JOSE MARIA JOUANIN: HISTORIA DE LA TURQUIA. BARCELONA 1840 First edition, in large 8vo, contemporary full leather, complete 426p. and 97 lithographed plates including two maps (some folded), text and plates clean and bright, overall in almost fine condition, a lovely copy. Jouanin was a dragoman in the Levant,he provided one of the best description of the Ottoman realm at the late 1830s. This work is embellished with almost 100 nice lithographs depicting many cities in the Ottoman Levant, including several in actual central and northern Greece and the islands, still then under Ottoman rule. A rare Spanish publication richly illustrated