Lot 405
Moorcroft, William & George Trebeck
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 5 September 2007 at 12:00 BST
£1,080
Description
Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir. London: John Murray, 1841, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 lithographed frontispieces, 1 folding map, publisher's cloth, early owner's ink stamp (T.W. Mayer) on titles partly offset onto frontispieces, 12pp. advertisements at end of volume 1, bindings poorly rebacked with cloth, edges and corners worn, upper hinge of volume 2 weak
Footnote
Provenance: Gift of Thomas Walton Mayer, Vet. Surgeon, R.E. Train, Brompton Barracks, 1857, to Library of the Royal Engineers, inscription; Royal Engineers Establishmnet Library Chatham, bookplates