The Russian road to China
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. First American edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 391, [1]; frontispiece portrait, color folding map, 45 illustrations from photographs on 38 plates; original blue decorated cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g; a very good, clean, and sound copy. Early inscription on front free endpaper to "Robert Packer Rathbun, from Mother." Bates (1883-1915) was an American engineer and politician from New York who died on the Lusitania. (See rmslusitania[.]info for a touching account of his last minutes.). Item #68183
Price: $125.00
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