Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair was a member of British airistocracy, and a political figure, the latter of which follows a robust family history in politics. Adair would be lauded as, at the time, Rudyard Kipling's contemporary. In this book, Adair recounts an expedition he had throughout the regions of Ladakh and Baltistan in 1894. This copy of "A Summer in High Asia" is number 348 of 500 limited special edition copies. 8vo blue leather hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Missing slipcase. Raised bands along spine. AEG. Blue and red marbled paste-downs and endpapers. Silk place holding ribbon. Front and back boards dappled with spue. Loss to top of pages near the gutter of 143-154, possibly pest-related. Binding tight.

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Format: Hardback
Author: Adair, F.E.S.
Condition: Very Good
Publisher: John Culler & Sons
Publication Year: 1994

A Summer in High Asia

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