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8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches. iv + 186 pp. + [2] pp. Publishers' Note. Bound in maroon cloth with black titles and block of arms on front board. A little wear and sunning of extremities and scattered foxing, including title page and edges. Illustrated by 9 plates, including portrait frontispiece, and by tables in text. Longer summary of Russian history and briefer accounts of the Balkan states, Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Rumania and Serbia, with two appendices on the Balkan states, 1909-12 and on the outbreak of the Balkan War, 1912. The text is taken from the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1910-11, with updating appendices. The contributors are Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841-1919), Scottish writer and correspondent of The Time, who lived in Russia, 1870-76 (his three volume work, Russia appeared 1876), attended the Congress of Berlin, 1878, and also travelled to Constantinople, Egypt and India; Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a writer, geographer and explorer of Siberia, who became an anarchist communist; Count Cedomilj Mijatovic (1842-1932) was an anglophile Serbian statesman (Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs), writer, historian and diplomat who served as ambassador to London several times between 1884 and 1903; James David Bourchier (1850-1920) was an Irish journalist who favoured the cause of Bulgaria, where he lived in Sofia, 1892-1915, and strongly supported this losing country during the negotiations over the Balkan Wars, 1912-13 and at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919-20. HISTORY/THEOLOGY RUSSIA HISTORY EASTERN EUROPE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY/THEOLOGY. Seller Inventory # 29065
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