THREE YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE 1845 First Edit Three Volumes Ottoman Turkey Rare

Description: Turks in 1844 Author: Charles White Publisher: Henry Colburn - London Date: 1845 Format: Hardcovers, bound in cloth-covered boards. Size: 20.5 cm. Pages: Volume 1: xx, 338 p. Volume 2: viii, 372 p. Volume 3: viii, 368 p. plus 24 page publisher's catalogue Description: An account of three years spent by the author, a British army Colonel, in Constantinople, during which he witnessed and recorded the every-day existence and ordinary customs of the metropolitan Turks. His preface states that there had been a void of material pertaining to popular habits and practices in the Ottoman capital. These volumes were his attempt to provide such an account. Each volume has a tinted frontispiece. The chapter headings are illustrated. Volume 1 includes a fold-out Plan of Bosphorus and of Bends and Aqueducts around Belgrade and Volume 2 a fold-out Plan of Central Bazars [sic] of Constantinople. A rare set. "Col. Charles White was born in 1793 in Shropshire. He attended Eton and entered the army where he served under Wellington in the Peninsular campaign and later as adjunct to the Duke of Cambridge. He wrote four novels: Herbert Milton (1827) (retitled "Almack's Revisited"), The Adventures of a King's Page (1829), The Married Unmarried (1837), and The Cashmere Shawl (1840). Thereafter he gave up fiction. White also wrote two travel books, The Belgic Revolution (1835) and Three Years in Constantinople; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 (1845). He died in 1861 in Brussels."

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