Samuel Turner - Siberia: A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration - 1905

A very RARE and beautiful and interesting book...."Siberia: A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration" published in 1905 by Fisher Unwin and written by Samuel Turner....FIRST edition. 1xxiv + 420pp, top edge gilt pages uncut, portrait frontispiece, title printed in black and red, 2 folding maps, full page and text illustrations from photos by the author, inside the contents clean and tight. Bound in the original red decorative cloth with gilt title and mountain scene to the upper cover, gilt axe and rope vignette to the spine. the cloth clean and unfaded the binding tight with no chips or splits. A journey across Siberia and the pioneering winter exploration of the Altai Mountains, the highest mountains of Siberia. Scarce

Estimación:€80

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