The land of the blue poppy. Travels of a naturalist in eastern Tibet

by Frank Kingdon-Ward

$2,800 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Cambridge: University Press, 1913. First edition of the author's very scarce second book, and his first botanical book; 8vo, pp. xii, 283, 1 ; 5 maps 3 folding , frontispiece and 59 illustrations on 39 plates; a very good, sound copy in later half brown calf, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; old library rubberstamps not very offensive on first blank leaf, recto of the frontispiece, title page, the final blank, and on the

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