Overland to India. With 308 illustrations from photographs, water-colours sketches, and drawings by the author and 2 maps.

2 vol., 8vo (some spotting, front. of vol. I detached).

Publ. blue cloth, gilt head of a camel in the centre of front covers, gilt-titled flat spines (spines sl. faded, some traces of use).

First English edition of Hedin's account of his journey from Tehran to India through the Persian deserts. Illustrated with 2 fold. maps in colour, 3 fold. plans and 198 plates, some in colour, reproductions of photos by the author. Hedin (1865-1952), Swedish topographer and explorer made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nor, the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin, etc.