Campaigning on the Oxus, and the fall of Khiva.
by MACGAHAN, J.A
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About This Item
London, Sampson Low, 1874. . First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy.
A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspondent of the New York Herald.
Ghani p233; Yakushi M12 (later reprint).
A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspondent of the New York Herald.
Ghani p233; Yakushi M12 (later reprint).
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- Title
- Campaigning on the Oxus, and the fall of Khiva.
- Author
- MACGAHAN, J.A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Sampson Low, 1874.
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