Thomas Thornton: The Present State of Turkey; or a Description of the Ottoman Empire; the Finances, Military and Naval Establishments; the State of Learning, and of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; the Manners and Domestic Economy of the Turks and Other Subjects of the Grand Signor, &c. &c. Together with the Geographical, Political, and Civil, State of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. From Observations made, During a Residence of Fifteen Years in Constantinople and the Turkish Provinces, by Thomas Thornton, Esq

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Thomas Thornton : The Present State of Turkey; or a Description of the Ottoman Empire; the Finances, Military and Naval Establishments; the State of Learning, and of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts; the Manners and Domestic Economy of the Turks and Other Subjects of the Grand Signor, &c. &c. Together with the Geographical, Political, and Civil, State of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. From Observations made, During a Residence of Fifteen Years in Constantinople and the Turkish Provinces, by Thomas Thornton, Esq

Joseph Mawman, London, c. 1807.

Recent gilt-lined ½ marbled calf with marbled boards, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt floral motifs, red gilt morocco label on two, gilt text on six, endpapers renewed. , In fine condition, text is clean and crisp., 4to., P. (2), title, printer’s imprint, preface iii-xxiv, contents xxv-xxxi, errata, 1-436, (2).

“Thornton was resident at the British factory in Constantinople and at Odessa. The work includes a critique of the work of Pouqueville and Eton and mention is made of the Twedell affair with which the author was involved: he writes generally from an anti-Greek standpoint†(Blackmer)., Blackmer II:1042.

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