Himalayan Journals

Glasgow: The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co., c1890. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. An illustrated edition of this collection of naturalist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's accounts of travels to the Himalayas, Nepal, and Bengal. A fascinating account of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's travels to the Himalayas, Bengal, the Sikkim, Nepal, and the Khasia Mountains. Sir Joseph… Read more about this item

Glasgow, Scotland: The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co., 1895. Undated [1895]. Worn but complete copy with the two folding maps at rear in good condition. Faded purple cloth with gilt spine lettering, black and white frontis plate, additional illustrations in black and white, 574 pages. Covers spotted, bumped and chipped, internally better with good hinges, sound text block, darkened endpapers, decorative… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co., 1891 12mo. original blue cloth gilt ruled in black, decorated endpapers (ex-library with RSMs, label, bookplate etc. to early leaves only, rubbed & a little frayed, some toning & offsetting, lower hinge starting; lacks folding maps, envelope conatining prev. owner's ephemera to lower pastedown); pp. xxxii, 574 + 2p. pubs. advts., with tissue-guarded frontispiece… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, 1999 8vo. original burgundy leatherette gilt; pp. vi, 348; xii, 346 (last blank), with illustrations. A fine copy of an Indian facsimile in one volume. [Neate H108: Hooker was the first to make an almost complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in the years 1848-50: a classic of early Himalayan travel and exploration].. Facsimile.… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co., 1893 12mo. original olive green cloth gilt ruled in black, decorated endpapers (extremities a little rubbed, slight bump to fore-edge, otherwise, clean and bright externally; outer leaves toned, top edge dustmarked, otherwise internally clean); pp. xxxii, 574 + 2p. pubs. advts., with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, facsimile of Dhurma Rajah's seal, 13 full page… Read more about this item

1905 WARD, LOCK & CO., LTD.,. HARDBACK. VERY GOOD. . VERY GOOD BOOK IN RED BOARDS. NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN BENGAL THE SIKKIM AND NEPAL HIMALAYAS THE KHASIA MOUNTAINS &c. CONTAINS MAPS AND FULL-PAGE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

London, New York, And Melbourne: Ward, Lock, Bowden And Co., 1891., 1891. small 8vo. pp. xxxi, [1], 574, [2]ads. with half-title. 2 folding maps, frontis. portrait, 14 plates (1 folding), & numerous text illus. original cloth (discolouration to upper spine). Hooker's account, first published in 1854, is considered a "minor classic of nineteenth-century travel literature." (Dict. of Scientific Biography) Hooker… Read more about this item

Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. 1891. Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, xxxi + 574pp, illus, folding maps to rear, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate scuffing/chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, boards sl shaky,… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co, 1891. Minerva Library of Famous Books. 2 folding maps. 574pp. 8vo. Bound in modern brown mottled brown polished calf, red title label. Finr. Minerva Library of Famous Books. 2 folding maps. 574pp. 8vo. Dedicated to Charles Darwin. Yakushi H399a; Abbey, Travel 502; Neate H108 (all for First Editions)