Lot 08111

“THE MILITARY COSTUMES OF TURKEY”, London, Published by Thomas McLean, January 1, 1818, [1823].

FOLIO, COMPLETE with frontispiece, engraved title page and 29 full-page aquatints all hand-coloured. Printed on paper watermarked “1823”.

Exceptionally decorative book, illustrated with hand-colored engraved aquatint plates of military costumes of the Ottoman Empire, by John Heaviside Clark after original drawings by Octavien Dalvimart.

The frontispiece is a portrait of the dedicatee, His Excellency Antonaki Ramadani, minister of the Ottoman Porte to his Britannic Majesty while Plate I “Grand Vizier” refers to the large hand-coloured vignette on title-page. The descriptions of Turkish military costumes are in English.

Contemporary red dyed straight grain full Morocco with boards, spine, turn-ins & edges decorated in gilt. External heavy wear: front board detached, rubbing, slightly chipped spine  edges. Plates traces over attaching text sheets, just occasional spotting.

Blackmer 1125