Tales of travel

by Marquess Curzon, of Kedleston

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 344; frontispiece portrait, 26 plates 2 folding mostly from photographs; original pictorial blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; a good, sound and clean copy. The Marquess, one-time president of the Royal Geographical Society, was all over the place, on St. Helena in Napoleon's billiard room, Victoria Falls, Egypt, Afghanistan, the Hindu Kush, Tunisia, on the Zambesi, Japan,

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