BEŁZA Stanislaw - In the Capital of the Padyszach. Impressions from a trip to Constantinople [1898].

Warsaw 1898, Gebethner and Wolff. 13.5x20 cm, pp. (4), 328, black and white photographs on separate pages, contemporary bookbinding, half leather with gilt, signed on rear pastedown with sticker of MillaArte bookbindery, gilt page edges. Good condition (small stains on a few pages).

An account by Stanislaw Belza (1849-1929) - lawyer, writer, traveler, social and cultural activist - of a trip to the capital of the Ottoman Empire, showing the oriental charm of Constantinople (Istanbul), its greatest monuments and peculiarities and traces of its former splendor.