First English edition
LÖHER, Franz von. Cyprus, Historical and Descriptive. Adapted from the German of Franz Von Löher. With Much Additional Matter by Mrs. A. Batson Joyner. London: W. H. Allen. 1878.
8vo. Original green cloth with bevelled edges, spine lettered in gilt, cover ruled in blind; pp. xvi, 303, 36 (publisher's catalogue, dated January 1878, [4, catalogue], two maps (one folding and in colour), gathering U with eight leaves erroneously bound in twice; light rubbing to extremities, front hinge re-inforced, very light spotting at the beginning; a good copy
First edition in English, updated and revised.
The Berlin conference of 1878 had decided to put Cyprus under British administration. This sudden development created demand for information on the island and Löher's German book had to be translated quickly.
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