Lot 116
  • 116

Benn, Edith Annie Fraser

Estimate
200 - 300 GBP
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Description

  • Benn, Edith Annie Fraser
  • An Overland Trek from India, by Side-Saddle, Camel, and Rail; the Record of a Journey from Baluchistan to Europe. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xvi, 344pp., half-title, folding coloured map, 80 photo illustrations on 48 plates, original pictorial light olive cloth, slipcase, upper cover very slightly rubbed

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

The author's journey took her by way of Persia, the Caspian Sea (Krasnovodsk to Baku), across the Caucasus to Batum, and then along the Turkish shore of the Black Sea to Constantinople and home through Europe.