Travels in central Asia : being the account of a journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the eastern shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand performed in the year 1863 / by Arminius Vámbéry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vámbéry, Ármin, 1832-1913.

Contributor:

Hungarian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vázlatok Közép-Ázsiából. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia, Central--Description and travel.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

William Smith & Son (inscription, 1912) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 443 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, color map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : J. Murray, 1864.

Notes:

Translation of: Vázlatok Közép-Ázsiábl̤.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Lindfield Borrer on p. [ii]; autograph of Henry H. Bonnell on verso of leaf preceding back free endpaper; ms. inscription ("Wm Smith Son Reading, Eng 3/4/12 7/6") in pencil on verso of leaf preceding back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound by in three-quarter blind-tooled green leather over marbled boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; red leather spine label with brief title ("Vambery's Central Asia") stamped in gold; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.

OCLC:

2903569