TORRENS (Lieut.-Col Henry D.)

Travels in Ladak, Tartary, and Kashmir.

Second edition. Coloured chromo-lithographic frontispiece, 2 panoramas, and 9 plates with a folding map and with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Bright original red cloth, richly gilt spine, recased. iv, 367pp. London, Saunders, 1863.

£800.00

A most attractively illustrated narrative of the western Himalayas, unusual for the use of chromo-lithography.

Writing from Simla, Torrens comments [that] “*you, my readers, will have yawned or laughed over, been bored or amused, by the perusal of my narrative long before the publication will meet its author’s eyes.”*

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