Stock ID #176113 La Turquie, ses Ressources, son organisation municipale, son commerce, suivis de considérations sur l'état du commerce anglais dans le Levant. D. URQUHART.

La Turquie, ses Ressources, son organisation municipale, son commerce, suivis de considérations sur l'état du commerce anglais dans le Levant...

Bruxelles. Société Belge de Librairie, 1837. Stock ID #176113

Two volumes 16 x 10.2 cm, half titles, 368 pages + [i]; 364 pages, marbled fore-edges, attractive period-style binding, quarter red calf over marbled boards, new endpapers, prelims spotted, the first half title with loss to the top corner, early owner's signature in each volume, in good, sound condition.

Attractive Brussels edition of the work by David Urquhart, the Scottish diplomat and politician who was a strong advocate for Turkish affairs at a time when tensions were building in the Crimea. His controversial advocacy led to his recall as Ambassador to Constantinople.

For Urquhart, Turkey was a land offering limitless possibility 'contingent on her internal tranquility and political reorganisation...his most important chapter was that on the commercial resources of Turkey, offering so wide a field to British enterprise.' (Monthly magazine, or, British register Jul 1833).

Koç 292a; Not in Weber, Blackmer or Atabey

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