S$73.00
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.
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
