Roumania Past and Present

Rear board detached. Spine cloth very worn and peeling away from spine along upper half of rear joint. 1/4" missing to cloth at tail of spine. Moderate foxing. Creasing to the first folding map.; "Cheap Edition". No date (preface dated 1882). xiv, 289 pages + 3 autotype photographic plates + 31 in-text woodcut illustrations + 2 folding colour maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt illustration on frontboard. The autotype frontispiece plate of the Cathedral of Curtea D'Ardges occurs after the title page, rather than facing it. "There is no country in Europe which at the present time possesses greater interest for Englishmen than does the Kingdom of Roumania, and there is none with whose present state and past history, nay, with whose very geographical position, they are less familiar." - from the preface.; 8vo.