HOFFMEISTER, Werner. - Travels in Ceylon and continental India; including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas, to the borders of Thibet, with some notes of the overland route. Translated from the German.

Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1848. Original embossed cloth with gilt illustration of front cover (spine ends restored). With 2 folding maps. XII,527 pp. First edition; first published in Braunschweig in 1847 Briefe aus Indien. - Personal letters to friends by the doctor who accompanied Prince Waldemar of Prussia on his vist to Kathmandu during Febr.-March, 1845 and to Shipki in August (Yakushi p.190). Much of the text details the countryside and peoples (Czech 106). With appendices: I. Addressed to Baron von Humboldt, On the geographical distribution of coniferae on the Himalayan mountains. II. On the vegetation of the Himalayan mountains. III. The birds of the Himalayan mountains. Aschoff p.173.

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