Western Himalaya and Tibet; a narrative of a journey through the mountains of northern India, during the years 1847-8

by Thomas Thomson

$950 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Reeve and Co., 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 501, 1 ; wood-engraved vignette title page, 2 maps 1 folding , 2 tinted lithographs; later black cloth backed in black straight-grain morocco, gilt titled direct on spine; one plate with small wormhole in the margin and not touching any of the image and both plates a touch toned; very good, clean, and sound. Thomson was a surgeon who joined A. Cunningham with H. Strachy in 1847-48. He was the first

• Binding: Leather

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