London, Adam And Charles Black, 1909. In 8 With 70 color plates protected by tissue paper by the painter Major E. Molyneux, 1 finely folded paper, slight marginal bloom, editorial binding in canvas, title imprinted in gold on the front plate within rich color border that is repeated on the back, slight defects. Signature of belonging to the guard card.

** First edition of this account of the explorations of valleys and passes in Leh, Ladakh and Kashmir written by Sir Francis Younghusband (1863-1942), journalist, officer, explorer and President of the Royal Geographical Society of London.