Item #20105 Travels in Central Asia. Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcan. Arminius VÁMBÉRY.

Travels in Central Asia. Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcan.

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 494 pp + 2 pp of adverts. Original brown cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind rules, bevelled edges, frontis w/ tissue guard, b&w illustrations, color fold-out map housed in pocket at rear. An account of his 1865 journey by Ármin Vámbéry, aka "Arminius Vámbéry" (1832 – 1913) a Hungarian Turkologist. Corners and spine edges & ends a little rubbed and chafed with minor fraying at spine ends, bumps to fore-edge of rear board, spine slightly darkened, endpages a bit foxed, paper lightly browned. Still, a tight, clean VG copy. Item #20105

Price: $150.00

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