MARVIN, Charles.

Reconnoitring Central Asia.

Pioneering adventures in the region lying between Russia and India.

Stock Code 112615

London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1884

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$1,148.00

$1,148.00 - $1,148.00

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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, 421 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, folding map, 7 wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt, a fine copy.

Yakushi (1994) M209; Ghani p243.

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