Greece, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
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The present state of the Morea
RANDOLPH, Bernard.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00'Randolph (bap. 1643 - d. after 1689?)... was living in Smyrna [by 1664] and he traded extensively through the Aegean region of the Ottoman empire...
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Athenes ancienne et nouvelle.
GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, Andre Georges.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00The material of the work comes from Giraud, the French Consul in Athens, and from the Capuchin monks settled there, judiciously mixed with scholar...
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Proceedings of the Levant Company, respecting the Surrender of their Charters, 1825.
[? GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, 1st Baron Grenville].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Company of Merchants Trading to the Levant. The second work concerning trade with the Levant shows the increase in commercial activity between Grea...
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Karamania,
BEAUFORT, Sir Francis.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An important archaeological survey. In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August he began t...
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Historical portraiture of leading events in the life of Ali Pacha,
DAVENPORT, W.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pacha's life. The text was taken from ...
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The Duab of Turkestan.
RICKMERS, W. Rickmer.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00The '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...
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L'ancienne Athènes,
PITTAKIS, K[yriákos].Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Printed 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...
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Voiage de Levant fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621.
DESHAYES, Louis, Baron de Courmenin.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00'[It] provides... a clear account of the structure of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the most complete description yet recorded of the Seraglio' (...
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Histoire generale de la religion des Turcs.
BAUDIER, Michel.Original price £1,950.00Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £1,950.00Current price £1,755.00£1,755.00 - £1,755.00Current price £1,755.00The most complete treatment of Islam up to its time in France. Baudier was a populariser of knowledge of the Ottoman Empire, giving vivid descript...
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Lettres écrites sur une dissertation d'un Voyage en Grèce,
GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, [Andre Georges].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Rare. 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 ...
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Griechenland.
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00The 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...
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Stamboul Souvenir d'Orient.
PREZIOSI, Amadeo.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00Superb evocative plates of Constantinople, its people and their customs. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the ...
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Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9.
ALCOCK, Thomas.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Scarce 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...
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Researches in the highlands of Turkey;
TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Scarce. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his majo...
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Turkey in Europe.
BAKER, James.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00A popular account which went through several editions in a short space of time. The author had visited Constantinople during the Crimean War and h...
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The condition of Greece in 1827 and 1828;
MILLER, Col. Jonathan P.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Blackmer copy. 'First and apparently only edition. The map of Greece issued with this work is frequently missing, and despite the information on th...
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Report of the Committee of the Society of the Dilettanti,
SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00'This report describes the activities of the Society of Dilettanti's second Ionian Mission, 1812-13, organized under the direction of William Gell...
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Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia,
KINNEIR, Sir John Macdonald.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Scarce. 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 ...
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The description of Greece,
PAUSANIAS.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00A scarce, well regarded translation of Pausanias, who provides us with the best guide to the Ancient Greeks and their beliefs. Translated by Thoma...
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