MACFARLANE, Charles.

Constantinople in 1828.

A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces ...

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105977

London, Saunders & Ottley, 1829

£1,250

Macfarlane was in Constantinople between 1827 and 1828, an important time in Turkish history following the Battle of Navarino and the ending of the Greek revolution and the renewal of Russian ambitions in the East. The book contains lengthy descriptions of Asia Minor, Smyrna, and Constantinople, together with discussions of recent political history and modern Greek literature.

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Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxviii, 517; viii, 491 pp., 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, folding lithograph of Constantinople, folding lithograph of relics, contemporary green half calf gilt, couple of spots to frontispiece, small area of paper restoration to last page vol. I outside text, a good set.