Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar
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Narrow split to gutter at page 484. 15mm tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Adhesive tape at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; A 1996 facsimile reprint of...
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Narrow split to gutter at page 484. 15mm tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Adhesive tape at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; A 1996 facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1871. xv, [1], 486 pages + 6 full page plates 2 folding maps at rear. Frontispiece within the pagination, "Peak in the Kuen Lun Range". 6 in-text illustrations. Red papered boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. "For several years I had been established in the Kangra Valley, under the snowy Himalaya. Repeated shooting expeditions into the mountainsx, extended as far as Cashmeer, had initiated me in the art of Asiatic travel. Here, on the outskirts of India, the interest is naturally attracted to the mysterious regions which exist beyond the great mountain rampart that bounds the whole northern side of that empire." - page 1.
Product Info
ISBN: 9694022789
ISBN-13: 9789694022789
Publisher: Vanguard Books
Year: (1996)
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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Country: New Zealand
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