A World of Books in Beyoglu Istanbul
For what number of decades have we been capable of watch what's going
on in the world from probably the most comfortable chair in our living
room? And today, the advantages that digital media have delivered to our
lives are too many to enumerate. With a telephone line and a keyboard,
we can now attain anywhere in the world, go to museums and galleries at
will, and skim the morning newspapers without walking to the native shop
in the morning. We can do banking transactions without going to the
financial institution, store without going to the retailers, chat with
our friends without assembly in a café, and even conduct love affairs
without a lover insight, via the Internet. All the ‘trouble’ of dealing
with store keepers, bank clerks, and likewise living with another person
could become a factor of the previous, and similarly, sooner or later,
there may be no need for newspapers or books.
But no, that may by no
means be, as a result of simply as many people can not expertise love
without touching, so they will still wish to maintain a newspaper or a
e-book of their hand.
After finding the guide they need on the
shelves, after working their fingers over the cover, they will
nonetheless want to buy it, yet keep it at their bedside till they've
completed studying it, and again put it away on a shelf afterward. And
these books which somebody keeps will in time discover new buyers and
new sellers, simply as they do at present. The story of Librairie de
Péra, which held its twenty ninth e-book public sale in November, can
also be the story of books that people kept and beloved and the story of
antiquarian and rare books in Turkey.
The history of Turkey’s
antiquarian guide sellers goes back centuries. When French envoy Antoine
Galland visited Turkey in 1672-1673, he wrote at size in his diary
concerning the antiquarian booksellers in the grand covered bazaar of
Istanbul. That was a time when bookselling was nonetheless a career with
its commerce guild closed to outsiders. After one of many fires which
incessantly swept by way of the town, the booksellers moved out of this
bazaar right into a small certainly one of their very own, at present’s
Beyazit Sahaflar Carsisi.
Meanwhile, the town’s Christian, Jewish and
Levantine communities had their booksellers on the road of
Yuksekkaldirim north of the Golden Horn. This well-known steep avenue
linking Karakoy on the shore to Istiklal Caddesi on the top of the hill
was once full of bookshops, and until the early years of the 20th-century books in each European language have been to be discovered here.
Librairie
de Péra is the one surviving consultant of the Yuksekkaldirim
booksellers today. It stands diagonally opposite the Galata Mevlevihane
dervish lodge (at present the Museum of Divan Literature). The
bookshop’s last owner, Talya Nomidis, inherited the store from her
father, Miltiadis Nomidis, a distinguished Byzantine archaeologist. Its
current owner is Ugur Guracar, who for years has passed his days within
the shop, not only selling books however discussing books with the
numerous who drop by.
He was still a college pupil when he took over
the store and its stock of three thousand books in 1984, on the
condition that he stored it as a bookshop. Today Librairie de Péra has a
listing of forty thousand books, not only in fashionable and Ottoman
Turkish, but additionally books about Turkey
in Arabic, Persian, English, German, French, Italian, Greek, Armenian,
Serbian and many other languages. He has six thousand local and two
thousand foreign customers. Life as an antiquarian bookshop proprietor
right now involves a bunch of concepts, like cataloging and library
applications, network, blanket orders, international library databases,
intranet, Internet, web sites, subscriptions, and standing orders.
The
antiquarian booksellers’ commerce suffered a lousy slump with the
transformations of the 1950s when the large old homes with room for
their libraries have been pulled down to make way for blocks of flats,
and the books went out with the old furnishings, pouring onto the market
in huge quantities.
Just as the furnishings that at one time was
offered by the kilo now sells for astronomical sums at public sale, so
old books at the moment are valued once once more. Although Ugur Guracar
studied politics and digital engineering at university, he has been an
antiquarian e-book vendor for the past fifteen years and is the
proprietor of Turkey’s oldest bookshop. He also organized the primary
public book auction held in Turkey since Ottoman instances.
While a
few of his clients are nonetheless passers-by and guide lovers who keep
to speak about books over tea and low, the bulk are researchers into
Turkey and the Middle East, establishments, universities, and libraries
in Turkey and everywhere in the world. Librairie de Péra began
organizing auctions in 1985. Guracar explains that considered one of his
goals was to restore the popularity of antiquarian booksellers as a
respected career at a time once they had been dismissed as merely a type
of junk vendor. So far, these auctions have found new owners for five
thousand books.
The latest public sale held as ordinary on the Pera
Palas Hotel supplied on the market not only antiquarian and rare books
however manuscripts, Ottoman bindings, maps, illustrations, prints,
signed books, and paperwork, ranging in value from 10 to 1000 Turkish
liras ($1.50-$one hundred fifty). All these books and paperwork are
rare, however for numerous causes. What are these reasons? Guracar
explains. ‘You have a look at the binding, for example, and see that it
is made of leather tanned so many years ago by craftsman X, from the
cover of goats on mountain Z!
The typeface is not used by any printer
anyplace on the earth, the marbling is of a sort that no one is able to
duplicating at present, or it's printed on paper from one other era. Of
course, you must bear in mind the wear and tear of time. Both materials
and the craftsmen who made them belong to an extended-gone past. Just
as it is unimaginable to commission an antiquarian Greek statue right
now, so you cannot reproduce such a guide. That is what an antiquarian
e-book is!’
And what does Guracar take into consideration promoting
antiquarian books over the Internet? ‘The Internet is only a vehicle for
folks to seek out the books they're looking for. But it's a compelling
vehicle. People today haven't obtained the time to go looking for their
groceries, by no means mind search by way of tons of of books in
antiquarian bookshops. Instead, wherever there's a pc and a phone line
out there, you could have solely to enter such info because the writer,
title, publication date, publisher, or subject to rapidly discover the
books during which you have an interest from amongst thousands. This is
an indispensable device for the one who is aware of what they are on the
lookout for. For example, we've a website that presently presents
twenty-5 thousand old and rare book titles. Very soon, all our actions,
even the auctions, will take place over the Internet, and I is not going
to even have to go away my tiny shop!’





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