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TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR
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TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR - 1863

by Torrens, Henry D

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London, 1863.. iv,367pp. including numerous in-text illustrations, plus chromolithographic frontispiece, eleven additional chromolithographic plates (two folding), and one folding map. Errata slip following p. iv. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt morocco labels. Calf rubbed, worn at joints and extremities. Very good. Second 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."
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  • Title TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASHMIR
  • Author Torrens, Henry D
  • Date 1863.
  • Bookseller's Inventory # WRCAM38589

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