Seran Rajas Palace

by James Baillie Fraser

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine example of a view taken during the first recorded journey by Europeans through the Himalayas. In 1815, following the end of the war with Nepal, Fraser and his brother William, a political agent, spent two months on a tour of the Himalayas. Their journey took the brothers along the river valleys of the Himalayas, with occasional sorties to higher latitudes and as far as the sources of both the Jumna and Ganges rivers. In this view, Fraser depicts the Raja of Sarahan's

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