Christie’s roundel
Lot 284

BERTON, Charles. Quatre années en Orient et en Italie: ou Constantinople, Jérusalem et Rome. Paris: Louis Vivès, 1854. 8° (225 x 140mm). Modern green half calf, uncut, original blue wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION.

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BERTON, Charles. Quatre années en Orient et en Italie: ou Constantinople, Jérusalem et Rome. Paris: Louis Vivès, 1854. 8° (225 x 140mm). Modern green half calf, uncut, original blue wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION.

ARSEVEN, Celâl Esad (1876-1972). Constantinople de Byzance à Stamboul, translated by the author. Paris: Renouard, H. Laurens, 1909. 8° (242 x 150mm), 56 plates, double-page map. (Light browning to page edges.) Modern blue half morocco, top edge gilt, original blue printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: inscription in Ottoman Turkish. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH; and 25 other vols., mid-19th to early 20th century, most in French, including ambassadorial memoirs, Henri Avelot and J. de la Nézière's Monténégro, Bosnie, Herzégovine (Paris, [1894?]), and other works on Istanbul and the Levant. (27)