The 'Duab' is a stretch of land between the Rivers Oxus and Jakartes. The author spent twenty years on and off in Turkestan and this detailed vol...

Printed in Athens. Dedicated to King Otho, first King of Greece, this is one of the first books describing ancient Athens to be printed in Athens i...

'[It] provides... a clear account of the structure of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the most complete description yet recorded of the Seraglio' (...

Rare. A rebuttal to Spon's attack on his Athènes ancienne et nouvelle, 1675, which Spon believed to be spurious. The spat produced a small series ...

The last of five editions published in German.Issued in the 1930's . Fifth edition, pp. cxxviii, 442, one panorama, 15 maps, 25 plans, 5 ground-pl...

Superb evocative plates of Constantinople, its people and their customs. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the ...

Scarce privately printed account of the author's travels through the region at the time of the Russo-Turkish War. The section on Greece includes i...

Scarce. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his majo...

A popular account which went through several editions in a short space of time. The author had visited Constantinople during the Crimean War and h...

Blackmer copy. 'First and apparently only edition. The map of Greece issued with this work is frequently missing, and despite the information on th...

'This report describes the activities of the Society of Dilettanti's second Ionian Mission, 1812-13, organized under the direction of William Gell...

Auldjo, a distinguished geologist and Alpinist who had climbed Mont Blanc in 1827, 'enjoyed the luxuries of Constantinople. He gives a detailed ac...

Scarce. Kinneir had served in the Madras infantry and was later attached to Sir John Malcolm's mission in Persia in 1808-1809. In 1813 he set out ...

A scarce, well regarded translation of Pausanias, who provides us with the best guide to the Ancient Greeks and their beliefs. Translated by Thoma...

The privately printed true first edition. The rare privately printed edition, preceding the trade edition by twenty-one years. The text consists of...

'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...

Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston's embassy to the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland with Liston's entourage,...

Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...