[BALKANS / TRAVEL / THE 1897 GRECO-TURCO WAR] Tesalya'da bir cevelân ve dört aylik seyahâtim. [i.e., A tour in Thessaly and my four-month voyage]

SÜLEYMAN TEVFIK [ÖZZORLUOGLU], (Turkish / Ottoman journalist, war reporter, translator, lexicographer, and intellectual), (1861-1939), Mahmud Bey Matbaasi, Istanbul, [AH 1315] = 1898. In contemporary handsome 1/3 leather bdg. Raised five bands to the spine. The third and fourth compartments have a lettered gilt title and a personal name (Fikri) in Ottoman script. Other ones have decorated gilts. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 359 p. First and only edition of Süleyman Tevfik's eyewitness travel account to Thessaly, who participated in the Turco-Greco War in 1897 as a war correspondent in the Thessaly Front between April 27 - May 20, 1897. The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97. It was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek m