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COLONEL SIR SIDNEY GERALD BURRARD (1860-1943) AND SIR HENRY HAYDEN
A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1907. 4 vols., 4° (307 x 230mm). 52 charts and plates, many of these printed in colours, and one large folding map of the Himalayas. With the printed ticket in Part IV instructing the binder to discard the Part III index. (Occasional light marginal wear.) Original drab printed wrappers (some repair to the spines, some even browning, light soiling). In a custom blue cloth box. Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh (cover stamps) -- 'A.B.' (small pictorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, IN PARTS AND IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, complete with the gathering of preliminaries to be used when binding the parts into one volume, instructions to the binder and both versions of the index. Burrard and Hayden's work surveys and summarizes the extensive and sometimes contradictory information which had been gathered on the area since the 1807 expedition to establish the source of the Ganges. (4)
A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1907. 4 vols., 4° (307 x 230mm). 52 charts and plates, many of these printed in colours, and one large folding map of the Himalayas. With the printed ticket in Part IV instructing the binder to discard the Part III index. (Occasional light marginal wear.) Original drab printed wrappers (some repair to the spines, some even browning, light soiling). In a custom blue cloth box. Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh (cover stamps) -- 'A.B.' (small pictorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, IN PARTS AND IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, complete with the gathering of preliminaries to be used when binding the parts into one volume, instructions to the binder and both versions of the index. Burrard and Hayden's work surveys and summarizes the extensive and sometimes contradictory information which had been gathered on the area since the 1807 expedition to establish the source of the Ganges. (4)
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