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    By Fred Burnaby
    London   Cassell, Petter and Galpin
    8.5" by 6" xviii, 487, [5]pp
    The second edition of Fred Burnaby's daring travels to Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia, with folding maps.
    By Fred Burnaby

    1876 A Ride to Khiva Travels and Adventures in Central Asia

    London   Cassell, Petter and Galpin
    8.5" by 6" xviii, 487, [5]pp
    The second edition of Fred Burnaby's daring travels to Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia, with folding maps.
    £98.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 984Y10
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    Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding

    The second edition of this work. 

    Rebacked with the original boards and spine laid down. 

    With a folding map frontispiece and two additional large folding maps, one each held in the front and rear pockets. With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.

    Collated, complete.

    Frederick Burnaby, a popular and adventurous British Army intelligence officer, recounts his daring journey to Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia, which had just been closed to travellers. War had broken out between the Russian army and the Turcoman tribesmen of the desert and, whilst the Russians announced they would protect Burnaby along the route, this proved impossible. He caught frostbite during the extreme winter blizzards, and he took three weeks to recover, being close to death. He evaded the Russian army, and was met by the Khan of Kokan's noblemen.

    The accomplishment of this task in the winter of 1875–1876 brought Burnaby immediate fame.

    Condition

    Rebacked with the original boards and spine laid down. Externally, with loss to the original backstrip. General rubbing to the extremities and marks to the cloth. Slight cocking to the spine. Bookplate of one Charles Duncluft Radcliffe to the front pastedown and bookplate of one Francis E. B. Witts to the rear pastedown. Internally, folding map frontispiece is partly detached, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper.

    Good

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