Colour Plate & Illustrated
ARIF PACHA, Muchir.
Les anciens costumes de l'Empire Ottoman depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud.
Lemercier, Paris [1863.]. First edition French text).Folio (54 x 36 cms), 47 pp., lithographed portrait with tape repairs, 16 lithograph plates printed in colours, final plate with loss to blank corner and tape repairs to blank margins, later red half morocco gilt, red cloth boards, tiny chip to head of spine,
The de luxe edition with the plates colour printed. The title-page only exists in the Turkish text edition, sometimes the original wrapper with printed title is bound with the French text edition, but not here. The author fought against the Greeks in Athens and Euboea from 1826-28 and then in the Syrian campaigns against Mehmet Ali. He became governor of the province of Silistria and while there prepared this work for publication. The plates contain 80 figures of Turkish functionaries whose duties are explained in the text. Atabey 29; Blackmer 43; Colas 148.
Price: £ 9000
US Dollar Price: $ 13530
Stock Number: 65272