Title: Four titles on travel and exploration by Sven Hedin Author: Hedin, Sven Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 5 volumes. (8vo), original cloth. Includes: Overland to India. 2 volumes. With numerous plates from photographs, watercolors, sketches, etc., 2 color folding maps.London: Macmillan, 1910. Jehol: City of Emperors. With frontispiece and numerous plates from drawings and photographs. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1933. The Flight of "Big Horse": The Trail of War in Central Asia. With photographic frontispiece, many plates from photographs, maps on endpapers. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. The Silk Road. With 31 plates from photographs, color folding map at rear. With pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price clipped with some tears and chips to edges. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. Sven Anders Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutiej Rivers. Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of general light wear; interiors with some toning, occasional foxing, etc., all maps and plates present; all volumes very good. Item number: 283981
Title: Four titles on travel and exploration by Sven Hedin Author: Hedin, Sven Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: 5 volumes. (8vo), original cloth. Includes: Overland to India. 2 volumes. With numerous plates from photographs, watercolors, sketches, etc., 2 color folding maps.London: Macmillan, 1910. Jehol: City of Emperors. With frontispiece and numerous plates from drawings and photographs. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1933. The Flight of "Big Horse": The Trail of War in Central Asia. With photographic frontispiece, many plates from photographs, maps on endpapers. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. The Silk Road. With 31 plates from photographs, color folding map at rear. With pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price clipped with some tears and chips to edges. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. Sven Anders Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutiej Rivers. Lot Amendments Condition: Varying degrees of general light wear; interiors with some toning, occasional foxing, etc., all maps and plates present; all volumes very good. Item number: 283981
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