[VOYAGES AND TRAVELS]. SHERRING, Charles A. (1868-1940). Western Tibet and british Borderland. The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists... London: Edward Arnold, 1906. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates and intertextual illustrations plus 5 maps and sketchs, two of which are folding. 376 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, boards double-ruled in blind, front board and spine stamped in gilt.

Spine lightly toned, some rubbing to edges, endleaves offset, some occasional thumbsoiling or foxing, edge of text-block a bit foxed, a few gutters overopened, slightly skewed. Still, bright and fine. FIRST EDITION. "The author's account of the exploration in Garhwal and Ladakh accompanied by T.G.Longstaff in 1905, with a chapter by Longstaff, describing an attempt to climb Gulra Mandhata. The most serious book on that region..." (Yakushi S421).