The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894 ... Third edition

by Francis Younghusband

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, pp. xvii, 3 , 409, 1 ; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; a New Zealand prize binding with gilt supralibros on upper cover of Auckland University, prize certificate on front pastedown awarding this book as a prize to E. B. R. Prideaux for chemistry; contemporary full red calf, rebacked, old gilt-decorated spine laid down, morocco label; spine darkened; good, sound, and clean. Edmund Brydges Rudhall Prideaux 1878-1946 was born

• Binding: Leather

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.