Travel
MICHIE, Alexander.
The Siberian overland route from Peking to Petersburg, through the deserts and steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, etc.
Murray, London 1864. First edition. 8vo., xiii, 402pp., 2 pages ads at end, illustrated with 2 folding maps, title-page vignette, and 11 wood-engraved plates mainly after Beato, original green blind stamped cloth gilt, an excellent copy.
Alexander Michie, a successful businessman in Shanghai was one of the first European traders to open up trading routes with previously unknown Chinese ports and towns. In 1863 Michie returned temporarily to England by the unusual route of Siberia. Cordier, Sinica, 2126.
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