Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe

Mackenzie, G. Muir and Paulina Irby

Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1867

About this Item

8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 685. First Edition and signed by Mackenzie (Author). In very good condition; cloth binding with gilt illustration on the cover and gilt title on the spine. Light shelf-wear to cover as expected with age and handling. Small marks and stains particularly on the spine, in which the top and bottom are slightly worn. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Previous owner's sticker at the bottom left of rear end-paper. WIth numerous illustrations and maps. One of the fold-out maps in the introduction is lightly creased in the corner but without obstructing the map itself. A very good copy. Georgina Muir Mackenzie was a British Balkan sympathiser, writer and traveller. She was arrested as a spy with Paulina Irby and published a book that William Gladstone said was "the best English book I have seen on Eastern matters", this account of southern Bulgaria, Serbia, northern Albania, and Montenegro in the 1860s. The authors sympathized with the Serbs and southern Slavs, particularly women, who lived in oppressive conditions under Ottoman rule. Irby was awarded the Order of Saint Sava and the Order of the Cross of Takovo. Illustrations by Felix Kanitz, an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, painter and author of travel notes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
• Publisher: Bell and Daldy, London
• Publication Date: 1867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Kanitz, Felix
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)