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Ottoman empire. A COLLECTION OF 15 VOLUMES, IN ENGLISH, INCLUDING: Frankland, Captain Charles Colville. Travels to and from Constantinople, in 1827 and 1828... second edition. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1830, 2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 127mm.), 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, 14 plain aquatint (some folding) and 11 wood-engraved plates by J. Clark and T. Bagg after Frankland, 4 engraved maps and plans (2 folding), wood-engraved illustrations, nineteenth-century half citron morocco, [cf. Blackmer 628; Abbey, Travel 26] Craven, Lady Elizabeth. A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1789, 4to (274 x 210mm.), folding engraved map, 6 engraved plates, contemporary calf, [Blackmer 424; Atabey 297], [Asheton Curzon of Hagley, Staffordshire, inscription on half-title], minor repair to folding map, rebacked Tott, François, Baron de. Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, on the Turks and the Tartars. London: J. Jarvis [&c.], 1785, 2 volumes, 8vo (228 x 138mm.), modern calf-backed boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, [Blackmer 1667; cf. Atabey 1227 (French edition)], [Morden College, Blackheath, stamps on title-pages] [Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley] Letters... written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa... which contain... accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks... the third edition. London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1763, 3 volumes in one, 8vo (159 x 94mm.), contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, [cf. Atabey 829], binding worn [Dumont, Jean, baron de Carlscroon] A new voyage to the Levant... the third edition. London: T. Goodwin [&c.], 1702, 8vo (189 x 112mm.), 8 engraved folding plates, modern half brown morocco, [cf. Blackmer 514 and Atabey 378] Alberoni, Giulio. Cardinal Alberoni's scheme for reducing the Turkish empire to the obedience of Christian princes. London: for J. Roberts and J. Torbuck, 1736, 8vo (194 x 115mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, twentieth-century quarter red morocco retaining nineteenth century backstrip, [Blackmer 11] Watkins, Thomas. Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands to Constantinople; through part of Greece, Ragusa and the Dalmation Isles. London: for T. Cadell, 1792, 2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 127mm.), errata leaves, contemporary half calf, [Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, bookplate in both volumes], lacking half-title in vol.2, upper cover of vol.1 detached and 5 others