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Kulu: its beauties, antiquities and silver mines, including a trip over the Snowy Range and glaciers. By the author of “Notes on the Mineral Wealth of India” [i.e. J. Calvert]

CALVERT, John - C.E · 1873 · E. & F. N. Spon · 44 pictures

A traveller's survey of the Kulu valley in the western Himalaya, written by the mining engineer John Calvert and published in London by E. & F. N. Spon in 1873 for British readers interested in Indian minerals and scenery. The tinted lithographs show hill villages, timber-and-stone houses, forts on terraced slopes and processions of porters, with pale washes of ochre, green and grey useful for muted landscape backgrounds.

British Library · HMNTS 10055.cc.18. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library