ISBN: 1236560426

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], HARRY GRISWOLD DWIGHT,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 132 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic bo… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], HARRY GRISWOLD DWIGHT,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 132 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: . . . of all sorts, perfumes, tobacco, cigarette-holders, and beads of amber and other materials are also sold, besides silks and rugs. In Abd iil Hamids time there was always a booth for the sale of porcelain from his little factory at Yildiz. And every year the ancient pottery works of Kiitahya send up a consignment of their decorative blue ware. Both Bairams are an occasion for paying visits. Everybody calls on everybody else, so that it is a wonder if anybody is found at home. In the case of the Sultan, however, there is no uncertainty. On the first morning of each Bairam he holds a great levee, which is attended by every one of a certain rank. The cere Balram sweets mony has taken place every year since the time of Baiezid the Thunderbolt, who held his court in Broussa in the fourteenth century. Foreigners take no part in this mouayedeh (exchange of feast-day wishes), or baise-main, as they prefer to call it, but the diplomatic corps and other notables of the European colony are invited to watch it from the gallery of the throne-room. Or sometimes a humbler individual may be introduced in the suite of his embassy, as was the fortune of the present scribe on the occasion of the first baise-main of Sultan Mehmed V. It rather reminded me of youthful operatic days to march through the endless corridors and to climb the immeasurable stairs of Dolma Bahcheh Palace and to look down at last from the high east gallery of the throneroom. The top galleries of my youthful days, however, did not contain gilt chairs upholstered in blue and white satin or buffets set out with gold plate and presided over by lackeys in red and gold. The lackeys, though, did look a little like the stage. While a Turk makes a magnificent soldier or horseman, he never attains, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1236560426

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missi… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: .of all sorts, perfumes, tobacco, cigarette-holders, and beads of amber and other materials are also sold, besides silks and rugs. In Abd iil Hamid s time there was always a booth for the sale of porcelain from his little factory at Yildiz. And every year the ancient pottery works of Kiitahya send up a consignment of their decorative blue ware. Both Ba irams are an occasion for paying visits. Everybody calls on everybody else, so that it is a wonder if anybody is found at home. In the case of the Sultan, however, there is no uncertainty. On the first morning of each Bairam he holds a great levee, which is attended by every one of a certain rank. The cere Balram sweets mony has taken place every year since the time of Bai ezid the Thunderbolt, who held his court in Broussa in the fourteenth century. Foreigners take no part in this mouayedeh (exchange of feast-day wishes), or baise-main, as they prefer to call it, but the diplomatic corps and other notables of the European colony are invited to watch it from the gallery of the throne-room. Or sometimes a humbler individual may be introduced in the suite of his embassy, as was the fortune of the present scribe on the occasion of the first baise-main of Sultan Mehmed V. It rather reminded me of youthful operatic days to march through the endless corridors and to climb the immeasurable stairs of Dolma Ba hcheh Palace and to look down at last from the high east gallery of the throneroom. The top galleries of my youthful days, however, did not contain gilt chairs upholstered in blue and white satin or buffets set out with gold plate and presided over by lackeys in red and gold. The lackeys, though, did look a little like the stage. While a Turk makes a magnificent soldier or horseman, he never attains, .<

2012, ISBN: 1236560426

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missin… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: .of all sorts, perfumes, tobacco, cigarette-holders, and beads of amber and other materials are also sold, besides silks and rugs. In Abd iil Hamid s time there was always a booth for the sale of porcelain from his little factory at Yildiz. And every year the ancient pottery works of Kiitahya send up a consignment of their decorative blue ware. Both Ba irams are an occasion for paying visits. Everybody calls on everybody else, so that it is a wonder if anybody is found at home. In the case of the Sultan, however, there is no uncertainty. On the first morning of each Bairam he holds a great levee, which is attended by every one of a certain rank. The cere Balram sweets mony has taken place every year since the time of Bai ezid the Thunderbolt, who held his court in Broussa in the fourteenth century. Foreigners take no part in this mouayedeh (exchange of feast-day wishes), or baise-main, as they prefer to call it, but the diplomatic corps and other notables of the European colony are invited to watch it from the gallery of the throne-room. Or sometimes a humbler individual may be introduced in the suite of his embassy, as was the fortune of the present scribe on the occasion of the first baise-main of Sultan Mehmed V. It rather reminded me of youthful operatic days to march through the endless corridors and to climb the immeasurable stairs of Dolma Ba hcheh Palace and to look down at last from the high east gallery of the throneroom. The top galleries of my youthful days, however, did not contain gilt chairs upholstered in blue and white satin or buffets set out with gold plate and presided over by lackeys in red and gold. The lackeys, though, did look a little like the stage. While a Turk makes a magnificent soldier or horseman, he never attains, .<

2012, ISBN: 1236560426

[EAN: 9781236560421], Neubuch, [PU: GENERAL BOOKS 01/08/2012], New Book. Shipped from US This item is printed on demand.

ISBN: 9781236560421

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