrative structure as The thousand and one nights. [Boeknr.: 36093 ]

€ 95,00

SOITER, Melchior. De bello Pannonico, per illustrissimum principem dominum ac dominum Fridericum Comitem Palatinum Rheni Bavariaeque ducem perque optimum, adversus Soleymannum Turcarem Tyrannum & Amyram, imperatoris Caroli V caesarisque Ferdinandi auspici gesto …. Item stratagematicon ac rerum Turcicarum epithome …. Item de Turcarem militaribus magistrattibus, ad divum Maximilanum Caesarem, liber unus, Johanne Schotenbeckio jureconsulta & regio consiliario auctore. (Augsburg), Augustae Vindelicorum Alexander Weissenborn excudat, 1538.4to. Recent blind-tooled period style calf. With full-page woodcut of the Duke Friedrich in full armour on horseback (by Michael Ostendorfer?) and 6 large woodcut initials. (71) lvs. (old manuscript numbering on upper outer corner ). First edition; with the bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey. - Melchior Soiter was a lawyer born in Windau (Curland), who covered several dignities in the organization of the Holy Roman Empire and participated personally to the campaign he describes in this book. The first section gives an account of the Turkish invasion into Hungary in 1529-30, and the unsuccessful siege of Vienna. The second section, written by the jurist Johannes Schotenbeck, is an accurate explanation of the Ottoman military functionaries with several details on the tasks of every officer and a final economical statistics of the Turkish Empire, considering both its European and Asiatic territories. Apponyi I, 269; Atabey Collection 1152; Göllner 626; not in the Blackmer Collection. [Boeknr.: 28963 ]

€ 3450,00

SORANZO, Lazzaro, Achille TARDUCCI. - GEUDER VON HEROLTZBERG, Jacob.(Translator). Turca Nikhtos: hoc est, de imperio Ottomannico evertendo, et bello contra Turcas prospere gerendo, consilia tria lectione & cognitione valde digna: I. Lazari Soranzii, patr. Veneti: quod Ottomannum, sive de rebus Turcicis: II. Achillis Tarduccii: quod Turcam Vincibilem inscribere placuit: III Anonymi cuiusdam dissertatio, de stutu imperii Turcici, cuiusmodi sub Amurathe III. fuit: deq(ue) eius euertendi modo. Nunc primum ex Italivo idiomatie in Latinum conuersa a Jacobo Geudero ab Heroltzberga. Francofurti, typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes J. Aubrii, 1601.3 works in 1 volume. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, with embossed religious emblems with initials IHS and fleurs-de-lis on front and back covers (spine repaired with old leather). With printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, historiated and foliated initials and head- and tailpieces. (16),389,(27) pp. With engraved armorial bookplate of Order of Servites in Vienna and name of 'Gerard Ecker of Brabant, 1614' on free endpaper. - The three tracts in this collection, translated from the Italian by Jacob Geuder von Heroltzberg (1575-1616), discuss the rise of Turkish power and the military defeats in Hungary, focusing on the period under Mehmed II (1595-1603). Lazzaro Soranzo's L'Ottoman, first published in 1598, is an important work describing the structures of the Ottoman administration which is thought must have been based on personal observations (Atabey Collection p.614); Achille Tarducci, a career soldier (fl.1600), who served in Transylvania during the Turkish wars, proposes strategies to thwart further Turkish military gains; and the anonymous work discusses the state of the Ottoman empire at the time. - (Age-browned). - A very scarce work.Cf. Blackmer Collection 1575 & Göllner 2342 and Atabey Collection 1157. [Boeknr.: 30971 ]

€ 1650,00

STEEVENS, George Warrington. With the conquering Turk. Confessions of a Bashi-Bazouk. Edinburgh, London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1897.Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 4 folding coloured maps. VI,315;32 pp. First edition; with autograph dedication by Bertha Steevens, 'in memory of the author'. - George Warrington Steevens (1869 -1900) was a British journalist and writer. He was the most famous war correspondent of his time and was present during the Greco-Turkish war of 1897. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 28844 ]

€ 275,00

THEUNISSEN, H., A. ABELMANN & W. MEULENKAMP. ( Red.). Topkapi & Turkomanie. Turks-Nederlandse ontmoetingen sinds 1600. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 232 pp. [Boeknr.: 79 ]

€ 35,00

THIELMANN, Max von. Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia. Translated by Charles Heneage. London, John Murray, 1875.2 volumes in 1. Original green pictorial cloth gilt, a.e.g. With folding map and 14 woodengraved plates. XV,308; X,302 pp. First English edition; first published in Leipzig in 1875 Streifzüge im Kaukasus, in Persien und in der asiatischen Türkei. - An account of a journey undertaken in 1872-73. Max Franz Guido Freiherr von Thielmann (1846 - 1829) was Political Secretary to the German Embassy in St. Petersburg, Kopenhagen, Bern, Washington D.C., Brussel, Paris and Konstantinopel.Weber I,730; Ghani p.386; Wilson p.226. [Boeknr.: 31081 ]

€ 450,00

TRICAUD, Anthelme. Campagnes de Monsieur le Prince Eugène en Hongrie, et des Vénitiens dans la Morée. Amsterdam, Frédéric Bernard 1730. 2 volumes. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt, with red morocco title-labels (top of spines sl. dam.). With engraved plate with coat of arms. (6), LXX,439; (2), 500 pp First edition; with bookplate of Madame de la Borde. - Tricaud, prior of the Abbey of Belmont, was a litterateur and historian. Most of the work is concerned with the Turco-Venetian campaign in the Morea 1716 -1717. - Scarce.Navari, Collection Contominas, 748 (volume I only); not In the Blackmer or Atabey Collection. [Boeknr.: 35338 ]

€ 950,00

(TULLY, Miss). Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, printed for Henry Colburn, 1816.4to. Contemporary half calf, with green morocco title-label to spine. With engraved folding map and 5 fine hand-coloured aquatints. XIII,(2),370 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. - These letters were written by the sister or sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793. The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio. 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). 'The volume will be found an object of particular curiosity, from the lively and artless manner in which it lays open the interior of the Court of the Bashaw of Tripoli. It contains, we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and details such scenes and events, such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, intrigue, as will scarcely appear credible in the estimation of a European'. (Preface). This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. The very attractive plates depict genre scenes and costumes. - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 299; Tooley, Coloured plates, 493; Blackmer Collection 1682; Atabey Collection 1241. [Boeknr.: 1753 ]

€ 1450,00

TURKEY. A Spahi. Member of the Ottoman irregular cavalry (Ca. 1810). Stipple-engraving. Ca. 17 x 13 cm. See Dalvimart. The costume of Turkey, London, 1804, plate 44. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35747 ]

€ 95,00

TURKEY. Costume print depicting three standing men in traditional Turkish costume holding a long pipe, rifle and staff. (No pl., ca. 1750). Hand coloured engraving. Ca. 15 x 23,5 cm. Three men in a park with two trees and a branch with a flower. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35822 ]

€ 45,00

TURKEY. (Kiosque au bord d'une rivière). Paris, Gihaut Frères, (1831).Lithographed plate after Alexandre Gabriel Decamps depicting a Turkish landscape, with building and 2 men on a river bank, in the foreground, two children drag another sitting on a toy chariot while another looks on. Ca. 21 x 30 cm. [Boeknr.: 37546 ]

€ 65,00

TURKEY. Picture of a man, in tradional clothing, carrying a large basket on his head (with bread ?) and a tripod standard in his hand. With an identical figure in the background. 1861. Original drawing, signed K. Garthe. 15 x 12 cm. Depicting may be a muslim from the Ottoman Empire. [Boeknr.: 35746 ]

€ 95,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. AUSSZUG ETTLICHER ZEITUNGEN, was sich zum Anfang des jetzigen Türckenkriegs, an ettlichen Orten inn Ungern, verloffen und zugetragen hat 1566. Nürnberg, Valentin Geyssler, (1566).4to. Later half vellum. With woodcut depicting the meeting between emperor and sultan on title-page. (4) lvs. News from 5 June 1566 describing the heroic defense of Palota castle. Cf. Apponyi 400; Göllner 1145. [Boeknr.: 32393 ]

€ 1950,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. CURIOSE STAATS GEDANCKEN uber den verwirrten Zustand des Königreichs Ungarn und dahero bey der Christenheit entstehende Gefahr ... sonderlich aber was doch die unserige nach erhaltener Victorie im Ungarn weiter-vornehmen, und was sie glückliches verrichten möchten ? ... Wie es mit dem Toeckely, und denen Evangelischen in Ungarn ... ablaussen; und ob solcher der Türcke mit der Zeit auch vollends in seinen Gewalt bringen werde .. Ob der Türcke auch wieder vor Wien rucken, was er sonst bey diesem Kriege gewinnen dürffte .. Worum doch dieselben mit dem Türcken so balden Friede machen ? .. Alles nach denen bewehrten Staats-Reguln, unpartheyisch untersuchet .. (No pl.), 1684.Modern marbled boards. 78 pp. In the seventeenth century, Hungarian resistance to Habsburg rule fostered considerable media output in the Holy Roman Empire as well as in other regions of Europe. Newspapers, stand-alone pamphlets, and extensive historiographical treatises in multiple languages covered the rise and fall of Hungarian leader Ferenc III Nádasdy and the rebellion of Protestant nobleman Imre Thököly.Apponyi 1145. [Boeknr.: 35342 ]

€ 625,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. DICTATUR AM 6. JUNI 1663 AUFF DEM REICHS-TAGE ZU REGENSPURG. (No pl., ca. 1663). Modern marbled wrappers. With woodcut head and tail pieces. (4) lvs. By order of Kaiser Leopold I, Guidobald Graf vonThon und Hohenstein (1616 - 1668), bishop of Regensburg, was asked for support against the Turcks.No copy in worldCat. [Boeknr.: 28411 ]

€ 375,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. RELATION DE TOUT CE QUI S'EST PASSÉ en Allemagne depuis la descente des Turcs en Hongrie jusques à la levée du siege de Vienne. Cologne, Jacques le Jeune, 1683.12mo. Marbled wrappers. 72 pp. Interessantes, flott geschriebenes Wercken. Der Author muss ein sehr wohl informierter Mann gewesen sein, der sowohl am französischen Hofe, als auf dem türkischen Kriegsschauplatze zu Hause war. Die Schilderung der Begebnisse vor der Belagerung ist mit mehr Weitläufigkeit und Sachkenntniss behandelt als in den meisten Schriften dieser Epoche, die Belagerung selbst nicht in Form eines Diariums, sondern in zusammenhängender, lebendiger Erzählung (Apponyi p. 183-184). Sturminger 2439 ; Apponyi 1060. [Boeknr.: 29047 ]

€ 975,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. SEHR TRÖSTLICHE NEWE ZEITUNG/ wie der Allmechtige Gott abermals gnedige Hülffe seiner Christenheit/ in geringer und kleiner Anzahl/ wider den Blutdürstigen Erbfeind Christliches Namens/ den Türcken bewiesen/ und glücklichen Sieg geben. Den 27. Octobris dieses 1593 Jahrs. (Leipzig, Michael Stoll, 1593).4to. Speckled boards. With fine woodcut on title-page. (4) lvs. Extremely rare 'newsletter' on the war against the Turks in Central Europe. Only 1 copy in WorldCat. [Boeknr.: 20702 ]

€ 1275,00

TURKISH WARS IN HUNGARY. TREU UND WOLGEMEINTE ERINNERUNG/ bey der anietzt/ von dem Erbfeind christlichen Nahmens/ dem Türcken/ obschwebender/ und iemehr und mehr antringender allgemeiner Noth und Gefahr. Verfertiget von einem des Reichs lieben Getreuen. Anno 1663. (No pl.), 1663.Modern speckled boards. 24 lvs. Seeing Europe in a false peace with the Turks, the author warns of the outbreak of a new war and demands, among other things, concrete measures to arm the army. In fact, war between Sultan and Emperor was declared a short time later. - (Stained; some leaves with a pink stain).Apponi 879. [Boeknr.: 28413 ]

€ 475,00

VANEL, CLAUDE. Histoire des troubles de Hongrie, depuis 1655 jusques à present. Avec le Siege de Neucheusel, & une relation exacte du combat de Gran, &c. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1686. 2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt (spine ends dam., 1 hinge dam.). With printer's device on titlepages, folding engraved map, folding engraved plate (with tears), folding engraved plan of Neuheusel and 4 engraved plates (some tears, one lower margin missing). (36)364,(16); 403, (16) pp. With engraved armorial bookplate. - (Age-browned; some stains).Blackmer 1714 & Atabey 1273 (other editions). [Boeknr.: 35288 ]

€ 450,00

VISEGRÁD & VÁC. RELATION DE CE QUI S'EST PASSÉ À LA PRISE DE VICEGRADT & DE WEITZEN par les Imperiaux, & dans les deux combats donnez entre leurs troupes & celles des Turcs, le 17 & le 27 du mois de Juin dernier. Paris, du Bureau d'Adresse, 2 Aoust, 1684. 4to. Old half calf, pink wrappers preserved. 8 pp. By 1683, the Ottoman Empire had spread westward until Vienne itself was under siege. Campaigns by the members of the Holy League, comprised of Austria, Poland and the Venetian Rupublic, finally brought relief to Central Europe, and negociations ended with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1693. This Treaty, between Turkey on the one side and the countries of the Holy League on the other, resulted in Turkey's loss of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, the Peloponnesus, and other territories. The Treaty also marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. This pamphlet pertains to the taking of Visegrád and Vác, two towns close to Budapest, by Charles, Duke of Lorraine and his Holy League forces, not long after they had relieved Vienna. Some months later, in early 1685, they also took Budapest from the Turks, and the Turkish hegemony in Eastern Europe was over. - (Age-browned).Only 1 copy in WorldCat. [Boeknr.: 35321 ]

€ 2250,00

VISSCHER, Claes Janszoon. Nova et recens emendata totius regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionibus delineatio. Amsterdam, Claes Janszoon Visscher, 1634.Engraved hand-coloured map by Joannes Van Deutecom of Hungary and adjacent parts. Ca. 35 x 53,5 cm. First published in 1596 by Cornelis Claesz, this is state 5. - Important early map of Hungary, centered on the course of the Danube River, from Hungary to Romania. A fine map with decorative cartouches, small coats of arms, bird's eye views of the cities and descriptions of the important battles. [Boeknr.: 35280 ]

€ 1350,00

VRIES, R.W.P. de. M.A.J. Bauer. Amsterdam, A.J.G. Strengholt, 1944. 4to. Half cloth. With many illustrations. 144 pp. Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26). [Boeknr.: 35842 ]

€ 18,00


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