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Lot 201
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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Lot Description
[TIBET]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
CURZON, George Nathaniel, Lord (1859-1925). The Pamirs and The Source of the Oxus. London: The Royal Geographical Society, [1896]. 8vo. Large color-printed folding route map, full-page photo plates and in-text photos. -- RAWLING, Cecil Godfrey (1870-1917). The Great Plateau. Being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. 8vo. 2 maps and numerous photo plates. -- ETHERTON, Percy Thomas (b. 1879). 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 Co., 1911. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, colour-printed folding map, numerous half-tones. -- FEATHERSTONE, Balford Kinchant. A Narrative of a Thousand-mile Journey to the Kara-koram Himalayas. London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1926]. 8vo. Folding map, 25 plates. -- All FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publishers cloth, condition generally good.
