Author:
SWAYNE Major H.G.C.
Title:
Through The Highlands Of Siberia
Price:
£320.00
Year:
1904
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Rowland Ward
Summary:
xiv 259 pages + 9pp catalogue for Rowland Ward books, 24 full page plates plus 1 folding text photos, folding plate showing the stalk, folding map at rear showing the authors route, the map is strengthened on fold to verso, Rowland Ward end papers, sporting bookplate of "Walter Rutherford Peterson to front paste down, publishers cloth, gilt title to upper board, light rubbing to lower corners. Swayne and his hunting companion H W Seton Karr travelled from Moscow across the Urals into the mountains region of Mongolia and the Altai Shan hunting ovis, ibex etc. the author used Elim Demidoff as a guide famed for his sheep hunting book in Altai and Mongolia. Czech 209.
Ref:
21472
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