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Freshfield, Douglas W.

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz

1869

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Year of publication
1869
Place of printing
London. Longmans, Green and Co.
Author
Freshfield, Douglas W.
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia Middle East Mountaineering
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [21 x 14 cm]; xiii, [ii], 509 pp, 5 plates including fine colored frontis, panorama, 3 folding partly colored maps, showing routes in red, other illustrations from wood engravings. full calf, gilt lettering on leather spine label, elaborate gilt design on spine, gilt ruled cover, edges lightly rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of Christopher Tower, a clean and fine copy with the half title page. A picture of this book i Freshfield made and described the first ascent of Kazbek, Elbruz and other peaks. He was president of the Alpine Club and president of the Royal Geographical Society. Neat F71. Ghani p143. Perret 1757. With much on mountaineering but also on the villages and towns he passed through, the local peoples, etc.