Léon Galibert & C. Pellé - Constantinople ancienne et moderne; comprenant aussi Les sept Églises de L'Asie mineure. Illustrés d'après les dessins pris sur les lieux par Thomas Allom, [...] Première série

Thomas Allom Esq., Léon Galibert & C. Pellé - Constantinople ancienne et moderne; comprenant aussi Les sept Églises de L'Asie mineure. Illustrés d'après les dessins pris sur les lieux par Thomas Allom, Esq. [...] Première série - A Paris / Londres - Fisher, Fils et Cie - [c. 1840] - 1st edition - [6], xlii, 60, [2] pp - Cloth binding - 22,5 x 28 cm.

Condition: Good - with wear, interior sometimes with unavoidable rust spots, back cover with two black spots, one plate is missing. See info below.

Mid-19th century antique touristic picture book dedicated to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, present-day Istanbul in Turkey. Illustrated with 32 (of 33) steel engravings, incl. frontispiece and engraved map. With table of contents. Text in French. Series 'L'Empire Ottoman Illustré'.

¶ Hardback edition (in beautiful green linen binding with gold-stamped decoration) of the first part of the three-volume French version. In addition to this French-language version and the two-part English original, translations into German and Italian were also published. Cf. Andrew 904.

CONTAINS beautiful cityscapes and exotic interior scenes of the Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya, the Süleymaniye Mosque and other monumental buildings, a Turkish bath, a slave market, the Great Scutari cemetery, a coffee house and the Grand Bazaar. The map shows the course of the Bosphorus from the city to the Black Sea).

This is the best-known work of the English architect and topographical illustrator Thomas Allom (1804-1872). NB: Our copy is wanting 1 plate: 'Brousse, pris du côté de l'Olympe'.