Lot 442
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[Arif, Pasha Mushir]
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
£1,136
Description
[Les Anciens costumes del'Empire Ottoman] [Paris], no date, folio (40 by 55cm wide), 47pp, 16 lithographed plates, lacking title page, lacking portrait, disbound, all pages chipped and torn at edges, all plates heavily foxed
Footnote
Note: Pasha Mushir Arif fought against the Greeks in Athens and Euboea from 1826-28 and then in the Syrian campaigns against Mehmet Ali. Subsequently, he became the governor of the province of Silistria and while there prepared this work for publication. The plates illustrate 80 figures of Turkish functionaries whose duties are explained in the text.