Turkey and the Turks, and a Cruise in the Black Sea, With the Capitan Pasha

New York: William Taylor & Co., 1854. First American Edition. A Record of Travel by Adolphus Slade, Admiral of the Turkish Fleet.

Bound in the original green cloth with blind-stamped ivy borders and gilt illustration stamped on front board. Spine with gilt stamped illustrations and title. Some light toning, otherwise interior is clean and bright. 336pp. Small octavo. Very Good condition.

Adolphus Slade (1804-1877) was a British admiral who became an admiral in the Ottoman Navy. While in Ottoman service he was known as Mushaver (Inspector) Pasha. Slade has been described as "one of the best nineteenth-century writers on the Middle East," and wrote a number of books on Turkey, Greece, Malta, Germany, Russia, and more.