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Rockhill, Journey..Mongolia & Tibet w/folding map
Rockhill, Journey..Mongolia & Tibet w/folding map
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Title: Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet
Author: Rockhill, William Woodville
Description: xx, [2], 413 pp. With original 24½x22½ folding route map (entire verso professionally deacidified and expertly backed with Japan paper repairing small chips and splits at folds), placed inside new protective pocket on rear pastedown. Plus, illustrations from photos and drawings. 8vo. Bound in recent green cloth, paper spine labels. First Edition.Rockhill, an American diplomat and early authority on Central Asia who at various times was U.S. Ambassador to China, Russia and Turkey. "His journeys...produced a variety of valuable reports on the then secluded and little known country" - DAB XVI:66-fl; Bibliotheca Mongolica I: 2006; Pinfold 73. Ex-Minneapolis public library copy with embossed stamp on title page and rubberstamp on copyright page.
Heading: Place Published: Washington
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Date Published: 1894
Condition
Slight darkening and soiling to original contents; else very good.
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Rockhill, Journey..Mongolia & Tibet w/folding map

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