Item #113956 Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. J. A. Atkinson.
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions

London: John Murray, 1814. Hardbound. Red quarter-leather binding with gild lettering and decoration on spine; gilt top edge; unpaginated with approx. 140 pp. and 60 color plates. Very good, tight interior, but back cover and last page are detached (together), head of spine is coming loose, and there are ex-lib. marks: stamp on page bottoms, pocket in back, bookplates inside front cover and on flyleaf. Item #113956

Beautiful color engravings of dress during the Ottman Empire, with full descriptions of each plate and commentary on the lifestyle of a person wearing each example shown; perfect for the historian, collector of Ottoman memorabilia, or the researcher of textiles and cultural studies.

Price: $800.40