Author

CUMBERLAND, Major Charles Sperling.


Title

Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan steppes.


Published, Date

Blackwood, Edinburgh1895.


Price: £950

 

Description

First edition. 8vo., x, 278pp., 34 pages ads at end, frontispiece, folding map, modern green half morocco gilt, red morocco lettering piece, an excellent copy.


Note

Scarce. The author's wanderings in search of sport led him, with H. Bower, in 1889, over the Pamirs and as far as Kurla. "A well-written book with excellent hunting descriptions" (Czech).


References

Czech, Asian p55; Yakushi C398.


Stock Number

82912