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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. We were six white men in all. Our intention was to March from Simla due north to Le, the capital of Ladak, thence west-ward to Sree-Nuggur, the capital of Kashmir, thence in a South-easterly direction via Chumba, and Kangra back to Simla, in all, a circuit considerably over one thousand miles. This scheme was carried out in its integrity by only two of the party. For travellers who, like us, were anxious to see as much as possible in three short months, and were not disinclined to rough it, I can conceive no better route, leading us as it did through every vicissitude of Himalayan Scenery, over the high table-lands of Thibetan Tartary, into the verdant vale of Kashmir, and so back through the tamer but scarcely less beautiful scenery of the lower ranges of the Himalaya, to the tea-planted slopes of the Kangra valley, at which point the traveller may consider his wanderings in what has been called the Alpine Punjab at an end. This excerpt from the opening of Travels in Ladakh, Tartary and Kashmir by Lieutenant General Sir Henry D' Oyley Torrens offers a taste of this extraordinary book, originally published in 1862. (jacket).…

Zustand: New. First quality reprint of this famous travelogue. Relevant for anybody interested in Asia travels and colored plate books of the 19th century.KlappentextFirst quality reprint of this famous travelogue. Relevant for anybody interested .

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (22.5 x 14 cm). pp.iv+367. Rebound in early pale green cloth over matching boards, spine lettered in gilt. Folding map frontispiece, 12 colour lithographed plates including 2 long colour-lithographed panoramas of the Kashmir Valley (56 cm) and Lé (50 cm), and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Light rubbing to binding, some light toning and occasional light spotting, last leaf becoming partially loose, one small instance of worming to back pastedown, generally a very good copy in an unusual early binding. First edition of Lieut. Col. Henry D. Torrens' account of his travels in the Trans-Himalayan regions of present-day northern India. The work is illustrated with dozens of chromolithographic and wood-engraved ethnographic portraits and landscape views. The large panoramic folding plates show views of "Kashmir Valley from Soleiman's Seat to Nishat Bach" and "Lè [Leh], from the Palace.to the Valley of the Indus." The folding map traces "the Course of the Hindostan and Thibet Road from Kalka in the Plains to Shipkee on the borders of China.".…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 367, [1]; folding frontispiece map, 12 colored lithographs including two folding panoramas (one with a small tear at the guard), numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; contemporary brown pebble-grain cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; errata slip not preserved, the whole lightly rubbed, ex-College of Missions, Indianapolis, with bookplate on front pastedown; all else very good and sound. Yakushi T192 calling for two maps, in error.…