Pardoe Julia 1806 (13 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Louis the Fourteenth: and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century; 3. Book.

PF. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 18 plates and one map. pp 113 - 164. Contemporary 1/4 leather. 26 cm. Front cover detached. Upper portion of backstrip gone. No title-page or table of contents present so we don't know if plates and maps are all present. Internally sound and clean with modest age-toning only. Page edges marbled as are the endpapers.

Condition: Good. 4to. 20 x 25.5 cm. Contemporary half roan with gilt stamping., rubbed spine and corner edges. Small semi-circular discoloraton in the right marigin. 4 p. l., [3]-164 p. front. (port.) 78 pl., map. 28 x 23 cm.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:903478997; Atabey 922. Blackmer 1254. Robinson p. 190.

Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to., (10 6/8 x 8 4/8 inches). 6-page list of subscribers at end of volume II. Additional engraved title-page, engraved full-page map of the Environs of Constantinople; with the Thracian Bosporus, two portraits and 84 plates after W.H.Bartlett (one or two small spots). Contemporary black morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt (extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 334. First edition, bound from the original parts, of this classic of 19th-century travel. In 1835 Pardoe accompanied her father to Constantinople, and at the "time it was felt that no woman apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had acquired so intimate a knowledge of Turkey. In 1837 Pardoe published 'The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks'. The book was very successful, and was reprinted in three volumes in 1838, 1845, and 1854. Aiming to disabuse Europeans of their 'ideal of Oriental mysteriousness, mysticism, and magnificence' (vol. 1, p. 89), it offered what was hitherto 'probably the most detailed, most sympathetic description of the Turkish élite' (Melman, 50). There followed in rapid succession 'The Beauties of the Bosphorus' (1838, new editions in 1854 and 1874), 'The River and the Desart, or, Recollections of the Rhône and the Chartreuse' (1838), and 'The City of the Magyar, or, Hungary and her Institutions in 1839-40' (1840). The latter was remarkable for its comprehensive research into Hungarian economic and political life; less florid in style than its predecessors, it also induced Elizabeth Barrett to praise Pardoe's 'word-painting' (Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 328)" (Elizabeth Lee, rev. Joanne Wilkes for DNB).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Original decorative blue cloth bdg. In special publisher's box. 4to. (29 x 23 cm). Edition in English. [xii], 178 p., 88 b/w plates. The beauties of the Bosphorus: Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett. Reprint of the 1836 edition. 1000 copies were printed.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

In-4°, legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle con titoli e fregi in oro al dorso, taglio dorato, pp. (2)164 e (2) di Table. Ritratto dell'autrice in antiporta, frontespizio con vignetta e titoli in inglese, 78 tavole fuoti testo di vedute e monumenti, incise in acciaio, una carta geografica alla fine. Prima edizione col testo francese, pubblicata lo stesso anno dell'originale inglese. Tracce del tempo ai piatti; leggera brunitura della carta, ma bell'esemplare. Julia PARDOE (1806 - 1862) è stata una poetessa, narratrice e storica inglese. Tra le prime donne a descrivere la Turchia, dove viaggiò col padre, il comandante Thomas Pardoe, nel 1836.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.