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
151 Marmont (Auguste, Duc de Raguse)

Voyage du Marechal Duc de Raguse, 6 vol. inc atlas

Paris 1837 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,512.00
152 Marsh (Henry)

A New Survey of the Turkish Empire and Government, first edition

1663 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,764.00
153 Marsigli (Count Luigi Ferdinando)

L'Etat Militaire de l'Empire Ottoman, ses Progres et sa Decadence, 2 parts bound as 1, first edition,

The Hague & Amsterdam 1732 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
154 Mason (George Henry)

The Costume of China

c. 1834 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
155 ?Mason (George Henry)

[The Punishments of China]

1801, but c.1805 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
156 Maundrell (Henry)

A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem

Oxford 1740 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
157 Mayer (Luigi)

Views in the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, first edition, text in English and French

1803 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,764.00
158 Mayer (Luigi)

Views in Egypt, Palestine, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 3 vol. bound as 1,

1805 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
159 Mayer (Luigi)

Views in the Ottoman Dominions in Europe in Asia, and some of The Mediterranean Islands, first collected edition

1810 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
160 Mayer (Luigi)

A Selection of the Most Interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated Collection of of Views in Turkey in Europe and Asia; Syria, Sicily ...

1811 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
161 Mayer (Luigi)

Interesting Views in Turkey, selected from the Original Drawings taken for Sir Robert Ainslie

1819 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 441.00
162 Mayr (Heinrich von)

Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresque de l'Orient, first edition

Munich, Paris & Leipzig 1839-40 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
164 Michaud (Joseph-Francois)& Jean J. F. Poujoulat.

Correspondence D'Orient 1830-1831, 7 vol., first edition

Paris 1833-35 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
165 Mignan (Capt. Robert)

Travels in Chaldaea, first edition

1829 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
166 Monconys (Baltazar de)

Journal des Voyages de Monsieur de Monconys, 3 vol.

Lyon 1665-66 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
167 Morier (James)

A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, first edition,

1812 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
168 Moryson (Fynes)

An Itinerary Written ...containing his Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, .... first edition

1617 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,512.00
169 Motraye (A. de la)

Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa, 3 vol., first edition

1723-32 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 945.00
170 Mouradja D'Ohsson (Ignace de)

Tableau General de l'Empire Othoman, 2 vol. bound as 3

Paris 1787-90 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
171 Musee Cosmopolite

418 hand-coloured engravings

Paris c.1850 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
172 Navari (Leonora)

Greece and the Levant: the Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts

1989 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
173 Navari (Leonora)

Cyprus and the Levant, 3 vol.

Athens 2016 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 176.40
174 Neale (Adam)

Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey, first edition,

1818 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 252.00
175 Newton (C. T.)

Travels & Discoveries in the Levant, 2 vol., first edition

1865 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
176 Nicolay (Nicolas de)

Les Navigations Peregrenations et Voyages, faicts en la Turquie, second French edition

Antwerp 1576 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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