London: Macmillan and Co. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 1" x 3/8" chip to cloth at tail of spine. Some spotting to page edges. Moderate rubbing to ends of spine. Some chips to dust wrapper. Moderate rubbing to dust wrapper spine. Adhesive tape repairs to reverse of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xiv, 357 pages + frontis (coloured) + plates (some coloured) + panorama (folding) + map (folding). Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration. Gilt top page edges. Page Dimensions: 224mm x 140mm. Uncommon in dust wrapper. Selected Contents: "The Oasis Of Tebbes; A Passion-Play In Moharrem; The Date Palms Of Tebbes; Marco Polo; The Bahabad Desert; The Desert Of Alexander And Nadir's Throne; From Naibend To Ser-I-Cha; The Road To Neh; Travels In The Kevir; Persian Depressions; We Part With Our Camels; To The Shore Of The Hamun; The Plague; The Hilmend; On The Frontier Between Persia And Afghanistan; The Road Through Baluchistan."; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7033
Title: Overland To India (Volume II Only)
Author: Hedin, Sven
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Macmillan and Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1910

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