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Fraser, James Baillie
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himalaya Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820
- Paper, ink, leather
4to (11 1/2 x 9 in.; 295 x 230mm). Engraved folding map; some foxing, heaviest to map, lacking half-title. Contemporary full-calf, blindstamp boarders and gilt rules to covers, spine with raised bands in six compartments, black label to second with gilt text, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; edges rubbed with some loss to morocco, some loss to head of spine.
Provenance
Carl F. Setz (his gift to Reeves Library, bookplate to front free endpaper)
Literature
Yakushi (1994) F191a
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION of "an amazing record of a region which remained little known until the twentieth century. It provides meticulous information on a variety of subjects - history, agriculture, flora and fauna, geology, ethnology, commerce, manufactures, mineralogy; information which was collected under conditions of extreme physical discomfort and at times danger..." (M. Archer & T. Falk, India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801-35)