SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[COSTUME]
Eastern Costumes. [Ottoman costume]

A scarce album of 44 finely drawn watercolours of Ottoman costume - all captioned in manuscript English below each image.

Published
n.d. n.p. [c.1840]
Plates
44
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
n.d. n.p. [c.1840]
Ref
835

8vo. Contemporary maroon morocco gilt boards, decorated with gilt fillets, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered direct in second, others ruled in gilt with raised bands, all edges gilt lightly rubbed. Provenance: Pencil inscription to front pastedown: "Lady Campbell April 9th, 1848". Coloured plates in order: 1. A Turkish Bride. 2. A Boatman. 3. A Jew. 4. A 'Cavash' or Grand of the Grand Viziers. 5. A Georgian. 6. A Secretary. 7. A Greek Lady. 8. A Black Eunuch. 9. A Greek Lady. 10. A Country Aga. 11. A Page. 12. An Artillery Man. 13. A State Officer. 14. The Sultan, in the new costume. 15. A Grand Mufty. 16. An Albanian. 17. A Constantinople Merchant. 18. The Grand Vizier, in the old costume. 19. The 'Reis Effendi.' 20. A Turkish Porter. 21. The 'Selictar.' 22. An Armenian Merchant. 23. A Greek Water Carrier. 24. A Greek lady of Pera. 25. A dancing dervish. 26. Egyptian Merchant. 27. The Sultan, in the old costume. 28. A Servant of the Interior of the Servail. 29. A Public Secretary. 30. A Writer. 31. Head of the law. 32. An Infantry soldier. 33. A Turkish Lady. 34. A Woman of Aleppo. 35. Chief of the Black Eunuchs. 36. A Cavalry Soldier. 37. A Mullah or Priest. 38. A Page in the dress in which he attends the Sultan to Mosque. 39. An Armenian. 40. The 'Capitain Pacha.' 41. A barque. 42. A Sultans Tomb. 43. A Page. 44. A Turkish Lady.