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A Ride to Khiva. Travels and Adventures in Central Asia.
de FRED BURNABY
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien
- Librería
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London, United Kingdom
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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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- Librería
- Clearwater Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- A Ride to Khiva. Travels and Adventures in Central Asia.
- Autor
- FRED BURNABY
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Edición
- 5th or later Edition
- Editorial
- Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1877
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel;
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