Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet

by Captain William Henry Knight

First edition.  London:  Richard Bentley, 1863  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Quarter red leatherbound, marbled covers have gilt at spine. 
• Boards show some wear, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are worn, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has gilt text and is worn with softened ends.  See photos.  
• Binding is fragile, with one loose leaf; rebound at some point with some signs of discreet repairs.  See photos. 
• New pastedowns and feps have some writing in pencil.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations are bright and clear, 17 plates, 9 of which are color lithographs; 28 in-text illustrations.  Some marginal toning, a little edgewear, a small chip to edge of plate facing pg. 176.  See photos.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, with some edgewear to a few sheets.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.1231

385 pages. 5 1/8 x 8 inches

First Edition, complete with all plates and illustrations.  Nine color plates drawn by the author, eight additional plates and 28 in-text illustrations (45 total).  Rebound, or recased, in quarter leather with marble boards; binding is fragile with one plate loose.  Interior is generally Very Good, with a few marginal smudges, a page turn-down at p. 347, some edgewear where gatherings are out of alignment.  Overall condition is Very Good Minus on account of the binding.  Copies of the First Edition with the Prayer Wheel plate facing page 200 are Very Scarce.

William Henry Knight was a Captain in England's Forty-Eighth Regiment.  This is his only known work.  Captain Knight journeyed through Kashmir and Tibet in 1860 in the company of another officer and a porter.  Having spent a year and a half in India with his regiment, he had managed to obtain a six months' leave of absence in order to escape the hot season and journey through the cool foothills of the Himalayas.  Knight's goal in this volume was to represent "a faithful picture of travels in regions where excursion trains are still unknown, and Travelers' Guides unpublished."

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