Author: MAC FARLANE, CHARLES. Title: Constantinople In 1828. A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and provinces with an Account of the present State of the naval and Military Power, and of the Resources of the Ottaman Empire. To which is added An appendix, containing Remarks and Observations To The autumn of 1829. Two Volumes.
Description: Second Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. Vol. I. xxviii, 517; Vol. II. viii, 491; two hand-coloured frontispieces of costume, one folding plate of antiquities, and one folding plate "View of Constantinople from the Hills behind Scutari' (this plate is often missing from volume two, contemporary half calf, brown morocco spine labels, title lettered in gilt on each volume, covers rubbed, endpapers a little browned, a good set. London, Saunders and Otley, 1829. Authors first-hand account of 19th-century Turkish life, both military and civilian. This second edition was published in the same year as the first and includes the Appendix not present in the first edition.
Keywords: Travel Turkey Constantinople Military
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