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Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin no date
First Edition
HARDCOVER. Condition: Poor. 1st edition. 487pp, re-bound, ex-library, one of the three maps has been torn out and is now loose with ragged edges, library stamps to the interior and cover, call letters to spine, tight binding, no marks to the pages, wear to the brown boards, a very rough copy of an unusual book.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1876
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. Fair. Ex-library with contemporaneous label to upper cover and blank side of each pocket map. Covers very well worn and splitting. Foxed. 2 maps in split pockets at each pastedown and frontis-map. xviii and 487pp.
Published by Cassell & Company about, London, 1896
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: First edition. Very good. Octavo [5 ½ X 8 inches], yellow cloth with black titles and decorations on spine and front board, 398 pages + 8 pages of book ads at end; this is the first yellow colored "CHEAP EDITION" printed to sell to travelers in train stations.
Published by London, Paris, New York & Melborne: Cassell & Company, Limited; n.d.
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. 12 mo. [5 ½ X 8 inches] yellow [yellow back edition sold to travelers in train stations] cloth with black title and decoration on spine and boards, 398 pages + 8 of ads at end. Very good.
Published by Cassell & Company, London
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 398p. Publishers yellow boards. The traveling adventures of Col. Fred Burnaby (1842-1885). Headband chipped and very small tear at the foot of the spine. Labeled the cheap edition on the title page.
Published by Cassell & Company, Ltd, London, 1898
Seller: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Thailand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Cassell & Company "Cheap Edition" 1890 -1900 n/d, 8vo, spine and boards in very good condition with only minor edgewear to corners, all pages clean except for 1cm by 1cm black ink original owners inscription on top right of title page. No foxing, original mustard yellow cloth. 398 pages including appendix, with final 8 pages of advertising from Publisher. In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travelers by the Russians following their seizure of it two years earlier. His aim was to discover whether, as many British strategists feared, this remote and dangerous oasis was about to be used as a springboard for an invasion of India. Captain Frederick Burnaby was already something of a legend. For a start he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army, standing six-foot-four and weighting over 200 pounds. He also spoke no fewer than seven languages, including Russian and Turkish, and possessed a most vigorous and colorful prose style. Unknown to his superiors, who would have forbidden the venture, he rode for over a thousand miles across steppe and desert, struggling through blizzards and snowdrifts, to reach forbidden Khiva. Burnaby was ordered home by an alarmed government and there he immediately sat down and wrote this best-selling account of his adventures.
Published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, 1877
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Reprint . Map in pocket, front of book. Previous owners signature. Reprint, 8th edition, 1877. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 487 pages. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are very worn, in poor condition. The text is legible. The binding has been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Cassell & Company, Limited, London
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cheap edition. 8vo. Pp 398, 8-page publisher's catalogue. Original pictorial cloth. Boards rather soiled and a slight slope to the spine. Bruising to corners and wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Light foxing to preliminaries but internally clean and sound. Blind-stamp to front free endpaper. No inscriptions.
Published by London, Cassell, (ca. 1889)., 1889
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany
Book
Condition: Sehr gut. Original yellow cloth binding, 398 pages, occasional slight foxing, pencil notes on rear endpaper, pencil previous owner inscription on front endpaper and title page, brief pencil notes on very few pages, good condition. Classic Great Game book in an early edition. This is the first so called "Cheap Edition" printed to sell to travelers in train stations Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no d/j. Illustrated brown boards have a slightly bumped spine and corners, inscription, o/w good. Travels in Central Asia. With portrait and seven original illustrations by Gordon Browne.
Published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin, London, 1900
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. Sixteenth Edition. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xvii 429pp [1]. Bound into full red leather, gilt spine design, spine label. Marble foredges and endpapers. Originally published in 1876, no date on title or copyright page of this edition, this edition ~crica 1900. Scuffing to edges of boards. Previous owner's name, fairly large and in purple ink on blank endpaper and title page.
Published by Time-Life; Cassell Petter and Galpin (1876), 1978
Seller: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Facsimile Edition. *** BOOK in Fine condition. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1876 edition, complete with 2 fold-out maps, all preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers. Originally published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin in 1876. Fold out map in colour opposite title page. ***CONTENTS: The author (1842-1885) was an intelligence officer in the British Army. In 1874 he set off from |St Petersburg to ride to Khiva (Turkmenistan), the best part of 1000km.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1877
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Tenth edition. 8vo. xviii, 487pp + [iv], viii publisher's advertisements. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth, re-backed with new endpapers, but retaining the original backstrip cloth. With a folding colour frontispiece map, and a large multi-panel folding colour map housed in a rear pocket (this second map with a few neat tape repairs to the corner folds). A third folding map which should also be pocket-housed is absent. Top edge dust soiled, with some spotting to the frontis map and title page. Several preliminary leaves a little tender. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown (this of Arabian specialist bookdealer Nadeem Michael El Issa). A good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby's celebrated account of his 1875-76 horseback journey to the Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia.
Published by Cassell & Company, London, 1884
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Cheap Edition. nd. [c. 1884]. 8vo. original yellow decorative cloth (rubbed & marked, slight wear to extremities, hinges a little weak, prev. owner's details to FFE, a few spots & pencil annotations, edges of one leaf a little frayed); pp. [ii (last blank)], 398 + 8p. pubs. advts. A very good copy.
Published by Cassell Peter and Galpin, 1877
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated with coloured map frontispiece and with two other maps, one a large folding map of Turkistan which has a couple of tears at the folds but is ni good order otherwise (illustrator). Eleventh Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail and over £30 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. Eleventh edition. Illustrated with maps. Pictorial covers are worn as is the spine and faded too but a scarce acceptable copy. Hinges are tender and front cover is partially detached.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1876
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second ediion on illustrated red cloth gilded fort image to frontis missing the twpm maps in the front and back pockets of the volume still has the frontispiece map but it is loose. Price has been greatlynreduced due to missing maps - collectable.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1877
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1877 Eighth edition on red illustarted cloth gilded text and image of fort on frontis board with maps and appendix.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1877
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 5th or later Edition. Seventh Edition in scruffy stained boards, splits o hinged and spine ends, corners rubbed, upper hinge split internally but binding sound with slight wobble. Internally bright and unmarked but for a partial 1877 gift inscription and 1952 PO name. all 3 folding maps complete but 'Turkistan' map has some splits to folds.8pp ads to rear.
Published by London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1877
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xviii 487p original green cloth with gilt and black highlights, hinges firm and tight inside and out, colour frontispiece map in two pieces due to one clean transversal tear, back pocket contains two additional folding colour maps intact, publisher's catalogue in back dated 11/77, this is a very attractive and original copy Language: English.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1878
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Thirteenth Edition. 8vo. original red pictorial cloth gilt (a little rubbed with slight wear to spine ends, extremities a little bumped, a few spots & marks); pp. xviii, 488 (last blank) + 12p. pubs. advts, with 3 colour folding maps, 2 in rear pocket. A very good copy.
Published by London: Cassell, & Co., nd. (189-?)
Hardcover. 8vo., orig. mustard cloth, xvi, 398, (8)pp.ads. Lacking the front free e/paper, inner rear hinge cracked, some soiling but certainly a very good copy. Burnaby, a Captain of the British Horse Guards, journeys from St. Petersburg to Transcaspia, December 1875-March 1876, to check on Tzarist plans for Central Asia. Burnaby provides a detailed description of the way of life in, and out of, the cities. The appendix is quite useful, providind data on the Russian advance to the east, the suppression of the Anglican missionary efforts, etc.
Published by Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, London, Paris & New York
Book
Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Octavo. Pp.xviii, 487 [4] +[3]ff. maps. No date. Wonderful tale, full of anecdotes and ordeals. Bound in red cloth boards with black and gilt stamping, showing a fortified city gate in gilt. With a colored folding map as frontispiece, and two large folding maps in pockets. Worn at extremities, and with a spot to front board. 1/4 inch losses to spine ends. Internally fine.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A handsome edition of this comprehensive travel work, complete with folding maps. Cheap edition. First published in 1876.Illustrated with a folding colour map frontispiece, and two folding colour maps in pockets to rear pastedowns. Collated, complete.In this work Burnaby documents his journey on horseback from Russian Asia to the Khanate of Khiva, at a time when war had broken out between the Russian army and the Turcoman tribesmen. He departed from London Victoria in November 1875, and he accomplished his journey through the winter.He caught frostbite during the extreme winter blizzards, and he took three weeks to recover, being close to death. He evaded the Russian army, and was met by the Khan of Kokan's noblemen. His work outlined the details of the meetings once he arrived in Khiva.With an eight page catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with just minor bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Prior owner's signature to dedication leaf. Age toning and the occasional minor chip and closed tear to folding maps. Very Good. book.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London 11th Edition, 1877
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hb original green gilt decorative cloth binding xviii,487pp + 8pp publishers advertisements . folding frontisplate map & 2 maps in rear pocket Lightly shaken and rubbing to spine o/w About Vg copy.
Published by London Cassell & Co. Ltd. n.d.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Early popular edition. Small 4to, three-quarter contemporary brown calf stamped with floral border in blind over feathered boards, spine in compartments separated by gilt rule and tooling, red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. 398, including appendix. A handsome and sturdy copy, internally quite fresh and clean. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK OF CENTRAL ASIAN TRAVEL. Burnaby s famous journey on horseback from St. Petersburg to Khiva during the winter of 1875-1876 in what is now Uzbekistan, which had just lately been closed to travellers. While the author calls this a travelogue of his journeys through Russia, he was primarily concerned with Russia s expansion through Central Asia. Khiva had been taken over by the Russian army 5 years earlier, who had since steadily continued their encroachment towards India. Burnaby devotes an appendix and much discussion in this book to the fears of the residents over the Russian invasions and the danger of war with England as the Russians came ever closer to the British-Indian border. Detailed notes are also given on routes and terrain. An excellent copy of this scarce, classic work of travel.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, 1876
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The second edition of Frederick Burnaby's account of his journey to Khiva through Russian Asia on horseback. The second edition of British Army intelligence officer Frederick Burnaby's travel work about the Uzbekistan city of Khiva, published the year of the first edition.Illustrated with a folding colour map frontispiece, and two folding colour maps in pockets to front and rear pastedowns. Collated, complete.In this work Burnaby documents his journey on horseback from Russian Asia to the Khanate of Khiva, at a time when war had broken out between the Russian army and the Turcoman tribesmen. He departed from London Victoria in November 1875, and he accomplished his journey through the winter. He caught frostbite during the extreme winter blizzards, and he took three weeks to recover, being close to death. He evaded the Russian army, and was met by the Khan of Kokan's noblemen. His work outlined the details of the meetings once he arrived in Khiva.With a five page catalogue to the rear.The second edition of a fascinating work. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strop head and tail, with areas of discolouration to front board. Cloth to head of rear joint starting. Hinges strained, and a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, 1876
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this fascinating account of Frederick Burnaby's amazing journey to Khiva through Russian Asia on horseback. Illustrated with three folding maps. The first edition of this work. Extremely scarce in the first edition and in the publsihers' binding. With a colour folding map to the frontispiece, and two folding maps to pockets to the front and rear. With four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. A travel work on Khiva, a city in Uzbekistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia. In this work Burnaby documents his journey on horseback from Russian Asia to the Khanate of Khiva, at a time when war had broken out between the Russian army and the Turcoman tribesmen. He departed from London Victoria in November 1875, and he accomplished his journey through the winter. He caught frostbite during the extreme winter blizzards, and he took three weeks to recover, being close to death. He evaded the Russian army, and was met by the Khan of Kokan's noblemen. His work outlined the details of the meetings once he arrived in Khiva. He gained respect from the population Burnaby returned back to England in March 1876. When this work was published, it brought the author instant fame for its popularity. His fame also rose in the social circles in London, due to reports in newspapers and magazines. Written by Frederick Burnaby, a British Army intelligence officer, who was known for his swashbuckling courage and adventurous spirit. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. The first edition of this travelogue, illustrated with three folding maps. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in some loss to the head and tail of the spine. Light marks to the boards. Minor discolouration to the spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Folding maps to the front and rear are a little spotted with some age-toning, and small closed tears to the folds. Good. book.