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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.
by MAC FARLANE, CHARLES
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Somerville, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London, Saunders and Otley, 1829.. 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. 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.
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- Time Booksellers
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- 103545
- 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.
- Author
- MAC FARLANE, CHARLES
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London, Saunders and Otley, 1829.
- Keywords
- Travel Turkey Constantinople Military
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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