First edition of this fine selection of views. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) went to Calcutta in 1813 to join the family Agency firm of Becher and Fraser and remained there until 1820. In 1815, he joined his brother William, who, as a Political Agent to General Martingale, was taking part in the Nepal War: they therefore planned an expedition into the Garwhal Hills towards the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges. Bewildered by the scenery, which reminded him of his native Highlands, James started making numerous landscape sketches, which he reworked on his return to Calcutta in 1816. In 1820, he published his Journal of a Tour through part of the Himala mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges, which supplies the background to the present 20 drawings engraved by Robert Havell and published by Rodwell and Martin on 1 June 1820 as Views in the Himala Mountains. Abbey Travel 498.