Author: RISLEY, H.H.
Title: The Gazetteer of Sikhim.
Description: Virendra Kumar for Manjusri Publishing House, 1972 (1894). Facsimile reprint. Hardcover 4to. B/W illus. and plate. This is No. 262 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. One plate removed (small tear) but included, some tape marks to covers, a little fraying to head of spine, some wear to internal front hinge, some rubbing and fraying to corners, otherwise good. Part of the Bibliotheca Himalayica Series I Volume 8. Includes a detailed list of Sikhim birds, butterflies, religion, social customs, geology, vegetation, reptiles etc. 392pp.

Keywords: india indian social ethnography history historical 19th nineteenth century sikhim himalaya himalayas himalayan culture cultural biology buddhism lamaism ornithology