Launay, Marie de

FIRST EDITION, folio (490 x 338mm.), titles and text in French and German (in parallel columns) and Ottoman Turkish (bound at end), 190 lithographed plates, including 14 coloured plates, after de Launay, Montani, Boghoz, Chachian and Maillard, contemporary half morocco gilt, joints split

Blackmer 956; not in Atabey

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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RARE. Only a few copies appear to have been printed. "This interesting work illustrates important examples of Ottoman architecture and detailed elements from such buildings, including woodwork, carved stonework, ironwork, pavements, tiles, etc. The plates... have been produced photolithographically by Pascal Sebah, who established a photographic studio in Pera probably before 1870 and was well known as a photographer of sites in Constantinople and the Bosphorus" (Blackmer).