SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX - DIVERSIONS OF A DIPLOMAT IN TURKEY
New York, Charles L. Webster & Co.,1887. 685 pp., 23.5x16 cm. 108 full-page and in-text engravings, drawings and maps. Publisher’s decorative cloth binding with an image of an Ottoman coffeehouse with a crescent moon on the cover. Blackmer 421.
THE FAMOUS BOOK OF SAMUEL COX, WHO SERVED IN THE U.S. EMBASSY IN ISTANBUL IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, DRAWING ATTENTION FOR HIS ROLE IN THE ARMENIAN ISSUE, RELATIONS WITH MISSIONARIES, AND EFFORTS TO INTERFERE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE...
Estimate: 100-140 USD