reginald charles francis schomberg (9 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Good. Good gilt-stamped blue cloth; spine slightly sunned; softening to spine ends; fraying to the base of spine; slight wear to corners; some wear and foxing to boards; foxing to textblock edges; binding cracked in a couple places but holding; occasional foxing throughout; large foldout map present in back pocket.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. 275 pp., 16 b/w plates including a frontispiece, 1 folding map at rear, contemporary blue cloth, slightly faded & soiled, index, occasional spotting mainly to preliminary leaves, otherwise copy in good condition. #6889.

vii, 244 pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Spine of the book somewhat sunned; otherwise in very good shape. Former owner's signatures on the free end paper. Illustrated with twenty four photographs. A fold out map included in the pocket at the rear. This book was written to describe two journeys made in 1934 to the remoter and more impervious parts of the Karakoram Range. The Karakoram is the most glaciered place on our planet and possesses the second highest peak on earth: K2. Reginald Schomberg was a British officer and explorer who had served in Asia. At the time of the writing, he commented that the Karakoram had been only superficially explored. He travels from Kashmir to Hunza, over the Karun Pir and returns down the Mustagh River and through Raskam. Even today, this part of our globe is inaccessible, and it makes for stimulating reading to witness this area through Schomberg's eyes, before the existence of Pakistan and the boundaries and borders that we are familiar with today.

1st. Good. pp288. cold. frontis. 7 cold. illus. fold. cold. map. orig. blue cloth gilt. rubbed. a scarce book.

1st. Very Good- pp270. 16 photo illus. fold. map. orig. cloth gilt sl. darkened and nicked bottom sp. and corners rubbed., but a scarce book.

Cloth. First edition. 270 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w photos and one folding map. 8vo. A fascinating account, both geographically and anthropologically, of the area and the people of the Giltgit Agency, Punyal, Yasin, and Hunza, including the Hunza-Nagir war. Yakushi S 82. Very good or better, light scattered foxing mostly to preliminaries, binding tight, text clean, folding map near fine. Lacking the dust jacket. Now in a clear archival wrapper. A nice copy.

1st. Very Good- pp244. frontis. 23 illus. fold. cold. map in e.p. orig. cloth gilt sl. darkened, but a scarce book.

1st. Very Good pp244. frontis. 23 illus. fold. cold. map in e.p. orig. cloth gilt sl. darkened, but a scarce book.

First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 9-244; portrait frontispiece, folding map in rear cover pocket, 23 illustrations from photographs on 21 plates (1 double-page); original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; very good, sound, and clean. Yakushi S178a: "The author was permitted to travel in the lower Shaksgam and lower Oprang. So he crossed the Shingshal Pass in 1934, and explored in twice in that year. He made a useful reconnaissance of the Raskam, Shaksgam, Oprang, and Braldu valleys, and the highlands between the Shingshal and Ghujerab rivers.".