PARDOE JULIA / BARTLETT W. H., “THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS; by Miss Pardoe / Author of "The City of the Sultan" / Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its Environs / from Original Drawings by William H. Bartlett”, London, Georg Virtue and Ivy Lane, 1838. FIRST EDITION, in 4to. Pp. (vi), 3-164. With 78 steel-engraved plates, plus an engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs Pardoe; engraved extra title and one engraved map. Contemporary half leather (spine and corners) on thick carton boards; spine lettered and decorated in gilt, rubbed and cracked on front joints - front cover semi-detached. Occasionally some light staining and foxing inside; clean and tight though. Gold edge pages. Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), a British poet, writer and traveler, visited Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe, and stayed there during the years 1836-37. After Lady Montague (1717-18), Pardoe is the first to penetrate women’s everyday life in the Ottoman Empire. Her comprehensive work, “The Beauties of the Bosphorus”, about the city and its people and customs became very popular at the time, not least dependent on the beautiful illustrations after William Henry Bartlett. The plates depict wonderful views, like the mausoleum and the mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent, Hamam scenes, the Armory Bazzar, scenes from Scutari (Üsküdar) including the cemetery and fountain, etc. Several editions appeared. Atabey 922. Blackmer 1254. Robinson p. 190.