by BARZINE, Luigi
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - CHINA) BARZINE, Luigi. LA META DEL MONDO VISTA DA UN'AUTOMOBILE; DE PECHINO A PARIGI IN SESSANTA GIORNI. $425.00 Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1908. 8vo. Publisher's printed cloth with photographic plate laid-on front. Frontispiece plate, xxix, (ii), 523 pages, folding map inserted in back pocketN. First edition. An account of the travels of Prince Borghese by automobile through China and Mongolia in 1908 as a participant in the world's first international great au race in 1908. Richly illustrated with 126 in-text photographs and plates documenting every aspect of the trip: road conditions, scenery, villages and towns, people, trials of driving through the country with primitive roads and bridges, etc. Folding map inserted in back pocket marks the itinerary from Paris, across Russia, to Peking. Introduction written by Principe Scipione Borghese. Hinges strengthened, else very good copy of the rare First Edition (40237).
(Inventory #: 40237)