Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas by MacIntyre, Major-General Donald - 1889

Edinburgh.: Blackwood.. New Edition.. 1891.. 2 photographic plates with keys printed on tissue guards, four full page sepia tinted illustrations, numerous engravings, xviii + 362pp and 24 pages of publisher's adverts dated 4/91 at the rear. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, light age toning to preliminaries, extremities little rubbed, head and tail of spine abraded and spine badly mottled, however a firm and clean ex-library copy stamped in gilt on the rear cover with the insignia of the Caledonian United Services Club. Yakushi M23. .

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 8vo. original decorated brown cloth gilt (endpapers renewed, a little rubbed with occ. small nicks/splits in cloth (neatly repaired), prev. owner's name to half-title, light offsetting, else clean & bright); pp. xx, 464, 24 (pubs. advts), with 35 illustrations, inc. a coloured frontispiece. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. Hardcover. Fine. New Edition - with index. 8vo, pictorial blue cloth, a fine copy, seemingly unread (some pages unopened along the top edge, hinges perfect, armorial bookplate. Illustrated with engraved plates plus phototypes with overlays identifying various creatures. Lovely copy of this rare book.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889, First edition. . original brown pictorial cloth with gilt mountain sheep in decorative border, gilt spine title lettering, spine ends chipped & worn, corner wear, internal hinges repaired, faint blindstamp on title margin & cancelled libr bookplate on verso, good, copy. . 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xx, 464, 24 [publisher's catalogue] pp, fine color lithographed (chromolithograph) frontis, tissue guard, 8 plates from drwgs and photo with tissue guards (one with letterpress key), other engraved illus, complete. . Yakushi, M23: 'The author traveled from Srina -gar to Leh, and then to Chang Chenmo, Lingzi-tang in 1871'. Interesting descriptions of the peoples, their customs, cities, religion, and of nature including tiger, bear, mahseer, pheasant, partridge, jurrow, leopard, hog, musk-deer, ibex, swamp-deer, elephant, surrow, stag, yak, ovis ammon, goa, burrell, hunting and fishing, Goorkas, etc. Extensive travels including Cashmere… Read More

Edinburgh & London: Blackwoods, 1889. First edition. Colored frontispiece, 3 photographic & 5 other plates, with numerous illustrations in the text. xx, 464.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown polished calf, gilt spine. Almost fine. First edition. Colored frontispiece, 3 photographic & 5 other plates, with numerous illustrations in the text. xx, 464.pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yakushi, M23; Czech (Asia) p. 131