Lot 453
  • 453

ETHERTON, PERCY THOMAS

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Across the Roof of the World. A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkestan, Mongolia and Siberia. London: Constable and Company, 1911
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (240 x 155mm.), [vi], ix-xiv, 438pp., folding coloured map, portrait, 10 plates, 120 photo illustrations in the text, original pictorial dark green cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase

Literature

Czech (Asia) p.73; Yakushi (1994) E106

Condition

A fine copy
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