Pears, Edwin [Sir]

The Life of Abdul Hamid [Makers of the Nineteenth Century Series]

London: Constable & Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #001295

Red cloth boards. x, 365 p.p. Frontispiece. Boards slightly bowed, with heavy sunning to spine and rear board with small ink smudge to spine head. Bottom corners bruised. Light foxing. Some trimming to pages, else a very good copy. Biography of Abdul Hamid, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire by Sir Edwin Pears [1835-1919], a British historian and lawyer who practised law in Constantinople. Pears traveled extensively throughout Turkey, publishing two earlier and influential works: Turkey and Its People (1911) and Forty Years in Constantinople (1916).

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