Bartlett/Pardoe :”The Beauties of the Bosphorus “.London [c.1840]

First complete edition. Tall in 4to 28x22cm,contemporary leather over boards slightly rubbed,, upper cover almost detached, edges gold, complete 2 frontis portraits,172p.,2 maps and 84 plates, as called for, text and plates clean and bright, overall in very good condition.

The complete edition has 6 more plates than an earlier one which appeared few years before. Bartlett s richly illustrated travel account for the Levant, with eighty four (84) beautiful full page lithographed views of Constantinople and other places in the Levant remain a classic for every collector. It was amongst the most popular travel accounts since its publication almost 200 years before. Atabey 922,Blackmer 1253