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RISLEY, Herbert Hope.
The Gazetteer of Sikhim.
With an Introduction … Edited in the Bengal Government Secretariat.
Publisher: Calcutta, Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894
Stock code: 46704
Price: £3,500 Currency Conversion
First edition. Uncommon and authoritative account of Sikkim, covering history, agriculture, natural history and geology, with a special paper of "Lamaism in Sikhim" by L. A. Waddell, author of Lhasa and its Mysteries. Print-run of just 500 copies. A region once controlled by the British, bordering Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan; historically Sikkim had been a de facto protectorate of British India since the Treaty of 1861, and continued as such through India's independence in 1950. However, this former separate Himalayan kingdom became part of the Republic of India, as their twenty-second state, on May 16, 1975.
Quarto, original brown ochre cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt decoration. Two coloured folding maps in a pocket to the upper board, 21 plates, many of them folding. Slightly rubbed and soiled, some chipping at the spine, light marginal browning, but overall a very good copy in deed.
