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DANIELLO DE LUDOVISI: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1534), BERNARDO NAVAGERO: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1553), DOMENICO TREVISANO: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1554), RELAZIONE ANONIMA DELLA GUERRA DI PERSIA(1553), MARINO CAVALLI: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1560), MARCANTONIO BARBARO: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1573), CONSTANTINO GARZONI: RELAZIONE DELL IMPERO OTTOMANO (1573). FIRENZE 1842
First editions of all...

ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΣΠΑΝΔΟΥΝΗΣ ΚΑΝΤΑΚΟΥΖΗΝΟΣ THEODORO SPANDUGINO CANTACUCINO GENTILHUOMO CONSTANTINOPOLITANO: COMMENTARI DELL ORIGINE DE PRINCIPI TURCHI ET DE COSTUMI DI QUELLA NATIONE. FIORENZA 1551
Third edition (all editions published within one year) of a unique account, written by a post Byzantine Greek. In 8vo,19th century full leather,spine gilt,complete,text with few scattered spotting in some pages,overall very good condition of a 500...

SANSOVINO FRANCESCO: HISTORIA UNIVERSALE DELL ORIGINE ET IMPERIO DE TURCHI. VENEZIA 1568
Second, expanded, edition, following the first in 1561. Large Quarto, rare contemporary publisher hard cover trimmed,spine and down cover missing,complete, generally somehow destabilized although holding still firm, text mostly clean and fully readable but with some wear,mostly scattered marginal water stain or uniform foxing in few pages,overall...

Michael Bapst: Türckische Chronica, Darinnen kürtzlich zu befinden, Wann, wie, unnd warumb, das Mahometische oder Türckische Reich auffkommen, und so gewaltig…. Leipzig 1593
First edition. In 8vo,contemporary green pig skin slightly trimmed and lucking the contemporary claps,manuscript title in spine,title in red and black,text clean,some light water stain and spotting occasionally, complete,overall in very good condition
Bapst (...

SHERLEYS: The Three brothers or the Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas Sherley in Persia,Russia,Turkey... London 1825
First edition, in 8vo modern leather over boards,text clean,some light foxing in very few pages, complete: [4],204p., and three engraved portraits,overall in very good condition.
The three brothers Sherleys were English merchants in late 16th century,in 1598 they did their first travel...

G[iangolino] C[arlo] - Baglione Astore.: Svegliarino che monstra alla Christinita essere gionta l hora opportune di mouersi contro la Potenza Ottomana…esposto public da G.B.C.V…… l ultima Tragica Historia del Regno di Cipro.La Guerra di Cipro,du cui Generale Astorre Baglione e si descrine tutta quell Isola. Luzern 1646
First and only edition of the first work. Second edition of the work about Cyprus. In 4to 24x17cm,contemporary full...

GHIRON FRANCESCO VILLA: HISTOIRE DES VOYAGES DE MONSIEUR VILLE EN LEVANT ET DU SIEGE DE CANDIE. PARIS 1669
First edition,in 12mo,contemporary full leather rebaked,text clean with some minor spotting in few pages,complete [10], 276p.,overall in very good condition.
Ghiron Villa was a prominent military commander from the Duchy of Savoy,he was sent by the Duc to assist the Venetians in the Aegean,he served as commander of the...

GABRIEL DE CHINON: RELATIONS NOUVELLES DU LEVANT. LYON 1671
First and only edition.Small 8vo,contemporary full leather rubbed,text with light scattered spotting and very light marginal stain in few pages,generally clean and quite bright,complete the narrative [22],481p.[10],overall in very good condition
Gabriel de Chinon was a Capuchin friar in a mission to the Levant, unlike many travelers of the Levant who only passed through,...

Febure Michel [Giustiniano di Tours]: Etats present de la Turquie ou il est traite des vies,moeurs et coutumes des ottomans et des autres peoples de leur Empire, divise par 14 nations qui l habitent,sept infidels et sept Chretiens. Paris 1675.
First and only edition in French of the Specchio overo descrittione de la Turchia, published previous year ( 1674), in Firenze.It is a completely other work than others published later under the...

JACOB SPON: REPONSE A LA CRITIQUE PUBLIEE PAR M.GUILLET SUR LE VOYAGE DE GRECE DE IACOB SPON. LYON 1679
First and only edition, in small 8vo,contemporary full leather with very light wear,spine richly gilt,text clean and bright, complete [24],322p.[2],overall in very good plus condition.
A landmark in the history of science and archaeology. It represents the victory of fieldwork over armchair scholarship.In 1678 Spon published his...

CHEVALIER DE LA MAGDALEINE: LE MIROIR DE L EMPIRE OTTOMAN OU L ETAT PRESENT DE LA COUR ET DE LA MILICE DE GRAND SEIGNEUR AVEC UNE DESCRIPTION DE LA MANIERE DE VIVRE…. PARIS 1678
First edition,in 12mo,contemporary full leather slightly rubbed,spines gilt,complete in two volumes 262p.,280p.,text clean and bright,a very light uniform browning at the very last pages of volume two,overall in very good condition.
Claude de La Magdaleine...

JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIER: BESCHREIBUNG DER SECHS REISEN,WELCHE J.B.TAVERNIER IN TURCKEY,PERSIEN UND INDIEN VERRICHTET…NURENBERG 1681
First edition in German of Tavernier travels. Royal FOLIO,contemporary full leather trimmed,text clean and bright,complete the part regarding Tavernier travels,an other volume has been published later providing, in German, the travels of Spon in the Levant, thirty five (35) engraved plates in the very rare...