Markham Frederick Colonel (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Lacking the map. Ex-library. General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Library stamps, markings and labels. Later owner's rubber name stamp. Rebound in full leather. Boards detached, just hanging on with later cloth tape along the hinges. Wear and loss to leather at corners of boards. Plates near very good, some foxing. Final plate facing page 360 has a 10mm tear to margin. No library markings on the plates.; xii, 375, [1] pages + chromolithograph frontispiece + chromolithograph plates. Lacking the folding map. 15 in-text woodcut illustrations. Rebound in full leather. Page dimensions: 241 x 150mm. Hunting in the Himalayas, Tibet, Ladakh, Kashmir. "A little spaniel dog of mine, was left with the shepherds, but as it commenced to howl, I made signs to them to let it go, and it joined us. Crossing the river by one of the snow-bridges, we ascended the hill, and soon came in sight of Bruin and her progeny." - page 252. "Penee, Spitee, and indeed all Thibet, are, with regard to scenery and general appearance, very uninteresting; cold, bleak countries, dreary and monotonous, where even in the month of June, it often freezes at night; in winter it must be awful. The more we were brought in contact with the Tartars, the more I liked them; simple in their manners, and obliging in their dispositions. Buddists in religion, those who are stationary, usually select a rock or some other lofty site for their villages, where house is built, or rather piled, above house, with the temple and lamas' residence upon the highest point in the centre." - page 323. [References: Czech (Asian) p. 134 - "An excellent and early work on sport in the Himalayas, this recounts Markham's hunts after tiger in the Dehra Doon, with episodes of hunting thar and serow in the hill country."; Yakushi M89 - "The author's experiences of hunting and natives' customs in the Indian borderlands, Tibet and the Himalayas. He travelled those countries for hunting from 1846 to 1852."; Marshall "Britain and Tibet" 1236 - "Account of sporting trips made from 1847 to 1852 mainly in Kunawar, Garhwal and Spiti. He tried to cross into Tibet at a point north of Gangotri in 1849 but was prevented by the Tibetans who were afraid of 'their masters the Chinese'."].

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 375, [1]; additional wood-engraved title page, folding map and 8 lithograph plates; contemporary half green morocco, rebacked with old spine laid down; a good, sound, and clean copy. "The author's experiences of hunting and natives' customs in the Indian borderlands, Tibet and the Himalayas. He traveled those countries for hunting from 1846 to 1852" (Yakushi). "An excellent and early work on sport in the Himalayas" (Czech). Abbey, Travel 503; Czech, Asian, p. 134; Yakushi M187.