THROUGH ASIA (TWO VOLUMES)
by Hedin, Sven
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First Edition. hard cover. Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/01/0_dsc02770.jpg. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1899. Two volumes. First Edition. Illustrated with nearly 300 illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Ex-library. Top edge gilt, foredge deckled. xviii+649pp, and xii+ pages 651-1255. Good+ condition. Covers moderately worn with cracks/soiling to spine fabric, and bumped corners; gilt title and cover decoration still bright. Library markings include spine numbering, sticker to front pastedown, and internal margin stamps. Otherwise internally clean, square and securely bound. Both maps present and in excellent condition. A profusely illustrated account of Swedish explorer Hedin's expedition through Asia duriing 1893-1897. (cfm)
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Details
- Seller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23542
- Title
- THROUGH ASIA (TWO VOLUMES)
- Author
- Hedin, Sven
- Illustrator
- http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/01/0_dsc02770.jpg
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- SVEN HEDIN, ASIA, EXPLORATION
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Spine
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- Good+
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