LEON HOGONET: La Turquie inconnue Roumelie – Bulgarie – Macedoine - Albanie. Paris 1886 Third edition. In 8vo (18x12 cm). Contemporary leather over marbled boards. Text with scattered spotting and foxing. Complete: 308 p. Overall in almost very good condition. Hugonet (1842–1910), a French journalist and diplomat, travelled extensively in the Balkans during the early 1880s. His main focus was the northern Balkan hinterland, still largely unknown and under Ottoman rule. His year-long journey took him across Macedonia, Roumelia, Albania, and Bulgaria. Beginning in Adrianople in winter, he crossed the Evros valley to the then-independent Eastern Roumelia, explored the region in depth, and continued north to Skopje in North Macedonia and the Vardar river, eventually reaching Thessaloniki. In the summer of 1883 he travelled west into Albania and Corfu. This account, written with the precision of a diplomat, provides accurate descriptions of people, customs, roads, and trade, while also offering important ethnological data on Roumelia and Macedonia. It remains one of the very few travel accounts of independent Roumelia and among the earliest detailed narratives of Macedonia’s interior. Rare.