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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, 211x132 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt, spines scuffed, joints and cover corners rubbed, first volume recased with endpapers renewed; clean tears in map crudely repaired, endpapers and opening leaves wormed in second volume with blank upper outer corner of title restored. London: John Murray, 1841
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 (1994) M485.
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