SCHWEIGER-LERCHENFELD A., “Der Orient”, Wien, 1882. First edition. In 4to, 23x17cm, percaline spine and corners, marbled carton covers, all edges marbled. In 8vo, pp. 808, [150], with fifty (50) full page lithographed views outside text, several maps and more than one hundred woodcut vignettes with views in the text.

Amald Schweiger Lerchenfeld (1846-1910) an Austrian traveler and writer visited Greece in 1875. He toured after in Macedonia, Thrace, Anatolia, Armenia and the Levant. The author gives very detailed and accurate information for many places of Balkans and Asia Minor. The publication is very richly illustrated with a huge quantity of plates, depicting fine rare views of Greece and the Levant, after original drawings. Informative and richly illustrated travel account for the Levant of the second half of 19th century.

Half clothed bound of the period, carton marbled boards, some edge wear. Cracked joints inside but not detached, restoration Self-adhesive tape at pages 1-3, small tear at p. 231-232, otherwise clean and tight, with occasional spotting. Marbled edge pages. Good copy overall.