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Through Asiatic Turkey.

Narrative of a journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus.

Stock Code 110846

London, Sampson Low, 1878

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Scarce account of a three-month journey principally through Asiatic Turkey and undertaken for the purpose of making an objective assessment 'as to the drift of things in the Ottoman Empire'. The author was editor of The Times of India. The early chapters are devoted to Persia and the Persian Gulf; the Great Game; and comments on the situation of the Kurds and the Jews.

First edition; 2 vols in 1, 8vo; 2 frontispieces, folding coloured map, 13 wood-engraved plates, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, light fade to spine and corners, old ownership marks and inscriptions to front free endpaper (verso and recto), a very good copy; xvi, 339; xi, 356 pp.,

Ghani p149.
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Through Asiatic Turkey.

GEARY, Grattan.

Stock code: 110846

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