Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON. Himalayan Journals; or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas. 12 color lithographed plates; 7 wood-engraved plates; 2 folding maps. xxvii, [1], 408; xii, 487, [1]; pages, with errata slip in each volume. Publisher's 32-page catalogue dated January 1854 at end of Volume 1. 2 volumes. 8vo, 222x139 mm, original cloth, crudely rebacked but preserving original endpapers with publisher's ads, cover edges worn; scattered minor foxing, faint horizontal streaks in outer margin of some text leaves in Volume 2. 19th-century armorial bookplates of S. Ratcliff. London: John Murray, 1854

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first edition, dedicated to Charles Darwin. Abbey Travel 502; DSB VI, 489; Neate H108 ("a classic of Himalayan travel and exploration"); Yakushi (1994) H399a.