₹90,000
This work includes “description of the rocks in the Ganges and Sutlej, the Keeree pass, Hardwar, Mussoorie, Jamnotri, Gangotri, Nahaun, including an account of the ascent of Choor” (Kaul 751). The exquisite plates depict various scenes of the Ganges River, the Snowy Range of the Himalayas, Gungootree, the Sacred Source of the Ganges, and the Valley of the Dhoon. George Francis White (1808-98) served in the British Army, and was in India with the 31st Regiment of Foot from 1825-46. He fought in the Sutlej campaign of 1846 including the battles of Mudki and Ferozeshah. White was a skillful amateur artist and many of his drawings were engraved. Robert Burford used his drawings for a panorama of the Himalayas exhibited at Leicester Square in 1847.
First Edition. Contains 37 Steel engravings.
Binding: Half Leather bound in grey and marbled boards with raised bands and text on spine.
Condition: Sporadic foxing on a few pages but overall a clean copy with fine binding.
Exportable: No
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