Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 4627. Estimate $30.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Berry, Burton Y. Out of the Past: The Istanbul Grand Bazaar. (New York, 1977). 192 pages, which includes 61 plates of coins and other objects. An account of the author's sojourn as an American consular official in Istanbul in the 1920's and 30's, when he accumulated a remarkable collection of antiquities and antiques. Besides Greek and Byzantine coins, there are discussions of jewelry and gemstones, bronzes, silverware and rugs. Red leatherette covers with pictorial dust jacket. Fine condition, bottom of covers shelf worn. ($30)