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HUNTER (Sir William Wilson)
Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson, British Resident at the Court of Nepal, Member of the Institute of France...&c.
1st Ed., ix+390pp., portrait frontis., 7 other plates. Murray.
1896.
#39283
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Detailed biog. from formative years at Haileybury to service with the ICS commencing in 1818: Assistant Commissioner in Kumaon 1818-1820, Assistant Resident at Katmandu 1820-29, Resident 1829-44. He was an accomplished student & scholar of the literature, religion & language of Nepal & "kept Nipal quiet during the first Afghan War, but Lord Ellenborough hastily removed him... whereupon he resigned the service." - Buckland. Orig. green cloth, VG ex-lib.
£65
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STARR (Lilian A.)
Tales of Tirah & Lesser Tibet.
1st Ed., 253pp., portrait frontis., 7 illus., map. H&S.
1923.
#46360
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Work at the Frontier Hospital at Peshawaur, travel in Tibet in 1922 & the dramatic mission in Tirah to rescue Miss Ellis, a captured Englishwoman. VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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