[BRITISH INDIA] TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD: EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY HIS SON RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE

Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim and Nepal.

London. W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1887. First Edition. Stock ID #215585

Two volumes. Two coloured folding maps, coloured frontispiece in each volume, profusely illustrated (some plates in colour), original tipped-in photographic portrait of Sir Salah Jung (without the specimen handwriting), two panoramic sketches from the Takht-I-Sulaiman. Volume I: xxvii + 314pp; Volume II: (viii) + 303pp. Original mint green cloth covered boards ruled and decorated in black, spines lettered in gilt (head of spine to Vol I strengthened), cloth a little worn and dusty, hinges tender but holding, a few gatherings unopened, top edges uncut, a good set of this handsome first edition. With the book tickets of noted collector and bibliographer Benton L. Hatch and bookplates of Vernon Howard, Californian bookseller and mountaineer in each volume. 22.5 x 14 cm.

A descriptive illustrated guide and history drawn from the memoirs of British colonial administrator, Sir Richard Temple (1826-1902), Governor of Bombay from 1877 to 1880, and from his extensive travels throughout Kashmir, Sikkim and Nepal over almost thirty years. Edited by his Indian-born son Richard Carnac Temple, an amateur anthropologist and, in his later career, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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