Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan Including Visits of Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz.

Freshfield, Douglas W.

Verlag: London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1869, 1869

Beschreibung

1st Edition. xiii,(3),509 pp.pp. Octavo. Bound in original green gilt stamped cloth boards. Original coated brown endpapers. Mountaineering bookplate on front pastedown. Half title. Clipping on half title. Corners with a little bit of light bumping. Generally a very bright crisp copy. 3 folding maps. Coloured litho frontis. 3 full page black and while illustrations. Single page with two black and white panoramas. Numerous wood cuts in text. Two pages of ads at the rear. Neate F71. This work precedes the author's 'Explorations in the Caucasus' by twenty-seven years. At this early time the area was still little-known and dangerous and it was not until 1880 that the Russian's started to take more control of the areas. with Appendices recording details of the Elbruz Expedition of 1829; heights of peaks, passes, towns and villages in the Caucusus Provinces; a catalogue of plants. Scarce in this primary decorated binding and bright condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 139721

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan ...

Verlag: London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1869

Erscheinungsdatum: 1869

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: near fine

Auflage: 1. Auflage