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Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGregor, Alikhanoff, etc.

MARVIN, Charles.

Reconnoitring Central Asia. Pioneering adventures in the region lying between Russia and India.

London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.

£875.00
£875.00

Reconnoitring Central Asia.

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Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGregor, Alikhanoff, etc.

First edition; 8vo, xx, 421pp., 2pp. ads at end; frontispiece, folding map, 7 wood-engraved illustrations; original pictorial cloth gilt, a fine copy.

Yakushi (1994) M209; Ghani p243.

Stock code 112615

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Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGregor, Alikhanoff, etc.

Reconnoitring Central Asia.

£875.00
£875.00

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