- Covers sl. foxed and duststained; foot of spine and sm. spot of upper joint sl. worn. Otherwise fine.

= Henze I, p.297; Vicaire I, p.860; Broc (Asie), p.43ff: "Explorateur professionel, spécialiste de l'Asie centrale, G. Bonvalot [1853-1933] est un des rares Français à avoir traversé le Pamir et le Tibet au XIXe siècle. (...)." Within 18 months after embarking on his journey at Marseille, Bonvalot had returned to France, having travelled from Batoum across the Caucasus via Persia (Tehran) to the Pamir plateau, across the Karakoum to Lahore and Simla. His journey included a spell of 49 days of imprisonment in Afghanistan.

AND 5 others, i.a. V. MEIGNAN, De Paris à Pékin par terre Sibérie - Mongolie (Paris, 1885, fold. col. map, 15 plates, contemp. giltlettered (rubbed) hcalf) and E. GARNIER, Voyages dans l'Asie méridionale (...) (Lyon etc., 1842, 2nd ed., engr. title and 3 plates, contemp. giltlettered embossed and blindst. darkblue boards. Plates browned; binding sl. worn along extremities).