Including Sinde and the Punjab
Travels in India, Including Sinde and the Punjab
Longman, Brown, Greens, and Longmans 1845.
First English edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publishers green straight grain decorative green cloth decorated in blind with gilt titles to the spine. 32 pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. Chromolithograph frontispieces to each vol., numerous woodcut illustrations mostly of Indians in costume to text, two folding tables. A near fine set, with slightest fading to spines and minor wear to the spine ends. Superficial splits to hinges but holding firm. An exceptionally bright, well preserved copy of a scarce work.
Published in the same year as the German edition, this travelogue by the Prussian army officer Leopold von Orlich (1804-1860) follows his travels to Afghanistan in 1842 in anticipation of he First Anglo-Afghan War, hoping to gain military experience with the British Army, but ultimately arriving to find the war already over. He then travelled in India and visited the court of the Maharaja of Punjab at Lahore, of which journey this is his account, before returning to Europe in 1843 and eventually settling in England.
Seldom seen in commerce, especially in such fresh condition as this.
PROVENANCE: Armorial bookplate of Charles Finch Foster (1806-1866), Mayor of Cambridge.
Stock ID: 47135
£3,000.00
