 | - Book Title: European Turkey
- Author: W Knighton
- ISBN: MW004192
- Publisher: T.L McElrath & Co New York
- Year Published: 1854
- Our Normal Price: £605.00 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £544.50 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: T.L McElrath & Co New York, believed first American edition with preface dated June 1854: self embossed purple/ brown hardcover with gilt lettering to spine: approximately 5 x 7.75inches tall: 216 pages: fold-in map: black and white woodcut illustrations, many full-page including 3 fold-in. Described in the preface as an ' account of European Turkey ...compiled from the best resources available to the author. He has endeavoured to write dispassionately and without prejudice of institutions, customs, manners, and a state of society totally different from those of Western Europe' this detailed and descriptive historical account includes a wealth of fine black and white illustrations. The contents are as follows: – Introduction: The Physical Aspect of European Turkey. Chapter1 : The Turk – His Religion and His Habits. Chapter 2: Constantinople. Chapter 3: The Christians, Jews, and Gypsies. Chapter 4: Northern Provinces Chapter 5: the Eastern Coasts of Turkey. Chapter 6: The Western Provinces of Turkey. Chapter 7: History of the Turks – Their Rise. Chapter 8: History of the Turks, Continued, 1700 – 1850. Chapter 9: Origin of the Present War. Chapter 10: The Present Constitution of Turkey. Condition: some wear and rubbing to cover with corners bumped: ends of spine worn: division to both endpaper hinges: ownership inscription reading James Fison , Bath 1865: ink scribble to the lower front endpaper , together with a small ownership stamp, J Clark. Most of front free endpaper missing: list of illustrations in ink in scholarly hand to back end papers: water damage to small area of upper margins pages 7 to 47: overall acceptable and collectable.
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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