Author: [NORTH ASIA]. PALMBLAD, VILHELM FREDRIK: (Editor):
Title: Handbok i physiska och politiska, äldre och nyare geographien. 1:1-2. Inledning till Asien. Hög Asien + Inledning till Hög-Asien (slutet). Korea. Mantschuriet. Mongoliet. Turfan eller Lilla Bukhariet. Tibet. Two volumes. Upsala, Palmblad & Co., 1826-27.
Description: . Pp. xii, (x), 300, (2); (xii), 301-686, (2). With one coloured folding map taken from Stieler's Handatlas. Uncut copy in original wrappers, labels and title in manuscript on spines. With some staining throughout. A Swedish manual of geography. The first part deals with the introduction to Asia and the second covers North Asia including Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan and Tibet. Palmblad planned to publish at least twenty volumes covering the whole world. However, only five volumes were published. SWIM 27:450 & 27:463. Holmberg p. 98-99.

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, Korea, Manchuria, Turkestan, Tibet, corea, thibet, himalaya, geography


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