Baikie, Robert | Smoult, W. H. (ed.)

Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions, and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution.

Calcutta, printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1834. 8vo. xvi + 136 pp. + 6 hand-coloured lithographed views + 2 lithographed plates (one hand-coloured) + 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates (plants) + 2 folding lithographed maps + 1 folding lithographed plan (partly hand-coloured) + 31 partly hand-coloured maps (routes). Contemporary cloth-backed boards, joints partly cracked. First edition. The edition of this attractively produced book was limited to 500 copies (289 subscribed by residents in Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies). Pp. 129-36 contain “A List of Plants gathered on the Neilgherries, particularly in the environs of Ootacamund” by the Rev. Mr. Schmid. A second edition appeared in Calcutta in 1857.

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• nº de pedido: 00591

• librero: Lowendahl Rare Books Ltd (THAILAND)