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Temple, Sir Richard, With Introduction By Richard Carnac Temple

Journals Kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim and Nepal

1887

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Year of publication
1887
Place of printing
London. W. H. Allen & Co.
Author
Temple, Sir Richard, With Introduction By Richard Carnac Temple
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xxvii, 314; [viii], 303, [ii, ads of author's works] pp, 13 lithograph plates including color, mounted Woodbury photo plate, 7 colored maps, mostly folding, the colored lithograph (chromolithograph) frontis's are quite fine. original decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, bookplate on endpaper, spines a little used else a fine and clean set, a complete set with the half-title page in each volume. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on the author's extensive travels in the area, he describes the politics at the court of the Nizam of Hyderbad in 1867-68, and provides a narrative of his several journeys in the area between 1859 and 1886. The appendix is of place names in English and local language, glossary of vernacular terms, detailed index. Yakushi T63a.