Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas.
by MACINTYRE, MAJOR-GENERAL DONALD
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
Edinburgh.: Blackwood.. New Edition.. 1891.. 2 photographic plates with keys printed on tissue guards, four full page sepia tinted illustrations, numerous engravings, xviii + 362pp and 24 pages of publisher's adverts dated 4/91 at the rear. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, light age toning to preliminaries, extremities little rubbed, head and tail of spine abraded and spine badly mottled, however a firm and clean ex-library copy stamped in gilt on the rear cover with the insignia of the Caledonian United Services Club. Yakushi M23. .
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Details
- Seller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 215664
- Title
- Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas.
- Author
- MACINTYRE, MAJOR-GENERAL DONALD
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackwood.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh.
- Date Published
- 1891.
- Keywords
- Asia, Fishing, Himalayas, Hunting, India, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Asia Bookroom
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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