Voyage dans l'Asie centrale de Téhéran à Khiva, Bokhara et Samarcand

by Arminius Vámbéry

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Paris: Hachette, July, 1865 . Folio extract from Le Tour du Monde, volume 12, and the first edition in French, comprising pages 33-112 i.e. 80 pages ; text in double column, full-page map, 34 fine wood-engraved illustrations by Emile Bayard, and others; later quarter calf and marbled boards, green leather label on spine; very good, sound, and clean. The real novelty of the French version by Hachette was the wealth and quality of the illustrations. Not only

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