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Oriental and Western Siberia: a narrative of seven years’ explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of central Asia.
1858 1858 Londres. Hurst and Blackett. 1858. 1 volume grand in-8, demi-chagrin rouge à coins XXème, dos lisse orné. VIII pp. ; (4) pp. ; 611 pp. ; (1) p. bl.
Édition originale illustrée de 21 planches hors-texte en couleurs, de 31 illustrations en noir et blanc et d’une carte dépliante. Thomas Witlam Atkinson était un architecte et explorateur anglais. Il a parcouru l’Asie centrale et la Sibérie entre 1847 et 1853, décrivant les paysages, les mœurs et les coutumes des habitants.Infimes rousseurs.
Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China with adventures among the mountain Kirghis and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi and Gelyaks. The hunting and pastoral tribes. Second edition.
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1861, gr. in-8vo, colored front + XIII + 570 p., with 1 map and numerous illustrations, small legacy stamp on first flyleaf ‘Guggisberg’, original half-leather, with large corners, spine on 5 bands gilt. Fine copy.
In this work, Atkinson continues his observations while travelling in the Eastern portions of the Russian Empire. He focuses on the natural history and ethnography of the region, but includes vignettes of hunting for maral, ibex, bear, argali, and wild boar. Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting. p. 15, Image disp.
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