BACKSHEESH!; or Life and Adventures in the Orient / With Descriptive and Humorous Sketches of Sights and Scenes Over the Atlantic, Down the Danube, Through the Crimea; in Turkey, Greece, Asia-Minor, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt; Up the Nile, In Nubia, and Equatorial Africa, etc., etc. / Embellished with nearly Two Hundred and Fifty Illustrations, including Forty-Eight full page Engravings, principally executed in London, Paris, and New York, from Photographs and original Sketches. / With Fine Steel-Plate Portrait of the Author / By Thomas W. Knox
Hartford, Conn. D. Worthington & Co., Publishers, 1875. Woodcuts and steel engravings. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Tall thick 8vo (6 1/4" x 9"), maroon pictorial cloth with elaborately decorated spine having two gilt pictorial rondels & front cover gilt-stamped with Arabs mounted on camels at an oasis, profusely..... More