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HAWKINS A.: The History of Turkish or Ottoman Empire from its foundation in 1300 to the peace of Belgrade in 1740.London 1787
First edition,in 8vo,complete in four volumes,contemporary full leather with some wear mostly at edges and joints, spines faded and with wear, text clean and bright,overall in very good condition.
William Hawkins was a respectable scholar with serious historical research, this work was his most ambitious...

Stephanos della Rocca: Traite complet sur les Abeilles avec une nouvelle methode a les gouverner telle qu elle se pratique a SYRA,ile de l Archipel, precede d un précis historique de cette ile. Paris 1790
First edition,in large 8vo,complete in three volumes, contemporary full leather very slightly rubbed, spines richly gilt, text clean and bright,all 5 copper plates present including the one depicting a nice partial view of Syros, ex...

JAN HENDRIK VAN KINSBERGEN: BESCHRYVINGE VAN DER ARCHIPEL. AMSTERDAM 1792
First edition. In large 8vo,contemporary publishers hard covers slightly rubbed at edges, large uncut copy,spine slightly sunned, text clean and bright,complete the narrative 190p., overall in very good condition.
The Description of the Archipelago, published in 1792, is a significant work by the renowned Dutch Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819)....

Jackson J.: Journey from India towards England in the year 1797, through Curdistan, Armenia and Natolia in Asia and through Romelia, Bulgaria and Wallachia in Europe. London 1799
First edition. In 8vo 22x13cm, contemporary leather, covers with golden blinded stamp of the famous Signet Library (a gift from the British society of writers!),complete 278p. one folded map of Anatolia and Thrace and 4 early aquatints,some light spotting, map...

Eton W.: A survey of the Turkish Empire in which are considered its government, finance, military and naval force, the state of the provinces, the subjections of the Greeks and their efforts toward emancipation…London 1799
Second enlarged edition. In 8vo 22x14cm,contemporary leather, over boards, edges of spine damaged, internally text clean and bright, some very light scattered spotting in few pages, complete 525p., overall in very...

Andre Grasset de Saint Saveur: Voyage historique, literaireet pittoresque dans lis iles et possessions ci devant Venitiennes du Levant, savoir: Corfou, Paxo, Bucintro, Parga, Preveza, Vonizza,Saint Maure,Thiaqui, Cephalonie. Zante, Strophades, Cerigo. Paris 1800
First edition, in 8vo, contemporary full leather, somehow trimmed and darkened, hinges of volume one restored, complete the text in three volumes, without the separately...

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΙΔΗΣ (DIMITRIOS ALEXANDRIDIS) ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΩΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΩΝ ΑΧΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΛΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΥΠΟ ΤΩΝ ΟΘΩΜΑΝΩΝ (HISTORY OF GREECE). ΒΙΕΝΝΗ (VIENNA) 1807
Second enlarged edition,in 8vo,complete in three volumes,contemporary full leather,binding of volume one with wear at edges of spine and covers, text clean and bright, around ten pages in the very beginning of volume one...

ANTONIO DINIS DA CRUZ E SILVA (Elfino Nonacriense): ODES PINDARICAS. COIMBRA 1801
First edition in Portuguese of Pindaros works. In 12mo,later cover sunned, complete 257p., text clean and bright, overall in very good condition
Published posthumously in 1801, by the famous Portuguese University of Coimbra Press this collection is considered one of the most successful attempts in the Portuguese language to emulate the high-flown,...

Francois Pouqueville: Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l'Empire Ottoman. Paris 1805
First edition,in 8vo, complete in three volumes, contemporary leather over boards, two maps and three more engravings, text clean with some uniform browning or spotting in few pages, overall in very good condition.
The account chronicles a period of captivity rather than a standard tour. Pouqueville...

John Galt: Voyages and Travels in the years 1809,1810 and 1811 containing statistical, commercial and miscellaneous observations on Gibraltar, Sardinia,Sicily, Malta,Serigo and Turkey. London 1812
First edition, large Quarto, contemporary leather over boards, joints restored, text clean and bright with some scattered spotting in few pages, complete and in very good condition
A key primary source for the Mediterranean during the...

Robert Walpole: Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and other countries of the East.London 1818
Second edition, small Folio,contemporary cloth upper part of spine remade, text clean and bright,overall in very good condition.
Robert Walpole (1781-1856) was a classical scholar who soon after leaving Cambridge in very early 19th century travelled in Greece. While returning in 1807 he presented a marble dramatic mask...

Ambroise-Firmin Didot: Notes d un voyage dans le Levant en 1816 and 1817.Paris 1818
First edition, in 8vo, contemporary leather over boards, complete 403p., text clean and bright,few wear at the joint of the very last pages, overall in very good condition
Didot spent his youth studying the classics with Korais.The latter encouraged Didot to travel to the Levant to see Greece and improve his Greek. So he visited Greece and Asia...