HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON
HIMALAYAN JOURNALS
OR NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN BENGAL, THE SIKKIM AND NEPAL HIMALAYAS, THE KHASLA MOUNTAINSFirst Edition
Year: 1854
Size: 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6.2 inches)
Published by: John Murray. 1854.
Two volumes Set
2 chromolitho plates, 10 tinted litho plates (1 folding), 1 colour woodcut plate, 2 folding maps, 80 wood-engraved illustrations in text, xxvii,(1),408, xii,487,(1)pp., errata slip in each volume, 32pp. publisher's list dated January 1854 at end of vol.1., end papers with publisher's adverts. 8vo.
BINDING: Half leather over publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt vignette on front boards, spine in six compartments, green title label in second and fifth compartment, title in gilt, gilt decoration in other in other compartments.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a botanist, naturalist, and close friend of Charles Darwin, and for that reason this work has a focus on local flora, fauna, and other native plants. Hooker was one of the first naturalists to provide detailed written accounts of the plants of this region of the world.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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