Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 220

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MOORCROFT, WILLIAM; and TREBECK, GEORGE. Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, in Ladak and Kashmir, 1819-1825. 2 lithographed frontispieces; folding map. lvi, 459, [1]; viii, 508 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 206x133 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining worn original backstrips with crude later lettering pieces added, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; contents clean apart from stains along top and fore edge of last few leaves in each volume. 19th-century bookplates of the Junior United Service Club. London: John Murray, 1841
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first edition. The first formally-trained British veterinarian, Moorcroft (d. 1825) travelled extensively in the Himalayas and Central Asia to procure breeding-horses for the East India Company. He was one of the first to call attention to the threat to British interests posed by Russian expansionism in the region, but his warnings were mostly ignored during his lifetime. Neate M136; Yakushi M236.