Lot 3
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Baddeley, John T.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus. Oxford: University Press, 1940
  • Paper, ink, leather
2 volumes. 4to. 9 maps (1 folding), 38 plates. Original ochre cloth in original dust-jackets; spines lightly faded with some creasing at ends, but fully intact and unrestored. A fine copy uncommon in jacket.

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION.  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.