The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a series of Views of Constantinople and its environs, from orig.drawings by W.H.BARTLETT.

PARDOE,MISS:

Verlag: London G.Virtue & Co. 1840

Lg.4to. 10.75 x 8.75 inches (27.5cm x 22cm). Full green Morocco with attractive gilt pictorial boards & spine. Yellow endps & all gilt edges. In very good condition. Boards a little darkened and rubbed on edges, corners a little bumped. Private bookplate on front endpaper (Lord Farnham) Two stamp head of title page. Small water mark top edge of first around 30 pages. Lacks one plate (Page 121) Else generally clean & tight. Portrait of Julia Pardoe on the opening page, engraving of the Valley of Sweet Waters and portrait of Sultan Abdul Medschid Chan77 ex 78 steel-engr.views. 1 map. 164pp. Miss Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) was a well-known English writer. She began writing poetry at the age of fourteen. The novels she wrote subsequently were also very popular. She published her memoirs and travel notes. As a result of an illness, she was forced to travel to the southern countries. The author, who made her first trip to Portugal, collected her observations of that country in her book Traits and traditions of Portugal. Miss Pardoe came to Istanbul in 1835. Her real purpose was to see Greece, Turkey and Egypt. However, when she arrived in Istanbul, she fell under the spell of the city and stayed there for nine months. During this period when Sultan Mahmud II was in power, she toured the Bosphorus, the entertainment venues, monuments and bazaars of Istanbul, full of unique natural beauties, attended the feasts and wedding processions of the Palace, and stayed in the mansions of people with various social positions. She also went to Bursa and Uludag. Pardoe, who put all these experiences into writing with great impartiality and was passionate about nature and poetry, described what she saw in the finest detail, almost as if she were painting it. She erased the wrong and negative opinions and unfair prejudices about the Ottoman Empire, especially in the West. When her unique observation power, subtle intuition and deep emotional intensity, combined with her sincere love and embrace of our country and its people. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 96377

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Titel: The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated ...
Verlag: London G.Virtue & Co. 1840