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Pertusier, Charles.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Picturesque Promenades in and near Constantinople, and on the waters of the Bosphorus. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820
First English edition, 8vo (212 x 124mm.), folding aquatint frontispiece and 6 etched plates, including 2 folding panoramas, contemporary boards with modern spine and corners, frontispiece and title slightly spotted, one folding plate with repaired tear and slightly soiled in margin, one plate with imprint cropped, sides of binding sightly rubbed
Literature
Blackmer 1293; Weber I, 41; Atabey 943
Catalogue Note
This is an abridged edition, the only one in English, of the French edition, published in 1815. An atlas of plates was also published.