VAMBERY ARMINUUS (1832-1913) Ocherki i kartiny vostochnykh nravov [Sketches and Pictures of Eastern Culture]. SPb.: tip. t-va "Obshchestvennaya polza", 1877. – [4], 279 pages; 23 cm. - (B-ka puteshestviy). in Russian

In a composite period binding. In good condition. Scuffing on the binding, loss of fragments of the spine, minor soiling in the text block, trace of a pocket on the endpaper, stamps of a deaccessioned library on the title page and its verso, page 17, ownership inscriptions, bookstore stamp on the rear endpaper. ARMINIUS VAMBERY (Hermann Wamberger; 1832-1913) – Hungarian orientalist, specialist in Turkology, traveler, publicist, and polyglot. In 1861, he embarked on a journey to the countries of Central Asia. His route took him through Trabzon to Tehran, where he joined pilgrims returning from Mecca. He spent several months traveling with them in Central Iran, visiting Tabriz, Zanjan, and Qazvin. Continuing through Isfahan and Shiraz, he arrived in the Khanate of Khiva in June 1863, and later in the Emirate of Bukhara. Russian general and orientalist Mikhail Afrikanovich Terentyev questioned whether Vambery had actually visited Central Asia. "I personally was able to verify two things in Samarkand that expose Vambery as someone who had not seen them and, therefore, had not been in Samarkand," Terentyev wrote in his book Russia and England in Central Asia. Vámbéry’s journey was one of the first European expeditions of its kind. In 1864, he published a book about his adventures.