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The Russian Advance towards India.

Conversations with Skobeleff, Ignatieff, and other Distinguished Russian Generals and Statesmen, on the Central Asian Question.

Stock Code 76096

Sampson Low, London, 1882

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Original price £500.00
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A scarce work by Charles Marvin, a prolific and important commentator on the Russian threat to British interests in India and Central Asia. A former correspondent in St. Petersburg for the London Globe, he was fluent in Russian and knew a number of the Tsar's leading generals personally.

First edition; 8vo. xx, 338pp., 1 page ads at end, folding colour map (lightly spotted). Original red pictorial cloth gilt; neatly recased, spine darkened.

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The Russian Advance towards India.

MARVIN, Charles.

Stock code: 76096

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