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New New Turkish Original bdg with original dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). In Turkish and English. 216 p., b/w and color ills. Through the mirror of a picture eminent authors of Istanbul.= Bir fotografin aynasinda Istanbul'un meshur edebiyatçilari. ISTANBUL Constantinople Turkish literature Ottoman culture Photography.
New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 316 p., ills. Through the eyes of travelers Ani. "I met Mr. Sezai in Kars when I went there in 1998 to write my novel Snow. Ten he had told me about his preparations for this comprehensive work, Ani Trough the Eyes of Travelers, on which he had been working patiently. Now I am happy for Ani¿s inclusion in World Heritage List and for the publication at last of this comprehensive and nice book which is a product of Sezai Yazici¿s meticulous work". (Orhan Pamuk).
As New English In original bdg. with original dust wrapper. Mint. In English. Color and b/w ills. and map. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). 365 p. Through the ages Antakya.
Fine Fine English In original bdg. with original dust wrapper. 4to. (28 x 22 cm). Edition in English. Color and b/w ills. and map. 365 p. Through the ages Antakya.
231 pages. Black and white illustrations. "This random collection of a few personal experiences may provide a glimpse of the stupidity and inhumanity that bubbles to the surface when peace is replaced by war." - from Foreward. Light wear and soiling. Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In French. 47 p. Theophile Gautier a Constantinople. Lettres presentees par Jean Richer.
FAYARD. 1957. In-12 Carré. Broché, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 197 pages COLLECTION LES QUARANTE
64 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Trappers We Were; Puijeup unipkausinga (A story about seals); Memories of L'anse au Diable; Labrador crafts - Birth Braiding; Joseph Michelin (1845-1940); Freeman Saunders; My Mother; Short Stuff; Labrador dogs; Nanualuk (The White Bear); The Bread; Labrador Gallery - great portrait of David Martin of Cartwright in his WWI garb. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
in-8, 224 pp., broché. Bel exemplaire [MI-9]
Fine English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In English and Turkish. 180 p., color and b/w photos. The world of Venezuelan Nogales Bey.= Venezuelali Nogales Bey'in dünyasi.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 240 p. Acknowledgments. Note on Transliteration. Abbreviations. Introduction 1. Mustafa Muhibbi, Sarajevan Kadi and Dervish 2. Book Culture, Reading and Writing 3. Muhibbi's Inscriptions, Muhibbi's World 4. The End of an Epoch Appendix I: Muhibbi's Necrology and Chronicle Records Appendix II: List of the Manuscripts of the Muhibbic Family Collection. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine
215 pages. "At last, after years of fictionalized RCMP stories, we now have the real thing, told by the real men who were there." - Betty Kennedy. Reveals the disparity in living conditions then and now - the hardships, tragedy, discipline and humour, all in sharp contrast to the contemporary environment of their successors. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Is Belgium's Deliverance Near? - events likely to follow on the capture of the Ridges - article by Lovat Fraser; Views on the road of victory over Vimy Ridge - 2 photos; Italian Boats that went by mountain ways; Under German fire in Aisne and Champagne; Canadians utilizing the 'tump line' for carrying heavy materials to the front line; Photos of enemy ingenuity i.e. a phony hollow-tree observation post; The Victory of the Flanders Ridges - how British troops won their first sight of Bruges - article; Seven 'Somersets' capture Forty-Two Huns; Rise and Fall of the U-Boat - how Germany's blockade of Britain is rendered ineffective; Prowess and pity in Mesopotamia and Palestine; Splendid work of the gunboats on the Tigris; Humour and courage of the 'jocks' - memories and episodes of the fighting on the Western Front; French air messages and hun air murders; Realistic tests of efficiency at Aldershot. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English. 88 p. "What did the Jews actually think about the Ottomans and how did they behave? Did we show progress during the Republican Era or not? What about the Nobel Prizes? The Jewish nation, with an only 15 million population, got more then 100 Nobel Prizes. However, there are only a handful of people who got the Nobel Prize in the Islamic world with 1,5 billion believers. The Jews are quite influential in world finance, trade, politics and technology. They are always present at all of the key points. They used to regard Turkey as their second mother land and give support whenever needed. And now,is the 13-century-old friendship being replaced by hatred and blood? Join the taking conversation with Besim Tibuk".
New English Paperback. Oblong 4to. (31 x 31,5 cm). In English. [xx], [2], [1] p., 99 color plts. 'A treatise on roses' presents a selection of 99 rose drawings gathered from old Turkish manuscripts, book bindings, ornaments on plaster, stone and wood, tiles and various other sources dating from the middle of sixteenth century to the end of nineteenth century.'.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Elephant folio. (47 x 35 cm). In English and Turkish. 219 p., color and b/w ills. The torch of the Empire: Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson and the tableau general of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century.= Imparatorlugun mesalesi: XVIII. yüzyilda Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun genel görünümü ve Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson. Articles by Carter Vaughn Findley, Günsel Renda, Philip Mansel, Veniamin Ciobanu, Kemal Beydilli, Abdeljelil Temimi, Rachida Tlili Sellaouti, Folke Ludwigs Sture Theolin. The Torch of the Ottoman Empire presents the life and work of a truly remarkable person, Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, and through him, the Ottoman Empire of the late eighteenth century. In revolutionary Paris d'Ohsson published in 1789 what is maybe the best description of the social history of the Ottoman Empire, Tableau General de I'Empire Othoman. D'Ohsson's book was extravagantly illustrated with the help of the best artists in Constantinople working for Abdulhamid I and Selim III. The most renowned artists of pre-revolutionary France then executed the gravures in Paris. Some motifs, reproduced also in this present book, still remain quite unique. Through these engravings, an intimate reality is revealed to us, bringing us very close to a universe long since vanished. A very heavy volume. The Torch of the Empire presents the life and work of a truly remarkable person, Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, and through him, the Ottoman Empire of the late eighteenth century. Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson was a dragoman, an interpreter, at the Swedish Legation in Constantinople from around 1760. Although d'Ohsson was a Sultan's subject of French-Armenian origin, Sweden's King Gustav III made him a Swedish nobleman and trusted him to be his ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Mouradgea d'Ohsson thus performed an extraordinary journey, not only through the social classes of Ottoman society, but between civilizations. With outstanding scholars this book escorts us on a journey through the centuries to meet d'Ohsson and share his perspective on the Ottoman Empire and on European diplomacy of his time.
393 pages. "The first attempt to give a complete and comprehensive study of the Jew of Newport, picturing from the religious, economic, social and political points of view the entire colonial background with which the Jew identified himself." - From Preface. Includes 36 black and white illustrations, 11 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Chapters include: The Dim Beginnings; Dawn; Progress; From Inquisition to Freedom; The Synagogue; A Glimpse of Jewish Life; Visitors; The Jew in the Community; Uproar, Dispersion and Decline; Evacuation and Revival; The Close of a Colorful Chapter; Noble Memories; Reconsecration; Adjustment; Immorality. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to blue boards. Lettering worn from spine. Both hinges almost fully open. Tape protects top and bottom of spine. A fragile yet worthy copy of this excellent reference. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. [v], 90 p., 4 b/w photos. The story behind Ambassador Morgenthau's story. Ambassador Morghentau's story by Henry Morgenthau.
New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In English. [6], 68, [6] ., b/w plates. The Silivri Saga. With the years, memories tend to become like islands in the ever encroaching sea of life, some sleeping peacefully, with wavlets breaking languidly on their shores, others vivid; all these help to revitalise the more dormant recollections. Thrace the mysterious, an almost unknown region, is a natural land bridge traversed by countless migrations as well as warlike groups: Persians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Huns, Byzantines, Crusaders, Ottomans and lastly, Bulgarian Turks. Thrace is the setting for the historic episodes and the author's recollections in this, her ninth published book.
