[Collection], “Russes et Turcs. La Guerre d’Orient”, Paris, 1877-1878. First and only edition. First volume published in 1877, second in 1878. Small Folio 30x20cm. Contemporary leather over boards. Leather dusty, boards rubbed, some scattered spotting. Complete, 1.152p., continuous pagination, many woodcut illustrations in the text, several full page. Overall a good copy. A collective work written by French officers who followed the operations. As the two theaters of war, in the Balkans and in Eastern Anatolia, were remote and still unexplored, these precise officers accounts give precious information for the people, societies, villages, roads and the general condition of the Balkans and Anatolia in 1877-78. Richly illustrated. Scarce