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New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876.2 volumes. Original decorated cloth gilt (top of spines sl. dam.). With 3 folding maps and woodengraved plates and illustrations. XII,411; VIII,463 pp.First edition. - Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. 'The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the despotism of the Khans. In this I was a measure successful' (Preface). Volume I contains chapters on the Syr Darya, Tashkent, Muslim life in Tashkent, bazaars and trade, Samarkand, the Zarafshan Valley, and Hodjent (present-day Khujand, Tajikistan) and Kurama (present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Volume II contains chapters on Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul (present-day Kyrgyzstan) and Semiretch (present-day Semirech'e, Kazakhstan), and Kuldja ( present-day China). Including a summary of early Chinese and medieval European travelers to Central Asia and the accounts of their voyages. - A nice set.Cordier, BS, col. 2616; Nerhood 313; Yakushi S99b.
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