Minchin James George Cotton, "The Growth of Freedom in the Balkan Peninsula. Notes of a Traveler in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria and Greece, with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the People”, London, Murray, 1886. 8vo, pp. xvi,415. Complete with a folding map in the end. Minchin served as a Serbian Consul-General in London. This book provides insights to the Balkan states nationalistic trends, to the life, economy and politic situations of the Balkans written a decade before the Greco-Turkish war of 1897 and 30 years before the Balkan Wars. Original decorated cloth binding. Library blind-stamp. Excellent condition.