An Account of Koonawur in the Himalaya

by Alexander Gerard

$2,500 · Offered by Trophy Room Books

London: James Madden & Co, 1841. First. Hardcover. 308 pp, appendices, large folding map in front pocket. The author, one of three brothers, traveled through an area of British controlled Central Asia that lay east of Simla. One of the earliest works on high altitude travel although they never made it through to Tibet . It includes information on history, geography, tribes, languages etc. A truly beautiful copy -

• Binding: Hardcover

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