À travers l’Asie Centrale. La Steppe Kirghize – Le Turkestan russe – Boukhara – Khiva – Le pays des Turcomans et la Perse.

À travers l’Asie Centrale. La Steppe Kirghize – Le Turkestan russe – Boukhara – Khiva – Le pays des Turcomans et la Perse. Impressions de voyage. MOSER (Henri). Paris, Librairie Plon, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1885. Quarto (4to) (28.7 x 21.5 cm), 10 unnumbered leaves including portrait of Henri MOSER + 463 pp. + folding map. Half-morocco with corners binding in brown, raised bands spine with five bands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt title and author, marbled boards. Some rubbing to the binding and scattered foxing. Complete with its more than 170 engravings, including 117 drawings by M. E. van Muyden and 16 heliotypes, large folding color map of the author's itinerary. First Edition. Moser provides a remarkable account of regions still difficult for European travelers to access. He is interested as much in the populations and their customs as in the landscapes, cities, commercial exchanges, and Russian expansion in Central Asia.