[Rarebooks] FS: Beauties of the Bosphorus

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Pardoe, Miss (Julia). Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), illus. THE 
BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS... ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS OF 
CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS ENVIRONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM H. 
BARTLETT. London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue, 
1838. 164 pp. + 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. 
frontis, title page vignette, 78 view plates, and 1 map. Three 
quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, 
five raised bands ruled in gilt, four compartments with floral gilt 
decorations, two with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 
Atabey 922; CBEL (3rd) IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 
888. First edition. "This work had much influence in terms of 
increasing popular appreciation of its subject," (Blackmer Lib. p. 
405).

Very good, boards and extremities rubbed, owner's bookplate to free 
front endpaper, small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first 
two preliminary leaves, tissue guard and engraved title foxed and 
offset, faint dampstain to lower inner corner, marginal only, 
scattered foxing to plates, nearly all marginal or on blank versos, 
otherwise plates are crisp, text clean, binding solid. A very 
handsome copy.  [31686]   $1200.00    

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P. O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424
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