The Tahtar Tribes

Previous owner's signature "George Olaf Albert Olsen" dated 1883 on front endpaper. Narrow splits to gutters at endpapers.; 192 pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt title on spine and blind-stamped pattern to boards. Page dimensions: 143 x 89mm. Pale yellow endpapers. No illustrations. "There is a people dispersed throughout western and central Asia, whose manners and habits of life are, on the one hand, materially distinct from those of the pastoral tribes of the desert (the Bewdoweens,) and, on the other, are more than equally removed from those of the people who inhabit towns." - the opening sentence. Contents: Origin and Position of the Tribes; Internal Organization and Government; Pastoral and Agricultural Usages; Manners and Customs - Religious State; The Ryhaulu Turkmans; Miscellaneous Facts.; 24mo

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Publisher: The Religious Tract Society

Year: [1880]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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