8vo. xi, 495 pp., 21 steel engraved plates with tissue-guards, of which 6 in colour & including a frontispiece, vignette on title page, contemporary green cloth, rubbed & slightly soiled, title gilt on raised decorated spine, all edges gilt, spine slightly damaged at edge, scattered foxing, otherwise copy in good condition, published by Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Editeurs, Paris, 1855.

Synopsis

Mery was a prolific writer of novels and plays, he is supposed to have travelled in Turkey in about 1822. His book consists of a popular history of Constantinople using von Hammer as the source for events after 1453. The second part of the work contains anecdotes, legends and oriental tales. The plates by the Rouargue brothers contain views to Constantinople. Varna and Trebizond, the plates containing figures are coloured. The Rouargues were artists, engravers and lithographers who produced illustrations for topographical works published in France between 1840 and 1870.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 1116; Carteret III, 404; Andres 910 Lipperheide 61 Lb.