Narrative of a Journey from Herault to Khiva, Moscow and St. Petersburgh during the Late Invasion of Khiva, with some Account of the Court of Khiva ...

by Capt. James Abbott

$3,500 · Offered by Thorn Books

First edition

London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Item #23655 2 volumes, 8vo. 401, 299, ciii pp. The large folding map is present. Contemporary full purple leather in a finely executed binding featuring the Scottish Wheel motif on the boards, spines in 5 compartments with raised bans, gilt, all edges gilt. gilt inner dentelles. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece

• Binding: Hardcover

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