Lukach, Harry Charles – The City of Dancing Dervishes – 1914

Lukach [later Luke], Harry Charles. The City of Dancing Dervishes and Other Sketches and Studies from the Near East.London, Macmillan & Co., 1914.8vo. XI, (1), 257, (1), (2, advertisements) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt vignette of a dervish to front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of this study of Sufi practice in Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq and Cyprus.Complete eerste druk, dus met bescherm transparant bij het frontispiece, de 12 platen en de 2 pp. publishers advertisements.inhoud:Preface,The City of Dancing Dervishes, The Khoja of Aqshehir, Some aspects of Islam in Turkey, The Turkish Khalifate and its Origin, The last days of a Grand Vizier, At an opening of the legislature of Cyprus, S. Andrew the miracle worker, Of Priests and Patriarchs, The false Messiah, The passing of the picturesque.list of illustrations.Verzending geregistreerd en verzekerd.