Lot 85: Henderson and Hume's Lahore to Yarkand, with bird plates by Keuelemans

HENDERSON, GEORGE and HUME, ALLAN OCTAVIAN

Lahore to Yarkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870... London: L. Reeve, 1873. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth with monogram in gilt on upper cover. 10 x 6 1/4 inches (25 x 15.5 cm); xvi, 370 pp., 16 pp. adverts.; 16 heliotype plates, 32 hand-colored lithographed ornithological plates by J. G. Keulemans, 6 hand-colored lithographed botanical plates, 3 geological plates (2 hand-colored), and a folding hand-colored engraved map. A clean copy, some fraying to the head of the spine and wear to the foot, internally virtually free of foxing. Bookplate of Alfred Scott-Gatty.

Forsyth's expedition to Chinese Turkestan traveled two thousand miles, crossing Ladakh and the Tibetan Highlands. Detailed observations were made along the route, as recorded here. Yakushi H236.