Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.
by PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London, Richard Bentley, 1881. . First edition. 8vo., x, 370 pp., original blue cloth gilt, rubbed, light markings to cover, inner hinge split, a good copy.
The author, the British vice-consul at Kertch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains - bear, bird, boar, and antelope. Considerable details on the terrain and peoples.
Czech, Asian, p161.
The author, the British vice-consul at Kertch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains - bear, bird, boar, and antelope. Considerable details on the terrain and peoples.
Czech, Asian, p161.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92541
- Title
- Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.
- Author
- PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Richard Bentley, 1881.
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