Title: 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 Author: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam Place: Philadelphia Publisher: J.W. Bradley Date: 1859 Description: 483 + [7]-20 ad pp. Mezzotint frontispiece; wood engravings in the text. 7¾x4¾, original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Though not graced with the color lithographs of the English edition, the frontispiece is a striking example of the mezzotint, depicting a night attack on the Atkinson encampment, with guns blazing. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, cloth splitting along joints, corner showing as is 1" strip of board at top of front cover; ink name of R.C. Waterston to front free endpaper and top of title-page, a bit of foxing within, else very good. Item number: 187737
Title: 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 Author: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam Place: Philadelphia Publisher: J.W. Bradley Date: 1859 Description: 483 + [7]-20 ad pp. Mezzotint frontispiece; wood engravings in the text. 7¾x4¾, original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Though not graced with the color lithographs of the English edition, the frontispiece is a striking example of the mezzotint, depicting a night attack on the Atkinson encampment, with guns blazing. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, cloth splitting along joints, corner showing as is 1" strip of board at top of front cover; ink name of R.C. Waterston to front free endpaper and top of title-page, a bit of foxing within, else very good. Item number: 187737
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