1876 Turkistan. Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara Kuldja

TURKISTAN
Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja
In Two Volumes

By Eugene Schuyler

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876 (1st ed)

Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. Volume I contains chapters on the Syr Darya, Tashkent, Muslim life in Tashkent, bazaars and trade, Samarkand, the Zarafshan Valley, and Hodjent (present-day Khujand, Tajikistan) and Kurama (present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). 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.

Original ruled and decorated green boards with gilt-stamped portraits and titles. 3 fold-out maps plus numerous engraved illustrations both in text and full-page. 411 + 463 pages. 9.25" x 6.25". The book originally belonged to the seminarian scholar, Edward Arbez, before it was given to the St. Mary's Seminary library.