Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara and Kuldja (Vol. II) by Charles Schuyler (HQ99)

Published 1876: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout / Volume II

Original red embossed decorated cloth with gilt titles and decoration on the spine. 463 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Boards are rubbed, stained and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce original first edition, Vol. II. (HQ99)

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First edition. - Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. '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. In this I was a measure successful'

Eugene Schuyler's important account of his travels through Turkistan. Schuyler was an American writer, explorer and diplomat, and is best known for this significant historical account of central Asia. Schuyler travelled to Turkistan to study the political, social and religious conditions of the regions which had been taken over by the Russian conquest, and to compare the conditions of those under Russia's rule and those kept by the Khans. The work was notable for its detailed descriptions of life and customs in those regions.

Volume II contains chapters on Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul (present-day Kyrgyzstan) and Semiretch (present-day Semirech'e, Kazakhstan), and Kuldja ( present-day China). Including a summary of early Chinese and medieval European travelers to Central Asia and the accounts of their voyages. [Rare Books]