The City of the Sultan – Julia Pardoe (1845)

S$280.00

The City of the Sultan – Julia Pardoe (1845)

S$280.00

A classic of travel literature, and one of the 2 most important early 19th century works by women on the Ottoman Empire.

Title: The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836.

Author: Miss Pardoe

Publisher: H. G. Clarke and Co., London, 1845,

Condition: 3 volumes, complete. A miniature set, with each volume measuring about 4.5″x3″. Half leather with marbled boards. Fair. Some rubbing to leather. Pages tanned, and one page scribbled all over (see photos). No illustrations as issued. Binding tight and text unmarked except for that one page.

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About the book (from Goodreads):

Julia Pardoe (1804-62) was famous for her historical biographies (some of which are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). This work, first published in 1837, arose from a visit to Turkey made by Pardoe and her father in 1836. It was very successful, with new editions appearing over the next twenty years, while Pardoe was considered to be second only to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu among female writers on Turkey. Attempting to give her readers ‘a more just and complete insight into Turkish domestic life, than they have hitherto been enabled to obtain’, Pardoe describes the inhabitants of Istanbul, both the Ottoman governing elite and the expatriate community of Greeks, Italians, Russians and French, with their constant political intrigues. She travels in western Turkey, visiting Bursa, the former Ottoman capital, before returning to Europe via the Danube.