Title: Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures Among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks; The Hunting and Pastoral Tribes Author: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam Place: London Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Date: 1860 Description: (iii)-xiii, [1], 570 pp. Lacking half title. Chromolithographed frontispiece; folding map; wood engravings in the text. (8vo) 9¼x6, half morocco and cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down First Edition. Significant for the ethnological observations as well as the marvelous descriptions of the geographic features of the region. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather brittle, hinges repaired; bottom of dedication leaf trimmed and with erasure of inkstamped number (likely removing library markings); repairs to folding map. Sold as is. Item number: 203609
Title: Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures Among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks; The Hunting and Pastoral Tribes Author: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam Place: London Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Date: 1860 Description: (iii)-xiii, [1], 570 pp. Lacking half title. Chromolithographed frontispiece; folding map; wood engravings in the text. (8vo) 9¼x6, half morocco and cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down First Edition. Significant for the ethnological observations as well as the marvelous descriptions of the geographic features of the region. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather brittle, hinges repaired; bottom of dedication leaf trimmed and with erasure of inkstamped number (likely removing library markings); repairs to folding map. Sold as is. Item number: 203609
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