Western Himalaya and Tibet;
A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India, During the Years 1847-8.
- London: Reeve and Co, 1852
London: Reeve and Co, 1852. Full Description:
THOMSON, Thomas. Western Himalaya and Tibet; A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India, During the Years 1847-8. London: Reeve and Co., 1852.
First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140 mm). xii, 501, [1, blank], [1, ads], [1, blank], [16, ads] pp. With two engraved sepia-toned plates including frontispiece and two maps. One of the maps is folding, with color routes. Engraved vignette title-page. Tissue-guards.
Publisher's original green cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Leaves partially unopened. edges uncut. Light sunning to spine. Some minor repairs to split cloth along back outer hinge and head and tail of spine without using new cloth. Some foxing to the folding map. Still a very good copy.
"Explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817-78) led an intrepid life. He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and soon became a curator of the Asiatic Society's museum in Bengal. He was sent to Afghanistan in 1840 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was captured but managed to escape as he was about to be sold as a slave. Undaunted by this misfortune, he accepted a perilous mission to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet in 1847. During his eighteen-month journey, Thomson explored the Kashmir territories and went as far north as the barren Karakoram Pass. He collected valuable geographical and geological information as well as a wealth of botanical specimens. He describes his findings in minute detail in this account, first published in 1852. Thomson later became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society." (Cambridge University Press).
HBS 69418.
$2,000.
THOMSON, Thomas. Western Himalaya and Tibet; A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India, During the Years 1847-8. London: Reeve and Co., 1852.
First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140 mm). xii, 501, [1, blank], [1, ads], [1, blank], [16, ads] pp. With two engraved sepia-toned plates including frontispiece and two maps. One of the maps is folding, with color routes. Engraved vignette title-page. Tissue-guards.
Publisher's original green cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Leaves partially unopened. edges uncut. Light sunning to spine. Some minor repairs to split cloth along back outer hinge and head and tail of spine without using new cloth. Some foxing to the folding map. Still a very good copy.
"Explorer and naturalist Thomas Thomson (1817-78) led an intrepid life. He started his career as an assistant surgeon with the East India Company and soon became a curator of the Asiatic Society's museum in Bengal. He was sent to Afghanistan in 1840 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and was captured but managed to escape as he was about to be sold as a slave. Undaunted by this misfortune, he accepted a perilous mission to define the boundary between Kashmir and Chinese Tibet in 1847. During his eighteen-month journey, Thomson explored the Kashmir territories and went as far north as the barren Karakoram Pass. He collected valuable geographical and geological information as well as a wealth of botanical specimens. He describes his findings in minute detail in this account, first published in 1852. Thomson later became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society." (Cambridge University Press).
HBS 69418.
$2,000.
Details
Title
Western Himalaya and Tibet;
Author
THOMSON, Thomas
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Reeve and Co: London
Date
1852