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Through Asia by Hedin, Sven - 1898
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Methuen & Co. London. 1898. First UK edition. 2 Volumes. Royal Octavo. xx, 663, [1]pp; xii, [2], 667-1278. Each volume complete with tissue guarded photogravure frontispieces, folding maps to rear, and nearly 300 illustrations from photographs and drawings by the author. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt vignette, rules and lettering to upper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Renewed endpapers. Occasional light foxing. Light toning to maps, with slight fraying to edge of map to Vol. I. Slightly rubbed and bumped to corners and head and tail of spine.
Sven Hedin (1865-1952) Swedish explorer, geographer, photographer, artist. His outstanding mapping, photographs and illustrations can only be truly appreciated in the early editions of this work.
"A plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897."
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A journey in Southern Siberia. The Mongols, their religion and their myths.
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Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) Linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, writer. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Curtin made this journey in the year 1900 between the 19 July and 15th September, his object to visit the birthplace of the original Mongol race. Siberia, Lake Baikal, Olkhon, the Buriats, their customs, shamans, rites, myths, folk tales. He died shortly after finishing the manuscript, and this book was published posthumously.
A naturalists wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883
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Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933) Geographer, Botanist and Zoologist. A detailed account of "the less known lands and islands": Formosa, Liu-Kiu, Kamschatka, Bering, Cagayan Sulu, Sulu, Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Sumbawa, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Amboina, Banda, etc
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Adventures amidst the equatorial forests and rivers of South America; also in the West Indies and the Wilds of Florida. To which is added “Jamaica Revisited”.
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Association Copy: with dedication to ffep: "Therese Villiers Stuart With Papa's fond love Oct 31 1892" [Therese Villiers Stuart, later Therese Muir Mackenzie, daughter of the author, author herself of Dromana: The Memoirs Of An Irish Family]Includes Surinam, Cayenne, Demerara, The Orinoco, Trinidad, Martinique, Florida, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica.
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At home with the Patagonians. A year’s wanderings over untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro.
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George Chaworth Musters (1841-1879) "The King of Patagonia" led a remarkable life. Born in Naples, he was orphaned by the age of four, and brought up by his uncle Hammond who had sailed with Fitzroy aboard "The Beagle". He lived and travelled throughout South America, and was recognised by the RGS for his contributions to the geographical knowledge of the continent.
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Memoire sur les Iles Ponces, et catalogue raisonne des produits de l’Etna; pour server a l’histoire des volcans: suivis de la description de l’eruption de l'Etna, du mois de Juillet 1787.
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(DSB IV, 150). Caminada, pp. 39-40; Lozzi II, 3785; Fera-Morlicchio 1101; Brunet, VI, 4644
Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu (1750-1801) Geologist. Knight of Malta.
A journey in Southern Siberia. The Mongols, their religion and their myths.
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Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) Linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, writer. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Curtin made this journey in the year 1900 between the 19 July and 15th September, his object to visit the birthplace of the original Mongol race. Siberia, Lake Baikal, Olkhon, the Buriats, their customs, shamans, rites, myths, folk tales. He died shortly after finishing the manuscript, and this book was published posthumously.
The cruise of The Marchesa to Kamschatka and New Guinea with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago
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Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933) Geographer, Botanist and Zoologist. A detailed account of "the less known lands and islands": Formosa, Liu-Kiu, Kamschatka, Bering, Cagayan Sulu, Sulu, Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Sumbawa, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Amboina, Banda, etc
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