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Osman I (1258-1326), nicknamed 'Kara', for hisbravery, leader of the Ottoman Turks, and founder ofthe dynasty that established and ruled the OttomanEmpire.Stock: 29817336. Soltan Hotomannus TurcarumImperator. Praedatur pullos pedibusqseviscerat uncis...Et scevo tutas solus ab hostesacis.[Lucas Kilian ?] [n.d. c.1622.]Engraving. Plate 203 x 126mm (8 x 5"). Cut toplatemark. £120Sultan Osman II (1604-1622), Sultan of the Ottomanempire from 1618 until his death. He was also knownas a poet and mastered many languages. He secured theempire's eastern border by signing a peace treaty withSafavid Iran. He personally led the Ottoman invasionof Poland during the Moldovian Magnate Wars.Stock: 29810337. Avis cognoscitur pennis.A.M. Wolffgang. [n.d., c.1700.]Etching. 100 x 80mm (4 x 3¼"). Slight foxing, laid onalbum paper. £75A Turk in a turban, etched by Andreas MatthäusWolffgang. Written in ink on the album paper is'Ossiman Pascha'.Stock: 29886338. Der Türckisch Gross Vezier AchmetBassa.[German, n.d., c.1700.]Engraving. 340 x 270mm (9½ x 6¾"). Tears enteringimage, old folds. £160An equestrian portrait of an Ottoman Grand vizier, oneof many called Ahmed.Stock: 29871339. Aehmed II, ein ündswansigster Kaiserder Türken im Jahre 1691.[after C. Dubosc] [German, c.1700.]Engraving with very large margins. 200 x 120mm (8 x4¾"). £75Ahmed II Khan Ghazi (1643-95) Sultan from 1691,during a period of disaster for the Ottoman Empire.Soon after his succession the Austrian victory at theBattle of Slankamen drove the Ottomans fromHungary.Published in Demetrius Cantemir's 'History of theGrowth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire'.Stock: 29845340. Achmet Effendi. Gesandten von denOttomanischen Pfort, am KöniglichenPrussischen Hose, wie solcher im SienemAudinetz Zimmer zu Berlin abgezeichnetworden.[n.d., c.1780.]Engraving, rare. 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Top cornermissing. £45Ahmed Resmî Efendi (d.1783), who had beenambassador to Vienna (1757-8), Berlin (1763-4, thefirst Ottoman embassy there) & Russia (1774).Stock: 29885341. Hali Bassa Budensis Captus Ac ACesarianis Prope Tulnam VII Die Iunii A M DCIIDC. [Dominic Custos.] [n.d., c.1600.]Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed,bottom left corner lacking £90Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Buda. Published in'Atrium heroicum Caesarum'.Stock: 29882342. Baiazeth.[n.d., c.1700.]Engraving. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmedwithin plate on three sides; glued to backing sheet. £50Bayezid I (1354-1403), Sultan of the Ottoman Empirefrom 1389 to 1402. Nicknamed 'The Thunderbolt', hecaptured much of the Balkans and laid siege toConstantinople in 1394. In response to this, the lastlarge-scale crusade was launched, which Bayezidcrushed at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396. The siege ofConstantinople continued until 1402, when theOttomans had to withdraw to defend the empire againstTimur (Tamerlane the Great). Bayezid was defeated atthe Battle of Ankara that year, dying in captivity,beginning a twelve-year Ottoman Interregnum.Stock: 29873343. Baiazete I sig. di Turchi.[Engraved by Aliprando Caprioli?] [Rome, 1596?]Engraving. Sheet 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). Trimmed;glued to backing sheet. £70Bayezid II (not the First as the title) (1447-1512),Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481. He is bestknown for capturing the Morea from the Venetians andevacuating Jews and Muslims from Spain after theproclamation of the Alhambra Decree, 1492. Theresulting influx of Western technology resulting inadvances like Constantinople's first printing press.Stock: 29872344. Esseid Aly Effendi Ambassadeur de laPortte Ottomane prés la Rep. francaise.F. Bonneville del. sculp. a Paris Rue St Jacques No.196. [n.d, c.1805.]Engraving. Sheet 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"). Trimmed toplate, laid on album paper. Few marks above image.£75Esseid Ali, Ottoman ambassador to France whenNapoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt. He later becameVizier.Stock: 29888345. Hassan Pascia Visir di Buda.[n.d., c.1670.]Engraving, with small margins, fine. 225 x 160mm (9 x6¼"). Glued to backing sheet. £140Hassan Pasha, Vizir of Buda during the Ottomanoccupation of the city (1541-1686), probably Hasan,
Vizir 1593-4. Published in Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato's'Historia Di Leopoldo Cesare'.Stock: 29874346. Ismail Pascha Vicekönig von Aegyten.Nach einer Phographie. Stich u Druck v. Weger,Leipzig. Verlag der Dürr'shen Buchh [n.d., c.1865.]Engraving. Sheet 305 x 220mm (12 x 8¾"). £30Isma'il Pasha (1830-95), was the Khedive of Egypt andSudan from 1863 to 1879, when Britain forced hisremoval due to his debts. He had sold the Egyptian andSudanese shares in the Suez Canal Company to theBritish govenment in 1875. A moderniser, he said in1879: 'My country is no longer in Africa; we are nowpart of Europe. It is therefore natural for us to abandonour former ways and to adopt a new system adapted toour social conditions'.Stock: 29877347. Kara Mustapha Gros Vezier ObersterReichs Rathund Feldzer der OttomanischenPforter.[German, n.d., c.1700.]Engraving with large margins. 175 x 130mm (7 x 5¼").£75Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha (c.1634-1683),Ottoman military leader and grand vizier to MehmedIV (1642-93). He led the Ottomans to their catastrophicdefeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski(1674–96) at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Mehmedhad him executed, strangled with a silk cord.Stock: 29867348. Cara Mustapha Turkischer Gros Vezier.[German, n.d., c.1700.]Engraving. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Glued tobacking sheet. £45Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha (c.1634-1683),Ottoman military leader and grand vizier to MehmedIV (1642-93). He led the Ottomans to their catastrophicdefeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski(1674–96) at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Mehmedhad him executed, strangled with a silk cord.Stock: 29851349. Kara Mustapha Bassa TurcarumImperioris Minister Primarius.[n.d., c.1700.]Engraving. 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed withinplate. £65Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha (c.1634-1683),Ottoman military leader and grand vizier to MehmedIV (1642-93). He led the Ottomans to their catastrophicdefeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski(1674–96) at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Mehmedhad him executed, strangled with a silk cord.Stock: 29866350. [Ottoman commanders during the GreekWar of Independence.] Khosref Pascha.Mehemet Ali. Mahmud II. Ibrahim Pasha.Soliman Pascha.[n.d., c.1835.]Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Creased.£75Portraits of five Ottoman leaders during the GreekRevolt, including Mahmud II (1789-1839), 30th Sultanof the Ottoman Empire, from 1808, Muhammad AliPasha (1769-1849) and his son Ibrahim Pasha (1789-1848); Soliman Pasha (born Joseph Anthelme Sève inLyon, 1788-1860); & Khosref Pasha 1769-1855),Ottoman admiral and vizier.Stock: 29876351. Mahmud II.[n.d., c.1835.]Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5¼"). Crease top left.£40Mahmud II (1789-1839), 30th Sultan of the OttomanEmpire, from 1808. During his reign the loss of theBattle of Navarino (1827) led to his recognition of theindependence of Greece, and the French occupiedAlgeria. He realised that the Empire needed reformingand succeeded in the abolition of the Janissary corps.He also introduced the Fez as part of clothing reforms(this portrait shows him in the old style) and acquiredthe navy's first steam ships after Navarino.Stock: 29875352. Sultan Muchemet Chan.[Engraved by Theodore de Bry.] [Frankfurt: de Bry,1593.]Engraving. Sheet 95 x 95mm (3¾ x 3¾). Trimmedlosing ornamental border; glued to backing sheet. £120Mehmed II (1432-81), the conqueror of Constantinopleat the age of 21 (1454), ending the Byzantine Empireand creating the Ottoman Empire.Published in the 'Vitae et icones Sultanorumturcicorum'.Stock: 29846353. Sultan Echmet Empereur des TurcsAagè de 10 Ans.P. Aubry excud. [n.d., c.1680.]Engraving with small margins. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x4½"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners. £60Mehmed IV (1642-93) became Sultan of the OttomanEmpire aged six. More interested in hunting, he gaveup most of his executive power to his Grand Vizier, asituation that was never reversed. During his reign theOttomans suffered the catastrophic defeat against thePolish army under John III Sobieski (1674–96) at theBattle of Vienna in 1683.Stock: 29850354. Le vray Pourtraict du grand SeigneurMahomet IV. du nom Empreur deConstantinople etc.Cornelis Meyssens sculpsit. Adrien Possimiers excudita Gand [n.d., c.1680.]Engraving with very large margins. 175 x 120mm (7 x4¾"). £90Flemish portrait of Mehmed IV (1642-93) becameSultan of the Ottoman Empire aged six. Moreinterested in hunting, he gave up most of his executivepower to his Grand Vizier, a situation that was never
Page 3 and 4: Letterpress, scarce, 3 sides, 4to.
Page 5 and 6: Etching and engraving with large ma
Page 7 and 8: A pair of stipples, very fine, prin
Page 9 and 10: Lithograph with large margins. 240
Page 11 and 12: Chapelle which ended the War of the
Page 13 and 14: third 1650 & 1692 with more words a
Page 15 and 16: 93. Greenwich Hospital. No.17.Boyde
Page 17 and 18: 104. A View of the Rt. Hon.ble the
Page 19 and 20: plates by printmakers other than hi
Page 21 and 22: From "A Collection of One Hundred V
Page 23 and 24: 142. Nightingale Lane. Clapham Comm
Page 25 and 26: 158. Plan of Lincoln's Inn Fields,
Page 27 and 28: 174. La veille d’une attaque. no.
Page 29 and 30: garnison de Yueng-ming-yuen (ville
Page 31 and 32: 199. Bomarsund. Combined Attack on
Page 33 and 34: tsars in 1726 (apparently aged six!
Page 35 and 36: 223. Philipp Cluver. Geboren zu Dan
Page 37 and 38: Stipple. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3
Page 39 and 40: Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by
Page 41 and 42: 267. El D.r Bartoleme Leonardo deAr
Page 43 and 44: Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by
Page 45 and 46: stamp also found on prints in the M
Page 47 and 48: Josef Chlopicki (1771-1854) the Pol
Page 49: University of Konigsberg. He publis
Page 53 and 54: 363. Osman II sechbehenter Kaiser d
Page 55 and 56: 379. P. Famianus Strada. Rom. Soc.
Page 57 and 58: 394. Tam Marti, Quam Mercurio. The
Page 59 and 60: From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephe
Page 61 and 62: Engraving, fine with very large mar
Page 63 and 64: Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’A
Page 65 and 66: improved version of Galileo's refra
Page 67 and 68: The portrait was published in 'Allg
Page 69 and 70: Louis Francois Élisabeth Ramond, B
Page 71 and 72: 490. Abr.am Théophile Werner (Géo
Page 73 and 74: Engraved from a bust by Chantrey, e
Page 75 and 76: his 'Atlante Veneto' atlases and th
Page 77 and 78: Engraving with very large margins.
Page 79 and 80: (Philadelphia). In the wake of the
Page 81 and 82: Pair of etchings showning the comme
Page 83 and 84: 578. Le Jeu de Volant. Le Bon Géni
Page 85 and 86: Paskiewitsck Erivansky who captured
Page 87 and 88: Maximilian with the specific intent
Page 89 and 90: Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 210 x
Page 91 and 92: Aquatint, printed on J. Whatman 182
Page 93 and 94: Stock: 29953646. Rotunda & New Room
Page 95 and 96: Xeres. [5] Seville Cathedral. [6] C
Page 97 and 98: After John Bucker (1770 - 1587), re
Page 99 and 100: 693. A South Prospect of the City o
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196 Friedrichsstrasse. London, E. G
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724. A West Prospect of Conway Cast
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Hand-coloured etching and aquatint.
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