Books and Manuscripts

MacFarlane, Charles
Constantinople in 1828. A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces...Account of the Present State of the Naval and Military Power, and of the Resources of the Ottoman Empire
London: Saunders and Otley, 1829. First edition. 4to. xix, (i), 406 pp. Illustrated with a hand-colored lithographic frontispiece portrait of Sultan Mahmood, three lithographic plates (two hand-colored and one printed in sepia), and one double-page lithographic view on india paper. Contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, red morocco spine label, front board detached, boards and extremities rubbed, rear hinge worn; edges stained red; foxing to prelims, plates, and text. With the armorial book-plate of Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, on front paste-down. Abbey, Travel 393; Blackmer 1047

First edition of Scottish writer Charles MacFarlane's first-hand survey of Turkish life and its provinces, containing detailed descriptions of his 16-month travels in Constantinople, Asia Minor, and Smyrna.