[Turkey]. PARDOE (Julia). The beauties of the Bosphorus. By - Lot 144

[Turkey]. PARDOE (Julia). The beauties of the Bosphorus. By Miss Pardoe. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinopel and its environs from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett. London, Virtue 1838. In-4, [2] f. (title, dedication), 164 p., [1] fr., [1] illustrated title, [1] map, [78] plates, contemporary midnight-blue basane, smooth spine decorated with fillets and fleurons, green basane title-piece, boards edged with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt roulette at edges, cold-stamped roulette at bands, gilt edges (corners worn, tail cap torn off and reattached, stains on boards, a few sporadic halos, margins of port. a little soiled). Illustrated with steel-engraved plates: portrait of Julia Pardoe by Thomson after H. Room, illustrated title, and 78 plates of views of landscapes, buildings and scenes, after William H. Bartlett. The first plate and the one opposite p. 22 have been interchanged.