Tchihatcheff P., "Klein - Asien", Leipzig - Prag, 1887. First edition in German.8vo (19x14cm), pp.188p, complete with 1 map and 19 plates (steel plates). Pyotr Tchihatcheff (1808-1890) was the first real explorer of Asia Minor. He has travelled all around the peninsula in late 1840s and published his scientific accounts in Paris from 1853 to 1867, in several volumes and Atlases. This is an abridged version of his travel accounts, in German, for a wider distribution, published in a period that Germany started to look towards the Ottoman lands. Contemporary binding. Clean and nice copy.