With Star And Crescent. A Full And Authentic Account Of A Recent Journey With A Caravan From Bombay To Constantinople, Comprising A Description Of The Country, The People, And Interesting Adventures With The Natives. Finely Illustrated

Philadelphia: Aetna Publishing Co, 1890. Early printing (first published 1889). Octavo (20cm); publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; frontispiece and 14 inserted leaves of plates (of which three are steel engravings on heavy paper); 634pp. A pretty copy, tight and clean, with the gilt and stamped pictorial elements of the binding still bright and clear; Very Good to Near Fine.

A first-person account, with much on hunting and sporting and encounters with the Bedouins of modern-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (Inventory #: 56524)