Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1292
  • 1292

Turner, Samuel

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet, containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet. London: printed by W. Bulmer... and sold by Messrs. G. and W. Nicol, 1800
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FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 4to (330 x 252mm.), xxviii, 474pp., engraved folding map, 13 engraved plates, polished calf by Bedford, full gilt spine, red and dark green labels, gilt borders and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, plates spotted and offset onto text

Provenance

John Naylor, armorial bookplate

Literature

Yakushi (1994) T277a

Catalogue Note

The first eye-witness account of Tibet and Bhutan in English and the only account available in English until 1876. The purpose of the mission was to promote British-Indian trade across the Himalayas.