RECONNOITRING CENTRAL ASIA BY CHARLES MARVIN 1885 SECOND EDITION

[MARVIN, CHARLES]. Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying Between Russia and India. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1885.

Second edition. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (22cm x 14cm x 4.5cm); pp. xviii, [2], 421, [2] advertisements. English text with illustrations throughout, including a frontispiece with tissue-guard, a folding map of Central Asia facing page 1, and 7 full-page plates. Handsomely bound in publisher's original decorative cloth; brown-coated endpapers; printed footnotes; bibliography. Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Limited. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square with the hinges and joints intact. Covers bright and clean with slight bumping to spine ends. Interior largely clean else for some light spotting mostly to fore edge. Small armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A lovey copy and scarce thus.