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1877 A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
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Description
Folding Maps
The twelfth edition of this work, published only the year after the first.
Rebacked with the publisher's boards and spine laid down.
Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and two additional large folding maps held in the rear pocket. With twelve 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. The accomplishment of this task in the winter of 1875–1876 brought him immediate fame.
Condition
Rebacked with the publisher's boards and spine laid down. Externally, with fading and rubbing to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Ex libris bookplate of ones Brenda and Stephen Jones to the front pastedown, and bookplate of one Francis E. B. Witts to the rear pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting largely concentrated to the first few leaves. With the odd spot to the majority of the contents. Contemporary ink inscription to title page.
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