White’s account of service in Sikhim and Bhutan at the turn of the 19th/20th century

£400.00

White, John Claude, C.I.E.: SIKHIM & BHUTAN. Twenty-one Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908. Edward Arnold [London] 1909 1st edition large 8vo [10½ x 7 ins].

Folding map, photogravure frontispiece portrait, 40 plates [all as called for], xix, 332pp. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, a few marks to cloth. mainly to rear board, but generally a very clean copy, the pages clean apart from a little occasional foxing, and the map neatly folded. 20th century bookplate to front pastedown but no other ownership marks.  jan10/1

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