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CARRUTHERS, DOUGLAS Beyond The Caspian.
1949. Cloth with dustjacket. Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd. 1949. First edition. Tall octavo. gilt titled maroon cloth. Lower corner of both front and rear boards have some slight mottling not ffecting the interior. Edges have a trace of soiling else very good in price clipped dustjacket with a trace of soiling and a trace of wear to the extremities else near fine. Includes 22 full page plates including six in color. Fold out map at rear. A very nice copy of this excellent record of author Douglas Carruthers' (from the front flap) "travels and experiences over several years in the great deserts and mountain ranges of Russian Central Asia, particularly of the animals and birds of which he was in search, many of which proved new to science. Although he was primarily interested in the natural history of the regions traversed, yet he conveys an intimate picture of those strange capitals at the back of the world, Bukhara and Samarkand, of the inhabitants of ancient Farghana, as fiery as the horses for which they are famous, of those who dwell by the mighty Oxus, of those who pasture over the high Pamirs. For large areas of these forbidden regions he is our only English witness". Uncommon, especially in this very nice condition especially with such a nice dustjacket.
Offered for US$ 150.00 by: Pawprint Books - Book number: 1005561