Koç University Digital Collections
KU Digital Collections provide access to over 210,000 digitized or born-digital images in the Koç University collections featuring prints, photographs, slides, maps, newspapers, posters, postcards, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. The collections consist of the materials of the Koç University Libraries and Archives (AKMED, ANAMED, SKL, and VEKAM), Koç University Faculty and Departments, and projects carried out in partnership with the Koç University Libraries.
Koç University Libraries have invested in developing and further growing valuable collections of rare material. Unique items that include books, manuscripts, slides, photos, personal correspondence, official documents, architectural designs, maps, sound recordings, and more comprise a treasure which documents the past.
Among these, travel books of explorers, travelers, pilgrims, archaeologists, wanderers, expatriates, diplomats and scholars who documented their experiences from places their eyes saw and their soul captivated.
After all...
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Selection of rare material
Selection of rare material
Books in the rare book collection include many materials originally written in languages other than modern Turkish, including Ottoman Turkish, English, French, Latin, Arabic and Persian. General subject boundaries are 19th and 20th century Turkish literature, İstanbul (written about by travelers from abroad), the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and their foreign affairs, the Turkish revolution and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. These titles are highly valuable for researchers who work in these subject areas.
Here are some of the titles, for you to have a first glimpse of the treasures we will reveal in this thematic exhibition.
- Evliya Çelebi seyahatnamesi / müellifi, Evliya Çelebi, Mehmed Zillî ibn-i Derviş; tab-ı: Ahmet Cevdet.
- A voyage into the Levant: a brief relation of a journey, lately performed by master H.B. Gentleman
- Kurtzer Außzug der Reysbeschreibung nach Constantinopel und Jerusalem : mit Fig
- Voyage de Constantinople Bassora en 1781 par le Tigre et l'Euphrate et retour Constantinople en 1782 par le dsert et Alexandrie
- Constantinople byzantine et les voyageurs du Levant
- Hac yolunda
- Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz : What he saw in the Turkish metropolis, Constantinople
- Voyage du Sieur Paul Lucas, fait par ordre du roi dans La Grace, L'Asie Mineure, La Macédoine et L'Afrique
- Voyages and travels, ancient and modern
- Turkey at the crossroads : a pictorial record
- Anadolu
- Anatolica : or, The journal of a visit to some of the ancient ruined cities of Caria, Phrygia, Lycia, and Pisidia
- Antalya livası tarihi
- Constantinople and its environs
- Dar-ul-Islam : a record of a journey through ten of the Asiatic provinces of Turkey
- Journal d'un voyage dans la Turquie-d'Asie et la Perse, fait en 1807 et 1808
- Life in Asiatic Turkey : a journal of travel in Cilicia (Pedias and Trachoea), Isauria, and parts of Lycaonia and Cappadocia
- A voyage to Levant
- A military tour in European Turkey : the Crimea and on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea
- Picturesque sketches of Greece and Turkey
- Souvenirs d'un voyage en Asie Mineure
- Travels into Turkey
- Guide du voyageur en Orient illustré
- A tour to the East, in the years 1763 and 1764
- Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801
- A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople : during the years 1809 and 1810
- Alman gezginlerin gözüyle 19. yüzyıl Anadolu şehirleri : Manisa, Edirne, Kütahya, Ankara, İstanbul, Trabzon, Antalya, Diyarbakır, Konya, İzmir
- Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore : d'apres les dessins de M. Melling