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

Auction Details

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
177	Niebuhr (Carsten)	Travels through Arabia, and other Countries in the East, 2 vol., first edition in English	Edinburgh	1792	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 945.00
178	Noe (Count Louis Pantaleon Amedee de)	Memoires relatifs a l'Expedition Anglaise, partie du Bengale en 1800 ..., first edition,	Paris	1826	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
179	Norden (Frederick Lewis)	Travels in Egypt and Nubia, 2 vol., first edition in English		1757	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,008.00
180	Olearius (Adam)	The Voyages and Travells of the the Ambassadors ... containing a compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia...		1669	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 403.20
181	Olivier (Guillaume Antoine)	Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia, 3 vol. in 1 (including Atlas), first English edition		1801	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
182	O'Neill (Angus)	Impressions of Istanbul Voyage to Constantinople 1493-1850, 2 vol. only (of 3),		2014-20	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 882.00
183	Pacha (Mahmoud Chevket)	L'Organisation et les Uniformes de L'Armee Ottomanne, part 1 only,	Istanbul	c.1909	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 302.40
184	Pallas (Peter Simon)	Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794, 2 vol.		1812	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 504.00
185	Pardoe (Julia)	The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, 3 vol., second edition,		1838	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
186	Pardoe (Julia)& W. H. Bartlett.	The Beauties of the Bosphorus		c.1840	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 504.00
187	Peake (Richard Brinsley)	French Characteristic Costumes, bound from original parts		1815-16	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
188	Perry (Charles)	A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, first edition		1743	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
189	Pertusier (Charles)	Promenades Pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les Rives du Bosphore, 4 vol., inc Atlas, first edition	Paris	1815-17	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 5,040.00
190	Petis de la Croix (Francois)	Memoires du Sieur de la Croix, 2 vol., first edition	Paris	1684	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 302.40
191	Petis de la Croix (Francois)	Etat Present des Nations et Eglises Grecque, first edition	Paris	1715 but 1695	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,008.00
192	Petis de la Croix (Francois)	Histoire du Grand Genghizcan Premier Empereur des Anciens Mogols et Tartares, first edition	Paris	1710	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 352.80
193	Petis de la Croix (Francois)	Abbrege Chronologique de l'Histoire Ottomane, 2 vol.	Paris	1768	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
194	Picard (Bernard)	Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des tous les Peuples du Monde, 4 vol.,	Amsterdam	1789	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
195	Pitts (Joseph)	A Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans		1738	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
196	Pococke (Richard)	A Description of the East, and Some other Countries, 3 parts bound as 2 vol.,		1743-44	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,386.00
197	Porter (Sir Robert Ker)	Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 2 vol. in 1		1813	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 478.80
198	Porter (Sir Robert Ker)	Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c., 2 vol.,		1821-22	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,268.00
199	Pouqueville (F. C. H. L.)	Voyage en Moree a Constantinople, en Albanie, 3 vol., first edition,	Paris	1805	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
200	Pouqueville (F. C. H. L.)	Travels in the Morea, Albania, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire		1813	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 327.60
201	Pouqueville (F. C. H. L.)	Voyage de la Grece, 6 vol., second edition	Paris	1826	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold

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