"Reproduces (in a modified layout and sequence) all the plates from the portfolio Iskusstvo Srednei Azii ... / L'art de l'Asie Centrale ... originally published in Saint Petersburg, 1883 by the Imperatorskie Obscestvo Pooscreniya Khudozestv (Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts). The present edition contains a new publisher's note and new captions based on the Russian and French texts accompanying the original portfolio"