South Asia.- White (J. Claude) Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908, first edition, half-title, plates, 7 photogravure with tissue guards, 2 printed in red and black, one folding, folding map at rear, browning to endpapers, upper hinge neatly repaired, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light rubbing and bumping to spine tips and corners, light marking to lower cover, an excellent example, 8vo, 1909.

⁂ The author was Sikkim's first Political Officer; he accompanied Younghusband on his mission to Lhasa in 1903-04 and subsequently became Political Officer for Bhutan and part of Tibet.