Lot 556
  • 556

Gordon, Thomas Edward

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Gordon, Thomas Edward
  • The Roof of the World. Being a 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
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (257 x 172mm.), xiv, 172pp., half-title, folding map, 24 plates, illustrations in text, original pictorial dark green cloth gilt, dark brown endpapers, slipcase

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

Literature

Czech (Asia) p.87; Yakushi (1994) G190

Condition

A fine copy
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