OTTOMAN EMPIRE – Group of seven books on Ottoman history and culture. 19th–20th centuries.

From the private library of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, a collection of seven books detailing diverse aspects of life in Turkey at the fin de siècle.

COX, Samuel S. Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887. First edition. Octavo. Colour lithograph of Sultan Abdul Hamid II on horseback, illustrated throughout. Publisher’s pictorial red cloth (light wear).

AMICIS, Edmundo de. Constantinople. Translated by Caroline Tilton. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896. Quarto. Plates throughout. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt ornamentation, t.e.g.

BENOIST-MÉCHIN, [Jacques]. Le Loup et le Léopard: Mustapha Kémal, ou La mort d’un Empire. Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1984. Quarto. Paperback with decorative wrapper printed in gold and red.

GOBLE, Warwick (illustrator). Constantinople. Text by Alexander van Millingen. London: A. & C. Black, 1906. First edition. Quarto. 63 coloured plates by Goble (foxing on edges not affecting text or plates). Publisher’s tan cloth with gilt, green, blue and brown decorations on upper board and spine, t.e.g. (light wear to extremities). Provenance: Books Inc., San Francisco (label on lower pastedown).

PARDOE, [Julia]. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. London: George Virtue, 1838. Quarto. 80 coloured engraved plates with engraved title-page and frontispiece portrait (occasional stains, edges foxed). Contemporary half red morocco over cloth boards of the same with gilt vignettes (few stains and marks on boards).

PARDOE, [Julia]. Les beautés du Bosphore. London: George Virtue, 1838. Quarto. Engraved title-page in English and 80 plates (occasional offsetting, wear to edges). Brown cloth ornamented in gilt and blind on boards and spine, a.e.g. (stained and worn, pastedowns free from boards).

IONNESCU-GION, G.I. Istoria Bucurescilor. Bucuresci: I.V. Socecŭ, 1899. Quarto. Illustrated throughout (half-title reattached with repaired tear). Modern red cloth with gilt titling on spine.

Sold as a group not subject to return.