Turkey.- [Blunt (Fanny Janet Sandison)] The People of Turkey: Twenty Years' Residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks and Armenians. By a Consul's Daughter and Wife, 2 vol., half-titles, 32pp. advertisements at end of vol.1, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines slightly darkened, a few small stains, slightly rubbed at extremities, 8vo, 1878.

⁂ A very good set of this work, which is exceedingly rare in commerce. The Atabey set is the last we trace at auction (2002). Blunt was brought up in Bursa, where her father Donald Sandison was British consul. She later married John Blunt, British consul in the Levant from 1848, mainly at Salonica, where she lived until 1899. Her work describes the ethnic peoples of Turkey (Armenians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews, Circassians, as well as Turks) and their homes, lands, food, dress and ceremonies.