1889 Hindu-Koh : Wanderings & Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas : MacIntyre

Hindu-Koh : Wanderings & Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas

By Donald MacIntyre

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889. First Edition. 8vo, contemporary full-calf binding with gilt spine, marbled page edges, marble endpapers, xx, 464 pages, illustrated with chromolithograph frontis, 8 plates from drawings and a photo with tissue guard letterpress key, plus other in-text engraved illustrations.

CONDITION
A very good first edition. The calf binding is very good with just a couple of small marks to the upper board and a little sunning to the rear board. Endpapers very good and the inner joints are secure with no cracking, all contents present and pages in very good clean condition throughout. Armorial bookplate to front inside board (Sir Alexander Kay Muir, 2nd Baronet (1868–1951)). Overall a very good clean and handsomely-bound first edition.

The author travelled from Srina-gar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo, Lingzi-tang in 1871'. Interesting descriptions of the peoples, their customs, cities, religion, and of nature including tiger, bear, mahseer, pheasant, partridge, jurrow, leopard, hog, musk-deer, ibex, swamp-deer, elephant, surrow, stag, yak, ovis ammon, goa, burrell, hunting and fishing, Goorkas, etc. Extensive travels including Cashmere (Kashmir), Sind, Ladak, Tibet, parts of China, India, Himalaya foothills, etc, over a 30 year period beginning in 1853. The author was an officer with the Gurkhas and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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