Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
VIGNE, GODFREY THOMAS. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries adjoining the Mountain-Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Panjab . . . Second Edition. 11 uncolored lithographed plates; one map (of 2); lacks the folding map. xlviii, 406; x, [2], 462, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 209x130 mm, later 1/4 calf, spines scuffed; scattered underscoring and marginalia, varying and occasionally heavy foxing on some plates and text leaves. 19th-century stamp of Coleraine Library on titles and some text leaves; bookplates of Max Salomon. London: Henry Colburn, 1844

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Important early work on the Karakoram and the Himalayas, including the first description of Nanga Parbat. Czech/Asian, page 219; Neate V18 (both citing the 1842 original edition); Yakushi V40.