Author: Ralph P. Cobbold [Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbol]
Title: Innermost Asia
Description: London, William Heinemann, 1900 . First edition. Leather. The richly illustrated first edition of Ralph Cobbold's account of his late nineteenth century travels in the Pamirs. The first edition of this work from British soldier and writer Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbold. Illustrated with four plates of maps, and with a large folding colour cloth-backed map to the rear. With a frontispiece and twenty-eight photographic plates, and with numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.The author explored the Pamirs between 1897 and 1898, and in this work provides an account of his interest in the sport of sheep hunting, alongside discussion of the political state of the region, and of its landscapes and peoples. Rebound in quarter morocco, with endpapers renewed. Retaining the original half title.An attractive example of this informative work. Rebound in quarter morocco, with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting and instances of foxing to first and last few leaves, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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