[BUKHARA: Autograph Note Signed "Sven Hedin" to Johan Abraham Björklund, Chief Editor of the "Nya Dagligt Allehanda" Newspaper]. de HEDIN, Sven (1865-1952) - 1891

1891. Letter. Very Good. No Binding. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Friday, 10 [April 1891]. 12mo (ca. 16,5x12,5 cm). 1 p. Black ink on a folded card Swedish postal letter form, addressed and with a postal stamp (Stockholm, 18.4.91) on verso. Text in Swedish. Original centrefold, otherwise a very good note. A short note signed by a noted explorer of Central Asia Sven Hedin regarding his article about the meeting with the Emir of Bukhara which was apparently published in the "Nya Dagligt Allehanda" newspaper (Stockholm) on 25 March 1891. Hedin visited Bukhara during his second trip to Persia and Central Asia in October 1890 - March 1891. During the first part of the trip he worked an interpreter for the Swedish-Norwegian mission to Naser al-Din, shah of Iran (1890), and later on "he traveled on the Silk Road via cities Mashhad, Ashgabat, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent and Kashgar to the western outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert. On the trip home, he visited the grave of the Russian Asian scholar, Nikolai Przhevalsky in Karakol on the shore of Lake Issyk Kul. On 29 March 1891, he was back in Stockholm. He published the books King Oscar's Legation to the Shah of Persia in 1890 and Through Chorasan and Turkestan about this journey" (Wikipedia)..