Architecture in Khiva, Bokhara and Turkestan

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Author: Olufsen, O.
Title: The Second Danish Pamir-Expedition
Place Published: Copenhagen
Publisher:Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag
Date Published: 1904
Description:

38 columns. Text in two columns. With 26 b&w plates from photographs, drawings and other sources. 36x27.5 cm (14¼x10¾"), mustard buckram stamped and lettered in brown. First Edition.

Ole Olufsen was a Danish military officer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions in the 1890s to the Emirate of Bukhara, including the Pamir Mountains. He also served as Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. Olufsen was a proponent of the idea that the peoples of the Pamirs retained traits of Avestan culture, a notion borrowed from the works of Wilhelm Geiger and Karoly Jeno Ujfalvy de Mezo-Kovesd, and that the region was still populated by adherents of Zoroastrianism.
Condition Report: Some soiling to cloth, light wear; leaves slightly toned, hints of foxing; very good or better.