CHARLES DE MOUY – LETTRES DU BOSPHORE; BUCAREST – CONSTANTINOPLE – ATHENES
Paris, E. Plon et Cie, Imprimeurs - Éditeurs, 1879. 326 pp., 18.5x12 cm. 8 full-page wood engravings. Bound in marbled boards with leather spine and ribbed boards.
CHARLES DE MOUY, A FRENCH DIPLOMAT WHO CAME TO ISTANBUL ON A SECRET MISSION DURING THE OTTOMAN-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1875-78, IN THIS WORK, CONTRARY TO ITS TITLE, DEVOTED ALMOST THE ENTIRE BOOK TO ISTANBUL, A CITY HE LOVED AND FOR WHICH HE HAD GREAT SYMPATHY...
IN HIS BOOK, MOUY EXAMINES THE BEAUTIES OF ISTANBUL, ITS PALACES, MONUMENTS, MOSQUES, BYZANTINE RUINS, NEIGHBORHOODS, AS WELL AS OTTOMAN STATE ORDER, POLITICAL RELATIONS AND EASTERN CULTURE...
Estimate: 114-170 USD