Lepcha land or six weeks in the Sikhim Himalayas . With a map showing route, and 106 illustrations. Photographs by P. and F. Donaldson.

DONALDSON, Florence Annesley.

Verlag: London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900., 1900

Beschreibung

8vo, pp. xii, 213, [1]; with a frontispiece, 23 plates, and a folding map, numerous illustrations in the text; a little light foxing to frontispiece and title, plate facing p. 92 loose; overall very good in original pictorial blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in black and with blocked vignette, top edge gilt; some wear to extremities and light marks to covers; ink inscription to front free endpaper 'Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker GCSI Christmas 1900?.First edition, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's copy. 'In this account of what may best be described as a prolonged picnic in one of the byways of the Himalayas where Time still walks on crutches I have attempted no description of the flora and fauna of a country which, though it offers few facilities for sport, boasts a marvellously luxuriant vegetation, and is said to possess a hundred different species of orchid . The following pages written at the request of friends are only intended to describe a journey among new and interesting surroundings, undertaken in 1891 just after a fresh awakening on the part of the Indian Government to the political importance of Sikhim' (Preface).Provenance: inscribed (perhaps by the author?) to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist and explorer, friend of Charles Darwin, and long-serving director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (the inscription is not in Hooker's own hand). NLS, Mountaineering l083; Robinson, Wayward Women, p. 208; Yakushi D144. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers T5058.141

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lepcha land or six weeks in the Sikhim ...

Verlag: London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage