Review: This is a large-format deluxe edition that incorporates facsimile reproductions of visual
and textual materials that have been selected from rare books on Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire
that were published in Europe between the 16th to 19th centuries. Among the detailed illustrations are
architectural and panoramic views, maps, and depictions of social customs and of the costumes and
paraphernalia of the Ottoman court and military establishment. Istanbul: Capital of Empires, is truly a
collector's item intended for the bibliophile. 200 pages measuring 48 by 33,5 cms, it is offered in two
different specially bound versions. One is a very limited edition exquisitely bound in embossed leather
and presented in a slipcase covered in an Ottoman-style velvet woven in Venice. The other, is bound in
suedel, a velvet-like material.
