SIGNED BY AUTHOR with dedication dated 7.9.1895 (the signature and dedicatee`s last name were partly erased, the signature is still partly visible). EXTREMELY RARE account of a trip to Syria by George Morehouse Huss (1857-1947), an eminent American civil engineer who in 1894 contracted with the Syria Ottoman Railway Co. of London to build a railway from Acre and Haifa to Damascus. 190x125mm. 138 pages. Dark-green rebound Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover and spine stained and rubbed. Cover edges slightly bumped. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Spine edges slightly peeling. Twelve first pages detached from binding. Signed dedication on title page. Title page edges/corners partly missing. Some pages coming loose from binding. Edges/corners of some pages slightly chipped - NO damage to text. Pages browning. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare collection of letters written during a trip to Ottoman Syria is overall in good reading condition.