Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1390
  • 1390

Yarkand Expedition

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Description

  • Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1878-1890 & London, 1891
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COMPLETE SET of 15 parts bound in 2 volumes, 4to (350 x 250mm.), large folding map and 71 plates [45 hand-coloured, of which 24 are of birds], red straight-grained half morocco, blue marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in

Literature

Yakushi (1994) many entries, listed under each contributor, see index p.1233; Anker 465; Zimmer p.580

Catalogue Note

The work includes all the species obtained by Henderson (see lot 1389) during the first expedition, and therefore deals with materials from both of the Yarkand expeditions, despite its title. The contributors include Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Allan Hume, W.T. Blanford, H.W. Bates and others.