Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 260

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM. An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul; being, The Substance of Observations made during a Mission to that Country in the Year 1793. 13 etched or stipple-engraved plates and one hand-colored aquatint; folding map. [4], iii-xix, [1], 386, [6] pages, including 2 leaves of ads at end, but with preface and table of contents bound between pages [8] and [9]. 4to, 290x231 mm, modern 1/2 red morocco; dampstain in lower margin of dedication leaf after title, uncolored plates browned, offsetting onto facing pages, map reinforced in 2 places on verso. London: William Miller, 1811

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first edition. Kirkpatrick led the first British diplomatic mission to Nepal. Yakushi (1994) K241a.