![SEBAH, PASCAL (1823-1886) and J, JOAILLIER. Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata. [Istanbul: n.p., ca. 1880]. Oblong 2° (303 x 336 mm). 10 albumen prints mounted on thick card and bound in concertina folds, as issued. (Occasional soiling, last print with marginal browning and one corner chipped.) Publisher's red grained cloth, upper cover richly tooled in gilt and lettered in French and Arabic, lower cover with crescent moon and star blocked in gilt, modern red morocco box (some soiling and staining, corners bumped).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0154_000(sebah_pascal_and_j_joaillier_panorama_de_constantinople_pris_de_la_tou063842).jpg?w=1)
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SEBAH, PASCAL (1823-1886) and J, JOAILLIER. Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata. [Istanbul: n.p., ca. 1880]. Oblong 2° (303 x 336 mm). 10 albumen prints mounted on thick card and bound in concertina folds, as issued. (Occasional soiling, last print with marginal browning and one corner chipped.) Publisher's red grained cloth, upper cover richly tooled in gilt and lettered in French and Arabic, lower cover with crescent moon and star blocked in gilt, modern red morocco box (some soiling and staining, corners bumped).
A photographic panorama offering a sweeping view of the city walls and seven towers, the great mosques of Sultan Ahmed and Santa Sophia, the 'Green Mosque' and Mosque of Oulon, the Golden Horn, tower of Galatea and the Bosphorus.
A photographic panorama offering a sweeping view of the city walls and seven towers, the great mosques of Sultan Ahmed and Santa Sophia, the 'Green Mosque' and Mosque of Oulon, the Golden Horn, tower of Galatea and the Bosphorus.
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Please note the image is incorrectly labeled in the catalogue as 156 (part).