Younghusband on the Himalayas and Central Asia.

Younghusband, Col. Francis Edward, C.I.E., Indian Army. British Commissioner for Tibet Frontier Matters: The Heart of a Continent. A narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himlayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza 1884-1894. John Murray [London] 1904 4th edition 8vo.

Folding map, frontispiece portrait & 8 other plates, xvii, [i list of illustrtions]. 332pp. Original decorative cloth gilt in extremely good external condition, top edges gilt, some spotting of foxing,mainly confined to frontispiece and edges of title page, otherwise a very clean copy, a few pencil notes in pencil to margin of map and a rear blank [probably contemporary]. Published in the year of the Tibet operations.  Yakushi Y09