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The author was artist on Sosnovsky's expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia. One of the first expeditions to cross the entire Gobi Desert.
The author was artist on Sosnovsky's expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia. One of the first expeditions to cross the entire Gobi Desert.
The author was artist on Sosnovsky's expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia. One of the first expeditions to cross the entire Gobi Desert.
The author was artist on Sosnovsky's expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia. One of the first expeditions to cross the entire Gobi Desert.

PIASSETSKY, P.

Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China. Translated by J. Gordon-Cumming.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1884.

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Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China.

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The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the first expeditions to traverse the entire Gobi Desert.

First edition in English; 2 vols, 8vo; wood-engravings in the text, some full-page, original green cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set; vi, 321; vi, 315pp.

Cordier 2435; Morrison I p594.

Stock code 94754

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The author was artist on Sosnovsky's expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia. One of the first expeditions to cross the entire Gobi Desert.

Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China.

$1,710.00
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