COX, Samuel Sullivan.

Diversions of a diplomat in Turkey.

New York, Charles L. Webster & Co, 1887. Large 8vo, pp. xix, 685, with a portrait-frontispiece and two coloured plates; numerous illustrations in the text, some full-page; pencil inscription at foot of title; a very good copy in the original pictorial red cloth; lightly soiled, lower cover slightly marked, spine a little faded. First edition. The author was U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 1885 to 1886. ‘The title of this volume indicates its scope and spirit. It has little to do with the art of diplomacy. It is a diversion because it turns aside from that esoteric art. Out of the channels of the diplomatic movements of Constantinople, and aloof from the cares and studies of the author’s ministrations in the East, it seeks to impart something of the relaxation, if not the amusement, which furnished the pastime of a sojourn of unequaled refreshment and entertainment’ (preface).Blackmer 421.

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