The MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY; Illustrated by a Series of E - Lot 150

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The MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY; Illustrated by a Series of E - Lot 150
The MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY; Illustrated by a Series of Engravings From Drawings Made on the Spot… London, W. Lewis for Thomas M'Lean, n.d. (1818). Small folio, blue long-grain half-maroquin with corners, spine with 5 raised bands, richly decorated (contemporary English binding). Colas, 2059 / Lipperheide, 2388 / Vinet, 2338 /// Engraved title page, (37f.), 29 plates. First edition including a portrait of the book’s dedicatee, Antonaki Ramadani, by Wageman; a title page with a large engraved vignette; and 29 plates, most signed I.H. Clark, all engraved in aquatint. Each plate depicts a type of uniform and is accompanied by a sheet of explanatory text; plate I is the vignette from the engraved title page. Binding slightly rubbed, with the usual wear marks.
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