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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The collection of Imperial Omoman Telles presered in this exhibitine was assembled in major part by Barren Edmond de Rothschild in the early part of this century. This was the period when many of the great Oriental collection and that of Gulbenkian in particular were formed as a result of the vital expansion of interest in the East that had taken roce since the end of the ageh century. Although the prestige of Penian Art was still undisputed that of the rast Ottoman Empire which had governed virtually the entire Arab world for five centuries was beginning to exert a fascination for the European connoisseur that went far deeper than the popular 18th century taste for runqueries”. The Empire was founded in the late 19th century by the Osmanli or Ottoman Turks who were the last of the Central Asian tribes to invade the Near East. An aggressive nomadic warlord named Osman cut swiftly into the domains of the Seljuks in Anatolia and his successors swept on throughout the 14th and 19th centuries to devastate the foundering thousand year old Byzantine Empire. They established a foothold in Europe through conquests in Bulgaria and Serbia and finally under the leadership of Mehmet II (the Conqueror reigned 1451-1481) Constantinople fell in 1453 symbolizing the dynamic eruption within a hundred years of a small tribe that had suddenly become heirs to the most ancient surviving Empire in Europe. The Turks had long bee gecognized in Islam for their military prowess but in Mehmet II contemporary of the Medici. (LL)