Istanbul

· S. Gerasimos, La fondation de Constantinople et de Saint-Sophie dans les traditions turques (Paris, 1990)

Donald Nicol trans., Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors (Cambridge, 1997)

· Donald Preziosi, 'Byzantine Constantinople & Ottoman Istanbul : evolution in a millennial imperial iconography' in The Ottoman city and its parts : urban structure and social order, edited by Irene A. Bierman, Rifa'at A. Abou-El-Haj, Donald Preziosi (New Rochelle, N.Y : A.D. Caratzas, c1991.)

· Philip Mansel, Constantinople, City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 (London, 1995). Chapter 1

Early Visitors

· Pierre Gilles, 1490-1555, De topographia Constantinopoleos (1561), translated as The antiquities of Constantinople : (London, 1729) Reprinted (Italica Press, 1986) See the book, first page online

· Rosaccio, Giuseppe, ca. 1530-ca. 1620, Viaggio da Venetia : a Costantinopoli per mare, e per terra & insieme quello di terra santa Da Gioseppe Rosaccio con brevita descritto. (Venice, 1598., reprinted Rome : Edizioni della Laguna, 1992)

· Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph, Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople : Enrichie de plans levez par l'auteur sur les lieux, et des figures de tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable dans cette ville Presentée au roy. (Paris : Chez la veuve de D. Foucault, 1681).

· Lavergne, Gabriel Joseph de, Comte de Guilleragues, Relation veritable de ce qui est passe a Constantinople avec M. de Guilleragues, Ambassadeur de France. (Paris: P. de Touche, Chio, 1682).

· De Carbognano, Cosimo Comidas, fl. 1750-1800, Descrizione topografica dello stato presente di Costantinopoli arricchita di figure ed. Vincenzo Ruggieri (Roma : Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1992.) Facsimile reprint of edition originally published Bassano, 1794.

· James Dallaway, Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the archipelago and to the Troad (1797)

· Sutton, Robert. The despatches of Sir Robert Sutton, ambassador in Constantinople ... 1953

· Embassy to Constantinople : the travels of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , edited and compiled by Christopher Pick (1988)

The nineteenth century

· Bourlet de Vauxcelles, Simon-Jacques. Lettres sur Constantinople, de M. l'abbe Sevin (1802)

· Castellan, A. L. Lettres sur la Grèce, l'Hellespont, et Constantinople : faisant suite aux lettres sur la Morée (1811)

· C. MacFarlane, Constantinople in 1828 : a residence of sixteen years , 2d ed (1829)

· Xenos, Stefanos Th. The devil in Turkey, or, Scenes in Constantinople (1851)

· L. Enault, Constantinople et la Turquie : tableau historique, pittoresque, statistique et moral de l'Empire Ottoman (1855)

· T. Allom, Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor [1845?]

· A. Smith, A month at Constantinople (London : D. Bogue, 1851)

· C. Sinaites, Constantiniade : ou description de Constantinople, composee par un Philologue et Archeologue. (1861)

· C. Smith, The embassy of Sir William White at Constantinople , 1886-1891 (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979)

· L. Rousset, De Paris a Constantinople 2nd ed (1892)

· F. Elliot, Diary of an idle woman in Constantinople (1893)

· F. Marion Crawford, Constantinople illustrated by Edwin L. Weeks. (1895)

· E. de Amicis, Constantinople , translated from the Italian by Caroline Tilton. [1896]

The twentieth century

· V. Fane, Betwixt two seas : poems and ballads (written at Constantinople and Therapia). 1900

· H. O. Dwight, Constantinople and its problems : its peoples, customs, religions and progress (1901)

· E. Driault, Before Constantinople (1919)

· G. Washburn, Fifty years in Constantinople and recollections of Robert College (1909)

· Ellenikos filologikos sullogos, Istanbul. Pentekontaeteris, 1861-1911 . (1913-1921)

· E. Pears, Forty Years in Constantinople : Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873-1915 (1916; reprinted)

· G. La Rochefoucauld, Constantinople avec Loti c1928

Rediscovery

· W. R. Lethaby, The church of Sancta Sophia Constantinople : a study of Byzantine building (1894)

· Bey Jalal Asad, Constantinople de Byzance à Stamboul (1909)

· N. B. Teteriatnikov, The Fossati restoration and the work of the Byzantine Institute (Washington, 1998).

· W. S. George, The church of Saint Eirene at Constantinople (1913)

· J. Ebersolt, Mission archéologique de Constantinople (Paris 1921)

Crisis

· L. D. Einstein, Inside Constantinople : a diplomatist's diary during the Dardanelles Expedition, April-September, 1915. (1917)

· H. Stürmer, Deux ans de guerre à Constantinople : études de morale et politique allemandes et jeunes-turques. (1917)

· H. Morgenthau, Extracts from ambassador Henry Morgenthau's "Secrets of the Bosphorus" : Constantinople 1913-1916. [n.d]

· A. M. Andreades, De la population de Constantinoples [sic] sous les empereurs byzantins (1920)

· R. Puaux, Constantinople et la question d'Orient (1920)

· D. H. Loch, Constantinople during the crisis (1923)

· The present danger to the oecumenical patriarchate : report of public meeting held at University College, London, 17th March 1925 (1925)

Travel

· George Young, Constantinople (1926)

· E. Mamboury, The Tourists' Istanbul (Istanbul, 1953)

· Harold Lamb, Constantinople, birth of an empire. (1958)

· Philip Sherrard, Constantinople : iconography of a sacred city (1965)

· Michael Maclagan, The city of Constantinople (1968)

· H. Sumner-Boyd and John Freely, Strolling through Istanbul (Istanbul 1972)

· David Jacobs, Cyril A. Mango, Constantinople: City on the Golden Horn

· Patrick Leigh Fermor , Between the woods and the water : on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland : the middle Danube to the Iron Gates

· Isaac Asimov , Constantinople; The Forgotten Empire.

· W. Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain (London, 1997)

· John Freely, Istanbul : The Imperial City (Penguin, 1998)

· John Freely, The companion guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara (Woodbridge, 2000).

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