[WAGEMAN, Thomas Charles (1787-1863)]. The Military Costume of Turkey; illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1818 [but some plates watermarked 1819 and 1820]. 4° (364 x 256mm). 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 scarlet straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt and blind, top edges gilt (extremities rubbed, some scratching and scuffing, particularly to lower cover, small ink spot to upper cover, corners bumped). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate); J. ?Matilda-Grenfell (early signature on front pastedown). Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388.

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[WAGEMAN, Thomas Charles (1787-1863)]. The Military Costume of Turkey; illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1818 [but some plates watermarked 1819 and 1820]. 4° (364 x 256mm). 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 scarlet straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt and blind, top edges gilt (extremities rubbed, some scratching and scuffing, particularly to lower cover, small ink spot to upper cover, corners bumped). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate); J. ?Matilda-Grenfell (early signature on front pastedown). Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388.

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