PARDOE, Julia; BARTLETT, W. H. (illustrator).
The Beauties of the Bosphorus.
The Beauties of the Bosphorus.
Stock Code 124743
London, James Virtue, 1839.
Early printing; 4to (28 x 22.5 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 78 plates, light scattered foxing; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt spine a little faded, all edges gilt, a very good copy; [iv], 164pp.
Atabey 922; cf. Blackmer 1254 (first edition).
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