The Silk Road.

£125 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

This work deals with the exploration of the region around Lop-Nor in Eastern Turkestan; Hedin travelled by car across the Gobi Desert along the Imperial Highway, the so-called "Silk Route", undertaken at the behest of the Chinese Government. First English edition; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); 31 photographic plates including frontispiece, folding colour map to rear, remains of bookplate to front free endpaper; publisher's original cloth, black lettering to spine, touch of toning to spine head and upper board, a very good copy; viii, 322 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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