Thomas Witlam. Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia.

by ATKINSON

£800 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia. London: Hurst and Blackett. 1858. 8vo. Original publisher's green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; pp. viii, [4], 611]; smaller-format, 2-page publisher's advertisement inserted at the end; chromolithographic frontispiece by E. Walker after Atkinson, printed by Day Son and finished by hand, 3 chromolithographic plates by Walker and 16 tinted lithographic plates by J. Needham, all after Atkinson and printed by Day Son and finished by hand, all with tissue guards, folding lithographic map by J. Netherclift Senior, with Atkinson's route added by hand in red, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; very light wear and marking to cloth, inner hinges strengthened, initial spotting due to offsetting from endpapers and frontispiece, plates a little spotted (as usual), otherwise a very good copy with contemporary engraved armorial bookplate and ownership inscription of Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount of St. Vincent, inside front cover. First edition. The architect and artist Atkinson (1799-1861) practised as an architect in London and the north of England, before travelling to Hamburg in the early 1840s to enter a competition to design a new church. Although he was unsuccessful in this, Atkinson was inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's account of his travels in Siberia to journey to St Pet

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