First edition on ordinary paper. Half-brown shagreen binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Guellier. Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Loti to Alphonse Cillière, French consul in Trebizond during the Armenian massacres of 1894-1896 ordered by the Red Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the first step in a genocidal escalation that would culminate in 1915. Our copy contains an autograph note signed by Pierre Loti to Alphonse Cillière (envelope included, the ensemble mounted on tabs) in which he expresses his wish, before leaving France, to meet his correspondent.