An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet;

TURNER Samuel (1800.)

£1500.00  [First Edition]

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Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet. To which are added, views taken on the spot by Lieutenant Samuel Davis and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medicinal by Mr. Robert Saunders. First edition. With a folding engraved map & 13 plates including a plan, extending specimens of the Umen and of the Uchen characters, in the language of Tibet, and one aquatint of the Yak after George Stubbs. 4to. Original calf, rubbed, with corners worn. Gilt border. Spine heavily worn. Both boards detached. Holland House Library bookplate. xxviii, 473pp. London, Bulmer,

Yakushi, T140.

Stock Code: 210653

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