Hedin, Sven

Through Asia. With nearly 300 Illustrations from Sketches & Photographs by the Author

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 1st US ed., Royal octavo, 2 Vols., pp. xviii, 649; xii, [651]-1255, incl Index, b&w frontis. portraits, folding col. maps to end of each vol, b&w and col. plates, text illus., uncut, top edge gilt, orig pict. bds., spines bumped, small mark to front bd of second vol., clean bright set in near fine condn.

An account of the Swedish explorer and artist, Sven Hedin's first expedition, 1893 to 1897 in which he describes his travels though the Pamir Mountains, the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang region, the Taklamakan Desert, Lake Kara Koshun and Lake Bosten and Northern Tibet. Item #96990

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