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DEASY, Captain H. H. P.

In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan being the record of three years' exploration...


London: T. Fisher Unwin 1901. First edition, second impression. 8vo. (22.5 x 16 cm). xvi, 420 pp., 74 illustrations including portrait frontispiece, coloured folding map, full-page plates and many in-text illustrations, light foxing, p.56 plate detached, top edge gilt; full original pictorial green cloth gilt, somewhat a little rubbed. A very good copy, profusely illustrated. Provenance: from the library of C. E. Rusbridge, bookplate to front pastedown.

Born in Dublin, Henry Hugh Peter Deasy (1866 - 1947) was an army officer, founder of the Deasy Motor Car Company and a writer. Yakushi, D123.

Price: £ 850
US Dollar Price: $ 1690
Stock Number: 77792