Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MARKHAM, FREDERICK. Shooting in the Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c. 8 tinted lithographed plates; folding map. [2], xii, 375 pages, including wood-engraved additional title. 8vo, 248x151 mm, modern 1/2 calf; upper outer corner of contents bumped, upper outer corner off frontispiece, page 119 soiled in outer margin, minor stains along bottom edge of map, last 3 plates dampstained. London: Richard Bentley, 1854

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first edition of an early work on the subject. Czech/Asian, page 134; Yakushi M89.