The present state of Turkey : [electronic resource] or, a description of the political, civil, and religious constitution, government, and laws, 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Thomas, -1814.

Series:

Bloomsbury Arcadian Library Online - Europe and the Ottoman World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Description and travel.

Turkey.

Turkey--Politics and government--19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sir Gore Ouseley's bookplate on the front pastedown; bookplate of Ouseley in its third and most elaborate state; ownership inscription in ink to title-page.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, [1], 436 pages)

Edition:

First.

Other Title:

Description of the political, civil, and religious constitution, government, and laws, of the Ottoman Empire

Thornton's present state of Turkey

Place of Publication:

London: George Woodfall for Joseph Mawman, 1807.

Notes:

Blackmer 1655; Atabey 1219; BL.

Local Notes:

Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, red and olive green morocco label.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.