127 - Charles Colville Frankland: Travels to and from Constantinople, in the years 1827 and 1828: Or, Personal Narrative of a Journey from Vienna, through Hungary, Transylvania, Wallachia, Bulgaria, and Roumelia, to Constantinople. London, 1830

Charles Colville Frankland: Travels to and from Constantinople, in the years 1827 and 1828: Or, Personal Narrative of a Journey from Vienna, through Hungary, Transylvania, Wallachia, Bulgaria, and Roumelia, to Constantinople. London, 1830 Second expanded edition, large 8vo, complete in two volumes in one, later full leather, text clean and bright, very occasionally some sporadic spotting or offsetting in few pages, very richly illustrated with two hand colored frontis, 25 plates (8 folding) and 4 maps (2 maps),overall in very good plus condition,a fresh copy. Frankland’s journey coincided with the climax of the Greek War of Independence. Unlike many travelers who arrived by sea, Frankland traveled overland from Vienna. His descriptions of the Danubian Principalities provide a rare look at the Balkans and the northern frontiers of the Ottoman Empire.He was a skilled draughtsman, the book is famous for the aquatint plates and etchings, which provide some of the most accurate depictions of Levantine costumes, naval vessels, and the cityscape of Constantinople from this era.He provides a vivid social history of the European diplomatic circle living in the Pera district of Constantinople during a time after the battle of Navarino of extreme anti-European sentiment on the Muslim population and of extreme hope on the Greek element.