Yarkand Expedition--Forsyth, Thomas Douglas

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, under command of Sir T.D. Forsyth. Calcutta: Printed at the Foreign Department Press, 1875
Paper

FIRST EDITION, 4to (270 x 200mm.), [ii], iv, 4, [ii], 574pp., large folding map in the upper cover pocket (hand-coloured in outline), 102 MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 2 additional photographs mounted on linen, original blindstamped purple cloth, terracotta endpapers, slipcase, rebacked retaining original spine

Provenance

Northbrook, bookplate (Thomas George Baring, First Earl Northbrook, Governor-General of India 1872-76)

Catalogue Note

A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, from the library of Thomas George Baring, First Earl Northbrook, Governor-General of India 1872-76.

"In December 1872 the incoming viceroy, Lord Northbrook, salvaged Forsyth's career by appointing him plenipotentiary to Yarkand. This second expedition, begun in the summer of 1873, established the amir's commercial friendliness towards the British and amassed useful geographical, botanical, and ethnological information on the region. On his return in 1874 Forsyth was made KCSI and was subsequently elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society" (ODNB).