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First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.
First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.
First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.
First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.
First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.
First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.

ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam.

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.

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1858.

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Account of a tour made in 1849-56. Atkinson, English traveller and painter, was inspired by Alexander von Humboldt to travel through Russia and Central Asia in 1845. A year later he journeyed to Siberia and on through the Kirghiz steppe. In 1849 he reached the heart of Mongolia via Kobdo and Uliassutai. His narrative describes his stay with the Khalka Mongols and the crossing of the Mongolian plains.

First edition; 8vo (26 x 17.5 cm); one folding map, 20 lithographed plates, some in colour including frontispiece, 35 illustrations in text, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth, expert restoration to spine extremities, a very good copy; viii, [4], 611, [2] pp

Czech (Asian), p15; Yakushi A293.

Stock code 120747

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First edition of Thomas Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, an important account of travel through Siberia and the Mongolian steppes.

Oriental and Western Siberia:

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