Torrens, Henry D.:

$1,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR. Second edition of Lieut. Col. Henry D. Torrens' account of his travels in the Trans-Himalayan regions of present-day northern India. The work is illustrated with dozens of chromolithographic and wood-engraved ethnographic portraits and landscape views. The large panoramic folding plates show views of "Kashmir Valley from Soleiman's Seat to Nishat Bach" and "Lè [Leh], from the Palace...to the Valley of the Indus." The folding map traces "the Course of the Hindostan and Thibet Road from Kalka in the Plains to Shipkee on the borders of China."

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