OLDFIELD, HENRY AMBROSE | Sketches from Nipal. London: W. H. Allen, 1880

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

OLDFIELD, HENRY AMBROSE

Sketches from Nipal. London: W. H. Allen, 1880

2 volumes, 8vo. 7 chromolithograph and 11 lithograph plates. Publisher's black and gilt-stamped dark green cloth, spine title gilt; very minor shelf wear along bottom edge, cloth slightly frayed at spine ends and two pages roughly opened, but a very bright copy. 

First edition. Oldfield spent over thirty years in India, principally in Nepal. There are few books of this period on the area, and virtually none written with such authority and covering every aspect of the private life, political relations, sport and religion of the country. Contains much information on Buddhist temples and relics. 

REFERENCE:

Czech, Asia 153-4; Yakushi (1994) O36