The Beauties of the Bosphorus: Illustrated In a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its...

London: George Virtue, no date [circa 1840].
Quarto, 22x27cm. 164pp.
Full contemporary dark green morocco, boards and spine decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Vignette title page and 80 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, all after drawings by William H. Bartlett.
Rebacked, retaining the endpapers and most of the backstrip. Rubbed. Corners bumped and heavily worn, one with loss. Armorial bookplate. Marginal dampstaining to the frontis and vignette. Foxing to some plates, but mostly fresh and bright. One ink gift inscription on the title page, another on the first page of text. Good condition. beh




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