A travers le Turkestan russe

First edition, with 265 engravings, of which 75 photographic reproductions hors texte in heliogravure and under captioned silk-paper guards.
Publisher’s half purple shagreen, the spine (sunned) with two gilt-tooled arabesques, title label in yellow shagreen, blindruled fillet frame to light brown shagreen boards, three gilt arabesques to boards (three light scratches without significance), moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, parchment-paper covers with arabesque motifs matching boards preserved, top edge gilt.
A good copy with almost no foxing, retaining its folding map at end.