780 - Asia - India - Burnes, Alexander. Travels in India and to Bukhara. 2 volumes in 1 volume. With 1 folded lithographic plate and 1 multi-folded colored lithographic map. Stuttgart and Tübingen, Cotta, 1835–1836. XII, 355; VIII, 361 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Contemporary-style half-leather binding with spine label and elaborate gilt lettering on the spine.

Asia - India - Burnes, Alexander. Travels in India and to Bukhara. 2 volumes in 1 volume. With 1 folded lithographic plate and 1 multi-folded colored lithographic map. Stuttgart and Tübingen, Cotta, 1835–1836. XII, 355; VIII, 361 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Contemporary-style half-leather binding with spine label and elaborate gilt lettering on the spine. Travels and Descriptions of Countries in Ancient and Modern Times, 3rd and 7th installments. - First German edition. - Engelmann I, 111 - Dinse 450 - Henze I, 413–415. - Sir Alexander Burnes (1805–1841), a prominent Scottish explorer of Asia, was the first European observer to travel from the Indus River across the Hindu Kush to Bukhara. “Through him, the first light was shed on the region between Kabul and the Amu Darya. His topographical surveys, supported by a series of latitude measurements, were compiled by J. Arrowsmith in June 1834 into a map of Central Asia that represents a significant advance—particularly in the depiction of the Hindu Kush—over earlier maps.” (Henze). Burnes was killed near Kabul during the Afghan uprising of 1841. — Title page stamped and numbered; endpapers slightly discolored by glue; plates slightly foxed. — A fine copy, decoratively bound. *