(Central Asia, Russian Turkestan.) A limited edition portfol...

Hammer

£95

(Central Asia, Russian Turkestan.) A limited edition portfolio containing 32 card mounted monochrome photographs of Centra Asia - reproduced from a traveller's album circa 1900, No. 12 of 75 sets only, produced late 20th Century by Beaumont Travel Books, from an original album of 456 uncaptioned photographs taken c.1900, probably by a British Officer on "Shooting leave", the 32 images selected "because they provide an interesting and typical cross section of the whole", images show Russian garrison towns, Chinese settlements, Kirghiz tribesmen, caravanserais, bazaars, means of transport, Russian organized horse-racing, the ancient silk road cities Samarkand and Kashgar, and what appears to be the port of Krasnovodsk, the Western terminal of the Trans-Caspian Railway, the traveller's probable route taking in Russian and Chinese Turkestan, the Pamir and Tien-Shan mountains and the Trans-Caspian Railway, each image approx 13 x 18cm, mounted on hand numbered card leaves, with 1 page printed notes on the photographs, 1 page printed captions for each of the 32 photographs (numbered 12 of 75) and original invoice 1998, all housed together in original black cloth portfolio, ribbon tie