first edition Hardcover
1893 · New York
by WALLACE, Lew
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two volume set. 502pp, 578pp. Blue cloth gilt titles. Pages age-toned, lacking the front fly and contemporary owner's name in volume one, offsetting on endpapers in volume two, extremities modestly worn, still a very good set. Wallace was U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Turkey from 1881 to 1885. (Inventory #: 407674)