The crescent and the cross : romance and realities of Eastern travel / by Eliot Warburton
1908, New Edition. London : Maclaren and Co., [1908]. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Rebacked with the original spine laid pack. Panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed. Gilt titles and decorative blind tooling on front panel. New endpapers. Minor library marks remain internally. Light, marginal foxing around the prelims., and around some plates. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages; Physical description: vi, 376, 8 p. : plates, frontis. (port.) ; 21 cm. Subjects: Mediterranean region -- Gibraltar -- Egypt -- Near East -- Middle East -- Greece -- Description & travel -- 19th century -- Travel literature. Notes: 8-page publisher's catalogue at end. Item #220966
Price: €85.00