Τουρκία - Βαλκάνια / Turkey - Balkans

Lot. 8234 Starting Price: 120 € CAMPBELL Sir George, “A Handy Book on the Eastern Question: Being a Very Recent View of Turkey”, London: John Murray, 1876. In 12mo, p. xviii,212,4p. of publisher’s ads, with a large fold-out map of Christians in European Turkey. Second edition of this forthright contribution by an experienced British colonial administrator to 19th-century debates over the fate of the fracturing Ottoman Empire and the scramble among European powers to ll the resulting power vacuum. Two editions were published in rapid succession in late 1876; both are now scarce in commerce. Chapters describe Turkish society, politics, and current a airs with Greeks, South Slavs, Albanians, Armenian and Jews, leading to Campbell’s conclusion that the region should be stabilised through the introduction of greater self-governance and territorial independence for di erent religious and ethnic groups. Original blue wavy-grain cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt; extremities rather rubbed. First 15 pages and p. 161-176 detached, but not missing; otherwise, clean. Hand-coloured folding map at rear, with recent tape repairs at most folds. A nice Rare copy. Lot. 8235 Starting Price: 70 € GARNETT Lucy M.J., “Turkish Life in Town & Country”, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York And London, 1904. First edition, in 12mo, p. viii,[2],336, including index and 3 pages of ads. With frontispiece and 15 more illustrations. e British folklorist and traveller L. Garnett, visited extensively the Balkans and Middle East, a fact for which she was considered an expert on the cultures in these regions. She aimed to supplement the accounts of earlier, mostly male travel writers who visited the Balkans with information about the lives of Balkan women (Albanian, Macedonian, Armenian, Hebrew), which she thought to be sorely lacking in previous works about the region. Ex-Library copy with usual stamps and labels. Original decorative cloth hard cover binding is rather worn, faded spine, rubbed and bumped extremities; embossed decoration and title in black and gold. Text block very clean and tight, blue top edge, untrimmed pages. Good copy.

Lot. 8236 Starting Price: 80 € [LICHTENSTAEDTER Siegfried] MEHMED EMIN EFENDI (Pseud.), “THE FUTURE OF TURKEY / an essay on the Eastern Question”, London: Luzac & Co., 1907. First English translation (1898 in German), in small 8vo, p. 49, 3p. ads. e author, a German administrative lawyer, Jewish and homosexual, in order not to jeopardize his professional position at the Bavarian Court of Auditors, published many of his works under pseudonyms (Dr. Mehemed Emin Efendi). Lichtenstaedter’s texts were put on the list of harmful and undesirable literature by the Nazi regime in 1938. He was deported to the eresienstadt concentration camp on 25 June 1942 and murdered there on 6 December 1942. As early as 1898, in his writing e Future of Turkey, he anticipated the population exchange that actually took place in 1923! References to Greek, Armenian, Cretan, Macedonian and Albanian issues. Green cloth bound with black title on front board, slight wear along extremities. Clean and tight inside. Good and Uncommon copy.

Lot. 8237 Starting Price: 40 € EDDY David Brewer, “What next in Turkey; glimpses of the American board’s work in the near East”, e American Board, 1913. In 12mo, p. 191, with Appendix, frontispiece and B/W photos and maps. Τhis book undoubtedly has cult value as an insider study that reveals the main motivations, goals, and methods of early missionary work in Anatolia. Original red cloth, spine with title in gilt and embossed decoration on front boards; slight external wear, a few bumps on edges. Clean and tight inside. Ex libris sticker. Very Good copy.