Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. With maps and illustrations. In two volumes

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Published by John Murray, London, 1854

About this Item

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xxvii, [5], 408; [5], vi-xii; 487, [1]; 2 chromolithographic frontispieces; 2 engraved maps hand-colored in outline, 79 wood engravings; 10 tinted lithographic plates, plus a single full-page wood engraving printed in red; bound without the errata and the publisher's ads in recent half brown morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; overall appearance is fine. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was a close friend of Charles Darwin, to whom the volumes are dedicated. He was the first naturalist to travel into the Sikkim Himalaya, through mostly unknown territory which had not been reached by an Englishman since Turner's mission to Tibet in 1789. He made the first near complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in 1848-50, and was the first westerner to describe it. The maps were made from his own surveys and the illustrations and views are from his own drawings. Abbey, Travel, 502; Neate H108; Wood, Vertebrate zoology, p. 390; Yakushi H399.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. With maps and illustrations. In two volumes
• Publisher: John Murray, London
• Publication Date: 1854
• Edition: First Edition.
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