Lot 398
Henderson, George and Allan Hume
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£600
Description
Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the route and natural history of the countries traversed by the expedition under T.D. Forsyth. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1873, first edition, 8vo, 26 heliotype plates, folding map, 38 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds and plants, 2 hand-coloured geological section plates, illustrations, 16pp. advertisements at end, publisher's brown cloth, library stamp to margin of every plate and to some leaves of text, upper hinge partly split, slight wear to extremities, binding lightly spotted
Footnote
Provenance: Leeds Mechanics Institution, bookplate and library stamps.