1878 RUSSIA TURKEY War in the East EASTERN QUESTION Great Game Armenia Serbia
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The War in the East
An Illustrated History of the Conflict between Russia and Turkey, with a Review of the Eastern Question
By Prof. A. J. Schem
Illustrated with Engravings from Original Designs
PUBLISHED BY H. S. GOODSPEED & CO., NEW YORK, & CINCINNATI, O. 1878. 1st Edition.
6 ¼ x 8 ½ inches. Hardcover. Embossed pictorial covers and spine. [2], 692 pp. Double frontispiece (portraits of Alexander II, Czar of Russia and Abdul-Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey). 103 engravings + 11 maps and plans. Appendices.
Ex-library copy with number on spine and blind stamp on title. Later endpapers. Repair to frontis and title. Light soiling to several pages. Light staining to plates margins. Generally very good internally. Tight. Handles very well. Heavy.
Not common; beautifully illustrated 1st edition.
Outstanding work on The Great Game (the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia), Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 (a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and numerous Balkan countries) and the “Eastern Question” (the diplomatic and political problems posed by the decay of the Ottoman Empire).The author of this book made the Eastern Question for nearly twenty years a subject of constant and special study.
Balkans, Russia, Turkey, England, Armenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, etc.