India and Russia. Historical Sketches

by J. A Canny

A$600 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Warwick. 1885. Stock ID #219749 47pp, 21 x 13.5cm. Leaves somewhat foxed, light pencil annotation in margin of page 27, a prior owner's signature neatly penned front free endpaper, some tape repairs by a prior owner to endpapers, and pages 44-45, spine reinforced with buckram. A scarce title, we have only been able to find one institutional copy. A curious example of the broad-reaching, and widely disseminated rhetoric surrounding the Great Game. This

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