Harkness, Henry A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry

Harkness, Henry A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo (24.7 x 15cm), contemporary half calf, rebacked, vi [2] 175 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, wear to corners, plates spotted, occasional spotting and a few marks to text [not in Abbey]; Marshall, William E. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India. History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in black (apparently one of several variant bindings), rebacked with original spine laid down, xx 271 pp., 18 autotype plates of which 14 from photographs, autotype map, illustrations in text, tips bumped and worn, first signature near detached; King, W. Ross. The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri Hills. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces ('Toda Woman' and 'Toda Man'), one further plate, gutta percha perished and text-block detached from binding, ink-stamps and pencil markings of the Clinton Hall Association, New York to pastedowns and title-page, scraps of paper adhering to front pastedown and free endpaper causing small hole in latter Qty: (3)