The Beauties Of the Bosphorus

London: George Virtue, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. The British travel writer Julia S. H. Pardoe (1806-62), who, suffering from consumption, had been taken south early in her youth, accompanied her father to Constantinople in 1835 and was famous for her literary reports on Portugal and the Near East even as a child. "Since Lady… Read more about this item

London: Virtue and Co., c. 1840. Occasional browning otherwise in very good condition. Plates are clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemoprary crimson half morocco with pebbled cloth boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on 2. Dense gilt ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. All edges gilt. Pasted and free marbled endpapers.… Read more about this item

London: Virtue & Co., [n.d.] c. 1840. A fine example of this popular 19th century plate book, plates and text are clean and crisp.. Binding: Recent ½ calf with matching marble boards, gilt spine with 6 compartments with raised bands, black morocco label on two, edges marbled. , Notes: Miss Pardoe, an English author, travelled to Turkey… Read more about this item

Hardcover. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.