Edmondo De Amicis, “Costantinopoli”, Milano, Fratelli Treves, 1882. 4to, pp.441. Complete. Richly illustrated with an engraved title page, 16 full page and hundreds of woodcuts in text by C. Biseo. The book was written during a brief stay of the writer in Istanbul in 1874 and published few years later. Although a novel, it is considered as one of the best books written on Istanbul in the 19th century, providing vivid and almost cinematic descriptions of the city. Atabey 19 (for a French 1883 edition), Not in Blackmer.