A ride to Khiva: travels and adventures in central Asia...With maps and an appendix, containing, among other information, a series of march-routes, compiled from a Russian work
by Burnaby, Fred
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 8vo, pp. 403, [1], 4; 3 folded maps in pockets on front and rear pastedowns; original red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, brown glazed endpapers; cloth mottled from damp, edges rubbed, maps show splitting along folds, edges rather ragged; some damage to front pastedown from previously removed bookplate; textblock uniformly toned, else fine. See Yakushi B631a for the first (London, 1876) edition.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45552
- Title
- A ride to Khiva: travels and adventures in central Asia...With maps and an appendix, containing, among other information, a series of march-routes, compiled from a Russian work
- Author
- Burnaby, Fred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- Uzbekistan , Central Asia , Russia , Khiva
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