in Company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission. To which are Annexed, Observations of the Plague, and on the Diseases Prevalent in Turkey, and a Meteorological Journal

By Wittman, William

London: Richard Phillips. First Edition.1803. 4to – 27.7cm. [xvi], 595pp., including: Directions to Binder, Index; Publisher’s Advertisement (1). Contemporary ¾ black-calf with marbled boards, marbled page edges, gilt ruling on covers, spine with four raised bands, ornate gilt fillets and bright gilt titles. Fold-out engraved frontispiece, fold-out engraved map, fold-out facsimile of a firman, 21 engraved plates and plans, including 16 hand-coloured costume plates, some offsetting and light soiling or spotting. Overall a clean and complete copy of an important publication in Very Good + condition. Very Scarce.

“Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to take part in the campaign against the French… The Costume plates are mostly of soldiers and military functionaries. Several of these plates were later used by the publisher McLean in his Military Costume of Turkey.”—Blackmer 1832; Atabey 1344.

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