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SVEN HEDIN (1865-1952)
Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: R. & R. Clark, Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1909. 3 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm.). 8pp. publisher's advertisements, 296 leaves of plates, 3 folding, 2 coloured, 14 maps on 13 leaves, 4 folding and printed in colours. (Vol. one with plate between pp.78 and 79 detached and loosely inserted.) Original red cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt, top edges gilt (spines slightly faded and bumped at head and foot, upper cover of vol.I slightly faded). Provenance: J. B. Dyas (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
Armin VÁMBÉRY (1832?-1913). Travels in Central Asia being the account of a journey from Theran across the Turkoman desert on the eastern shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1864. 8° (213 x 136mm.).12 wood-engraved plates, 1 large folding handcoloured map. (Map torn at folds.) Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed.) Provenance: Albert McGill (armorial bookplate); Walter and Dorothy Donnelly (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
With 3 other books of related interest, A. Vámbéry's The Coming Struggle for India (London, 1885), the same author's Western Culture in Eastern lands (London, 1906) and Albert von Le Coq's Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan ... translated by Anna Barwell (London, 1928), all in original cloth. (7)
Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: R. & R. Clark, Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1909. 3 volumes, 8° (225 x 145mm.). 8pp. publisher's advertisements, 296 leaves of plates, 3 folding, 2 coloured, 14 maps on 13 leaves, 4 folding and printed in colours. (Vol. one with plate between pp.78 and 79 detached and loosely inserted.) Original red cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt, top edges gilt (spines slightly faded and bumped at head and foot, upper cover of vol.I slightly faded). Provenance: J. B. Dyas (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
Armin VÁMBÉRY (1832?-1913). Travels in Central Asia being the account of a journey from Theran across the Turkoman desert on the eastern shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1864. 8° (213 x 136mm.).12 wood-engraved plates, 1 large folding handcoloured map. (Map torn at folds.) Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed.) Provenance: Albert McGill (armorial bookplate); Walter and Dorothy Donnelly (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
With 3 other books of related interest, A. Vámbéry's The Coming Struggle for India (London, 1885), the same author's Western Culture in Eastern lands (London, 1906) and Albert von Le Coq's Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan ... translated by Anna Barwell (London, 1928), all in original cloth. (7)
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