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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Written by Lord Kinross; Norman Stone.
Stock no. 1829178
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2003. Very good condition.

Illustrated cream buckram binding. Black title block with gilt title to spine. Introduced by Norman Stone. Colour plates. xxiii and 671 pages including index. Spine is slightly concave. Small, minor mark to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has some white scuff marks to base and sides (VG).

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THE JANISSARIES
Written by Godfrey Goodwin.
Stock no. 1829119
Published by Saqi Books. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 288 pages. ISBN: 0863560490. Lower edge of boards lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Contents clean. Red dustwrapper is a little marked & scuffed, spine very slightly faded.

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AN ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF NORTH CYPRUS VOLUME 2: SEDGES, GRASSES AND FERNS
Written by D.E. Viney.
Stock no. 1828945
Published by A.R.G. Gantner. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w line drawings. xv and 167 pages including index. ISBN: 3904144049. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to title page. Second corrected printing. Cover corners lightly rubbed. Rear cover a little scuffed. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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AN ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF NORTH CYPRUS
Written by D.E. Viney.
Stock no. 1828879
Published by Koeltz Scientific Books. 1st 1994. Almost very good condition.

A comprehensive and fully illustrated Flora (grasses and sedges excepted). Cardwraps. Colour frontis and b/w line drawings. xxix and 697 pages. ISBN: 3874293645. SIGNED by the author with a gift inscription to title page. Pictorial cardwraps are a little creased and scuffed. Text block is browned. Joints are pulled but glued spine is tight. Inside front cover has ink scuffing from printing, small mark to frontis. Top corner of contents lightly creased else contents are clean.

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KARS: VICTORY INTO DEFEAT
Written by Anthony J. Rundell.
Stock no. 1827835
Published by Impress. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. SIGNED by the author 'to mark the 150th anniversary of the capitulation of Kars'. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly scuffed.

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THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF TURKEY
Written by Ekrem Akurgal.
Stock no. 1827153
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Eight eminent Turkish specialists have worked together to present this book, in all its variety, from prehistoric times to the end of the Ottoman Empire. A thorough introduction to a nation with a manifold tradition in the fine arts. Edited by Ekrem Akurgal. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos, b/w plans. A hefty volume. ISBN: 0192114514. Top edge of text block browned with some foxing and also some foxing to top of vertical edge. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top of spine and very lightly scuffed.

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NO STARS TO GUIDE
Written by Adrian Seligman. Illustrated by Konstance Pares.
Stock no. 1822832
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth. Folding maps. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. The story of a naval action in World War II around Turkey. Some foxing to spine and front board, top edge of front board a little grubby. Text block browned, some foxing. Browning to endpapers. A few foxspots to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is chipped at edges, browned and grubby. Musty odour present.

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ARMIES OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS 1300-1774 (MEN-AT-ARMS)
Written by David Nicolle. Illustrated by Angus McBride.
Stock no. 2134742
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1985. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w illustrations. Colour plates. ISBN: 0850455111. Spine is browned with bump to top.

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SADDLETRAMP
Written by Jeremy James.
Stock no. 2125821
Published by Merlin Unwin Books. 1st thus 2015. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the Ottoman Hills to Offa's Dyke on horseback. B/w photos. Originally published in 1989. ISBN: 9781910723005. Light bumping along cover edges. Contents are excellent. Wrapper is edge-creased with couple of nicks to corners.

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ICKALPAKCI CIKMAZI
Written by Kemal Cengizkan; Dora Gunel.
Stock no. 563278
Published by Fotografik Vizyon. 1st 2002. Fine condition.

Monograph of a dead-end street. B/w photographs of Turkey. Text in Turkish and English. Pictorial card wraps. ISBN: 9759269902. SIGNED by Cengizkan with an inscription to photographer David Hurn.

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