Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor; Or, Notes From the Levant
Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor; Or, Notes From the Levant

INVENTORY #153107

Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor; Or, Notes From the Levant

COCHRAN, William

$200.00 Sale

Topics include; the silk harvest, the mulberry, Turkish carpets, Greek institutions in Smyrna, diseases of the silkworm, use of the microscope in sericulture, fraudulent insurers in Smyrna, Smyrna and Aidin Railway, Hierapolis, Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Brigandage in Asia Minor, sites of Apocalyptic churches, etc.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Sampson
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1887
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    XXIV, 464 p. 22 cm. 89 engravings from watercolour sketches by the author. Red cloth with gold print. All edges gilt. Slight spine lean. Corners bumped. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Dampstain to rear cover and some red bleeding to last index page. Some other small stains to exterior. Scuff on rear endpapers. Prize bookplate on front endpaper from Birkenhead College in 1894, awarded to William Egerton for various subjects, signed by Robert Brown, Principal. Pages 273-8 are jutting out a bit.

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