1935Very Good Swedish Original photograph album. Cloth. Oblong cr. 8vo. (13 x 19 cm). Descriptions in Swedish. Various sized 20 b/w photographs. Other pages blank. Photos: St. Lars ruin.; Humanistiska Laroverket.; Kyrkan.; MAria-Kyrkan, Interiör.; Vardshuset Draken.; Sigtunastiftelsen. Flygfoto.; Posthuset.; Utsikt fran Flickinternatet.; Flickinternatet Berga elevhem.; Sigtuna stiflelsen.; Kyrkan.; Radhusel.; Stadshotellets terrass.; Humanistika Laroverket.; S:t. Olofs ruin.; Lilla torget och Stora gatan.; Gamla Tullstugan.; Sigtunaskolan.; Sigtunastiftelsen, Rosengarden.; Prastgarden, S:t. Pers ruin och 'Pilgrimstugan'.
1935Very Good Turkish Paperback. 32mo. (9 x 6 cm). In Turkish. 25 original b/w gelatin silver photographs in 12 joined page plates. This extremely rare miniature souvenir album shows the stations, bridges and their constructions, the first moving trains, railways, opening celebrations and visits of the Turkish ministers, opening speech, etc. during the opening of the Irmak-Filyos railways on 12 November 1935 Irmak-Filyos line which was opened by Ali Çetinkaya (1878-1949), who was an Ottoman-born Turkish army officer and politician, who served eight terms in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Çetinkaya also can be seen in some photos of the album. "The Republic of Turkey, which tried to overcome the destructive effects of the war, took an important step toward reaching economic independence and transporting natural resources to the different regions of the country. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey approved the Law on the Ankara-Eregli Railway Line under the name 'The Railway Leading to Coal'. This important railway line, which the young Republic of Turkey wished to establish to face the future and move forward, was going to run between the coal city Zonguldak and Irmak station, near the capital Ankara. The construction of the railway started on 7th February 1927 and the 102-kilometer line, running between Irmak and Çankiri, became operative on the 23rd of April 1931. The railway between Irmak-Filyos, which had a total length of 391 kilometers, went into operation on 12th November 1935 with a ceremony held in Filyos. It comprised 27 stations, 1368 culverts, and bridges and 37 tunnels, and had a total length of 8800 kilometers.". (Source: Irmak Karabük Zonguldak Railway Line - UDHB). "Foto Birlik" was the most important photography studio in Zonguldak city which was an eyewitness in the early period of Republican Turkey. No copy in OCLC.; No copy in the Turkish National Library.
1953Very Good Turkish Original twenty-three gelatin silver detachable photos on eight "Leykam" blind-stamped papers. Papers' size: 32,5x25 cm, photos size mostly: 9x14 cm. Punch holes in the left margins. Otherwise a clean collection. A fine photograph collection of a scientific voyage to Central, East, and South Anatolia in 1953, by German and Turkish mineralogists, to collect and research natural materials, including shores of lakes and seas, soils of Anatolian land from Mt. Taurus, Lake Van, Hakkari and Mount Cilo.
1940Very Good English Original 49 real photo postcards (with an original photograph). 9x14 cm. A very good collection. A real photo postcard collection of a Turkish soldier named Mustafa Baspak, including gelatin silver prints (one is hand-colored) of South Africa; attractive views of Cape Town (23 photos), Durban (24 photos), and Natal (2 photos). Some cards are posted to Turkey by military post. Mostly, these real photo postcards are published by Valentine's (SA) Ltd., a photographic/printing company established by Mr. James Valentine (1814-1879) in 1851. In 1963, the company became a subsidiary of John Waddington Ltd.
1854Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary non-aesthetic burgundy cloth bdg. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 299, [6] p. Fading on cloth, minor repairs on some pages, otherwise a good copy. Lithographed edition. First and only Turkish edition of this uncommon and very scarce early book of the history of Russia under the rule of Peter the Great. This book was published during the Crimean War, which was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Piedmont-Sardinia. The first four chapters describe the general political and social history of Russia at the time of Peter the Great. The following chapters narrate important events like the new revolution in Sofia, the first diplomatic relations with China in the period and the first agreement between the Russian and Chinese Empires, The Siege of Azov Fortress, the agreement with the Saxony, Peter the Great's travels to Europe, rebuild of St. Petersburg, The Battle of Narva and the Siege of Narva, return of the Great Tsar to Russia from France, commerce in Russia in the period of the Peter the Great's rule, etc. Peter I, most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a monarch of Russia who modernized it and made it a European power. He ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 to 1721 and subsequently the Russian Empire until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V. To improve his nation's position on the seas, Peter sought more maritime outlets. His only outlet at the time was the White Sea at Arkhangelsk. The Baltic Sea was at the time controlled by Sweden in the north, while the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea were controlled by the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire respectively in the south. Peter attempted to acquire control of the Black Sea, which would require expelling the Tatars from the surrounding areas. As part of an agreement with Poland that ceded Kyiv to Russia, Peter was forced to wage war against the Crimean Khan and against the Khan's overlord, the Ottoman Sultan. Peter's primary objective became the capture of the Ottoman fortress of Azov, near the Don River. In the summer of 1695, Peter organized the Azov campaigns to take the fortress, but his attempts ended in failure. Through a number of successful wars, he captured ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea, laying the groundwork for the Imperial Russian Navy, ending uncontested Swedish supremacy in the Baltic, and beginning the Tsardom's expansion into a much larger empire that became a major European power. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernised, and based on the Enlightenment. Shuvalov was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and Academy of Arts were instituted with his active participation. He was born in Moscow, the only son of Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov, an army captain who died when the boy was ten, and Tatiana Rodionovna. The Shuvalov family fortunes changed drastically in 1741 when Empress Elizaveta Petrovna ascended to the Russian throne with help from Ivan's powerful cousins - Peter Shuvalov and Alexander Shuvalov. The following year, they had the fourteen-year-old Ivan attached to the imperial court as a page. Complete title: "Büyük Petro'nun eyyâm-i hükümetinde Rusya'da cereyân eden ahvâl-i dahiliyye ve umûr-i hâriciyyeye ve husûsiyle nizâmât-i mevzûa-i cecdîdeye ve oralarda bulunan milel ve akvâm-i muhtelifenin ahlâk ve âdâb ve fünûn ve sanâyilerine dair Büyük Petro'nun kizi Elizabete'nin kurenâsindan Sovalef nâm zâtin bazi resâil-i mevsûka ve senedât-i sahîhadan vukûf ve ittilâi hâsil olan ahvâl ve keyfiyâti nakil ve hikâyeye mübâseret olunmustur." Özege 17170.
1926Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 16mo. (15 x 10 cm). In English. 18 p. text; 10 b/w postcards of Stockholm. Fritze's little guide to Stockholm, 1926. First Edition.
1991Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Kurdish. 163 p., b/w plts. Di çavkanîyên Swêdî de motîvên Kurdî.
1996Fine English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 118 p., b/w ills. Amundsen: Güneyde bir denizci. Kutup kasifleri Amundsen ve Scott Güney Kutbu'nda. Translated by Leman Çaliskan.
2014New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 132 p. A study on Swedish dragomans, diplomats, artists, painters etc. in the Ottoman Empire from Constantinople to Smyrna, 1730-1930. [= Sopên Swêdiyan li Stembol û Izmîrê 1730-1930]. Istanbul ve Izmir'de Isveç izleri, 1730-1930.
1937Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In Turkish. [iv], [2], 343 p., 7 b/w plates. First Edition. XIInci Sarl'in tarihi. Translated by Nahid Sirri [Örik].
1958Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Large demy 8vo. (21 x 16 cm). In French. 14, [68], [4] p., 66 numerous b/w and color plts. (Vintage). Arts appliques en Suede. Institut Suedois.
2002New 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.
1928Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In Ottoman script and French. Light robbed on spine. Some words underlined. 31, [1], 27, [1] p. A good copy. Ozege: -. Extremely rare. A rare contract on Anatolian Railways. Republique Turque Ministere des Travaux Publics Contrat concernant la construction des lignes des chemins de fer Fevzi-Pacha-Diarbekir & Irmak - Filios.= Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Nafia Vekâleti Irmak - Filyos ve Fevzi Pasa - Diyarbekir hatlari insaat mukavelenâmesi.
2008N°2, d'avril 2008, de cette revue trimestrielle fondée par Jean Cuisenier et dirigée par Martine Segalen: "Au tournant des années 1960, la discipline ethnologique fait peau neuve en Suède. [...] Renommée "European ethnology" et se pensant comme distincte de l'anthropologie sociale et culturelle, la discipline allie désormais aux enquêtes ethnographiques des études culturelles des faits sociaux, souvent dans une perspective historique qui la rapproche de l'histoire des mentalités françaises. Ce numéro [...] présente donc les travaux des ethnologues suédois qui ont changé la face de la discipline en l'espace d'une génération. [... On peut y...] suivre un parcours qui initie à une histoire de la discipline et à une cartographie de ses frontières, permet d'entendre la parole vivante de quelques chercheurs suédois parmi les plus éminents, met l'accent sur quelques "terrains" particulièrement représentatifs des investissements scientifiques actuels [...]" (4è de couverture). Français
1988N°17, de novembre-décembre 1988, de l'édition française de cette belle "revue d'art et de culture de l'image", consacré à des arts suédois: au sommaire, articles sur les "Scandinavian Graffiti", pierres de Gotland gravées de runes et de figures (400-1100 après J.-C.), par Erik NYLEN et Jan Peder LAMM; "La Bible des paysans", peinture paysanne suédoise du XIXè siècle, par Per BJURSTRÔM; "La lumière du Graal", chefs-d'oeuvre de la verrerie suédoise d'Orrefors des années 1920, par Erik WETTERGREN, "Döderhultarn", les statues de bois du sculpteur paysan suédois Axel Peterson (1868-1925), par Vittorio PICA, avec interview de l'artiste; "United Motors of Sweden", les automobiles Scania suédoises, par Ajmone DELL'ORSO, "Les petits princes", portraits peints de "petits princes" qui jamais ne régnèrent pour cause de décès prématurés, par Gianni GUADALUPI; actualités culturelles et pages publicitaires; illustrations couleurs, la plupart à pleine ou double page. Français
1951Edition originale de cette biographie de "la Reine Christine" (1626-1689, reine de Suède de 1632 à 1654) publiée par Pierre de LUZ, pseudonyme de Pierre Henry de La Blanchetai, secrétaire d'ambassade et écrivain (1893-1956). Tirage sur alfa (non justifié) qualifié d'"édition originale" par l'éditeur (malgré 95 exemplaires sur grands papiers). Français
Stockholm, 1942. 4to.; 250 pp., con ilustraciones entre el texto. Enc. original en tela.
Madrid, Manuel Aguilar Editor, 1933. 4to.; 157 pp.; 1 h. Cubiertas originales fatigadas.
Madrid, Editorial Siglo XX, 1926 ('Comedias'). 4to.; 80 pp. Cubiertas originales ilustradas por Tovar.
Leipsic, chez Charles Tauchnitz, s.a. (1836). 8vo.; 3 hs., 821 pp. Encuadernación española de época, con gofrados en seco en los planos, ligeramente fatigada.
Madrid, en la Imprenta Real, 1787. 4to.; 2 hs., 927 pp. Encuadernación en piel, de la época, con tejuelo.
Madrid, en la Imprenta Real, 1787. 4to.; 2 hs., 925 pp. Encuadernación en piel, de la época, con tejuelo.
Madrid, La Farsa, 1928. 4to. menor; 69 pp. Cubiertas originales.
Madrid, El Teatro Moderno, 1931. 4to menor; 59 pp. Cubiertas originales de Gago.
Sin lugar de impresión, ni impresor, pero: Paris, Lambert, 1751. 12vo.; 2 hs., XXIV pp., 380 pp. y 20 pp. (numeradas 283 a 303) más una portada propia para las anécdotas del Zar Pedro el Grande. Encuadernación de época en piel marbreada.
