Letters from Constantinople.

MULLER (Mrs. Max).

Letters from Constantinople.

SCARCE ACCOUNT OF LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ISTANBUL

First edition. 12 photographic plates. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver gilt; spine darkened, otherwise near very good. Sporadic foxing to interior. W.H. Smith subscription library plate to front pastedown, newspaper clipping of hieroglyphics tipped on to verso of frontispiece. [viii], 196, 32ads.pp. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.

£375.00

Georgina Max Müller (d. 1916) was the wife of the famous English orientalist and linguist Friedrich Max Müller. In 1893, Mrs. Müller and her husband went to Istanbul to visit their son, who was the Secretary of the British Embassy. Georgina Max Müller compiled the above work by compiling letters she wrote while in Istanbul that year. The book describes the Galata Bridge, the Bosphorus, Mosques, the walls of the city, Yildiz Palace and the invitation they attended there, the Eid al-Adha reception, and Bursa.

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