[Turkey]. - Lot 36

[Turkey]. PARDOE (Julia). The Beauties of the Bosphorus. By Miss Pardoe. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett. London, Virtue, 1838. In-4, [2] ff (title, dedication), 164 pp, frontispiece, engraved title, map and 78 plates in black. Contemporary midnight-blue basane, smooth spine decorated with fillets and fleurons, green basane title-piece, boards edged with a set of gilt and cold fillets, gilt roulette at the necks, cold roulette at the endpapers, gilt edges (corners worn, tail cap torn off and reattached, stains on boards, a few sporadic halos, some soiling). Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) was an English poet, historian and travel writer. She presents Ottoman Turkish high society with sympathy and humanity, and her text is rich in her many observations on life and architecture. 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 here. Blackmer, 405.