A Ride to Khiva:

Cheap Edition. A classic text of the “Great Game”, first published the previous year. Burnaby occupied his leave in 1875 with a crossing of central Asia to Khiva. On his return, this account, which chimed well with the Russophobia of the times, became a runaway success and would have made his fortune had he not sold the rights outright for £750.

8vo. Folding coloured map frontispiece, two similar maps in an end-pocket. Some light foxing, mild hygroscopic damping at the head of the endpapers, front hinge a little tender, but overall very good in the publisher’s terracotta decorative cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed.