Item #79119 Through Unexplored Asia. William Jameson Reid.

Through Unexplored Asia

Boston: Dana Estes, (c. 1899). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 3 folding maps (in cover pocket), 499p. Original decorated green cloth. 22cm. Extra piece torn off along edge of cover pocket. Near Fine. Item #79119

Entertaining account of a trip that never happened -- Reid apparently traveled only as far as the nearest library. In the Preface, Reid claimed that the use of illustrations rather than photographs was due to the "destruction of [photographic] plates and loss of others during an exceptionally hazardous winter journey through the Koko Nor...."

Price: $150.00

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