Lot 190
Himalayas, Kashmir, Tibet, Afghanistan
Collection of travel narratives, 19th and 20th century
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
Knight, William Henry. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet. London: Richard Bentley, 1863. First edition, 8vo, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 16 plates (8 tinted lithographs, 8 wood-engraved), illustrations in text, this issue without the fragment of prayer-wheel laid in between pp. 200-01, with half-title and publisher's advertisements, binding shaken with one plate detached, spine worn at head and foot, some light staining to front board, occasional spotting, bookplate and ownership inscriptions on pastedown and front free endpapers;
Wardle, Thomas. Kashmir: its new Silk Industry: with some Account of its Natural History, Geology, Sport, Etc. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. and Leek: W. H. Eaton, the Moorlands Press, 1904. First edition, 8vo, publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering, portrait frontispiece, 45 halftone plates, binding worn at extremities, hinges cracking, presentation copy from author, bookplate on pastedown;
Younghusband, Francis. Among the Celestials. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas to India. London: John Murray, 1898. First edition, 8vo, publisher's red cloth with pictorial design on upper board, frontispiece, 45 halftone plates, folded map (partially coloured), spine sunned;
Younghusband, Francis. India and Tibet: a History of the Relations which have Subsisted between the two Countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910. London: John Murray, 1910. First edition, 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, portrait frontispiece, 26 halftone plates, two folded colour maps, 8-page publisher's catalogue;
Knowles, James Hinton. Folk-tales of Kashmir. London: Trübner & Co., 1888. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth gilt, part of Trübner's Oriental Series, bolts partially unopened;
Doughty, Marion. Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys. London: Sands & Company, 1902. First edition, 8vo, publisher's blue cloth gilt, frontispiece, 11 halftone plates, illustrations, binding worn at extremities and lightly stained;
together with 13 others similar (19)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA