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GODWIN-AUSTEN, HENRY HAVERSHAM. Description of a Mystic Play as Performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c.in: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series, Volume 34, Part 1, Number 2, pages 71-79, with ten mounted albumen photographs of the performers. 2 lithographed plates illustrating other papers. [53]-113, [1], 4 pages, including list of Asiatic Society publications at end. Publisher's announcement slip bound in. 8vo, 229x149 mm, original wrappers, backed with paper, lacking rear wrapper, contents loose; plates and photograph mounts browned, photographs faded, contents otherwise clean; uncut and largely unopened. Calcutta, 1865
first edition of a paper on the ritual performance at a remote monastery observed by Godwin-Austen while working on the trigonometrical survey of Jammu and Kashmir. Pages 91-100 contain Note on the Pronunciation of the Tibetan Language, an early publication by the pioneer Tibetan scholar Heinrich August Jaeschke.
