Through The Heart Of Asia Over The Pamir To India With 250 Illustrations By Albert Pepin
Author:
Bonvalot Gabriel
Year:
1889
Edition:
First edition in English, originally published in French the previous year
Publisher:
Chapman And Hall Limited
Summary:
xxii- 281 + x-255 pages, 8pp of adverts dated 1888 pages uncut, 2 volumes large 8vo vignette title pages, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, a number of them full-page; folding map printed in colour. Publishers' blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, onlay illustration to upper cover of both volume in blue and white within a gilt frame showing a mountainous snow scene., publisher's device in blind to the rear covers, Two small 2 cm bruises to the centre of the rear cover of volume one. A very good clean set. Pierre Gabriel ?douard Bonvalot with Albert P?pin, a doctor of natural sciences and Guillaume Capus, a botanist and ethnographer. They set out for Russian Central Asia and travelled up to the border with Afghanistan the group entered India by the Pamir mountains. Yakushi B219(b).
Ref:
24138
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