La Vie des Steppes Kirghizes: Descriptions, Recits & Contes.

£3,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Zaleski (1819-1880) was a Polish painter who lived in Orenburg, from where he spent just under a decade travelling through part of the vast Kazakh Steppe. His drawings, beautifully reproduced here as etchings, show scenes in Kyrgyzstan and what are now areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Each plate is preceded by a lively descriptive passage on the landscape, architecture or people depicted in the image.

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