MARKHAM, Colonel Fred. Shooting in the Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c. Frontispiece and seven lithographic plates, engraved title, folding map, woodcuts throughout. 8vo., bound in half red morocco over marbled boards. Some rubbing at extremities, lacking front fly, else a very attractive copy. London: Richard Bentley, 1854.

An acceptable copy of one of the earliest books on hunting in the Himalayas : musk, deer, ibex, bear, gerow, tapir, etc. Markham records the experiences of hunting and natives' customs in the Indian borderlands, Tibet and the Himalayas, travelling from 1846 to 1852.