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Charles MARVIN

Reconnoitring Central Asia.

Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying Between Russia and India

Published by Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, London, 1886

Third. Edition

xviii + 421 + [1] pp,

8 engraved plates

Prize Binding.

BOUND by RELFE.

Bound in full calf leather binding.

Highly gilt decorated spine, with raised bands.

Gilt line boarders, with nice gilt crest front board.

All marbled edges & endpapers.

In good condition.

Some minor rubbing on edges & a few minor marks.

Prize bookplate on front endpaper.

Inside some foxing on early pages, else generally clean & tight.

Size 8.25 x 5.5 inches

Early pioneer's accounts of Vamberey, Marsh, Baker, Macgahan Capt. Napier, Macgregor, Burnaby, Petrusevitch, Butler, Pas- hino, Grodekoff, O'Donovan, Stewart, Alikhanoff & Lessar's travels mostly in disguise through the forbidden territory. This work outlines each exploration and adventure's journey their suffering and treck throughout desolate wastelands.

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