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THROUGH ASIA WITH NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SKETCHES & PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
by Edin, Sven
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: Harper Brothers. Very Good. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes. Original green cloth enhanced with gilt titles on spines and red green and gilt geometric designs on front covers. Interiors of texts are tight, clean & intact. Top edge gilt with deckle page edges. (i-xviii) 649pp. (i-xii) 605pp + index . Frontispiece portraits. Nearly 300 illustrations of photograph and drawings by the author. Large fold out color map at rear of each volume. Account of the Authors journeys through Asia during 1893-97. The Pamirs; Takla-Makan Desert; Mus-Tagh & its Glaciers. Map in volume 2 has a tear repaired with document tape. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Prior owners signature on endpaper. Asia; Maps, Photographs And; Drawings, Photography, Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1255 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16484
- Title
- THROUGH ASIA WITH NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SKETCHES & PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
- Author
- Edin, Sven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Asia, Asia
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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