Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus
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Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations of the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps; Idem. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition, 4to, later quarter leather, gilt roundel from original cloth binding mounted to front board, half-title, all plates and folding panoramas as called for, folding map (with closed tear); Howard-Bury, C. K., C. G. Bruce, and E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. First editions, 3 works, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, pale markings to cloth, Mount Everest tips bumped and worn, Assault cloth sunned; and 8 others (these not fully collated): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals, 1855 ('new edition, carefully revised and condensed', 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, wood-engraved frontispieces, colour plate, volume 2 inner hinges strengthened); Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 1871 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); idem, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); Edmund Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa, 1905 (fourth impression, 8vo original cloth, inscribed 'Claude Auchinleck, from M. E. A., October 1906', spine strengthened); Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, 1903 (first edition, Australasian issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, recent red crushed half morocco); Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, rubbed); Robert Byron, First Russian then Tibet, 1933 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, 1910 (2nd impression, 8vo, original cloth) (16)
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