Lot 08260

MILLINGEN FREDERICK (Osman Seify Bey), “La Turquie Sous La Regne Dabdul-Aziz (1862-1867): Accompagnee Dune Carte Inedite De LArmenie Orientale Ou Kurdistan Septentrional, Paris, A LaCroix Verboeckhoven Et Cie, 1868. In 8vo, p. 491,[3]. With a folded map of Armenia and Kourdistan as frontispiece.

Frederick van Millingen (1836–1901) was an English army officer and writer, born in Constantinople. He took the name Osman Bey and joined the Ottoman Army for several years, before he changed once more his name to Vladimir Andreevich and converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. He is most notorious for his antesemitic writings (The Conquest of the World by the Jews, 1873).

Half leather bound of the period, marbled carton boards, visibly rubbed and bumped. Restorated folded map, clean and rather tight inside. Uncommon copy.