PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive. Savage Svânetia, 2 vols, Richard Be - Lot 21

PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive. Savage Svânetia, 2 vols, Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1883 2 vol. in-8 (19.7 x 13.5 cm), text in English, IX pp, [1] f. (table), 272 pp, 4 plates including frontispiece + [4] ff, 250 pp, 4 plates including frontispiece, publisher's green percaline, upper board illustrated with a map of the Caucasus with "Svânetia" gilt (binding worn and damaged, leaves unbound). Provenance: E.J. Brill Ltd, Leiden, Netherlands. Catalog no. 534 Caucasica, 1983, cat. 666; Acquired 1983 An English hunter's account of his travels in Svânétie, the high mountain region of northwest Georgia, giving many valuable ethnographic details; written with a very English sense of humor.