£100
Edward Stanford: 'Stanford's Map of Turkey in Europe and Her Tributary States; together with such parts of Russia, Austria, Turkey in Asia & Persia as more more immediately concerned in the settlement of The Eastern Question.', engraved folding map, original colour, dissected and backed onto linen, London, Stanford, 1877, 75.5 x 110cm, folding into the original covers, printed aper label to front cover. A map of the areas affected by the gradual weakening of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, covering from Greece to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The map was published as matters came to a head with the 'The Great Eastern Crisis' of 1875-8, when Western powers took advantage of uprisings in the Balkan peninsula to acquire territory at Turkey's expense
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