SHAW, ROBERT
Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar (formerly Chinese Tartary) and Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass
1871, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Murray, London, 1871. 8vo, xvi, 486p, 16p cat. 2 folding maps, 4 attractive tinted litho plates, 3 wood eng plates & text illus. Wear to corners & head & tail of spine, new endpapers, spine cloth slightly wrinkled from old reback, else VG clean copy in original green cloth gilt. Shaw was awarded a Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1872. Yakushi S194. Scarce, not in Neate or Perret. Very Good.
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