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Ralph P Cobbold. Innermost Asia. William Heinemann, London, 1900.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Ex-lending lib with residue from label to front board. Boards very faded and rubbed with gilt titling barely discernible. 354pp. illus. + many b/w plates. Only two of the five maps present. Book has been exposed to damp storage and has some mildewed leaves. Many of the plates are loose. The binding is weak. Edges rough-cut and rippled. Cracks at both joints. Piece torn away from title page. The book has numerous defects but the text appears to be complete. Strictly a reading copy only.
Seller: Snookerybooks, Philippolis, South Africa
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Describes hunting, among other animals, Marco Polo sheep, this is a notable trek through Gilgit to the Kilgit pass, over the Pamirs to Kashgar. It has a valuable bibliography. Pages xx, 354. Calf dark green 3/4 binding, with gilt lines and decorations on spine, and a fresh gilt red calf title label. The boards are marbled. Owner Hester Walcot in 1902 notes "From the author who I met in 1902". Clean and tight inside, neatly rebacked spine. Nice copy. The folding map has repairs on the verso, but in very nice condition. The map has Chitral in the SW corner, and Kashgar and Yarkand in the northeast. Overall, a very nice leatherbound copy.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Cobbold, Ralph P.. Innermost Asia: Travel & Sport in the Pamirs. William Heinemann, London, 1900.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Folding map, 4 sketch maps, 29 photographic plates and 85 text illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Sport and Travel in India. A book remarkable for the wide range of experiences related, including "The Great Game" diplomacy on India's northern frontier. Cobbold was the first sportman to explore the Pamirs for sheep. Czech 49 Original pictorial rose cloth, gilt, with gilt sheep's head on upper cover. Title-page stamped in blind "David A. Sadony/ Private." Folding map, 4 sketch maps, 29 photographic plates and 85 text illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$422.87 + shipping
Description: thick8vo., 2.3cm, The First Edition, xviii,354p., grvure frontis portrait and 113 plates and illustrations, 4 page maps, large rear colour folding map, in the original full tan book linen, gilt spine and cover titles, gilt sheep cover illus., appendices, very good copy, AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION CARD laid in on the front end paper, "With Colonel R.P. Cobbard's Compliments". (tr). ~ Remarkable for the range of experiences related, including "The Great Game" diplomacy on India's northern frontier. Cobbold was the first sportman to explore the Pamirs for sheep. With voluble descriptions of the terrain. Czech 49.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Cobbold, Ralph P.. Innermost Asia Travel & Sport in the Pamirs. William Heinemann, London, 1900.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: Ex-lib (marks on tp & p 101 only) else NF
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
COBBOLD Ralph P.. Innermost Asia Travel And Sport In The Pamirs. William Heinemann, 1900.
Price: US$468.10 + shipping
Description: xviii 354 pages, full page and text illus from photographs, 4 full page maps + lge folding coloured map at rear. Old repair to closed tear to verso 1 section of blank margin and map, publishers plain dark red cloth, some light fading to edges, possible a later publishers binding, some copies appear with a gilt sheep's head to upper board others in this binding. An excellent work on sport and adventure with voluble descriptions of the terrain. Czech 49.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$566.05 + shipping
Description: The richly illustrated first edition of Ralph Cobbold's account of his late nineteenth century travels in the Pamirs. The first edition of this work from British soldier and writer Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbold. Illustrated with four plates of maps, and with a large folding colour cloth-backed map to the rear. With a frontispiece and twenty-eight photographic plates, and with numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.The author explored the Pamirs between 1897 and 1898, and in this work provides an account of his interest in the sport of sheep hunting, alongside discussion of the political state of the region, and of its landscapes and peoples.Rebound in quarter morocco, with endpapers renewed. Retaining the original half title.An attractive example of this informative work. Rebound in quarter morocco, with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting and instances of foxing to first and last few leaves, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cobbold, Ralph. Innermost Asia. William Heinemann, London, 1900.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Description: A record of sport in the Pamirs. 354 pp, profuse ill, large folding map in rear. Cobbold was the first sport hunter to actively explore the Pamirs and took the first photo of a live ovis poli sheep. This is an important work for the sheep hunter. Scarce in first edition. The spine is very lightly faded and shows only minor wear. Solid vg+ to near fine copy in orig gilt pictorial cloth with Marco Polo sheep head on cover. The front and back covers and very lightly faded spine are near fine and the gilt sheep head on front cover is sharp and crisp. Corners are square. Now hard to obtain in first edition. Great reading.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.