Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1376
  • 1376

Wood, Herbert

Estimate
350 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • The Shores of Lake Aral. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 126mm.), xxviii, 352pp., 2 folding maps [1 in the rear cover pocket], original pictorial green cloth gilt, dark brown endpapers, bevelled edges, slipcase

Provenance

Community Room, Rathfarnham, with its stamps

Literature

Yakushi (1994) W215

Catalogue Note

Wood, a geographer and major in the Royal Engineers, accompanied an expedition under the auspices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society to examine the river Amu Darya (or Oxus) and the region around Lake Aral, large areas of which had been annexed by the Russians in 1873.