Travel
OLIPHANT, Laurence.
A journey to Katmandu (the capital of Nepaul) with the camp of Jung Bahadoor; including a sketch of the ambassador at home.
Murray, London 1852. First edition. Small 8vo., x, 214pp., frontispiece map, contemporary blue half calf gilt, red morocco label, an excellent copy.
A rare account of Nepal. Oliphant spent some of his early years in Ceylon, where his father was chief justice. In 1851 he was invited by Jung Bahadur to join a hunting excursion in Nepal, and it is this trip that forms the basis of the present work. Yakushi O20.
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