Lot 340

G. P. Tate, The frontiers of Baluchistan. London 1909.

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€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot: 340
Category: Geography and work of views
Artist: George Passman Tate
Tate, George Passman: The Frontiers of Baluchistan. Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan. London: Witherby & Co. 1909. 22 x 14,4 cm. With a colour frontispiece and 36 further plates with black-and-white photographs, 2 folded maps, one of which is in colour; XV pp., 1 unnumbered page, 261 pp., 1 blank page. Green-brown linen. Title on spine and head letters embossed in gold. Blind-embossed fillets. Gold-edged top.

(Corners and spine slightly bumped. Slightly tanned, more so at the edges.)

Yakushi (1994) T26. – “A study by a member of the Survey of India, attached to the two MacMahon missions of 1884–85 and 1903–04, dealing with the geography, water supply and population of a part of the Afghan-Indian frontier” (Yakushi) With an introduction by A. Henry McMahon. Accompanied by 2 sheets on travel literature.