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HEDIN, Sven (1865-1952). Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien. Stockholm: Generalstabens Ltd. Anstalt, 1918, 1927.
3 volumes including portfolio, 4to and folio. 140 plates from photographs, maps and plans including many folding or double-page, 8 folding maps in portfolio. Original wrappers printed in red and black (some spotting or sunning to extremities).
FIRST EDITION of this extensive work related to Hedin’s third expedition where he traveled to Persia in the years 1905-08 in search of the sources of the Indus and Brahmaputra Rivers, both of which he found. Hess, p. 51; Henze II:558.