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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals: Or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, & c., London: John Murray, 1854

(Set of 2 Volumes)
Volume I: xxvii; [3]; 408 pages including 4 colour lithographic plates and 45 black and white wood-engraved in-text illustrations along with 2 black and white folded maps at the end
Volume II: xii; 487 pages including 12 coloured lithographic plates; 35 wood-engraved in-text illustrations
Original pictorial gilt stamped plum cloth with new gilt text leather spine with four raised bands and new endpapers (each)
22 x 15 x 4 cm (each)

Hooker dedicated this work to Charles Darwin. He was a friend of Charles Darwin, and supported his theories.

With a great desire to travel and having inherited a great enthusiasm for botany from his father, Hooker was lucky to be able to indulge both passions from an early age. From 1848 to 1851, with the support of the British government, Hooker traveled throughout the eastern and central Himalayas, collecting botanical specimens and exploring areas not previously visited by Europeans. On his return was able to secure funding from the government in order to write up his journals and to catalogue the collected flora and disseminate the duplicated specimens.

Reference: J R Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 502

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