BADDELEY, JOHN T. | The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus. Oxford: University Press, 1940

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

BADDELEY, JOHN T.

The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus. Oxford: University Press, 1940

2 volumes. 4to. 9 maps (1 folding), 38 plates. Original ochre cloth in original dust-jackets; spines lightly faded with some creasing at ends, but fully intact and unrestored. A fine copy uncommon in jacket.

First edition. This posthumous work deals with the geography, topography, ethnology, history, archaeology, botany, zoology and folklore of the Caucasus, a region with which he was intimately acquainted. Chapter 2 deals with the oil fields at Baku, and there are two chapters devoted to Ossetia.