Seller: Cornucopia Books, Hawick, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. This book publishes a collection of photographs taken in Constantinople in 1918, during the occupation by Allied Forces, one of the poorest and hardest times for the city. The photographer is an unknown French military officer who took photographs of buildings, neighborhoods, and people. The albums captured interesting scenes from social life and documented the need for restoration in Istanbul s old city. Seller Inventory # ABE-1616082100031
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Seller: BOSPHORUS BOOKS, Istanbul, Turkey
Hardcover. Condition: New. SERIM, ALI (Prepared by) Constantinople 1918 = Konstantiniyye 1918. Preface: Nur Bilge Criss. [Album of photographs]. Istanbul: Denizler Kitabevi, 2015. 4to. (31x25 cm.), [27], 166 p., b/w photos. In Turkish and English. Original binding. Dust wrapper. New ISBN: 9789944264563 CATALOG: Photographs KEYWORDS: photography Istanbul - Constantinople World War I Late Ottoman history "In this book you will see a city, which was Capital to empires during its poorest days. Once there was greatness and glory as in the drawings of Melchior Lorichs. The Ottoman naval defeat at Lepanto in 1571 or for some other people the failure of the second siege of Vienna in 1683 was the beginning of the decline. The Empire was effectively ended by the World War I (WWI) and those concerned were not able to preserve the city in the appropriate form it deserved. I purchased the album containing these pictures a decade ago. It is understood that a mysterious French Officer who came to Constantinople during the occupation of the city by Allied Forces at the end of WWI in 1918. He took photographs of buildings and people capturing interesting scenes from social life documented the need for extensive restoration of the old city.". Seller Inventory # 57242
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Seller: Khalkedon Rare Books ABA, ILAB, IOBA, ESA, Istanbul, Turkey
Dust jacket. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. [xxvi], 168 p., b/w and color ills. Constantinople, 1918.= Konstantiniyye, 1918. Introducttion by Ali Serim. In this book you will see a city, which was Capital to empires during its poorest days. Once there was greatness and glory as in the drawings of Melchior Lorichs. The Ottoman naval defeat at Lepanto in 1571 or for some other people the failure of the second siege of Vienna in 1683 was the beginning of the decline. The Empire was effectively ended by the World War I (WWI) and those concerned were not able to preserve the city in the appropriate form it deserved. I purchased the album containing these pictures a decade ago. It is understood that an mysterious French Officer who came to Constantinople during the occupation of the city by Allied Forces at the end of WWI in 1918. He took photographs of buildings and people capturing interesting scenes from social life documented the need for extensive restoration of the old city. Seller Inventory # 022018
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