Author: VçMBÉRY, HERMANN (çRMINIUS):
Title: Voyages d'un Faux Derviche dans l'Asie centrale de Téhéran a Khiva, Bokhara et Samarkand par le grand désert Turkoman. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette, 1865.
Description: . Large 8vo. Pp. (vi), 402. With one double page map and 34 woodcut illustrations. Contemporary cloth, spine gilt with five raised bands and title printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed. Some marginal stain at the end otherwise a very clean and fine copy. The first French edition, translated from the English by E.D. Forgues. The original English edition (London 1863) has 12 illustrations only. Yakushi (1984) V 07b.

Keywords: Near East, turkestan, khiva, bukhara, samarkand, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, uzbekistan, iran, persia, persian


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