LANGLOIS Victor, "Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes de Taurus execute pendant les annees 1852-53", Paris, 1861. First and only edition. Small 4to, (24x16cm), pp.478. Complete, including half title, lithographed portrait, a folding map and 29 wood engraved plates after Langlois, some double-page or folding and illustrations in the text. Leather over boards, spine gilded, occasional very light spotting, a very good copy of a very scarce work. Langlois was sent by the French government to explore Cilicia. He spent almost two years there and his reports are the first comprehensive scientific accounts for this area of Anatolia. Langloiss travel descriptions form a kind of Encyclopedia for Cilicia. The area of the plain, as well as the Taurus mountains area, still inhabited by the Armenians at that time, is described in details. The publication of 1861 appeared in two forms: one with 7 lithographed plates of costumes (the common one) and one (like here) with 28 plates of fine views by Langlois (in this copy 29), much more rare, as it had the double price. Atabey 666, not in Blackmer. Very Rare.