The Gazetteer of Sikhim.

£3,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A lovely copy. The Gazetteer was printed in an edition of just 500 and includes notes on the history of Sikhim and the British intervention of 1817, geography, natural history, architecture, monastic routines and magic rites. Contributors include L. A. Waddell (author of Lhasa and its Mysteries) , J.C. White, J. Gammie and Lionel de Niceville (the lepidopterist and curator of the India Museum at Calcutta). The two folding maps are “Skeleton map of Sikhim” and “Map shewing approximate race distribution in Sikhim 1892”. Included is a typed letter (signed) from H. Wheeler, Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to H.H. Dowling confirming despatch of this copy. Yakushi, B126.

• Year: 1894

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