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A Ride to Khiva. Travels and Adventures in Central Asia.
by FRED BURNABY
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Tenth edition. 8vo. xviii, 487pp + [iv], viii publisher's advertisements. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth, re-backed with new endpapers, but retaining the original backstrip cloth. With a folding colour frontispiece map, and a large multi-panel folding colour map housed in a rear pocket (this second map with a few neat tape repairs to the corner folds). A third folding map which should also be pocket-housed is absent. Top edge dust soiled, with some spotting to the frontis map and title page. Several preliminary leaves a little tender. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown (this of Arabian specialist bookdealer Nadeem Michael El Issa). A good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby's celebrated account of his 1875-76 horseback journey to the Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC18576
- Title
- A Ride to Khiva. Travels and Adventures in Central Asia.
- Author
- FRED BURNABY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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