The Exploration of the Caucasus; With illustrations by Vittorio Sella
1896 · London and New York
by Freshfield, Douglas W.
London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. 4to. 2 volumes: xxiii, 278; x, 295 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, photogravures, panoramas, folding maps, including large folding maps at the rear of each volume, on folding map in a pocket at the rear ov volume two. Neate: "[Freshfield] was one of the greatest mountain explorers but his name is particularly linked to the Caucasus." Neate 288. Some foxing, especially to margins and verso of maps, but a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (spine uniformly sunned to brown). (#8428). (Inventory #: 61367)