Superb book illustrated with 25 engraved plates and 2 fold-out maps: a general map of Asia by M. H. Dufour, 1854; and a general map of Africa by Mr. H. Dufour, 1854.

This book deals with, among other things:

Asia: Siberia, Urals, mines, exiles, Ostiake tribes – northern trading posts, Samoyed and Tungusic tribes – Tatars and Keibales, Lake Baikal – Kiakhta – Buryats – Yakutsk – Chinese tartary, Mongolian women, wedding ceremonies – Mongolian cities, the Great Wall – funerals, religion – Thibet, Lassa, mores, government – Tibet roads, future of Catholicism in this region – Manchuria, Korea – China, Beijing – Opium,

English War, administration – Canton, Macao – Japan, customs, customs, mores, Yedo – Malaia, Malacca, Burmese Empire – India, Calcutta and Bengal, Ganges, Bramapoutre – Nepal, Patna, Hindus, etc. – Banares – Allahabad – Himalayas – Bombay – Afghanistan, Cabul – Isfahan – Tehran – Ephesus – Troy – Syria – Aleppo – Lebanon – Arabia – Mecca – Aden, etc. / Africa: Egypt – Pyramids – Cairo – Thebes – Nubia – Nile – Darfur – Sudan – Cafres tribes – Guinea – Morocco – Algeria – etc.

Eyriès was endowed with a prodigious memory and spoke 9 languages, published several geographical works and translated from English, German and Scandinavian languages many accounts of travellers and explorers. He has also contributed to Conrad Malte-Brun's Annales des voyages de la géographie et de l'histoire, Louis-Gabriel Michaud's Biographie universelle, Léon Renier's Encyclopédie moderne, the Encyclopédie des connaissances utiles et à la collection des Costumes, mœurs et usages de tous les peuples.

Eyriès Et Alfred Jacobs - Voyage En Asie Et En Afrique - 1866
Pagination: half-title page + title page + IV + 692 pages + 25 engravings.

Binding in very good condition, volume in its half-binding in red sheepskin, spine with faux raised bands, rubbed spines and caps, crisp gilding, slightly rubbed covers, all edges gilded, lower corners bumped, all golden slices, superb -

Inside in very good condition, a tear in the margin on page 675, presence of 25 plates full page and out of text throughout the book + 2 large folding maps. (complete), crisp inside -

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