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2 volumes. xii, 411; viii, [2], 463 pp. Illustrated with 39 wood-engraved plates, engravings in the text and frontispieces plus 3 folding maps. 21.8x14 cm (8½x5½"), rebacked with original spine strip and cloth covers laid on, pictorial designs in gilt, rule in black, spine lettering in gilt; new black endpapers. First Edition

Schuyler, Secretary of the American Legation at St. Petersburgh, travelled extensively in Russian Central Asia and gives a detailed description of the regions through which he travelled, including the economic, political and religious and social conditions. "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." – Preface. First published the preceding year.