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First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 270, [2]; very large folding color map; text in Russian; original printed blue-gray wrappers; some creasing, a few small chips and breaks along the extremities, but overall a very good, sound, and clean copy. Undoubtedly rare, if not very rare, in original wrappers. Title in translation: Information about the regions of the upper Amu Darya River (West Asia, from Pamir plateau to Lake Aral). Ivan Pavlovich Minayev (1840-1890) was the first Russian Indologist. "As a student of Vasily Vasiliev at the University of Saint Petersburg he developed an interest in Pali literature and went abroad to prepare a catalogue of Pali manuscripts at the British Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale (still unpublished). His Russian-language Pali grammar (1872) was soon translated into French (1874) and English (1882)" (Wikipedia). Minaev was mainly a Buddhist scholar, but also had broad interests in many sides of Indology extending to geography and ethnography. "Developing an interest in Buddhism, he went on to learn Pali and Sanskrit languages. He did considerable work on Buddhism, publishing several papers and thus laid the foundation of Buddhist studies in Russia. He held positions as an Assistant Professor, and later, Professor in the St Petersburg University. Apart from Buddhism, his papers also had commentaries on life in contemporary India. He was also a member of the Russian Geographical Society . Minayev made three trips to India and the region. His first and longest trip was in 1874-75 in which he travelled to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India and Nepal" (garhwalpost[.]in). Here, he reports on the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River (i.e., the Oxus) and the Pamir Plateau. 10 copies in OCLC, only Penn, Berkeley, LC, Columbia, NYPL, and National Academy of Sciences in the US.