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Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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James Bryce on the Armenian genocide
BRYCE, JAMES Viscount
The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916. Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs By Viscount Bryce With a preface by Viscount Bryce. London: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, 1916. Bound in publisher's original printed blue boards, preserved in a new cloth folding box, leather spine. xlii, 684, [2] pp. Includes one folding color map. The spine cracked with some small pieces of the buckram missing, but holding robustly on the tapes.
An account of the genocide and forced migration of the Armenians instigated by the Ottoman government during the First World War. This government publication contains a series of accounts gathered by Viscount Bryce and sent to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The majority of the letters and narratives are eyewitness accounts, many of them from neutral witnesses, reporting on the atrocities they saw. Other contributors include Armenians who were able to get their letters to neutral ground or who were lucky enough to get to neutral territory. A much smaller portion of these reports come from subjects of the "Belligerent" powers, mostly German, who published these accounts in their own countries.
In addition to these first-hand accounts, there are indices dedicated to various statistics: Armenian school populations within Turkey, racial components of various villages within Turkey, and a special report by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief outlying the extent of the catastrophe and needs of survivors. The last letter contained within this document is a chilling reminder that history tends to repeat itself. Mr. N., writing from Constantinople, relays what the German relief efforts in Turkey have found: "there appears, in short, to be steady policy to exterminate people, but to deny the charge of massacre. Their destruction from so-called natural causes seems decided upon."
James Bryce (1838-1922) had been interested in the Eastern Question since he published Transcaucasia in 1877. Bryce became Viscount Bryce in 1914. That year he chaired the Bryce commission on war atrocities and was a member of the small group that promoted a League of Nations. He was also an avid supporter of the rights of disintegration of the Turkish empire in 1918 (Cannon, p 134). Bryce, in a letter to Grey dated July 1, 1916, states for the reasons for this collection: first, to record memory while it is still fresh in the mind and secondly, to record these events for when, "at the end of the present way, a political re-settlement of the Nearer East has to be undertaken."
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BRYCE, JAMES Viscount
The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916. Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs By Viscount Bryce With a preface by Viscount Bryce. London: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, 1916. Bound in publisher's original printed blue boards, preserved in a new cloth folding box, leather spine. xlii, 684, [2] pp. Includes one folding color map. The spine cracked with some small pieces of the buckram missing, but holding robustly on the tapes.
An account of the genocide and forced migration of the Armenians instigated by the Ottoman government during the First World War. This government publication contains a series of accounts gathered by Viscount Bryce and sent to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The majority of the letters and narratives are eyewitness accounts, many of them from neutral witnesses, reporting on the atrocities they saw. Other contributors include Armenians who were able to get their letters to neutral ground or who were lucky enough to get to neutral territory. A much smaller portion of these reports come from subjects of the "Belligerent" powers, mostly German, who published these accounts in their own countries.
In addition to these first-hand accounts, there are indices dedicated to various statistics: Armenian school populations within Turkey, racial components of various villages within Turkey, and a special report by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief outlying the extent of the catastrophe and needs of survivors. The last letter contained within this document is a chilling reminder that history tends to repeat itself. Mr. N., writing from Constantinople, relays what the German relief efforts in Turkey have found: "there appears, in short, to be steady policy to exterminate people, but to deny the charge of massacre. Their destruction from so-called natural causes seems decided upon."
James Bryce (1838-1922) had been interested in the Eastern Question since he published Transcaucasia in 1877. Bryce became Viscount Bryce in 1914. That year he chaired the Bryce commission on war atrocities and was a member of the small group that promoted a League of Nations. He was also an avid supporter of the rights of disintegration of the Turkish empire in 1918 (Cannon, p 134). Bryce, in a letter to Grey dated July 1, 1916, states for the reasons for this collection: first, to record memory while it is still fresh in the mind and secondly, to record these events for when, "at the end of the present way, a political re-settlement of the Nearer East has to be undertaken."
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Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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