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GERARD, ALEXANDER. Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya. Folding engraved map. xiv, [2], 308, xxvi, [2] pages, including half-title and final ad leaf dated August 1841. 8vo, 232x138 mm, contemporary cloth covers with modern morocco back, endpapers renewed; ink blot on top edges at beginning showing internally, owner's signature on title, map lightly offset with clean tear in corner repaired on verso. London: James Madden & Co., 1841
first edition of an overview of the geography, population, natural history, etc., of Kinnaur in northern India, followed by a journal of the 1817-18 survey of the region made by the author and his brother. Yakushi (1994) G68.
