GORDON, T[HOMAS] E[DWARD] | The Roof of the World, Being the Narrative of a Journey Over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

GORDON, T[HOMAS] E[DWARD]

The Roof of the World, Being the Narrative of a Journey Over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876

8vo (10 x 7 in.; 257 x 172mm.). Half-title, folding map, 24 plates (one folding), in-text illustrations throughout; foxed, closed tears to folding plate and map. Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, brown coated endpapers; some staining and minor rubbing. 

First edition. The account of a military expedition to Yarkand and Kashgar under Sir Douglas Forsyth, part of the "Great Game".

REFERENCE:

Czech, Asia 87; Yakushi G190

PROVENANCE:

Chisholm (bookplate to front pastedown)