Pamirs source oxus (10 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus | George N. Curzon | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2021 | hansebooks | EAN 9783348032933 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). 83pp + map. With fold-out colour map. Blue hardback cloth cover with tan leather spine.

Zustand: Good. [ii], 83, text figs, 1 tinted folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. qtr. mock vellum, gilt, spine worn. From an institutional library, a few neat ink stamps, shelf label to spine. A few short tears to map folds, not affecting printed area, ink stamps to rear of map. Revised, and reprinted from The Geographical Journal, 1896. An account of two journeys made by George Curzon, future viceroy of India, to the Pamir mountains in Central Asia. Travelling from northern India, to Afghanistan, to the Oxus river, Curzon gives a detailed and vivid account of this remote mountain region.…

pp. (ii), 83, (i). Folding map now cut from the stub and loose, 15 text illustrations. Vellum-backed cloth, small mark on the front cover, front lower corner bumped, lower margin of the map nicked and slightly creased, otherwise a very good copy.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 83, [1]; 15 illustrations from photographs (1 full-page), table, and a large folding color map; publisher's quarter tan calf gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; some soiling and overall wear; the map with several short breaks at the folds; a good, clean and sound copy. Curzon (1859-1925) was by turns a member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State and Viceroy of India, restorer of the Taj Mahal, Chancellor of Oxford University, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, explorer and author, His fame rests today largely on this "daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs" in 1894-95, and for his exploration of the source of the Amu Darya (Oxus) for which he was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.…