BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS & DANUBE BY MISS PARDOE & WILLIAM BEATTIE CA. 1838-42

[PARDOE, MISS]. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, from Original Drawings by W. H. Bartlett, ESQ. London: George Virtue, n.d. [circa 1838].

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[BEATTIE, WILLIAM]. The Danube: Its History, Scenery, and Topography. Splendidly illustrated, from Sketches Taken on the Spot, by Abresch, and Drawn by W. H. Bartlett, ESQ. London: James S. Virtue, n.d. [circa 1842].

First editions; two volumes, cloth-bound, hardcovers, thick 4to (28.5cm x 22cm), pp. xii, 164, [4] advertisements; iv, [4], 236, [4] advertisements. English text. Uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth covers with decorations in gilt and blind; all page edges gilt; yellow endpapers. Totalling 163 illustrations across two volumes, each volume with a portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page, maps, numerous steel engravings, and woodcut engravings in text by W. H. Bartlett. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact. Covers very well-preserved, some very moderate bumping to spine ends. The interiors largely fresh and clean with some very light marking in some margins. A beautiful and excellent rare set.