ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH
Wanderings of a Naturalist in India, the Western Himalayas, and Cashmere. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1867. First edition. Contemporary green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. 8 x 5 1/4 inches; xi, 333 pp.; frontispiece with tissue guard, half-title. Some wear to extremities, one or two stray marks to covers, binding cracked but holding, short tear to tissue guard near mount, lightly and evenly toned throughout, binders ticket to rear pastedown.
"Adams, a noted naturalist, describes India's abundance of wild life, with early emphasis on birds. He does, however, includes [sic] a variety of hunting vignettes such as stalking deer and bear in the Pirjal, ibex in Kashmir, and wild sheep in the western tracts of the Himalayas" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 4; Yakushi A23.