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rif. FO0572 albumen photographs c. 1875 mounted on strong paper recto/verso, photos dimensions 20 x 25 cms. Humidity light stains on the frames not affecting the photos, light undulation on the paper.
rif. FO0562 albumen photographs c. 1875 mounted on strong paper recto/verso, photos dimensions 20x 25 cms. Humidity light stains on the frames not affecting the photos, light undulation on the paper.
rif. FO0582 albumen photographs c. 1875 mounted on strong paper recto/verso, photos dimensions 20x 25 cms. Humidity light stains on the frames not affecting the photos, light undulation on the paper.
2006New English Paperback. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). Edition in English. 208, [1] p., color ills. A treasured memory: Ecclesiastical silver from late Ottoman Istanbul in the Sevgi Gönül Collection.
1989Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In English. 64 p., 30 plates of Istanbul in old photographs from the Çelik Gülersoy's collection. A taste of old Istanbul. Contents: The Orient Express.; The Pera Palas Hotel.; The Rejans Restaurant and Beyoglu District.; The Flower Passage.; The Park Hotel.; The Baroness.; Arzumanova.; Tadori and the Balikpazari (Fish Market).; Cahide: A Star Who Climbed High and Fell Hard.; The Russian Restaurant in Ayaspasa.
1969Fine Turkish In modern clothes. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 2 volumes set: (xvii, [3], 357 p.; [8], 447 p.), b/w and color plates. Sedad Hakki Eldem was a Turkish Architect. One of the pioneers of nationalized modern architecture in Turkey. He was born in Constantinople (1908). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (department of Architecture). Between 1931 and 1932 he travelled to France, England and Germany with a scholarship of the academy. In 1932 he opened his own office, also started teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and continued until retirement in 1978. In 1934 he worked for the National Architecture Seminar in Turkey which was a complete disaster for him because of the discussions between modern architecture and traditional architecture. In 1938 he designed the Turkish Pavilion in New York Exhibition. Sedad Hakki Eldem represented Turkish Republic at International Union of Architects in Lausanne (1948) after Second World War. Also in the same year Sedad Hakki worked with his colleague Emin Onat on the project of Istanbul Palace of Justice. He worked on proportions and architectural organizations of Ottoman domestic houses, 18th and 19th century palaces and mansions. He was known as a role model and pioneer to reinterpret the Classical Ottoman Patterns in modern architecture. He was a part of Former Artifacts Maintain Council (Eski Eserleri Muhafaza Encümeni) between 1941 and 1945 and also a part of Supreme Council of Antiquities and Monument Real Estate (Gayrimenkul Eski Eserler ve Anitlar Yüksek Kurulu) between 1962 and 1978. His thought was about nationalizing the Modern Architecture. He basically thought that International Style in architecture should not applied everywhere. Some things should be changed in the design by considering the national and domestic texture. He has won the international Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1986 with the project of Zeyrek Social Security Facilities. Sedad Hakki Eldem's architecture has basically 4 main periods. The first of them, between 1928 and 1934, is known by the instability of his work. After that, the second period is popular with modern trials on Ottoman architectural organization. The time frame of this period spans from 1934 until 1952. The third period of his architecture has lost its Ottoman influence, it looks more modernized between 1952 and 1962. The last part of Eldem's Architecture known for his double approach on projects.This final period started in 1962, and lasted until his death in 1988. (Source: Wikipedia). Extremely rare.
2010Fine English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In English. [xxi], 354 p., 50 numerous b/w ills. A social history of Ottoman Istanbul. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabitants, entertained by imperial festivities and cared for by the great pious foundations which touched every aspect of their lives, also amused themselves in the numerous pleasure gardens and the many public baths of the city. While the book is focused on Istanbul, it presents a broad picture of Ottoman society, how it was structured and how it developed and transformed across four centuries. As such, the book offers an exciting alternative to the more traditional histories of the Ottoman Empire. First Edition.
2017New English Paperback. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English. 224 p., color ills. A restoration story [of] Seyh Süleyman Masjid. (Turkey - Italy collaboration of restoration approach). This publication, for which Nicola Berlucchi wrote a significant contribution, is the result of intense international collaboration favored by the Vakiflar Genel Müdürlügü association, which is involved in the management of the Ottoman church property estate in Turkey. The work, which describes the application to a Turkish religious structure of a typical European restoration approach, particularly Italian, which involves the reconstruction of all the architectural-architectural phases of the building, is therefore an important witness to the attempt to international dialogue made by Turkey, despite the period of strong instability it faces.
2015New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (41 x 30 cm). In English and Turkish. [22], 189, [18] p., b/w photos. A photographical sketch on lost Istanbul.= Eski Istanbul anilari. [Album of photographs]. A very heavy volume. Contents: The Light of Istanbul: Boatmen of the Golden Horn, old Galata Bridge and the New Mosque, 1956. Midday hours on the old Galata Bridge, 1954. Ferries of the Bosphorus and the Prince Islandsbound to the old Galata Bridge, 1955. "Salep" merchant in early morning lights on the old Galata Bridge, 1957. Traffic on the old Galata Bridge, 1956. Wool hanks hung to dry up in Ortaköy and the sea, 1964. The bridge and the ferry, 1955. Barges and ferries in the Golden Horn, 1958. Süleymaniye Mosque as seen from the old Galata Bridge, 1956 10 Haliç, 1956 - The Golden Horn, 1956. Eminönü Square after the demolishment, 1959. Carters near the Oil Quay, 1957. View from the Oil Quay, 1955. View from the Oil Quay, 1955. Boat maintanance in Ayvansaray, 1969. A barge withdrawn to the coast in Üsküdar and children, 1954. Bargeman fishing at the caulking yard, 1958. Boatmen at the caulking yard, 1956. Boatmen waiting for customers at the caulking yard, 1957. Loading at the Oil Quay, 1957. The caulking yard front of the Golden Horn and rowing-boats, 1957. Boats at Balat, Golden Horn, 1969. Eminönü boatmen, 1958. A leaping boatman in Golden Horn and a cargo ferry, 1960. Children at the local grocer¿s in Vefa disctrict, 1975. The Ottoman Fountain and the childeren at Azapkapi, 1965. Children at the gypsy disctrict in Sishane, 1969. Horse cart passing under an archway near Sehzadebasi, 1958. Inner courtyard of an old wooden house and playing children at Tophane, 1954. Elderly Beyoglu woman taking food to her cats in front of the Flower Arcade at Balikpazari, 1980. A husband and wife heading home in the evening at Zeyrek disctict, 1960. A street in Tarlabasi, 1965. Horse carts and old houses in Unkapani, 1955. Provincials watching the boats from the Galata Bridge, 1956. Card-players at a shore coffee-house in Salacak, 1956. Süleymaniye Mosque and the shore of Unkapani as seen from the old Galata Bridge on a winter's day, 1955. A touristicferryas seen from the old Galata Bridge, 1959. Separation on the Galata Quay, 1955. An old street in Rumelihisari, 1962. A boatpainter on the quay, Karaköy, 1956. Fishermen at the old Galata Bridge, 1968. Vintage outdoor fish restaurants on the shore of Eminönü in the Golden Horn, 1965. A wooden mansion in Kandilli, 1985. Little boys chasing a kittenin Zeyrek, 1968. A chimney and the domes of a Turkish Hamam in Beyoglu, 1957. The evening ferry in Beylerbeyi, Bosphorus, 1960. Ramparts and horses, 1969. Man climbing the hill in Feriköy, 1985. Boat approaching the quay at night, Kandilli, 1965. Massage at the Cagaloglu Hamam, 1965. Boats heading to the Bosphorus, 1975. Salacak ferry pier and the Istanbul silhouette, 1968. A man reading the newspaper on a ferry heading to the Princes Islands, 1955. Children getting out of a rowboat in the old Salacak Bay, 1964. A Bosphorus ferry sailing past Beylerbeyi, 1957. The Mystery of Labour: A boy worker at the caulkingyard, 1972. Porters waiting for work on the caulkingyard, Galata, 1958. Workers at the caulkingyard, 1969. An old worker drinking water in an old "han" in Galata, 1950. Worker looking out of a window in the old Yakut Han at the caulkingyard, 1988. Caulkingyard, 1957. Boy casting iron at the caulkingyard, 1988. Sailors at the caulkingyard, 1957. A blacksmith at the caulkingyard, 1988. Carriers at the caulkingyard, 1969. Porters waiting for work on the Oil Quay, 1954. Porter carrying a barrel at the Oil Quay, 1958. Street vendors at Sishane, 1990. Street restaurants on the shores of the Golden Horn and an old porter, 1965. Young workers at the caulkingyard, 1969. Man carrying a mattress in the Grand Bazaar, 1965. Shopkeeper and his shop at the Grand Bazaar, 1965. Grand Bazaar, 1972. Woman selling antiques in the Inner Bedesten in the Grand Bazaar
2016New English Paperback. Pbo. Large 8vo. (23 x 22 cm). In English, Turkish and Russian. 216 p., color and b/w ills. A passion for the sea: The secret diary of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.= Ask-i derya: Ayvazovski'nin gizli Istanbul güncesi.
2016New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (27 x 23 cm). In English and Turkish. [4], 198 p., color and b/w ills. A mansion in Sisli and architect Giulio Mongeri.= Sisli'de bir konak ve mimar Giulio Mongeri.
2005New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 362 p. Part One: Vienna, Graz, and Venice; Part Two: Karlovac, the Danube and the Balkans; Part Three: Istanbul; Epilogue. LITERATURE Novel Vienna Istanbul Constantinople Memoirs.
2006New English Paperback. Pbo. Large Roy. 8vo. (24 x 19 cm). In English. 142 p. Color ills. "Turkish Baths: A light onto a Tradition and Culture, is a lively pictorial jaunt through the history, traditions and culture of the Turkish bath. Discover the bath's contribution to Islamic culture and health, its role in the social lives of sequestered Ottoman women, the tale of the street ruffians who slept in its back corners, its environmental impact as Istanbul's greatest forests succumbed to the giant stokepits, and the sexual activities (primarily same gender) that were an acknowledged part of the bath 'scene.' The architecture of the bath is its crown, as light filters down onto the bathers stretched languorously on the large, common 'reclining' stone, demonstrated here with scores of beautiful contemporary photographs of Istanbul baths and bathers. This book is also a detailed guide to 'bath etiquette'--and a guide to fifty historic baths in Istanbul (some dating as far back as the 15th century) that continue in regular use today. This book is a must for those searching for the perfect Turkish bath experience and those who want to understand what this tradition is all about! Contents Bath Culture: Past and Present Roman Baths Baths during the Ottoman Empire Islam and Baths The Only Place a Woman Could Visit The Turkish Bath through European Eyes Ottoman Bath Architecture The Essential Components of the Bath: Tellak and Natir The Baths and Sex Tellak: Then and Now The Star of the Turkish Bath: Kulhanbey A Guide to the Historic Turkish Baths of Istanbul In the Bath. The Bath and Health Within the City Walls of Old Istanbul Beyoglu Side Anatolian/Asian Side References".
2016New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In publisher's special box. 4to. (1934, [4] p.), color and b/w ills. A journey through maps from the Ottoman world to the Republic of Turkey. From Constantinople to Istanbul between the 15th and the 20th centuries. The cartographic collection of Erhan Öner. 4 volumes set. A project of passion and patience: For four decades Erhan Öner has been painstakingly collecting maps of Turkey, assembling a cartographic collection that is now one of the largest and most comprehensive of the area. His maps range in date from the 15th century, the early days of the Ottoman Empire, through to the 20th century and the early days of the Republic, and encompass historical, military, marine and archaeological maps, and even postcards with maps on them. Examples by the renowned cartographers Abraham Ortelius, Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Homann Heirs, Freres Lotter, Visscher Family, Sanson Family, John Speed and Frederick de Wit are among the highlights. A project of passion and patience, Öner's collection is finally being published in a four-volume catalogue. Displaying as many as 1,500 maps on 2,000 pages, it will be an important reference work for academics, researchers and fellow collectors. At the same time it is a visual feast, with beautiful illustrations, engravings and vignettes. Contents: Vol. 1: HISTORICAL MAPS OF TURKEY. 15th - 16th Centuries, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century. TURKEY IN EUROPE. Vol. 2: REGIONAL MAPS. Black Sea, Thrace, Sea of Marmara Dardanelles, Aegean Archipelago. Mediterranean Sea, Central, Eastern and South East of Turkey,Middle East, Serial. OTTOMAN VILAYETS AND SANCAKS Postcard Maps, Yumni Maps. Other Vilayet Maps PORT PLANS. RAILWAYS. RELIGION RELATED MAPS, THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND MAPS. GEOLOGICAL MAPS. POSTCARD MAPS. CLIPPINGS. Vol. 3: MILITARY MAPS. War and Peace Maps and Plans Maps of Erkan-¿ Harbiye. Harita Umum Müdürlügü, Milli Müdâfaa Vekâleti. Harita Genel Müdürlügü, Harita Genel Direktörlügü Maps of War Office & Ordnance Survey Office, Henri & Richard Kiepert Maps. ATLASES. Vol. 4: ISTANBUL NECIP BEY MAPS OF ISTANBUL: Societe Anonyme, Ottomane d'etudes et d'entreprises Urbanies. KESFlYÂT VE ¿NSAAT TÜRK ANON¿M S¿RKETl, TURKISH SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY UNFINISHED MAP OF ¿STANBUL, INSURANCE PLANS OF ISTANBUL. ARCHEOLOGICAL MAPS. OTHER CITIES. INFORMATION ABOUT CARTOGRAPHERS. ENGRAVERS AND BOOK PUBLISHERS.
2000New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 24 cm9. In English. 2 volumes set: (678 p.), richly ills., photos. A history of Robert College: The American College for Girls and Bogaziçi University (Bosphorus University). This two volume slipcased set is the story of two American Schools in Istanbul – Robert College and American College for Girls- both of them founded in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. The story takes the two schools through the last half-century of the Ottoman Empire and the first half-century of the Turkish Republic. The last part of the book tells the story of the founding of Bogazici University on the campus of the old Robert College in Bebek-Rumeli Hisarý , and the establishment of the new co-educational Robert College on the campus of the old American College for Girls in Arnavutköy. The principal characters in the story are the men and women who worked at the two colleges as teachers and administrators, and the students who studied there, many of them going on to distinguished careers, including two prime ministers of Turkey and two of Bulgaria. Bogazici University and the new Robert College, both founded in 1971, continued a tradition that has now linked east and west for over a century, perpetuating bonds of culture and friendship that have endured through wars and the fall and rise of nations. Hundreds of photographs in each volume visually trace the history of these two venerable institutions. A very heavy and oversize set.
2010New English Paperback. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In English. 328 p., ills. A history of healthcare in Istanbul. Health organizations - Epidemics, infections and disease control - Preventive health institutions - Hospitals - Medical education.
1996160p. ilus maps.index Book
2011New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (34 x 24 cm). In English. 368 p., color and b/w ills. A garden for the Sultan: Gardens and flowers in the Ottoman culture. Contents: Ottoman and other gardens. The features of Ottoman gardens. Ottoman gardens and Europe. Flowers among the Ottomans. The concepts of paradise and garden among the Ottomans. Ottoman palace gardens. Imperial gardens in Istanbul other than palace agdrens. References to Istanbul gardens and flowers in contemporary memoirs. Treatises on gardening and flowers. "True lover who has exprienced this blossoming of eternal rose in himself understands that the gardens of this world are only a lovelyn pretext for the Beloved to veil and unveil Himself at the same time. The hidden treasure of his beauty needs the garden to become visible to those who are still bound to sensible and tangible beauty. The eye of love sees behind the roses and trees, in the shade of the slender cypress and in the modest genuflection of the little violet, in the limpid water of basins and in the gushing fountains faint remembrances of the garden of Paradise with its Tuba tree, kauthar and salsabil; a Paradise which is, in turn, only a sensual symbol of God's everlasting beauty". OTTOMANIA Ottoman court Palace Istanbul Constantinople Flower Garden Turkish and Islamic art.
2016New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English and Turkish. With a CD. 30 p., ills. A composer of Beyoglu: Karnik Garmiyan.= Bir Beyoglu bestekâri: Karnik Garmiyan. [CD - Book]. Compositions of Armenian compositor Karnik Garmiyan come alive in this book with a CD. Songs by Sema Moritz.
2019New English Paperback. 8vo. In English and Turkish. 352 p., ills. A city that remembers: Space and memory from Taksim to Sultanahmet.= Hatirlayan Sehir: Taksim'den Sultanahmet'e mekân ve hafiza. "The publication offers its readers an opportunity to get acquainted with Istanbul - whether they be its resident or a tourist, as it presents the suppressed histories of the Ottoman era and Republican Turkey by looking at Istanbul from the lens of a tour guide. The places we pass by or visit on a daily basis are, inevitably, places with certain histories. These are mostly histories of appropriation and violation, injustice and power, but at times also histories of struggle. A City That Remembers sheds light on this rather 'unofficial' version of Istanbul's history through a total of 17 spaces, squares and buildings.".
1996New English Paperback. In publisher's special slip-case. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In English, Italian, and Turkish. 127, [1] p., color ills. A city in search if its history: Istanbul and an artist, Timur Kerim Incedayi.= Una citta sulle orme della Storia, Istanbul e un pittore, Timur Kerim Incedayi.= Tarihin izinde bir kent, Istanbul ve bir ressam, Timur Kerim Incedayi.[Exhibition catalogue]. Edited by Amelie Edgü. Texts by Ahmet Oktay, Murat Ural, Maurizio Calvesi. One of 2000 copies.
2009New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. 593 p. "During the 38 years of its existence Bosphorus University has perpetuated the cultural traditions it inherited from Robert College, and it is generally considered to be one of the top undergraduate institutions in the world, with outstanding graduate programs in most fields other than medicine and law. Though it is a Turkish state university, the language of instruction in almost all courses is English; the majority of its faculty have doctorates from American universities and most of its outstanding students go on to do graduate studies at universities in the U. S. Our students come from every province of Turkey and from more than sixty other countries, for Bosphorus University is a cultural beacon that shines across national boundaries and internal political divisions, distinguished by the diversity of its student body and faculty and its tolerance of ethnic, religious, and cultural differences. And so my book will examine the ways in which Robert College and Bosphorus and Bosphorus University have been a bridge of culture between what orientalists have called East and West.
2015New English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 392 p. A breath of Istanbul. Within these pages, we experience Istanbul life, the "you and me" that is this place's heartbeat. Around us swirl the amazing colors of many rainbows and dozens of scents. Here the Istanbulites-Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, Jew, Alawite, Christian, the rich, the poor, the conservative, the marginal-all bear witness to Istanbul's many-faceted selves. This novel of hope is a small reflection of what some people call "utopia" and is foremost a story about living in harmony. Lose yourself in Istanbul's streets while wandering with me as we explore you, me, our lives, our loves, our unfulfilled feelings and wishes, our dreams, fears, hopes, loneliness, struggles, and the daily ups and downs of our fellow millennials. The meaning of Istanbul, Turkey, and the world is "you" for me. They are all "me" and "us." That's the only reality I believe in. Nothing-no work of art or music-will ever be able to fill and nourish your soul as Istanbul does. No scents will ever burn themselves into your memories like the ones in Istanbul. No wisdom except that which you find here will ever seem that real(istic) to you. I have taken a deep breath of IItanbul. All of its life-affirming air I have to share with you has been exhaled into these pages.
2016New English Original leather bdg. HC. In special box. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In English. 240 p. A Bosporus adventure. A Bosporus Adventure is a history of the Woman's College at Constantinople by a former president. Mary Mills Patrick was born 10 March 1850 in Canterbury, New Hampshire to John & Harriet (White) Patrick. She graduated from the Lyons Collegiate Institute in Lyons, Iowa, in 1869. In 1871, by appointment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, she became a teacher in a mission school in Erzurum. In her four years there Patrick learned ancient and modern Armenian. In 1875 she was transferred to the American High School for Girls in Üsküdar, and she became principal of the school in 1889. During her summers she lived in Greek villages. She thus was able to add Greek and Turkish to her repertoire of languages. After a study furlough in the United States she received a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1890. In that year, after much planning and the securing of a charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the American High School became the American College for Girls at Constantinople, later known as Constantinople Woman's College. Patrick served as president of the college from its opening. Her summer studies at the Universities of Heidelberg, Zürich, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, and Oxford resulted in a Ph.D. from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 1897. Her dissertation was published in 1899 as Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism. When the college was destroyed by fire in 1905, a new site was acquired in Arnavutköyü on the European side of the Bosporus. A new charter in 1908 ended the college's ties to the mission board, and in 1914 the new campus was occupied. Patrick kept the school open through the Balkan Wars, the Turkish revolution, and World War I, and through those changes it evolved from a school primarily for minority Greek, Armenian, and Bulgarian Christian women into a leading centre of higher education for Turkish women. She remained president until her retirement in 1924, after which she moved back to the United States. The American College for Girls later affiliated with nearby Robert College for men. Patrick's books include Sappho and the Island of Lesbos (1912); The Greek Skeptics (1929); Under Five Sultans (1929), an autobiography; and A Bosporus Adventure (1934), a history of the college.
1946Very Good English Original two typewritten letters with autograph signed 'W. G. M. Edwards addressed to Hasan Halet Isikpinar. 23x15 cm. In English. 2 p. Some stains and tear on bottom. Texts: "My dear Hasan Halet, I wonder whether you could spare a few minutes of your time and come to see me Monday netween 11 and 12. I hope you are well and ssuccessfully busy. / Some weeks ago we spoke about an article you would write for the Chamber of Commerce Journal. Have you changed your mind? I would be glad to know whether you have begun the work on it and when you expect to send it to me. Sincerely yours, Signature.". Letterheads just phone number of its period and 'Arslanli Konak, Bebek-Istanbul' address. First letter's date is 18th October, second one is 11th November 1946. Edwards family was an English Levantine family who arrived in Constantinople after the Crimean war (1853). They had a Baker Shop in Pera. The baker shops were established by the English Baker family who arrived in Constantinople after the Crimean war (1853), and the English immigrant families of Edwards and Binns were also involved with these shops. These latter 2 families opened businesses in different sectors and neigbourhoods of Istanbul, however with time these businesses were either transferred to the Bakers or they merged through partnership with them. The founder of the Baker shops, George Baker was at that time already operating a substantial business in London. Soon after George Baker arrived in Istanbul, he formed a partnership with the Hayden family and together they opened two shops, one on the Grand Rue de Pera, at where Anadolu Han now stands, the other in nearby Galata, opposite Serdar Ekrem Street, on the corner looking out to the Galata tower. This partnership established in the 1860s remained firm till the end of the 1870s. With the end of this decade, Hayden and Baker went their own way, and Hayden retained these shops and Baker opened new retail outlets. One of these shops was again by the Galata tower, at Sahdegirmeni Street, and the other was next to the former Kanzuch pharmacy [Austrian run, in Pera?]. Soon after this first shop on the Grand Rue de Pera, George Baker opened his second shop where Sümerbank [central Pera, near the British Consulate] now stands. In these shops the Bakers sold a wide range of goods in including textiles, bedding, furniture and accessories. In addition to this they had by this time obtained the local representation of many foreign firms. A close friend of the Bakers, Cuthbert Evelyn Binns, became the manager of the Baker shops after WWI. The other English Levantine family of Edwards family firm, Edwards and Sons, merged with the G. & A. Baker company. At this time C.E. Binns was still the general manager, and W.G.M. Edwards continued his career as a member of the board of directors. Records show that between 1924-1925 W.G.M. Edwards continued his association with the local British Chamber of Commerce and in 1930 was elected as its president... (Source: Behzat Üsdiken with Levantineheritage translation). Hasan Halet Isikpinar, was a Turkish engineer and professor. He initially graduated from Robert College as an electrical engineer in 1916, being the first Turkish graduate of the engineering department. He advanced his studies to receive a degree of mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1922. After his assistantship in Robert College from 1923 to 1925, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1928 and graduated as the first Turkish student of the university. He kept his tenure as a professor in Robert College in the department of engineering until 1934, where he contributed to the advancement of the department of electrical engineering to a significant extent. He led over 800 engineering projects in Turkey, majority of which being the first examples within the newly founded Turkish Republic. He was fluent in multiple languages including English, French, German and Italian, with his most notable works i
