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Lot No. 13: HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON

HIMALAYAN JOURNALS

  • Medium: Printed Book
  • Year: 1854
  • Size: 9 x 6.2 inches
  • Place: London

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 1,00,000 -  2,00,000


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1200-2400

Ends at Mar 27, 2025 07:12 PM IST

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HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON

HIMALAYAN JOURNALS

OR NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN BENGAL, THE SIKKIM AND NEPAL HIMALAYAS, THE KHASLA MOUNTAINS

First 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
Good Condition
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