Books on Turkey and Russia (3). Oliphant, Laurence.The Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army under Omer Pasha. a Personal Narrative.Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1856. First edition.4 tinted litho plates, 2 folding maps, 4 text vignettes, xxvii,234pp., some spotting to plates and adjacent pages, marbled endpapers and edges, 8vo., contemporary 1/2 calf with raised bands and contrasting title label, marbled boards, spine rubbed and now stabilised with conservation leather dressing. Pale blue ownership stamp of a parliamentary library on titlepage, a couple in the text, and on the blank versos of the plates and maps. No other markings internal or external. Uncommon. Laurence Oliphant, 1829-1888, travel writer, war correspondent and mystic. See Dnb. Best known for his personal account as private secretary to Lord Elgin during the latter's mission to China and Japan in 1857-8, published 1859; Oliphant, Laurence.The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852. with a Voyage down the Volga, and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks. second Edition - Revised and Enlarged. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1853. Tinted litho frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding and with spotting), wood-engraved vignettes in text, (16),380pp., 16pp. adverts., 8vo., publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette on front board. Some minor pale flecking to lower corners of boards but a very good copy. Abbey Travel 233; Fowler, George.Turkey; or, a History of the Origin, Progress and Decline of the ottoman Empire.... with illustrative notes, by Trevethan Spicer.London, T.H.Rees...Hope & Co., 1854.Tinted litho frontispiece of Sultan Abdul Medjid, extra litho titlepage with chromolitho vignette of the Sultan's seal, 2 large folding hand-coloured maps, (16),501pp.,(7pp.adverts)., large 12mo, modern half green morocco and marbled boards. a pale watermark one cm. deep on top edge of frontis and extra titlepage, otherwise a very good clean copy. Uncommon.