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THOMAS CHARLES WAGEMAN (1787-1863)
The Military Costume of Turkey; illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1818 [one text-leaf watermarked 1811, other text-leaves 1817, plates watermarked 1818]. 4° (360 x 251mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece portrait of Antonaki Ramadani, additional aquatint title vignette and 29 plates. (Some light staining and offsetting of plates to text). Contemporary dark-blue straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (upper cover detached, lower joint splitting, extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps heavily). Provenance: erased booklabel. Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388.
The Military Costume of Turkey; illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1818 [one text-leaf watermarked 1811, other text-leaves 1817, plates watermarked 1818]. 4° (360 x 251mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece portrait of Antonaki Ramadani, additional aquatint title vignette and 29 plates. (Some light staining and offsetting of plates to text). Contemporary dark-blue straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (upper cover detached, lower joint splitting, extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps heavily). Provenance: erased booklabel. Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388.