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

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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
51 Clarke (Edward Daniel)

Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa, 11 vol.

1816-24 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 567.00
52 Coecke van Aelst (Pieter)

The Turks in MDXXXIII, one of 100 copies

1873 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,071.00
53 Coronelli (Vincenzo)

Memoires, Historiques & Geographiques du Royaume de la Moree, Negrepont & des Places Maritimes, first Dutch edition

Amsterdam 1686 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
54 Covel (John)

Some Account of the Present Greek Church

Cambridge 1722 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 189.00
55 Craven (Elizabeth)

A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople

1789 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 403.20
56 Crouch (Nathaniel)

E. Burton. A Journey to Jerusalem

Hartford 1796 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
57 Dallaway (James)

Constantinople Ancient and Modern, first edition

1797 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 504.00
58 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Costume of Turkey, first edition

1802 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 756.00
59 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Costume of Turkey

1802 but c.1817 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 882.00
60 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Costume of Turkey

1804 but c.1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 478.80
61 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Costume of Turkey

1804 but c.1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
62 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Military Costume of Turkey, first edition

1818 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
63 Dalvimart (Octavien)

The Military Costume of Turkey

c.1822 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 529.20
64 Dandini (Girolamo)

Voyage du Mont Liban

Paris 1685 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
65 Dapper (Olfert)

Description exacte des Isles de l'Archipel, et de quelques autres adjacentes...

Amsterdam 1703 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
66 Davenport (W.)

Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the life of Ali Pacha, first edition,

1823 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
67 De Hell (Xavier Hommaire)

Les Steppes de la Mer Caspienne, le Caucase la Crimee et la Russe Meridionale

Paris 1843-45 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
68 De Launay (Marie)

L'Architecture Ottomane, first edition, text in French and German with Persian at end

Constantinople 1873 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,764.00
69 De Launay (Marie)

& Hamdy Bey. Les Costumes Populaires de la Turque en 1873, 3 parts in 1 vol.,

Constantinople 1873 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
70 Denon (Vivant)

Egypt Delineated

1825 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 529.20
71 Deshayes (Louis)

Voiage de Levant, second edition, second issue

Paris 1632 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
72 Deval (Charles)

Deux Annees a Constantinople et en Moree (1825-1826)

London & Paris 1828 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
73 Didot (Ambroise Firmin)

Notes d'un Voyage fait dans le Levant en 1816 et 1817, first edition,

Paris 1826 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,197.00
74 Djevad (Ahmed)

Etat Militaire Ottoman ... Album des Figures et des Dessins Mentionnes dans le Ier Volumes Les Janissaires

Paris & Constantinople 1882 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
75 Dodwell (Edward)

A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 2 vol., first edition

1819 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
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