TURKEY – Group of seven plate books depicting Turkish costumes and views, with manuscript map fragment. 19th century.

From the private library of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, a collection of rare works recording costumes, fashions and landscapes of the Ottoman Empire.

PARDOE, [Julia]. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. London: George Virtue, [1838]. 80 coloured plates with engraved coloured title-page and frontispieces portrait of Pardoe (occasional foxing). Quarto. 19th-century red morocco with gilt tooling, a.e.g. (some scratches to boards).

ALLOM, Thomas. Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Illustrated. London: Fisher, Son & Co.; [c.1839]. 95 coloured plates and 2 maps. Quarto. Contemporary half red morocco over cloth boards of the same with gilt vignettes, all edges marbled (some wear to cloth, marbling faded).

[DALVIMART, Octavien]. The Costume of Turkey, in English and French. London: W. Miller, 1802. Folio. 60 plates plus frontispiece (light offsetting. Early gilt-ruled diced calf with armorial medallion on upper and lower boards (rebacked, calf cracked around extremities, corners bumped). Provenance: John Philip Kemble, 1757–1823 (armorial medallion on covers) – Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, 1844–1893 (Underley Hall bookplate).

[DALVIMART, Octavien]. The Military Costume of Turkey. London: T. M’Lean, 1818. Folio. Half-title, 30 coloured engraved plates including frontispiece and additional title-page, publisher’s advertisement (light offsetting). Early panelled calf with ornamental gilt and blind rules, a.e.g. (rebacked, corners lightly bumped). Provenance: later 19th-century crest bookplate. [With:] Late 19th-century print of Turkish woman by Ottoman photographer Pascal Sébah, matted.

MAYER, Luigi. Views in the Ottoman Empire, Chiefly in Caramania, in English and French. London: R. Bowyer, 1803. Folio. 24 coloured plates (toned, occasional foxing and offsetting). Black morocco, a.e.g. (rebacked and recased preserving most of original gilt-ruled morocco and endpapers).

MAYER, Luigi. Selection of plates from Views in the Ottoman Dominions. London: R. Bowyer, 1810. 40 coloured engraved plates. Oblong folio. Black morocco (rebacked and recased preserving most of original gilt-ruled morocco). Provenance: John Fort (1868 bookplate) – Lydia Kidston (1950 ownership inscription).

[MANUSCRIPT MAP FRAGMENT] – Manuscript map fragment, ink and colours on paper, 2 five-compartment folded sections, mounted on canvas framed in red cloth and housed in custom cloth folder.

Sold as a group not subject to return.