CAPTAIN MELVILLE CLARK

'Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladakh, Zaskar & c.' published in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society. Part I, No. II, Calcutta: C.B. Lewis, 1865

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CAPTAIN MELVILLE CLARK
'Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladakh, Zaskar & c.' published in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society. Part I, No. II, Calcutta: C.B. Lewis, 1865
Comprising ten half stereo albumen prints, illustrating the above article by Capt. H.H. Godwin-Austin, mounted two-per-page, printed text, printed paper wrappers (part disbound), 8vo.

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The photographs in this journal are by Captain Alexander Brodie Melville and not Capt. Melville Clark as printed in the catalogue.

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These photographs were produced by Melville-Clark during his travels in Ladakh in 1861 and are believed to be the earliest photographs taken there. He also produced an account of his travels in his book From Simla through Ladac and Cashmere, published in 1862.

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