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Russian geographer explores Mongolia, 1876

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Russian geographer explores Mongolia, 1876

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Author: Prejevalsky, Nikolai
Title: Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet. Being a Narrative of Three Years' Travel in Eastern High Asia
Place Published: London
Publisher:Sampsom Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Date Published: 1876
Description:

2 volumes. l, [2], 287; xii, 320 pp. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan. Introduction & notes by Henry Yule. With autotype frontispiece portrait from photograph; 12 wood-engraved plates; 11 engravings in the text; large folding map with some hand coloring, backed with linen, loose in rear endpaper pocket. (8vo) 21.8x14 cm (8½x5½"), 19th/early 20th century half gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & marbled boards, spines tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. First English Edition.

Travels into Mongolia by the Russian geographer and explorer. Bookplates of J.C. Hawkshaw.

Condition

Slight rubbing to corners; slight foxing to edges of text blocks; near fine.

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Russian geographer explores Mongolia, 1876

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