(Turkey.) Lord Warkworth [Henry Percy, Earl Percy]: 'Notes f...

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(Turkey.) Lord Warkworth [Henry Percy, Earl Percy]: 'Notes from a Diary in Asiatic Turkey', London, Edward Arnold, 1898, 1st edition, photogravure frontispiece depicting Mosul bazaar + 30 photogravure plates + b/w plate (Church at Kars) + folding map complete, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Earl Percy (1871-1909) or, until 1899, Lord Warkworth, was a British Conservative politician who served as Under-Secretary of State for India and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs before his early death in 1909. Percy first visited parts of Anatolia, or Asia Minor, shortly after his election to Parliament in 1895, he returned in 1897 and wrote the present book on his return to England. A well produced work with excellent illustrations and content on the places visited by the author including Constantinople, Ankara, Sungurlu, Amasia, Van, Diyarbakir, Mosul, Aleppo etc. Warkworth was one of a team of Lords who went to Anatolia to investigate the Armenian question, and took the pro-Turkish side, convinced that Armenia would be worse served by the Russians than the Ottomans. An important work both for these comments on the Armenian question, and the astute observations on a lesser visited part of Anatolia