Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6

2 Volume Set.

Publishers embossed covers with gilt embossed spines.

Colour page edges. Name and date on inside covers.

Second edition.

Volume I.

viii, 292 pages + 6 page publishers catalogue.

Frontispiece + title page with vignette.

Fold-out map of Tartary, Thibet, and China + in-text illustrations.

Volume II.

x, 304 pages + in-text illustrations.

Frontispiece + title page with "Budda" vignette.

A really lovely [scarce set] with beautiful and detailed illustrations.

Évariste Régis Huc was a French Catholic of the Vincentian order.

He was stationed in Macao where he studied Chinese in

preparation for his missionary work. In 1844 Huc, and a fellow missionary

Joseph Gabet, accompanied by a Tibetan lama who converted to Catholicism

set out on an expedition to study the Tartars, Mongols, Tibetans, and other tribes

that were under his missions jurisdiction. It was essentially a fact finding mission

but was cut short by Ki-Shan who represented the Chinese authorities in Lhasa.

The account of their journey provided a wealth of knowledge on vast areas

previously unknown in the west. 

Shipping weight 1000g.

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