On the outskirts of empire in Asia

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xxii, 408; 2 folding maps printed in color (the first with a few short splits at the folds), 56 plates largely from photographs; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver and gilt; the binding a little dull and soiled, but still good and sound. This copy with a presentation from the author "To Newburgh Free Library with the author's comps" on the half-title, and with the library's bookplate, and their small stamps on the half-title, title, and on p. [1]; no external markings. "Narrative of the author's travels to the East, both Near, Middle, and Far. Three chapters are divided to sport, to ... Tian Shan, and to the Siberian Altai from Bokhara" (Yakushi). Yakushi R326.