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The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1837), by Miss Pardoe
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Diary of a Turk (London: A. and C. Black, 1903), by Çerkesşeyhizade Halil Halit
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text
The Real Turk (Boston et al.: Pilgrim Press, c1914), by Stanwood Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Turks in Europe: A Sketch of Manners and Politics in the Ottoman Empire (London: Chapman and Hall, 1853), by Bayle St. John (page images at HathiTrust)
Eastern Life and Scenery, With Excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Roumania (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1886), by Mary A. Walker
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
My Reminiscenses (London: J. Murray, 1918), by Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt, contrib. by Sir Rosslyn Wester Wemyss
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Oriental Harems and Scenery (New York: Carleton, 1862), by Cristina Belgioioso
- page images at HathiTrust
- page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
A Turkish Woman's European Impressions (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by Zeyneb Hanoum, ed. by Grace Ellison, illust. by Auguste Rodin (page images at HathiTrust)
A Turkish Woman's European Impressions (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Zeyneb Hanoum, ed. by Grace Ellison, illust. by Auguste Rodin
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Islam, Turkey, and Armenia, and How They Happened: Turkish Mysteries Unveiled (St. Louis: Press of C. B. Woodward Co., c1898), by Sadik Shahid Bey
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
My Russian and Turkish Journals (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Russian and Turkish Journals (London: J. Murray, 1917), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The People of Turkey: Twenty Years Residence Among Bulgarians, Greek, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1878), by Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt, ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)
L'odyssée d'un ambassadeur. Les voyages du marquis de Nointel (1670-1680) (Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1900), by Albert Vandal, Ramón de Dalmau y de Olivart Olivart, and Charles François Ollier Nointel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The real Turk (The Pilgrim Press, 1914), by Stanwood Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. In a series of letters from the Right Honourable Elizabeth lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandebourg, Anspach, and Bareith. (G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789), by Elizabeth Craven Craven (page images at HathiTrust)
A residence in Greece and Turkey; with notes of the journey through Bulgaria, Servia, Hungary, and the Balkan. (Whittaker & Co., 1837), by Francis Hervé (page images at HathiTrust)
The women of Turkey and their folk-lore (D. Nutt, 1890), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and John Stuart Stuart Glennie (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea. (H. Colburn, 1839), by Edmund Spenser (page images at HathiTrust)
An American among the Orientals ... (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1855), by James E. P. Boulden (page images at HathiTrust)
The diary of a Turk. (A. and C. Black, 1903), by Çerkesşeyhizade Halil Halit (page images at HathiTrust)
The soul of a Turk. (J. Lane, 1910), by Victoria Alexandrina De Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust)
Home life in Turkey. (The Macmillan company, 1909), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkish life in town and country (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Portrait of a Turkish family. (Macmillan, 1950), by Irfan Orga (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the sultan, and domestic manners of the Turks in 1836 (Henry Colburn, 1837), by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)
Everyday life in Turkey. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1897), by Agnes Dick Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
Romance of a harem, (Greening & co., ltd., 1904), by Clarence Forestier-Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geistliches und weltliches aus dem türkischgriechischen Orient. Selbsterlebtes und selbstgesehenes (B.G. Teubner, 1900), by Heinrich Gelzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historia da vida, conquistas, e religião de Mafoma, e do governo civil e militar do Imperio Ottomano, dos empregos, e funções religiosas, e de algumas particularidades curiosas do mesmo Imperio da Turquia. (Na Offic. de S.T. Ferreira, 1791), by João José Pereira (page images at HathiTrust)
Çerkes kadınları (Zarafet matbaası, 1914), by Mehmet Fetgerey Şuenu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Türk eli kış ve dağ ahvali. (Erkan-ı Harbiye-yi Umumiye Talim ve Terbiye Dairesi, 1927), by Müşir Fevzi and Turkey. Ordu. Erkan-ı Harbiye-yi Umumiye Riyaseti. Coğrafya Encümeni (page images at HathiTrust)
Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. (Nepveu, 1812), by A. L. Castellan (page images at HathiTrust)
Geistliches und Weltliches aus dem türkisch-griechischeng Orient (B.G. Teubner, 1900), by Heinrich Gelzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Turkey, being sketches from life (G. Routledge, 1877), by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkish life and character. (Smith, Elder & co., 1860), by Walter Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem (Methuen & Co. ltd., 1915), by Grace Ellison and Edward Granville Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkish life in town and country (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1911), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
The spirit of the East, illustrated in a journal of travels through Roumeli during an eventful period. (H. Colburn, 1839), by David Urquhart (page images at HathiTrust)
The Turkish people, their social life, religious beliefs and institutions, and domestic life (Methuen & co., 1909), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Spunyarn from the strands of a sailor's life afloat and ashore; forty-seven years under the ensigns of Great Britain and Turkey (Hutchinson & co., 1924), by Henry Felix Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary &c. : including a steam voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836 (Henry Colburn, 1838), by Edmund Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
The Turkish question (William Taylor, 1854), by Adam G. De Gurowski (page images at HathiTrust)
La Turquie officielle; Constantinople, son gouvernement, ses habitants, son présent et son avenir (Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1891), by P.-A. Desjardin (page images at HathiTrust)
The spirit of the East (London : Henry Colburn, 1839., 1839), by David Urquhart and Henry Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Costume de la Turquie. (Printed for W. Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1804), by Octavian Dalvimart and William Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
Religious and social life in the Orient (Printed for the author, by Wise & Van Horn, 1889), by K Basmajian (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern movements among Moslems. (Fleming H. Revell company, 1916), by Samuel Graham Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social and religious life in the Orient ... (American tract society, 1890), by Krikor Hagop Basmajian (page images at HathiTrust)
Türkische Geschichten. (Josef Singer, 1909), by Pascal David (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Wesen des Osmanen; ein Berater für Orientfahrer. (Roland Verlag, 1916), by Else Marquardsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Esquisses des mœurs turques au xixe siècle, ou, Scènes populaires, usages religieux, cérémonies publiques, vie intérieure, habitudes sociales, idées politiques des mahométans, en forme de dialogues (Moutardier, 1827), by Grēgorios Palaiologos (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Geist des Orients erläutert in einem Tagebuche über Reisen durch Rumili während eine ereignissreichen Zeit. (J.G. Cott, 1839), by David Urquhart and Friedrich Georg Buek (page images at HathiTrust)
Sittenbilder aus dem Morgenlande. (A. Hofmann & co., 1876), by Ármin Vámbéry (page images at HathiTrust)
A török birodalom leírása, történeti, statistikai és geographiai tekintetben. (Heckenast, 1854), by Elek Fényes (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of a visit to Constantinople : and some of the Greek islands, in the spring and summer of 1833 (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835), by John Auldjo (page images at HathiTrust)
A Turkish woman's European impressions (J.B. Lippincott Company;, 1913), by hanum Zeyneb and Grace Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)
The Sultan and his people. (Derby & Jackson;, 1857), by C. Oscanyan (page images at HathiTrust)
Scènes de la vie turque (Michel Lévy frères, 1858), by Cristina Belgioioso (page images at HathiTrust)
My Russian and Turkish journals (John Murray, 1916), by Hariot Georgina Hamilton Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of Melek-Hanum, wife of H.H. Kibrizli-Mehemet-Pasha (Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1872), by Malik-Khanam, Albert Howe Lybyer, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
The soul of a Turk (J. Lane, 1910), by Victoria Alexandrina Buxton De Bunsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The secret of the Near East; slavery of women, social, religious and economic life in the Near East (Philadelphia, Pa., 1923), by George M. Lamsa (page images at HathiTrust)
The Tcherkess and his victim : sketches illustrative of the moral, social, and political aspects of life in Constantinople (J. Hodges, 1880), by Resident of the last three years (page images at HathiTrust)
Les Turcs chez les Turcs (M. Dreyfous, 1878), by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Felaketten i̇bret (Cemiyet Kütüphanesi :, 1915), by Selânikli Fatma İclâl (page images at HathiTrust)
Türkische Frauen (A. Hertz, 1916), by Franz Carl Endres (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Souvenirs anecdotiques sur la Turquie (1820-1870) (Firmin-Didot, 1884), by Karolyna Czajkowska Suchodolska (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey and the Turks (Mills & Boon, limited, 1911), by Z. Duckett Ferriman (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkish life in town & country (G. Newnes, limited, 1904), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
Descripción geográfica, política, militar, civil y religiosa del imperio Otomano... : extractada de varios obras antiguas y modernas (Imprenta de M. de Burgos, 1827), by Vicente Antonio Roger y Coma (page images at HathiTrust)
Le mal d'Orient, par Kesnin Bey : Réfutation ([s.n.], 1888), by Ermite d'Alem-dagh (page images at HathiTrust)
A military consul in Turkey; the experiences & impressions of a British representative in Asia Minor (Seeley, 1910), by Arthur FitzHenry Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the Bosphorus: doings in the city of the sultan. Turkey, past and present (H.S. Nichols, 1895), by W. J. J. Spry (page images at HathiTrust)
Observations on the religion, law, government, and manners, of the Turks ... (J. Nourse, 1768), by James Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Sword of Mohammed (National Pub. Co., 1896), by Frederick Davis Greene and Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, etc., including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea in 1836. (Gregg International Pub., 1971), by Edmund Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the sultan, and domestic manners of the Turks in 1836 (H. Colburn, 1837), by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of travels through Roumeli during an eventful period. (H. Colburn, 1838), by David Urquhart (page images at HathiTrust)
Trente ans dans les harems d'Orient : souvenirs intimes, 1840-1870 (E. Dentu, 1875), by Melek-Hanum (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Turkei : Bilder und Skizzen von Land und Volk (C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (O. Beck), 1916), by Franz Carl Endres (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
My Russian and Turkish journals (C. Scribner's sons, 1916), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey and the Turks: being the present state of the Ottoman empire. (R. Tyas, 1840), by John Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
Domestic manners of the Turks in 1844 (H. Colburn, 1846), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the sultan, and domestic manners of the Turks; with a steam voyage up the Danube. (Routledge, 1854), by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey: being sketches from life (G. Routledge, 1855), by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Profetens söner : bilder från Turkiet (Åhlén & Åkerlund, 1912), by Carl Ramberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Petit tracté de l'origine des Turcqz (E. Leroux, 1971), by Theodoros Spandouginos and Charles Henri Auguste Schefer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The present state of the Ottoman Empire; containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion ... their military discipline, with an exact computation of their forces both by land and sea. Illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture, representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks (J. Starkey and H. Browne, 1670), by Paul Rycaut (page images at HathiTrust)
De Tvrcarvm moribvs epitome, Bartholomaeo Georgieuiz peregrino auctore. (Tornaesivsm, 1578), by Bartolomej Georgijević (page images at HathiTrust)
An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem (McBride, Nast, 1915), by Grace Ellison and Edward Granville Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Eastern life and scenery : with excursions in Asia Minor, Mytilene, Crete, and Roumania (Chapman & Hall, 1886), by Mary A. Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
Behind Turkish lattices, the story of a Turkish woman's life ... (Lippincott, 1911), by Hester Donaldson Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
My Russian and Turkish journals (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust)
Prikli︠u︡chenīi︠a︡ cheshskago dvori︠a︡nina Vratislava v Konstantinopoli︠e︡ v ti︠a︡zhkoĭ nevoli︠e︡ u turok, s avstrīĭskim posolʹstvom 1591 goda (Tip. Ministerstva puteĭ soobshchenīi︠a︡ (A. Benke), 1877), by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic (page images at HathiTrust)
Âdab-i muaşeret hasbıhalleri (Türk Ocakları Merkez Heyeti Matbaası, 1927), by Saffeti Ziya Mustafa (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the present state of the Ottoman Empire : containing the maxims of the Turkish polity, the most material points of the Mahometan religion, their sects and heresies, their convents and religious votaries : their military discipline, with an exact computation of their forces both by sea and land : illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks : in three books (s.n., 2003), by Paul Rycaut (page images at HathiTrust)
Two lectures. Lecture I. Turkey and Russia: with a map showing the position of both armies in the principalities ... Lecture II. The exile in a foreign land: a poetical sketch. (Steam power press of Abbott, Jenks & co., 1854), by Louis Kazinski (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkish life in town and country (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
The Turkish art of love. (Priv. print., The Panurge Press, 1933), by Pinhas Nahum (page images at HathiTrust)
A day in the Turkish press. (American Universities Field Staff, 1955), by Richard D. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey and the Turks. (James Pott, 1911), by Z. Duckett Ferriman (page images at HathiTrust)
Pera und Stambul (G. Kiepenheuer, 1915), by Max Rudolf Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Moeurs et coutumes (Etablissements généraux d'imprimerie, 1907), by Commandant Baltia (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey and the turks : or, Historical sketches of the rise, progress, and present condition of the Ottoman Empire (J. Madden, 1854), by Fred Arthur Neale (page images at HathiTrust)
A Turkish woman's impressions (Seeley, Service, 1913), by Zeyneb Hanoum and Grace Mary Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)
Alt-Stambuler Hof- und Volksleben : ein türkisches Miniaturenalbum aus dem 17. Jahrhundert (Orient-Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, 1925), by Franz Taeschner (page images at HathiTrust)
Evliya Çelebi seyahatnamesi (Ikdam Matbaasi, 1898), by Evliya Çelebi (page images at HathiTrust)
The city of the Sultan, and domestic manners of the Turks, in 1836 (H. Colburn, 1838), by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)
La fin de Stamboul; le décor--les survivances--les fantômes humains--les cendres. (E. Sansot, 1921), by Henri Myles (page images at HathiTrust)
Turkey, being a description of the manners, customs, dresses and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of the Turkish empire; to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of the Turks: (H. Cowperthwait, 1829), by A. L. Castellan and Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey: Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians, by Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt, ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole (Gutenberg ebook)
The Sultan and His People, by C. Oscanyan (Gutenberg ebook)
The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Miss Pardoe (Gutenberg ebook)
The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Miss Pardoe (Gutenberg ebook)
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833, by John Auldjo (Gutenberg ebook)
The Turkish history from the original of that nation, to the growth of the Ottoman empire with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours / by Richard Knolles ... ; with a continuation to this present year MDCLXXXVII ; whereunto is added, The present state of the Ottoman empire, by Sir Paul Rycaut ... (London : Printed for Tho. Basset ..., 1687-1700), by Richard Knolles, Paul Rycaut, Edward Grimeston, Thomas Roe, and Roger Manley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A new survey of the Turkish empire and government in a brief history deduced to this present time, and the reign of the now Grand Seignior, Mahomet the IV, the present and XIV emperor : with their laws, religion, and customs : as also an account of the siege of Newhausel. (London : Printed for Henry Marsh ..., 1663), by Henry Marsh (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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