Isbn: 9781874472513 - Ottoman World: a Bibliographical Catalogue of the Ottoman Empire and the Levant - Sefik E.atabey Collection (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Original red decorative bdg. HC. Folio. 2 volumes set: ([8], 372, [4 ]; II: [4] p.; 373-757, [3] pp.), color ills. The Ottoman world. The Sefik E. Atabey Collection. Books, manuscripts and maps. 2 volumes set. 750 copies were printed. A comprehensive catalogue of Sefik E. Atabey's remarkable collection of books, manuscripts and maps prior to 1854 relating to the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, with each work carefully described and annotated. The catalogue is an important addition to the reference literature, supplementing Navari's Greece and the Levant: the Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection (London: 1989), and is particularly interesting for the number of works from celebrated libraries - including those of Britwell Court, the duc de La Rochefoucauld at Roche-Guyon, the Duke of Portland, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earls Fitzwilliam, Charles X of France, and Czar Nicholas I of Russia; a number of these are in armorial bindings, which are illustrated and referenced in a separate index of provenances, making the work a most useful resource.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Two volumes. 757 pp, color ills.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ATABEY, SEFIK E. The Ottoman world. The Sefik E. Atabey Collection. Books, manuscripts and maps. Text by Leonora Navari. 2 volumes. London: Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, 1998. 4to., 2 volumes set (757 p.), color ills. Original binding. New Oversize and very heavy volumes. Please contact for postage cost. ISBN: 1874472513 CATALOG: Reference KEYWORDS: book Map Manuscripts Collection Travel memories Ottoman culture Istanbul - Constantinople Ottoman cities Reference Bibliography One of the greatest collections of it's kind, magnificently represented here in this beautifully produced two-volume catalogue. Atabey, a Turkish businessman and bibliophile from Istanbul, who traded in Commodites in Paris and in London, had put together over 35 years this highly important collection all relating to the Ottoman World from the 15th to the 20th Century. Contains nearly 1400 entries, expertly researched and catalogued, with elaborate color images throughout of the gorgeous book bindings, maps, manuscripts, etc., and images of the library itself, in an expensive and heavy binding production. …