BAKER Samuel, "CYPRUS as I saw it in 1879", London, 1879. First and only edition. 8vo, (22x15cm), pp.xx,501. Complete, including the frontis. Contemporary full green leather, spine richly gilded, a fine binding. Only the corners slightly bumped, internally clean. A very good set of a scarce work. Samuel Baker visited Cyprus one year after the British annexation of the island. He spent several months and described almost every corner of the island, commenting on the coexistence of the Greek speaking Christians and Muslims. He was travelling in a gypsy van and his travel account, full of topographical and political comments, is very precious, presenting Cyprus after 3 centuries of Ottoman rule (Sothebys, lot 24,26-9-2017). Not in Atabey, Blackmer 67. Very rare.