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Cumming, C. F. Gordon

In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains

1886

185,18 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1886
Luogo di stampa
London. Chatto and Windus
Autore
Cumming, C. F. Gordon
Soggetto
Travel - Asia
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

8vo [20 x 14 cm]; xii, 608 pp, 42 illustrations including 14 full-page plates, frontis, all wood-engraved, index. full prize calf with gilt crest on front cover, gilt border, gilt lettering on red leather label, marbled edges & endpapers, prize bookplate on endpaper, edges rubbed, spine edges worn, joint repaired, tissue guard torn but a good copy, clean. A picture o Kaul 483. A detailed and well-illustrated work, describes Calcutt and festivals, railway journeys, the Ganges, Hindu pilgrims, travels to Cawnpore, Lucknow, Agra, Muttra, Bindrabund, Delhi, Meerut, Simla, Cashmere, the aboriginal hill tribes, camp life, natural history, animals, plants of the Himalayas, Chinese Tartary, Umballa, Massourie, Hardwar, Benares, many other places, the people, customs, art, architecture, tribal life, etc. The bookplate is from Bishop Ridley College in St. Catherines.