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[TRAVELS AND VOYAGES]. SCHUYLER, Eugene (1840-1890). Turkistan. Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1877. 8vos. 2 volumes. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces, inserted plates, and three folding maps. Half-titles present. Publisher’s full green cloth, front boards paneled in black and stamped in gilt with central Russian Imperial shield, spines, ruled in black and lettered in gilt, rear boards paneled in blind, top edges gilt (spines worn at edges, some toning to spines, corners a bit worn, some rubbing to boards, hinges starting, endleaves and text edges foxed, some gutters overopened or starting, some creasing to edges of folding maps, bookseller’s tickets to both rps.). Very good. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. Schuyler was one of the first Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university, and was the first American translator to Tolstoy and Turgenev. He was a diplomat to Russia, traveler and scholar.