Public Auction 144 General Stamp Sale

Edwin John Davis: Life in Asiatic Turkey,a Journal of travels in Cilicia,Iauria and Lycaonia.London 1879
First edition,tall Quarto,original publishers hard covers,brown spine relaid down and rebaked,complete 535p., 12 lithographs and 4 maps,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition.
That is Davis second travel account, after the publication of his Anatolica, and is a detailed record of a journey through the southern...

De Blowitz M.: Une course a Constantinople.Paris 1884
Second edition. in 8vo 19x12cm,contemporary leather over boards, text clean and bright. Complete half title, title, 368p., overall in an almost fine condition.
Blowitz travelled in the Levant in the 1870s.He took the newly introduced train to the Black sea and continued after by ship to Constantinople, as the direct rail through Thrace had not finished yet.He stayed in...

Joseph Partsch (with the collaboration of) Prof. Heinrich Kiepert und Prof. Johannes Romanos zu Korfu: DIE INSEL KORFU,Eine geographische Monographie. Gotha 1887
First and only edition,very large Quarto,publishers paper covers with slight wear,,text clean and bright,complete 97p.,and one big map of Corfu (62x51cm) in scale 1: 100.000 with small tear at left and including three other inset maps of the island and of the city,overall in...

Johannes Baunack: Aus Epidauros,Eine epigraphische Studie.Leipzig 1890
First edition,FOLIO,contemporary cloth over boards,edges of covers slightly trimmed,text clean and bright,complete,ex libris stamp at title of the famous German architect and archaeologist Wilhelm Dorpfeld,his personal copy,Phidias street 1 Athen,overall in very good plus condition, a very nice copy with fine provenance
A highly specialized scientific study...

Samuel Sullivan Cox: Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey.New York 1893
Second expanded edition,large in 8vo,publishers red hard covers,spine sunned and slightly trimmed at edges, complete 680p.,richly illustrated with 57 views and 2 maps,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition
Samuel Cox was a prominent Ohio Congressman in U.S. before being appointed by President Cleveland to the post in Constantinople (1885-1886). He...

Laroumet G.: Vers Athenes et Jerusalem,journal de Voyage en Grece et en Syrie. Paris 1898
First edition, in 8vo 19x13cm,contemporary leather over boards,text clean and bright, complete: 352p.,overall in almost fine condition. Laroumet travelled the Levant at the end of 19th century,during 1896. He landed at Itea and toured around Greece (Delphi,Olympia,Mikines) in the newly then unearthed ancient famous cities and oracles.He continued...

Eisenstein R..: Reise nach Konstantinopel,Kleinasien, Romanien, Bulgarien… Wien 1912
First edition.Large 4to 25x17cm,original publisher s papercovers, very slightly rubbed and spotted,text clean and bright, complete 416p.,one folded map and many original captures in the text, overall in very good condition. Richard Eisenstein, an Austrian, traveled widely in the Levant at the eve of the Balkans wars.In March 1911arrived in Proussa, in...

Delaporte Rene: L ile de Chypre, sejour de 3 ans au pays de Paphie-Venus. Grenoble 1913
First edition.In 4to 24x15cm,leather over boards, preserving the original publisher s paparcovers, complete 355p.,text clean and bright, overall in very good condition.Delaporte,stayed three years in Cyprus.He toured extensively around the island during his long stay and provides a very lengthy and accurate account for Cyprus in the very early 20th...

Professor W. Ramsay: The Historical Geography of Asia Minor.London Royal Geographical Society 1890
First edition. in large 8vo,contemporary blue hard covers slightly trimmed and faded,text clean and bright,complete 494p., and many folded maps and plates,overall in very good condition.
A seminal scientific work. Ramsay toured around Anatolia for decades and became the top expert on the field. A very comprehensive study that covers...

Jeanne Stephanopoli: Les Iles de l Egee leurs Privileges avec documents et notes statistiques.Athenes 1912
First edition,in 8vo modern leather over boards,ex libris of the Manoir de Roncheville and the famous Petritzi collection in front past down,text clean and bright,complete and in very good condition.One very detailed scientific account on the Aegean Islands published in Athens to promote their special status and Greek heritage just...

[Orient Express],Album du Touriste: De Paris a Constantinople.Paris [c.1900-1910]
First edition,in 8vo oblong,contemporary publishers paper covers slightly rubbed,text clean with some light foxing and spotting in few pages,complete 155p.and 160 illustrations inside the text, overall in very good condition
A very particular publication,exclusively for use by the early tourists travelling from Paris to Constantinople.It was...

Britsh Naval Staff Intelligence Division: Hand book for Greece.Crete.June 1919
First edition.CONFIDENTIAL. Attention is called to the penalties attaching to any infraction of the Official Secrets Act.The book is the property of H.M. Government (British),numbered I.D.copy 107,in 8vo,black covers,text and maps clean and bright,complete 404p. and maps, in very good condition.The extremely rare British Intelligence report,the volume that...