A Journey to Katmandu (The Capital of Nepaul), With the Camp of Jung Bahadoor; Including a Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home.
New York. D. Appleton & Company. 1852. Hardcover. 12mo, 17.2cm, first US edition, xii,[-13]-242,6]p., publisher's ads., frontis map, in the original red cloth with publisher's ad on the rear cover and with title reprinted in frame border on the upper cover stamped in black, expertly re-sewn and rebacked in red cloth with new paper label, internal private library stamps, endpapers light library pocket staining else a very good sound copy (trds). ~ In 1851, he accompanied Jung Bahadur from Colombo to Nepal, which provided the material for his first book, A Journey to Katmandu (1852). Oliphant returned to Ceylon and from there went to England to study law. He left his legal studies to travel in Russia. The outcome of that tour was his book "The Russian Shores of the Black Sea" (1853). A rare account of Nepaul, the Author states in his preface "that no work upon Nepaul has been published in this Country that I am aware of since Dr. Hamilitons" (1819). Oliphnant went on to act as Private Secretary to Lord Macartney on his Embassy to China. Appleton's Popular Library (series). Item #38756
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