Book Joseph Dalton Hooker. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. London, John Murray, 1854. Two volumes. First edition.2 chromolitho plates, 10 tinted litho plates (1 folding), one colour woodcut plate, 2 folding maps, 80 wood-engraved illustrations in text, xxvii,(1),408, xii,487,(1)pp., errata slip in each volume, 32pp. publisher's list dated January 1854 at end of vol.1., endpapers with publisher's adverts. 8vo., publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt vignette on front boards. Spines light-faded, with some light chipping at ends, now neatly patched. There is a little foxing to the preliminary pages of both volumes, and very occasionally elsewhere, but generally a very good set.