PARDOE, Julia S.H. Les beautés du Bosphore (...) orné d’une suite de Vues de Constantinople et de ses environs, d’après les dessins originaux de W.H. Bartlett, [trsl. from the English] L. de Bauclas. 1838 G. Virtue, lge 4to, cont. black...
Estimation :
150 / 250
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
quarter calf (loosening at front, sm. def.), gilt flat spine, marbled endpapers, 164-[4] pp. (some spotting). Good copy.
French trsl. publ. in London (!) in the same year as the original English ed. It was sought after because of the nice plates of Ottoman architecture and images of daily life, made after W. H. Bartlett (1809-1854). Some plates with English, French and German titles. Frontisp. portrait of author. With the original English title bound before the typographic title. 79 steelengraved views.
French trsl. publ. in London (!) in the same year as the original English ed. It was sought after because of the nice plates of Ottoman architecture and images of daily life, made after W. H. Bartlett (1809-1854). Some plates with English, French and German titles. Frontisp. portrait of author. With the original English title bound before the typographic title. 79 steelengraved views.
