. Pumpelly, Raphael. Explorations in Turkestan with an account of the basin of Eastern Persia and Sistan. Expedition of 1903, under the direction of Raphael Pumpelly. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1905.

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First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 324; 2 plates (1 folding, 1 in color), 4 maps (3 folding), and 174 illustrations in the text, mostly from photographs; later green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine.

Contains the texts of five papers: Archaeological and physico-geographical reconnaissance in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly; A journey across Turkestan, by William M. Davis; Physiographic observations between the Syr Darya and lake Kara Kul, on the Pamir, 1903, by Raphael W. Pumpelly; A geologic and physiographic reconnaissance in Central Turkestan, by Ellsworth Huntington; and, The basin of eastern Persia and Sistan, by Ellsworth Huntington.

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