Public Auction 144 General Stamp Sale

John Reid: Turkey and the Turks,Being the present State of the Ottoman Empire.London 1840
First edition, in 8vo,contemporary green cloth,spine faded and restored,text clean with very few scattered spotting, complete 310p.,6 engravings and two maps, overall in very good condition.
Reid arrived in Constantinople just as the Tanzimat era was beginning in the 1830s. This was the Sultan's attempt to Westernize the empire to prevent its...

Ludwig Ross: Reisen auf den griechischen Inseln des ägäischen Meeres.Stuttgart 1840
First edition,in 8vo,later red leather over boards,complete 195p.,two maps and three plates,some scattered spotting and foxing, overall in very good condition.
Ludwig Ross was a central figure in the Bavarocracy in early independent Greece. He was the first General Ephor of Antiquities for the independent Kingdom of Greece. He was the man...

August Böckh: Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener.Berlin 1840
First edition, in 8vo,complete in three volumes,ex GREEK ROYAL COPY (inscriptions in all volumes front past down: ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ Α.Μ. ΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΟΘΩΝΟΣ),contemporary fine leather over boards,spines richly gilt,upper joints slightly weak, text clean and bright,overall in almost fine condition.
August Böckh was a titan of German scholarship,the father of modern...

[Andrew Bonar and Robert MacCheyne ]: Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839.London 1843,
First edition,in 8vo,contemporary brown blinded cloth,spine restored,text clean,very few spotting in some pages,complete 550p. three engravings and three maps,overall in very good condition.
The book was written by Andrew Bonar and Robert Murray M’Cheyne, two influential Scottish ministers. They...

Leconte C.: Etude economique de la Grece, suivie de documents sur le commerce d Orient, Paris Firmin-Didot 1847
First and only edition.Large 8vo, uncut, complete 452p., publisher s paper covers soiled, spine opened, inside clean and fine, overall very good..
Leconte was a French public servant and early economist who travelled in Greece, to contribute in the economic regeneration of the country.His lengthy reports have been...

Friedrich Parrot: Journey to Ararat. London 1845
First edition in English,large 8vo,contemporary full leather, spine richly gilt, edges marbled, text clean and bright,complete 375p., a folding map,illustrations in the text, overall in almost fine condition, a lovely copy
Friedrich Parrot (1791-1841), was a Baltic German naturalist and physician, the original expedition took place in 1829. The centerpiece of the book is Parrot’s...

VIVIEN DE SAINT MARTIN: Description Historique et Geographique de l’ Asie Mineure…avec un précis detaille des voyages qui one ete faits dans la peninsule /Hadji-Khalfa: Description de l Asie Mineure,extrait de la geographie turque et imprimee pour la premiere fois. Paris 1852
First and only edition of the most important mid 19th century work for Asia Minor.In large 8vo Contemporary leather over boards, complete in two volumes, second...

Albert Gaudry: Recherches Scientifiques en Orient …pendant les Annees 1853-1854.Paris 1855
First edition,large in Quatro, contemporary fine red leather over red boards, spine richly gilt, edges gilt, text clean and bright, complete 446p., and the 8 full page plates at the end, but without the separately published big map often present, overall in fine condition, a brilliant copy with very light marginal wear
Gaudry was sent by the...

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy: History of the Ottoman Turks: From the Beginning of Their Empire to the Present Time.London 1854-1856
First edition,large 8vo,contemporary leather over boards, spine faded, boards renew, complete in two volumes, text claen and bright, overall in very good condition.
Creasy, a lawyer and professor of history at University College London, wrote this book during the Crimean War, it was intended to educate...

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΡΙΖΟΣ ΡΑΓΚΑΒΗΣ Alexandre Rizos Rangavis: Souvenirs d une Excursion en Arcadie.Paris 1857
First edition, large in Quarto, contemporary leather over boards, upper joint weak,complete 144p. and 18 full page engravings including fine views,some light scattered spotting and foxing, overall in very good condition
By the 1850s, Rangavis transitioned from the dry, scientific writing of his 1842 publication to a more evocative,...

Ermanno Lunzi: Storia delle Isole Jonie sotto il reggimento dei Veneziani. Venezia 1858-1859
First edition, large in 8vo,contemporary leather over boards,spines richly gilt, complete in two volumes, ex libris in front past down of the Manoir de Roncheville and of the famous Petritzi collection,text clean and bright,overall in almost fine condition.
Ermanno Lunzi belonged to the nobility of Zakynthos, he was a native intellectual...

Walter Thornbury: Turkish Life and Character. London 1860
First edition, in 8vo,complete in two volumes,modern brown not uniform library binding,ex libris with usual stamp, text clean and bright, overall in very good condition.
Walter Thornbury was a prolific journalist and a friend of Charles Dickens. He was an aesthetic observer. He went to Constantinople with the specific goal of capturing the color and noise of the city...