192 - Léon GALIBERT and Clément PELLÉ. The Illustrated Ottoman Empire. Ancient and Modern Constantinople; also including The Seven Churches of Asia Minor… Paris, London, Fisher Fils et Cie, n.d. (circa 1838). 3 in-4 volumes, olive-colored cloth, covers and spine illustrated with gilded motifs, gilt edges (publisher’s binding).

Léon GALIBERT and Clément PELLÉ. The Illustrated Ottoman Empire. Ancient and Modern Constantinople; also including The Seven Churches of Asia Minor… Paris, London, Fisher Fils et Cie, n.d. (circa 1838). 3 in-4 volumes, olive-colored cloth, covers and spine illustrated with gilded motifs, gilt edges (publisher’s binding). Brunet, II-1459 / Graesse, III-15 /// I. (2f.)-XLII-60, 32 plates, 1 map / II. (2f.)-58, 32 plates / III. (2f.)-54, 32 plates, 1 map. French first edition of this work containing a historical essay on Constantinople and a description of the monuments of Constantinople and the seven churches of Asia Minor by Léon Galibert and Clément Pellé. It is illustrated with two maps, one of which is a fold-out, two engraved title pages in English, and 94 separate plates drawn by Thomas Allom and engraved on steel by Cousen, Bentley, Goodall, Sands, Smith…, depicting views, monuments, figures, scenes… One leaf is missing from the third volume (pp. 47–48), and pages 3–4 and 5–6 are transposed. A few faint foxing spots.