Durand colonel algernon (5 Ergebnisse)

[Reprint]. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xxxvi + xvi + 298pp, index. A prior owner's details front free endpaper, top edge foxed, dustjacket spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. "The author, the British agent at Gilgit in 1889-94, describes an interesting record of frontier travel, war, sport and history of the formation of the Gilgit frontier." Yakushi D188. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Yellow highlighting on several pages. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; A 2001 reprint of the 1899 first edition. xii, vii, [3], 298 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. This reprint edition does not include the illustrations of the 1899 first edition. A footnote on page vii reads "Editor's note: The illustrations cold not be reproduced in this edition because of the poor quality of the films received from the India Office Library." This edition with a new 6 page Introduction by Sir Oliver Forster, dated 1998. Series: "Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints". Also with a 2 page series Preface by Farooq Bajwa, dated 1997. "Colonel Algernon Durand was the brother of Mortimer Durand - the man who defined the western frontier of the Indian Empire between what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan. Colonel Durand was sent to Gilgit to assess the local political situation in order to protect the interests of the British Empire from Russian expansion." - from dust-jacket blurb.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Making Of A Frontier | Algernon Durand Colonel (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2020 | hansebooks | EAN 9783348007627 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Portrait frontispiece. 383pp. Spine a little cocked. Blue cloth with light rubbing to extremities of spine.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 298, [4] ads; gravure frontispiece portrait, 35 plates, and a folding map printed in color; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; light wear; very good, sound, and clean. "The author, the British Agent at Gilgit in 1889-94, describes an interesting record of frontier travel, war, sport, and history of the formation of the Gilgit frontier" (Yakushi). Yakushi D369.…