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Gros & Delettrez

175 - [Turkey—Asia Minor—Black Sea—Set of maps and engravings].

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Estimation

€300 - 400

Sale fees

30%

[Turkey—Asia Minor—Black Sea—Set of maps and engravings]. (late 18th and 19th centuries). 29 copper-engraved or lithographed maps, various sizes, with colored boundaries. Set of 29 maps illustrating European Turkey, Asian Turkey, Asia Minor, Georgia, and the Black Sea by d’Anville, Delamarche, Justus Perthes, Bonne, Sanson, Lattré, De Fer, Jaillot, Dufour, and others, including: - CLOUET (Abbé). Asian Turkey [Paris, ca. 1780]. Shows Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia... - BONNE. Kingdom of Persia and Gedrosia... [Paris, ca. 1780]. Engraved by André. - [Caucasus]. Ost-Europa, No. 6: South Russia & the Caucasus. Map of the Caucasus from Stieler’s atlas. With plans of Ararat and Tiflis. - DUFOUR. Persia, Carmania, and Georgia. [Paris, 1834]. - Asian Turkey and Persia. - Map of Asian Turkey and Persia... Accompanied by 27 plates from Count de Choiseul-Gouffier’s *Picturesque Journey through Greece*, illustrating Constantinople and its monuments: [Map]. CHEVALIER, Marcel. KAUFFER, Franz. Including: Map of the City of Constantinople and its Suburbs, both in Europe and Asia [...] 1786; [Portrait]. BOILLY, M.G.F.A., Count de Choiseul-Gouffier... In Paris, published by Blaise. Engraved by Dien; 12 plates, each containing four figures, some signed by Moreau the Younger or Hilaire, depicting the costumes of various dignitaries, military officers, clergy, and figures of the Ottoman Empire, including the Grand Seigneur, the Grand Vizier, and Janissaries, as well as various trades and figures from Ottoman society, and several Tatar and Jewish figures; [Views]. 13 engraved plates depicting views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus, notably the mosques, several imperial palaces and pavilions, as well as the gates of the Seraglio; supplemented by landscapes and sites in the Dardanelles and the Troad, including Gallipoli, Abydos, and Alexandria Troas, ancient ruins, and a map showing the location of Abydos and the harbor of Nagara.

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Auction details

Travel Books, Atlases, and Maps
Friday, November 20
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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