The Bosphorus - the strait which separates European and Asian Turkey - is one of the world's most beautiful and romantic waterways, eulogized by Byron and many other travellers. Here Eastern and Western cultures meet in the architecture of houses and palaces built along its shores by generations of Ottoman families and sultans. The extraordinary Topkapi Palace dominates the skyline, but amongst the most striking buildings are the yalis, huge wooden mansions built between the late 17th and 19th centuries. Later sultans built ...
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The Bosphorus - the strait which separates European and Asian Turkey - is one of the world's most beautiful and romantic waterways, eulogized by Byron and many other travellers. Here Eastern and Western cultures meet in the architecture of houses and palaces built along its shores by generations of Ottoman families and sultans. The extraordinary Topkapi Palace dominates the skyline, but amongst the most striking buildings are the yalis, huge wooden mansions built between the late 17th and 19th centuries. Later sultans built imposing palaces in the Baroque style, and many summer embassies, including the beautiful art-nouveau Egyptian embassy, were created along the Bosphorus in the 19th century. This book documents both the architectural and social history of these magnificent houses and palaces.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. ISBN: 1850432333 Pages: 212 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1850432333. 228 pages. With frontispiece. Fully illustrated with colour plates throughout. Slight curling to top and bottom edge of dustjacket. Slight wear to bottom of foreedge of dustjacket. Slight wear to spine, cover and corners and dustjacket.; 31.8 x 24.5cm.
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Francesco Venturi (photographs) Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. 228 pages. Folio. Hardcover, in a dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.
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