Theodor Friedrich Julius. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise durch die Kirgisensteppe nach Chiwa.

by BASINER

£3,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

a rare account of khiva - presentation copy BASINER, Theodor Friedrich Julius. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise durch die Kirgisensteppe nach Chiwa. St Petersburg: The Imperial Academy of Science. 1848. 8vo. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in blind, blue-sprinkled edges; pp. [6 (series-title, title and dedication, versos blank)], xv, [1 (blank)], 379, [1 (blank)]; lithographic portrait frontispiece by H. Schmid after E. Hau, printed by K. Pohl, 3 lithographic plates after W. Pape et al., one double-page lithographic plan of Khiva, and one hand-coloured lithographic folding map; extremities a little rubbed and bumped, lightly browned, one plate trimmed touching caption, folding map lightly browned and with short, skilfully-repaired tears, internally a very good copy; provenance : August Nöschel (1809-1877, physicist, presentation inscription from the author on initial blank ); annotations [?by Nöschel] on upper pastedown (ink) and text (pencil); Olga Ahnger (inkstamp on front free endpaper). First edition , published as volume XV of the Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Russischen Reiches und der angränzenden Länder Asiens . This very rare account of Khiva and the surrounding region was written by a member of Gregor Danilewsky's Russian Expedition of 1842. Basiner describes the progress of the expedition itself in the first part of the work, and the second half gives a description of the Khanate of Khiva. The book is rare, and this copy is remarkab

• Binding: Hardcover

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