PARDOE (Julia). The beauties of the Bosphorus. The beauties of the Bosphorus. London, Georges Virtue, 1838. In-4, edition illustrated with an engraved portrait of Julia Pardoe by Thomson after H. Room, an illustrated title, and 78 plates of landscape views, Constantinople, monuments, and scenes of life engraved on steel after drawings by William H. Bartlett. Bound in full red morocco leather of the period, the boards decorated with a gilded fillet framing and rich cold-plate decoration of water-leaf frieze, foliate frieze, peacock, lyre and crown in the center, smooth spine richly decorated in gold with views of Constantinople and costumes. English title page dated 1839. (spine oiled, binding rubbed, foxing, leaves foxed). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio