With Star and Crescent
Philadelphia: Ætna Publishing Company, 1889. Octavo. 634 pp. First edition. Original dark brown pictorial cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt and black to upper board, gilt-decorated spine. Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, and 15 full-page plates. Gilt remains bright and attractive. Rubbing and fraying to extremities, heaviest at spine crown and heel; corners rubbed with scattered cloth loss. Spine mildly dulled. Text-block edges toned. Scattered foxing to frontispiece. Original tissue guard present, toned.
A handsomely bound nineteenth-century account documenting the travel from Bombay toward Constantinople, with extensive observations of Muscat, Baghdad, Mesopotamia, caravan travel, local customs, and encounters throughout the Ottoman Middle East. Locher traveled with an attaché of the French government and illustrated the journey from drawings made during. Particularly desirable in the publisher's striking star-and-crescent pictorial binding. Good. Item #1166
Price: $160.00