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David Talbot Rice; photographs by Wim Swaan.
Constantinople: Byzantium-Istanbul.
Published London: Elek Books, 1965.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara.
Size: 210x276x22mm.
Page count: 214pp (plates included in the main page count).
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has no dustjacket; spine slightly discoloured and faded; pages slightly yellowed with age; previous owner’s address stamp on the half-title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 1102g.

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Contents:
Byzantium;
Constantinople: Constantine’s Constantinople; The city — Valens to Justin I; Earlier years of the 6th c.; Justinian’s buildings; Justinian’s Agia Sophia; Great palace of the Byzantine emperors; Years between Justinian & end of iconoclasm; Second golden age; Mosaics of Agia Sophia; Latins in Constantinople; Palaeologue age;
Istanbul: Fate of Christians; Grand Seraglio; Architecture of Turkish period; Turkey & the west in 16th & 17th cc.; Turkish entertainment; Turkish gardens; Last phase.

Illustrations: 13 text figures, 80 pages of plates (of these 32 are in colour)
Maps & plans: 4

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

[BML/LF]
[PC2]
See also | Byzantine studies |
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