Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire – William Hutton (1914)

S$73.00

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire – William Hutton (1914)

S$73.00

Title: Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

Author: William Holden Hutton, Sydney Cooper (illus.)

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1914.

Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth, pocket size. Very good. Deckle edges. Some foxing to title page and edges and tanning to spine. Gilt to top edge. Binding tight, text clean. With a foldout map of the city and numerous engravings. 339pp.

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An interesting book about the history of Istanbul, with numerous engravings and plates, and a list of its emperors from Constantine I the Great to Abdul Hamed II.

Contents:

The History of the City in Ancient and Medieval Times

Constantinople under the Turks

The Churches

The Walls

The Mosques, Turbehs and Fountains

The Palaces

Antiquities