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Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1865. First edition, published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume XXXIV, Part I, No.II; pp.(71)-79, ten mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 6.5 cm. Whole issue present. A very good copy in later card wrappers, original front wrapper bound in. Photographs a little faded. Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923) joined the Kashmir Survey in 1857 and made several expeditions into Ladakh until 1863 when he was seconded to Bhutan. He probably observed this performance on his second season in 1858, though he passed again through Hemis on a climbing expedition in 1862. "G-A was a great explorer and probably the greatest mountaineer of his day... he was also an artist of considerable talent" - Mason, Abode of Snow. These photographs were taken at the monastery of Hemis (3800 metres) by Captain Alexander Brodie Melville, a keen amateur photographer, who also served with the Survey of Kashmir. They are amongst the earliest to be taken in…
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Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c.
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