Western Himalaya and Tibet; a narrative of a journey through the mountains of northern India, during the years 1847-8
London: Reeve and Co., 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 501, [1]; wood-engraved vignette title page, 2 maps (1 folding), 2 tinted lithographs; later black cloth backed in black straight-grain morocco, gilt titled direct on spine; one plate with small wormhole in the margin and not touching any of the image and both plates a touch toned; very good, clean, and sound. "Thomson was a surgeon who joined A. Cunningham with H. Strachy in 1847-48. He was the first European to cross the Saser and the Karakoram Passes. The book contains the account of their exploration and of the physical features and vegetation of the districts passed through: Kashmir, Kadakh, Tibet, the Karakoram, the Kuen Lun mountains, etc." (Yakushi). Hedin later called Thomson's journey "one of the most important and successful ever undertaken against the secrets of the highest mountain land on earth" for its descriptions of routes into the Karakoram, and the Royal Geological Society awarded him its Gold Medal. Yakushi T-118. Item #67896
Price: $950.00
