Original green cloth with a horned beast in gilt on the front board. A gilt title on the spine which is in poor condition. Much wear on the edges and corners small pieces missing from the head and tail of the spine, with two rips in the cloth hinges. Ex-library from the Transvaal Dept of Agriculture with stamps on the title page. But the pages and plates are clean. Fine accounts of rigorous expeditions into remote Tibet. A SCARCE book.