Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THOMSON, THOMAS. Western Himalaya and Tibet: A Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India during the Years 1847-8. 2 tinted lithographed plates; 2 maps, including one folding. xii, 501, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacks the final ad leaf. 8vo, 217x136 mm, contemporary 1/2 tan calf gilt, minor wear; frontispiece, title, and last index leaf foxed, contents otherwise clean; marbled edges. Bookplates of Montagu George, Knight of Chawton, and Vernon Howard. London: Reeve and Co., 1852

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first edition. "Thomson was the first European to cross the Saser and Karakoram passes, and one of the first to describe routes in the Karakoram"--Neate T25. Yakushi (1994) T118.