Author: BARZINI, LUIGI:
Title: La Metà de Mondo vista da un' automobile. Da Pechino a Parigi in sessanta giorni. Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1908.
Description: . Pp. xxx, (ii) adv, 523. With numerous illustrations, thirteen full page plates and one folding map in a pocket at rear. Publisher's green cloth printed in white with a photograph inserted on upper cover, lightly rubbed, small tear at upper back hinge. Some minor staining. First edition. A narrative of the spectacular motor race between Peking and Paris in 1907. Luigi Barzini, the renowned Italian journalist accompanied Prince Scipione Borghese on the adventurous journey. Borghese won convincingly.

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