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
202 Preziosi (Amedeo)

Stamboul: Recollections of Eastern Life, first edition

Paris 1858 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
203 Preziosi (Amedeo)

Souvenir du Caire, first edition

Paris c.1862 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
204 Prisse d'Avesnes (Achille Constant T. Emile)& James Augustus St. John.

Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile, first edition

1848 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,008.00
205 Purchas (Samuel)

His Pilgrimage. Or, Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in all ages and places discovered ..., first edition

1613 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
206 Racinet (Auguste)

[Le Costume Historique], 20 vol.,

Paris 1876-88 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
207 Raybaud (Maxime)

Memoires sur la Grece, 2 vol., first edition

1824-25 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
208 Reland (Adriaan)

La Religion des Mahometans, first edition in French,

The Hague 1721 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
209 Renouard de Bussierre (Marie Theodore)

Lettres sur l'Orient, 3 vol. inc. Atlas

Paris [but Strasbourg printed] 1829 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
210 Roberts (David)

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia., 6 vol. in 3

1855-56 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
211 Roger (Eugene)

La Terre Saincte; ou Description Topographique, first edition

Paris 1646 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
212 Russell (Alexander)

The Natural History of Aleppo, and parts adjacent, first edition

1856 but 1756 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
213 Rycaut (Paul)

The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

1668 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
214 Rycaut (Paul)

The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

1670 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
215 Rycaut (Paul)

The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches, first edition

1679 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 277.20
216 Rycaut (Paul)

The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire

1682 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 327.60
217 Rycaut (Paul)

The Turkish History from the Original of the Nation, to the Growth of the Ottoman Empire, 2 vol.

1687 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
218 Rycaut (Paul)

The History of the Turks beginning with the Year 1679, first edition

1700 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
219 Salaberry (Charles Marie d'Irumberry, Comte de)

Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman, 4 vol., first edition,

Paris 1813 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
220 Sandys (George)

Sandys Travels, containing an History of the Original and present State of the Turkish Empire

1673 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,016.00
221 Saulnier (Gilbert, Sieur Du Verdier)

Abbrege de l'Historique des Turcs, 3 vol.

Lyon 1682-81 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
222 Schranz (Joseph)

Vue Generale du Bosphore, de Constantinople a Roumeli-Hissari, (pris d'Asie)

circa 1855 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
223 Schubert (G. H. v.)

Bilder aus dem Heligen Lande

Stuttgart 1839 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
224 Sebah (Pascal)

Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata

c.1880 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 604.80
225 Senior (Nassau William)

A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece, first edition

1859 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
226 Sestini (Domenico)

Voyage dans la Grece Asiatique, a la Peninsule de Cyzique, a Brusse et a Nicee, first French edition

Paris 1789 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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