Baikie, Robert
Observations on the Neilgherries
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
including an account of their Topography, Climate, Soil and Productions, and of the Effects of the Climate on the European Constitution. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1834. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century library cloth, gilt edges, xiv [2] 136 pp., 34 lithographic maps (coloured in outline, 3 folding), 11 lithographic plates including ethnographic and botanical subjects and views (all but one hand-coloured), tissue-guards, text-leaves toned, bookplate of the Oriental Club library, related ink-stamps to title-page and p. iii, frontispiece loosening with paper-disruption and small tape-repair in gutter, shallow chip to fore-edge of title-page folding maps slightly offset, large folding map with tape-repairs verso, occasional light spotting to non-folding maps [not in Abbey]
Footnote
Note: One of 500 copies according to the preface.