Kanitz F.: “Donau-Bulgarien und der Balkan, historisch-geographisch-ethnographische Reisestudien aus den Jahren 1860-1879.” Leipzig 1882 Second enlarged edition. Tall 4to 28x20cm. Three volumes bound in one. Original publisher’s fine binding, internally slightly scattered, spotting in few pages, text clean and bright, complete 269p.,304p.,386p., with many maps and views and the impressive (145x55cm) map of Bulgaria drawn from Kanitz folded at the back, overall very good. Felix Kanitz, an Austrian geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist traveled extensively in the Balkans since 1860 and up to 1879. He became the chief specialist on the south Slaves and their first profound ethnographer. The independence of Serbia and the rise of a modern Bulgarian state initiate his lengthy account of 1.000 pages concerning the Balkan peninsula from the Vardar valley and Prespa lakes up to the Thracian coastline and from Donau and Morava valley up to the Aegean coastline, everything is meticulously described. Kanitz toured these areas for 20 years and provide invaluable travel accounts N ot in Atabey or Blackmer. An IMPRESSIVE PUBLICATION, richly illustrated. Very rare