Public Auction 144 General Stamp Sale

John Mason: Three Years in Turkey, the journal of a medical mission to the Jews.London [1860]
First edition, in 8vo, contemporary publishers blue cloth slightly rubbed,spine sunned and restored,text clean and bright,complete 383p.,overall in almost very good condition
Mason,a physician and medical missionary travelled widely in the Levant.His detailed journal is a very accurate description of the Levant of the mid of 19th century...

James Lewis Farley: The Resources of Turkey considered with special reference to the profitable investment of capital in the Ottoman Empire.London 1862
First and only edition, in 8vo,contemporary cloth slightly rubbed,a binding for practical use,text clean,complete 288p., overall in very good condition.
A journalist and diplomat, James Lewis Farley (1823-1885) work became the investor's bible for the Ottoman Empire during the...

Fredrika Bremer: Greece and the Greeks. The Narrative of a winter Residence and summer travel in Greece and its Islands.London 1863
First edition in English after the original account in Swedish,in 8vo,complete in two volumes,contemporary full cloth slightly dusty,spines sunned,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition.
The renowned Swedish novelist and feminist pioneer Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) traveled in Greece in...

Bernard Camille Collas: La Turquie en 1864.Paris 1864
First edition,in 8vo,modern leather over boards,text clean and bright,complete 480p.,overall in very good plus condition.
Collas was a French economist and financial expert,his work stripped away the romanticism of the Levant to reveal the cold, hard numbers of the Ottoman treasury,it was the first era of massive international loans to the Sultan, and European investors were...

Alessandro de Bianchi: Viaggi in Armenia,Kurdistan e Lazistan.Milano 1865
First edition,tall Quarto,publishers paper covers slightly dusty and soiled,spine renew,complete 325p.,one folded map,water stain in the upper part of the last twenty pages,overall in almost very good condition
The Italian traveler and scholar Alessandro de Bianchi travelled in the remote areas of Pontos and eastern Anatolia at a very early date for those...

Thomas Spratt: Travels and Researches in Crete.London 1865
First edition, in large 8vo,complete in two volumes with 14 maps and views, contemporary fine full leather,spine richly gilt,an excellent binding with very little wear, edges marbled,ex libris on front past dawn of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax in 1891,text clean and bright,,some beautifully colored,a fine set,a lovely copy
Most probably the most important scientific...

Henry Tozer: Researches in the Highlands of Turkey including visits to Mounts Ida, Athos,Olypmus and Pelion….London 1869
First edition,in 8vo,contemporary burgundy blinded cloth slightly trimmed,spines sunned,text clean and bright,complete with 7 lithographs,including a map and fine views,overall in very good condition.
Tozer was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and his mission represents the peak of Academic Mountaineering in...

Morit Busch: Bilder aus Griechenland.Trieste 1870.
First edition, ROYAL FOLIO, contemporary boards trimmed and slightly rubbed titled Grecia Pittoresca,complete with 19 big lithographs depicting fine views of Greece,ex libris of William St Clair,leading British Hellenist with his manuscript inscription in first page,some light marginal spotting in few pages,overall in very good condition and with fine provenance
A vital resource...

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΠΑΣΠΑΤΗΣ (Alexandre Paspati ): Études sur les Tchinghianés ou Bohémiens de l'Empire Ottoman.Constantinople Imprimerie Koromila 1870
First edition,contemporary leather over cloth,a nice Levantine binding,spine richly gilt with oriental design,slightly trimmed,text clean and bright,complete 651p.,overall in very good condition
A seminal work in the fields of linguistics and ethnography I was the very first comprehensive...

Edwin John Davis: Anatolica,or the Journal of a visit to some of the Ancient Ruined Cities of Caria,Phrygia,Lycia and Pisidia.London 1874
First edition,in Quarto, contemporary brown cloth,spine rubbed with marginal loss,text clean and bright,complete 374p. and all the 30 nice lithographs,depicting fine views of Anatolia plus the four maps,one detached but all present,overall in very good condition
A rigorous topographical and...

[Charles Lemercier de Longpre]: Constantinople par l Auteur des Horizons Prochains.Paris [1877]
Third edition, in small 8vo,original publishers paper covers somehow slightly dusty,text clean with some scattered spotting,complete 487p.,overall in almost very good condition.
A fascinating and politically charged work published under the pseudonym "Les Auteurs des Horizons".A strong late Philhellenic work.While the book was published...

Georges Radet: Les Debuts de l Ecole Francaise d Athenes, Correspondance d Emmanuel Roux 1847-1849 publiee avec une introduction et des notes.Bordeaux 1898,together: M.Roux: Discours pronounce par M.Roux.Bordeaux 1878
First edition, large 8vo,publishers paper covers slightly rubbed,complete,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition.
French archaeologist and historian Georges Radet (1859-1941) edited and published a rare...