Lansdell, Henry

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 133mm.), (vol.1) xxxii, 688pp.; (vol.2) xvi, 732pp., 2 coloured folding maps, 4 plates [1 mounted photograph, 3 folding], 16 full-page illustrations in the text, original light blue pictorial cloth, black endpapers, slipcase

Yakushi (1994) L74a

A very good copy
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PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "To Miss Fanny Howarth with kind regards & best wishes of the Author Henry Lansdell New Year's Day 1907".

"From the 1870s Lansdell [a clergyman] began to travel, at first spending short holidays in the more accessible parts of Europe, but ultimately making long and often arduous journeys in little known parts of Asia until he had visited almost every part of Europe and much of central Asia, Russia, and Siberia. His object was to distribute tracts and bibles provided by London missionary societies in many languages wherever he went, most notably in prisons and hospitals in Siberia and central Asia. He published accounts of his travels in Through Siberia (2 vols., 1882) and Russian Central Asia (2 vols., 1885)" (ODNB).