The Beauties of the Bosphorus... Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs from original drawings by William H. Bartlett.
London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue, 1838. 164 pp. + 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. frontis, title page vignette, 78 view plates, and 1 map. Sm. 4to. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, five raised bands ruled in gilt, four compartments with floral gilt decorations, two with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First edition. Very good, boards and extremities rubbed, owner's bookplate to free front end paper, small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first two preliminary leaves, tissue guard and engraved title foxed and offset, faint dampstain to lower inner corner, marginal only, scattered foxing to plates, nearly all marginal or on blank backs, otherwise plates are crisp, text clean, binding sold. A very handsome copy. Atabey 922; CBEL (3rd) IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 888. Item #31686
"This work had much influence in terms of increasing popular appreciation of its subject," (Blackmer Lib. p. 405).
Price: $1,200.00