A Journey in Southern Siberia. The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths de Jeremiah Curtin - 2001-07-16

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Little, Brown, & Company. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. *Ex-Library copy with minimal identifiers. Great overall condition otherwise. Could be graded Near Fine if not ex-library. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing. .

E-177: Little, Brown & Company. Good. 1909. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1909. Xiv, 319 pgs. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates and 1 map. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) a Harvard educated American translator and folklorist, who worked for the Smithsonian, and was said to know seventy languages. He was perhaps best known for his English translations of Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical novel With Fire and Sword in 1888 and Quo Vadis in 1897. This volume is the result of his travels in Siberia where he studied the religion, myths and folklore and this became a source of material for the cultural context of Siberian shamanism. E-177; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3 pages .

Little Brown and Co. Boston. 1909. 8vo. xiv, 319pp. Frontis., 27 further plates, folding map. Original cloth, sl. rubbed to top and tail of spine. Bookplate to fep., and small stamp The Oriental Book Store, Pasadena, Ca.
Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) Linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, writer. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Curtin made this journey in the year 1900 between the 19 July and 15th September, his object to visit the birthplace of the original Mongol race. Siberia, Lake Baikal, Olkhon, the Buriats, their customs, shamans, rites, myths, folk tales. He died shortly after finishing the manuscript, and this book was published posthumously.

Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1909. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiv, 319. folding map & 28 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). uncut in original cloth (foot of spine damaged)