Baddeley, John F.

first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (275 x 187mm.), half-titles, 38 plates, 9 maps, all but one folding, original buckram, dust jackets, edges uncut, jackets repaired with restoration at spine ends resulting in minor loss to lettering

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rare. a fine copy with the extremely uncommon dust-jackets, these not present in the only other two copies (Hopkirk and Burrell) sold in these rooms in the last thirty years. John Baddeley died on 16 February 1940 when this book was ready for the press. This posthumous work deals with the geography, topography, ethnology, history, archaeology, botany, zoology and folklore of the Caucasus, a region with which he was intimately acquainted. Chapter 2 deals with the oil fields at Baku, and there are two chapters devoted to Ossetia.