F.CLIMENT-B.COLLAS: LA TURQUIA DESDE LA FUNDACION DE LA CASA DE LOS SELEUCIDAS HASTA NUESTROS DIAS. MADRID 1868 First edition, FOLIO, contemporary leather over boards very slightly rubbed at extremities, complete 174p. and one map, text clean and bright, overall in almost fine condition. A very scarce Spanish account for the Levant. First part is a presentation of the Ottoman history from its early phases to the mid 19th century, the second and most important is a detailed presentation of the Ottoman Levant in the mid 1860s. Government, administration, population, ethnography, trade, economy, agriculture and industry, ommerce etc. It provide statistical commercial data and concrete information for many regions, including big parts of actual Greece that were then under Ottoman rule. Most probably taken from Spanish commercial and diplomatic agents in the Levant, is a comprehensive presentation of all aspects of the Ottoman state.