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PREJEVALSKY, NIKOLAI. Reisen in Tibet und am oberen Lauf des Gelben Flusses in den Jahren 1879 bis 1880. 16 tinted lithographed plates; folding lithographed map mounted in 9 sections on linen. xiv, 281, [1] pages. 8vo, 217x141 mm, original cloth, spine ends rubbed, hinges cracked; endpapers and half-title browned, scattered foxing, map loose. Contemporary bookplate of the Lese-Institut von Alfred Lorenz, Leipzig, partly torn; stamp of Wm. J. Hackmeier, San Francisco. Jena: Hermann Costenoble, 1884
first edition in german, translated from the 1883 original edition in Russian, on Prejevalsky's third expedition to Tibet, again failing to reach Lhasa. Yakushi (1994) 296.
