Middle East & Islamic World / Turkey & Ottoman Empire

[PROPHECIES - OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. In de welcke het hem laet aensien als of het Turcksche Rijck onder desen teghenwoordigen Sultan wel een eynde mocht nemen. Hier sijn byghevoeght eenighe andere Vooorseggingen ... ende met veele copere figuyren verciert.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 4to. With large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople, and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans, including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I, animals such as unicorns, nursing bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, snakes, mythological figures, rulers, etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Victor Masséna, 5th Prince dEssling and 3rd Duke of Rivoli (1836-1910) on both boards, the title, impressum and (repeatedly) the monogram "VM" lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by the 19th-century French bookbinders Allô-Wampflug (signed in the lower turn-ins at the front and back). [1], [1 blank], [2], 41, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PURCHAS, Samuel], John SANDERSON, Henry TIMBERLAKE and others. Seer gedenckwaerdige vojagien, van Johan Sanderson, Hendrick Timberly, en Capt. Johan Smith, door Europa, Asia en America. ...
Amsterdam, Joachim van Dyck, 1678. 4to. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with a woodcut floral ornament, 4 folding engraved illustration plates (including 1 with 4 small views). 18th-century half vellum. [12], 158 pp. including integral frontispiece. Full description

RAMBERTI, Benedetto. Delle cose de Turchi. Libri tre. ...
(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Bindoni, 1541. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 tapes, laced through the joints. 37, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description

RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth. [1], [1 blank], [2], 304 pp. Full description

ROBERTS, A. The adventures of (Mr T. S.) an English merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Argiers, and carried into the inland countries of Africa: with a description of the kingdom of Argiers, of all the towns and places of note thereabouts. Whereunto is added a relation of the chief commodities of the countrey, and of the actions and manners of the people. Written first by the author, and fitted for the publick view by A. Roberts.
London, Moses Pitt [printed by William Wilson?], 1670. Small 8vo. With 2 decorated woodcut initials and decorative bands of cast fleurons. Blind- and gold-tooled calf (ca. 1800). [8], "252" [= 254], [2] pp. Full description

SAGREDO, Giovanni. Memorias historicas de los Monarcas Othomanos, que escriuio en lengua Toscana ... Traduzidas en Castellano por Don Francisco de Olivares Murillo, ...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infanzón, 1684. Folio. 18th-century tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [12], 552, [8] pp. Full description

SANSON, Nicolas. Estats de L'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans en Asie, en Afrique, et en Europe.
Paris, 1654. Engraved map (42 x 56 cm), coloured in outline. Full description

[DRAWING]. SAUNDERS, John. [John Sturges in Turkish costume with turban and gold-trimmed coat].
Peterborough, 1739. Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas (41 x 30.5 cm), stretched over (original?) wooden board. Full description

SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniël von. Icones et descriptiones plantarum minus cognitarum. Decas I.
Halle (Saale), Germany, J.J. Curt, 1766. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cm). With 10 full-page numbered engravings of plants, an engraved image on the title-page, and a woodcut initial on the first page of the preface. Never bound, housed in a modern folder with a printed design of 19th-century marbled paper. [8], 20 pp. Full description

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description