Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission. Calcutta and London: Office Of The Superintendent of Government Printing, 1878-91. Introduction plus 14 parts, bound in 2 volumes, publisher's brown cloth, with fascicle title pages bound in. 12 3/4 x 10 inches (26 x 33 cm); consists of the following parts: Hume, A. O. (1891) Introductory Note and Map; vii, [1] pp, fold-out map to 100 x 70 cm; Part 1: Ball, V. (1886) Memoir of the Life and Work of Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D.; 36 pp.; Part 2: Blanford, W. T. (1879) Mammalia. Twelve hand-col. lith. plates by J. Smit, 7 hand-col. lith. plates by J. G. Keulemans, and 10 uncol. lith. plates; iv + 94 pp. Part 3: Sharpe, R. B. (1891) Aves. Fifteen hand-col. lith. plates by J. G. Keulemans, 7 by W. Hart, and 2 by J. Smit; xviii + 153 pp. Part 4: Moore, F. (1879) Lepidoptera. One hand-col. lith. plate by A. G. Butler; 18 pp. Part 5: Bates, H. W.; Baly, J. S.; Sharp, D.; Janson, O; and Bates, F. (1890) Coleoptera. One uncol. lith. plate by Purkiss and one uncol. lith. plate by E. Wilson; 79 pp. Part 6: F. Smith (1878) Hymenoptera; one hand-col. lith. plate by E. A. Smith; 22 pp. Part 7: McLachlan, R. (1878) Neuroptera. Text figs.; 6 pp. Part 8: Distant, W. L. (1879) Rhynchota. One uncol. lith. plate by H. F. Rippon; 15 pp. Part 9: Cambridge, O. P. (1885) Araneidea. Two uncol. lith. plates by T. West; 115 pp. Part 10: Nevill, G. (1878) Mollusca. One uncol. lith. plate by R. Mintern; 21 pp. Part 11: Day, F. (1878) Ichthyology. Three uncol. lith. plates by C. Achilles, one by C. L. Griesbach, and one uncol. lith. plate by B. Mintern; 25 pp. Part 12: Blanford, W. T. (1878) Reptilia and Amphibia. Two uncol. lith. plates by R. Mintern; 26 pp. Part 13: Blanford, W. T. (1878) Geology. Text figs.; 49 pp. Part 14 Duncan, P. M. (1879) Syringosphaeridae. Three uncol. lith. plates by A. S. Foord; 17 pp. Some wear to bindings, minor wear to a few protruding edges of wrappers. The Forbes Library copy with their bookplates, the plates with the Forbes Library stamp.

Of the 71 plates, 45 are hand-colored, of which 24 are of birds. The work includes all of the species obtained by Henderson during the first Yarkand expedition, and therefore deals with materials from both expeditions, despite the title. The contributors include Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Allan Hume, W.T. Blanford, H.W. Bates, and many others. Yakushi (1994) has many entries for the work, listed under each part under the contributor above; Anker 465; Zimmer p.580.