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Victor Langlois: Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes de Taurus execute pendant les annees 1852-1853.Paris 1861 First edition,the version ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 FINE COLOURED LITHOGRAPHED COSTUMES.In Quarto.Contemporary red leather over boards,some light marginal water stain. Complete [10]478p.,7 colored lithographed, one folding map,further illustrations in text.A very good copy. Langlois was the first European who explored Cilicia and Taurus mountains in Anatolia. This account is a detailed description of the area,its topography,its natural resources,races and languages spoken, trade, government,history,cities and countryside, the account had been published in TWO VERSIONS.This with the fine contemporary hand colored ethnography subjects lithographed plates and another with geographical landscapes.The two versions have completely different plates.Not in Atabey this edition (666 for the other one),not in Blackmer.Scarce




SOLD // €480.00




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