A stunning collection of annotated plates of thirty military ranks and roles in the early nineteenthcentury Imperial Ottoman army English writings on the Ottoman empire grew in the seventeenth century following the establishment of official commercial relations between London and the Sublime Porte in 1580 and a permanent English diplomatic mission at Istanbul in 1583. This stunningly produced reprint of the classic The Military Costume of Turkey Illustrated by a Series of Engravings from Drawin