463pp, hardback, q red morocco gilt, (red morocco spine with raised bands and gilt panels) over red morocco textured cloth, all edges gilt, with title page printed in two colours, with faux watered silk end-papers, illustrated with 170 engravings, 117 by van Muyden and 16 heliotypes, folding map at rear of the journey through central Asia, full page engs protected by tissue-guards, some double with slight offsetting from eng. to guards, with green silk ribbon, part lacking