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FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE. Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains. Folding engraved map. xx, 548 pages, including half-title. 4to, 310x244 mm, original(?) gray boards, crudely rebacked with paper, spine foxed, ends chipped; scattered mostly marginal foxing of text, map loose and heavily foxed; uncut and partly unopened. Bookplate of Vernon Howard. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820
first edition of a memoir of Fraser's travels in search of the sources of the Yamuna and Ganges Rivers, published to accompany his Views of the Himala Mountains. The opening chapters give a brief history of the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16. Yakushi (1994) F118.
