Forum Auctions: A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World: the Library of a Gentleman, 1157, London

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Auction Date
November 14, 2024 - November 14, 2024
Page Size: 267 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Benjamin of Tudela.

Voyages de Rabbi Benjamin ... en Europe, en Asie & en Afrique,

1734 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 567.00
27 Blackwood (Lady Alicia)

Scutari, The Bosphorus and Crimea, 2 vol., first edition

Isle of Wight 1857 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 567.00
28 Blunt (Sir Henry)

A Voyage into the Levant, being a brief Relation of a Journey lately performed from England ...

1669 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
29 Boucicault (Jean Le Maingre de)

Histoire de Mre. Jean de Boucicaut, Mareschal de France, Gouverneur de Gennes, first edition

Paris 1620 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
30 Boue (Ami)

La Turquie d'Europe, 4 vol., first edition

Paris 1840 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
31 Bouhours (Dominique)

Histoire de Pierre D'Aubusson Gran-Maistre de Rhodes, first edition

Paris 1676 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
32 Brindesi (Jean)

Souvenirs de Constantinople, first edition

Paris] 1855-60 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
33 Brindesi (Jean)

Elbicei Atika Musee des Anciens Costumes Turcs de Constantinople, first edition,

Paris c.1855 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
34 Brown (Edward)

A Brief Account of some Travels in divers Parts of Europe ... with some Observations on the Gold, Silver, Copper, Quick-silver Mines...

1685 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
35 Buckingham (James Silk)

Travels in Mesopotamia, 2 vol., first edition

1827 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
36 Buckingham (James Silk)

Travels in Palestine, through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, first edition

1821 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,197.00
37 Buonaiuti (B. Serafino)

Italian Scenery; representing the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Different States of Italy

1806 but c.1818 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
38 Busbecq (Ogier Ghiselin de)

Travels into Turkey, second edition in English

1744 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
39 Cantemir (Demetrius)

The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire, 2 parts in 1 vol.,

1669 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 7,560.00
40 Cantemir (Demetrius)

Histoire de l'Empire Othoman, 2 vol., first edition in French

Paris 1743 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,016.00
41 Cassas (Louis Francois)

[Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestube et de la Basse-Egypte], 3 vol., first edition

Paris 1799 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
42 World in Miniature.- Castellan (A. L.)

Turkey, 6 vol.

1821 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
43 Castlereagh (Lord)

A Journey to Damascus, 2 vol., first edition

1847 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
44 Chalcondyle (Laonicus)

L'Histoire de la Decadence de l'Empire Grec, 3 parts in 2 vol.

Paris 1612 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 693.00
45 Chardin (Sir John)

Voyages de Mr. Le Chevalier Chardin, en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient, 10 vol.

Paris 1723 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
46 Chardin (Sir John)

Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et Autres Lieux de l'Orient, 11 vol.

Paris 1811 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
47 Chenavard (Antoine Marie)

Voyage en Grece et dans le Levant fait en MDCCCXLIII et MDCCCXLIV, first edition

Lyon 1858 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
48 Chishull (Edmund)

Travels in Turkey and back to England, first edition

1747 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,260.00
49 Choiseul-Gouffier (Marie Gabriel Florent August de)

Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vol. in 3,

Paris 1782-1822 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
50 Choiseul-Gouffier (Marie Gabriel Florent August d.)

Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece. Planches,

Brussels 1851 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,386.00
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