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PAVEL IAKOVLEVICH PIASETSKII (1843-1919)
Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China. English translation by Jane Eliza Gordon-Cumming. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited for Chapman & Hall. Limited, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (190 x 130mm). Largely unopened, half-titles. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations, the majority full-page. Original green cloth, the upper covers blocked in black and gilt, the spines in gilt and the lower covers in blind. Provenance: Henry A. Bowring (inscription dated 1895). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH: a fine set. The illustrations are mostly reworked versions of the Russian lithographs, but also include a number of new images. Cordier Sinica 2453.
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P.I. PIASETSKII. [Journey round China in 1874-75 through Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and North-Eastern China, in Russian in cyrillic characters. St. Petersburg: M. Satsiulevich, 1880]. 2 volumes, 8° (236 x 150mm). 24 tinted lithographic plates, without the map mentioned by Cordier. (Plates browned, text somewhat spotted.) Original roan-backed cloth, titled in blind on the spines. FIRST EDITION. The purpose of the expedition was to open trade outlets and to analyse the effects of the on-going Hui Minorities' War, also known as the Dungan Revolt, 'and in the course of ther 2,800 mile journey they became the first Europeans since the Middle Ages (and the first with a camera) to visit and describe Hami and Guchen or to cross Dzungaria.' (J.A. Dabbs History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan The Hague: 1963, p.61). Cordier Sinica 2452. (4)
Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China. English translation by Jane Eliza Gordon-Cumming. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited for Chapman & Hall. Limited, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (190 x 130mm). Largely unopened, half-titles. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations, the majority full-page. Original green cloth, the upper covers blocked in black and gilt, the spines in gilt and the lower covers in blind. Provenance: Henry A. Bowring (inscription dated 1895). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH: a fine set. The illustrations are mostly reworked versions of the Russian lithographs, but also include a number of new images. Cordier Sinica 2453.
[With:]
P.I. PIASETSKII. [Journey round China in 1874-75 through Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and North-Eastern China, in Russian in cyrillic characters. St. Petersburg: M. Satsiulevich, 1880]. 2 volumes, 8° (236 x 150mm). 24 tinted lithographic plates, without the map mentioned by Cordier. (Plates browned, text somewhat spotted.) Original roan-backed cloth, titled in blind on the spines. FIRST EDITION. The purpose of the expedition was to open trade outlets and to analyse the effects of the on-going Hui Minorities' War, also known as the Dungan Revolt, 'and in the course of ther 2,800 mile journey they became the first Europeans since the Middle Ages (and the first with a camera) to visit and describe Hami and Guchen or to cross Dzungaria.' (J.A. Dabbs History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan The Hague: 1963, p.61). Cordier Sinica 2452. (4)
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