8vo. 347 pp., [4 adverts], halftone frontispiece, numerous similar plates, original red pictorial cloth, title gilt on spine & upper cover, top edge gilt, others edges untrimmed, spine lightly faded, scattered foxing, otherwise in good condition, T. Fisher Unwin, London, first edition, 1906.

Synopsis

Eye witness to the Armenian tragedy. The book covers the Armenian-Tatar massacres which began during the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Luigi Villari was an Italian historian, traveller and diplomat, as well as newspaper correspondent in the east of Europe. He travelled to the Caucasus in 1905, during the Russian nationalist conflict. Chapters cover the history of the Caucasus, Batum, the Georgian movement, Tiflis, Armenians, Tartars and the Russian Government, as well as other aspects of local culture.