Author: JEAN BRINDESI and JAMES ROBERTSON [after]
Title: Souvenirs de Constantinople.
Description: Trieste: Lloyd, c. 1855. Oblong 4to. 235 x 330 mm. 28 steel engraved plates after paintings by Jean Brindesi [7 plates] and photographs by James Robertson [21 plates]. No title page as issued. Decorated cloth, gilt, cloth, worn, especially on the spine and old water stain on inner bottom corner margins of plates 24 - 28, not encroaching onto the printed image apart from very slightly on the final print. Scarce. Worldcat lists 4 copies: BL, St Andrews, Metropolitan Museum NY and the Getty Research Institute. Sotheby's sold a copy with a torn plate in 2002 for £1,300.

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