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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 396 pages. 8.43x5.51x1.18 inches. In Stock.

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Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [15], viii-xviii, 354, [2]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1900, 29 plates and 4 (of 5) maps, without the large color folding map (as issued), and 85 text illustrations; original maroon leather stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy in glassine jacket and publisher's slipcase. Issued in the publisher's Asian Series. A "narrative of the author's travel to Taghdumbash Pamir, Kashgar, and the Tien Shan area from Gilgit, with H.H.P. Deasy in part, in 1897-98." From the preface: "My original object in visiting the Pamir region of Central Asia was that of the sportsman, and I had no idea of either troubling myself with inquiries into the social and political conditions of the people, or of recording my travels in a book. The opportunities for observation afforded by my close intercourse with the people, the acquaintances I made among the Russian and Chinese officials, and my enforced detention at Kala-i-Wamar and Fort Charog, served to place me in an altogether exceptional position in regard to the status quo political and strategic at present existing in Innermost Asia, and as in the course of my journeys I visited a considerable stretch of country which has never before been seen by and Englishman and am . the only European, other than Russian, who has traversed the banks of the Oxus in the regions of Roshand and Shighnan, I feel that it is my duty to publish the results of my experiences." The London edition was published the same year. Yakushi C306 for the 1900 London edition.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 354; 29 plates, 5 maps, including one large color folding map, and 85 text illustrations; original rose cloth gilt; boards sunned, hinges cracked and gutter split in multiple places, ex-Yale Divinity Library, with their bookplate and stamps, and residue of spine markings neatly eradicated, good. A "narrative of the author's travel to Taghdumbash Pamir, Kashgar, and the Tien Shan area from Gilgit, with H.H.P. Deasy in part, in 1897-98." From the preface: "My original object in visiting the Pamir region of Central Asia was that of the sportsman, and I had no idea of either troubling myself with inquiries into the social and political conditions of the people, or of recording my travels in a book. The opportunities for observation afforded by my close intercourse with the people, the acquaintances I made among the Russian and Chinese officials, and my enforced detention at Kala-i-Wamar and Fort Charog, served to place me in an altogether exceptional position in regard to the status quo political and strategic at present existing in Innermost Asia, and as in the course of my journeys I visited a considerable stretch of country which has never before been seen by and Englishman and am . the only European, other than Russian, who has traversed the banks of the Oxus in the regions of Roshand and Shighnan, I feel that it is my duty to publish the results of my experiences." The London edition was published the same year. Yakushi C306 for the London edition.

Zustand: Good. Spine detached and pages loose in Vol. 3. 24cm.

First Edition. First Edition. Folding map, 4 sketch maps, 29 photographic plates and 85 text illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. A book remarkable for the wide range of experiences related, including "The Great Game" diplomacy on India's northern frontier. Cobbold was the first sportman to explore the Pamirs for sheep. Czech 49 Original pictorial rose cloth, gilt, with gilt sheep's head on upper cover. Title-page stamped in blind "David A. Sadony/ Private." Folding map, 4 sketch maps, 29 photographic plates and 85 text illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo.

1st Edn,. xviii 354 pages, full page and text illus from photographs, 4 full page maps + lge folding coloured map at rear. Old repair to closed tear to verso 1 section of blank margin and map, publishers plain dark red cloth, some light fading to edges, possible a later publishers binding, some copies appear with a gilt sheep's head to upper board others in this binding. An excellent work on sport and adventure with voluble descriptions of the terrain. Czech 49.

thick8vo., 2.3cm, The First Edition, xviii,354p., grvure frontis portrait and 113 plates and illustrations, 4 page maps, large rear colour folding map, in the original full tan book linen, gilt spine and cover titles, gilt sheep cover illus., appendices, very good copy, AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION CARD laid in on the front end paper, "With Colonel R.P. Cobbard's Compliments". (tr). ~ Remarkable for the range of experiences related, including "The Great Game" diplomacy on India's northern frontier. Cobbold was the first sportman to explore the Pamirs for sheep. With voluble descriptions of the terrain. Czech 49.

A granular firsthand account by one of the two liaisons to Britain's Abyssinian allies during the 1901 campaign, adding much colour to the official published account. We have traced only one other confirmed copy, in the Cobbold papers at Yale. The campaign was mounted in response to the attack by 6,000 of Hassan's Dervishes on an Abyssinian force at Jijiga. In March, Lieutenant-Colonel Eric J. E. Swayne, Indian Army, was tasked with raising a force of local levies, supported by a staff of 21 British officers, including Cobbold (1869-1965), who was assigned to Abyssinian forces in the Ogaden. The campaign, a series of independent British and Abyssinian actions, failed to capture Hassan and rout his forces but nonetheless provided Swayne with important on-the-ground experience for subsequent efforts to quell the Dervish rebellion. Cobbold's diary, covering the period from 8 March to 30 September, is far from a dry summary, adding a large amount of detail on the day-to-day official and social life of an officer on campaign and his dealings with the imperious Ras Makonnen, to whom he is assigned as an advisor. He records his positive impressions of the Abyssinian forces and their encounters with enemy detachments, as well as problems with looting, discipline, and food supplies. Commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1888, Cobbold followed a period of service in India with an expedition to the Pamir Mountains, publishing Innermost Asia: Travel and Sport in the Pamirs in 1900. He retired at the rank of colonel after the First World War, having won the DSO and been mentioned twice in despatches. In addition to the Yale copy, it is possible that a copy is still held in the Whitehall Library of the Ministry of Defence and that this example was deaccessioned as a duplicate. Octavo. With 306 typescript leaves, each typed one side only. Contemporary brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Ex-War Office Library, with shelf mark on spine, ink stamps, and later M.O.D. deaccession stamp; pencilled notes on front endpaper, occasional marginalia and colour pencil underlining in text. Shadow from old label at foot of spine, a few old adhesive tape repairs in gutter of text, even toning: very good.