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FORMANTI: RACCOLTA DELLE HISTORIE DELLE VITE DEGL IMPERATORI OTTOMANI SINO A MEHEMET IV REGNANTE… GUERRA VIENNA … ARMI CHRISTIANI…., VENEZIA 1684 together bound RELAZIONE DEL SERRAGLIO DEGL IMPERATORI TURCHI OTTOMANI VENEZIA 1684
First edition both works.Large Quarto,contemporary vellun soiled,some light water stain at the upper edge of few pages,text clean and bright,both works complete 338p. and 74p.,overall in very good condition....

[HEYL QUIRINIUS]: Descriptio novissima Imperii Turcici: Das ist: Eine gantz neue Außführliche und Grundrichtige Beschreib- Vorstell- und Entwerffung deß heutigen Türckischen Reichs.WURZBURG 1687
First edition,in large Quarto,contemporary full vellum soiled, back down corner trimmed, text generally clean,few pages of text destabilized,some spotting,marginal water stain in the down part on the second part, three sheets at the end with...

[JEAN DUMONT]: NOUVEAU VOYAGE DU LEVANT. LA HAYE 1694
First edition.Small 8vo,contemporary full leather slightly rubbed,text with some uniform browning and scattered spotting,engraved frontis, title in red and black with erased ancient ownership inscription, complete [20],475p.and 8 copper engraved plates (some folded) with fine views,overall in very good condition.
Dumont (1667-1727) travelled in the Levant in the late 1680s.He...

PAUL RYCAUT: HISTOIRE DE L EMPIRE OTTOMAN… TOUT CE QUI S EST PASSE DE CONSIDERABLE DANS CET EMPIRE.LA HAYE 1709
First completed edition in French of the last revised version of Rycaut history, published by him in English in 1700, in small octavo, complete in three volumes, contemporary full leather slightly trimmed mostly at edges of spines and corners,spines richly gilt, text clean with some very light spotting in few pages, few pages...

JOHANN CHRISTIAN BUXBAUM: PLANTARUM MINUS COGNITARUM CENTURIA COMPLETENS PLANTAS CIRCA BYZANTIUM ET IN ORIENTE OBSERVATAS. PETROPOLI (SAINT PETERSBOURG) TYPOGRAPHIA ACADEMIAE 1728-1729
First Edition, Small FOLIO,contemporary full vellum slightly soiled,text and plates clean and bright,complete in three volumes with all the relevant text and the one hundred eighty eight (188), full page or folded, fine copper plates, all published...

GEORG HEINRICH GOETZE: PRINCEPS GRAECE DOCTUS, JUVENTUTI SCHOLASTICAE IN PHRONTISTERIO LUBECENSI LITERAS GRAECAS DISCENTI. LEIPZIG 1704
First edition, in large 8vo, later, most probably 19th century, leather over boards, right edge of title page slightly trimmed, text clean and bright, complete 134p., overall in very good condition.
A landmark publication on education in Greek, at the very first stage of the enlightenment. This...

Δορόσταμος Αθανάσιος (Dorostamos Athanasius): Nieuwste Beschryving van de Grieksche Christenen in Turkyen..van den Heer Athanasius Dorostamus, Archimandriet des Patriarchs te Constaninopolen.. Leyden 1743
First edition in Dutch.In 8vo,contemporary full vellum slightly soiled,manuscript title at spine,text clean and bright, complete the narrative [28], 395p.,[60], overall in very good plus condition.
Αθανάσιος Δορόσταμος (...

[ANTONIO PIAZZA]: LA TURCA IN CIMENTO O SIA L AVVENTURA DI ZELMIRA.VENEZIA 1765
First edition, small 8vo, contemporary leather over boards rubbed, covers trimmed, spine richly gilt, head of spine gone, text clean and bright, with some light spotting in few pages, complete two volumes in one 212p.,181p.,overall in almost very good condition.
Piaza work is a Venetian pseudo autobiographical novel of 18th-century which belongs to a...

Hasselquist F.: Voyages dans le Levant dans les annees 1749, 50, 51, 52.Paris 1769
First edition in French.In 8vo,17x11cm,2 volumes in one, contemporary leather over boards, complete 260p.,201p.,some marginal worming in last pages, overall very good. Hasselquist,a Swedish botanist, travelled extensively in Greece and the Levant to investigate unexplored areas, as Palestine, Cyprus, Rhodes and Chios. According Blackmer this is the first...

Joseph Bernard de CHABERT: [ Manuscript original AUTOGRAPH report] -Detailed Report to the French Admiralty about THE SITUATION IN THE AEGEAN SEA AND THE PIRACY. Kimolos (Argentiere in French, Aegean sea) 4 June 1771
Manuscript autograph original report of 4 Folio pages, 32x21cm each page, all pages fully written,approx. 150 lines with dense writing, easily readable, signed and dated.Very good condition, loose as presented.The...

JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY: ENTRETIEN SUR L ETAT DE LA MUSIQUE GRECQUE. [PARIS C.1777-1787]
Tire a part (separately printed) of the first edition,for the authors use, obviously for further improvements.In 8vo,contemporary leather over boards,text fine, complete 110p.,full with manuscript corrections and additions by authors own hand by pen in most of the pages,few extra manuscript sheets added with larger corrections ,overall in fine...

[ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΓΚΥΚΑΣ ] Habesci Elias (pseudonym): The Present State of the Ottoman Empire containing a more accurate and interesting account of …. Elias Habesci many years resident at Constantinople in the service of the Grand Signor. London 1784
First edition of one of the most comprehensive account on the Ottoman Levant. In 8vo, complete 413p.,, modern leather over boards, text with few spotting and scattered foxing in some pages,...