Sale: 434 / Rare Books, Nov. 21./22. 2016 in Hamburg Lot 220

 
Frederick Arthur Neale - Turkey and the Turks


220
Frederick Arthur Neale
Turkey and the Turks, 1854.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 324
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 259

(incl. surcharge)
Neale, Frederick Arthur,
Turkey and the Turks; or, historical sketches of the rise, progress and present condition of the Ottoman Empire. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd. London, J. Madden 1854.

Erste illustrierte Ausgabe. - "Popular edition, apparently issued without the separate title-page to vol. II. The first edition was published in two volumes in 1854 as Islamism, its rise and progress, or the present and past condition of the Turks . The first edition does not seem to have plates .. The work is basically a history of Islam and includes the Arab caliphates, the Saracens, the Moslems in India, as well as the Ottoman empire. It is carried up to the Crimean War and also contains an account of the Greek revolution" (Blackmer). - Vord. flieg. Vorsatz mit zeitgenöss. Widmung. Einbd. etw. fleckig, Kanten berieben, Kap. mit kl. Einrissen. Seltenes Werk in guter Erhaltung.

EINBAND: Blauer goldgepr. OLwd. mit GGoldschnitt. 8vo. XVI, 365 S.; 315 S. - ILLUSTRATIONEN: Mit 4 kolor. lithogr. Tafeln .

LITERATUR: Blackmer Coll. 1188.




220
Frederick Arthur Neale
Turkey and the Turks, 1854.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 324
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 259

(incl. surcharge)