Lot 281 , Parks, Fanny - Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana, 1st edition, 2 vols, 8vo, original pictorial red cloth gilt, with 50

° Parks, Fanny - Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana, 1st edition, 2 vols, 8vo, original pictorial red cloth gilt, with 50 plates (including 20 chromolithographed or hand-coloured) by Sheikh Latif and others and a folding panorama, of the Himalayas, on three sheets, in a pocket to the rear of Vol. 1, Pelham Richardson, London, 1850 Note: Fanny Parks was the wife of a British customs official, arriving in India in 1822. Unlike the conventional colonial set, she became engrossed in the culture of India, often travelling independently.
£1,500-2,000

Condition:
Binding vg., clean tear lower l.h. title vol.1 neatly repaired, not on printing save P of publisher's name. Clean overall inside (just a few sm. spots), save vol. 2 at end, pp 495 to end (p.523) with light marginal dampmarks mostly top corners; e/ps. appear to have been renewed; v.sl. cloth split lower joint vol. 2. This is first edition, first printing.

Sold for £1,800