Calcutta [Kolkata], The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1836. 8vo (23.1 x 14.6 cm). 12 pp.; one lithographed plate of a new falcon. Original printed wrappers.

Two papers by the British explorer and zoologist Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 [or 1801]-1894). The first paper, with a fine lithograph, introduces two new genera within Falconidae, with two, also new, type species. The mammalian paper contains several new species, including a new cat and a new lynx. Published back-to-back in the Society's Journal, No. 52, with several unrelated papers, including one other on mammals, viz., Note on the Cervus Duvaucelii of Cuvier orC. Elaphoides and Bahraiya of Hodgson(3 pp.; several figures). "Hodgson was for many years British Resident in Katmandu, where he described or collected over 120 species of birds new to science. To document his discoveries, he trained a team of Nepalese artists to produce watercolour plates for a projected work on the birds of the Himalayas. Though this was never completed, the superb collection of paintings remains, and is now in the possession of the Zoological Society of London" (Cocker and Inskipp). Uncut. Spine cover abraded; stamp on front wrapper, otherwise very good, clean. Cocker, M. and C. Inskipp (1988). A Himalayan Ornithologist: The Life and Work of Brian Houghton Hodgson.