MACGAHAN, J.A

Campaigning on the Oxus,

and the fall of Khiva.

Stock Code 90938

London, Sampson Low, 1874

£850.00 - £850.00

£850.00

£850.00 - £850.00

£850.00

A personal account of travel and adventure and a famous eye-witness report of the Russian campaign against Khiva in 1873; MacGahan was a correspondent of the New York Herald.

First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy.

Ghani p233; Yakushi M12 (later reprint).

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