The roof of the world being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir

by T. E. Gordon, Lieutenant-Colonel

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First edition

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiv, 172; folding map, 24 tinted plates 4 chromolithographs , including frontispiece and folding panorama, and 42 illustrations in the text; clean and sound in recent green morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 3; spine slightly browned, else fine. The author, with Biddulph and Trotter, travelled in 1873-74 from Leh to Kashgar and the

• Binding: Leather

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