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TURNER (SAMUEL)
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, FIRST EDITION, G. and W. Nicol, 1800

1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TURNER (SAMUEL)

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, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map, 13 engraved plates (one folding), some browning and spotting, light ?tea stain on pp.6/7, map with small marginal tears repaired, modern half calf preserving original marbled boards [Cordier Sinica 2909; Löwendahl 711; Lust 208; Yakushi T277a], 4to, G. and W. Nicol, 1800

Footnotes

First edition of the first eye-witness report on Tibet and Bhutan to be published in English. Samuel Turner, an army officer in the East India Company, led Warren Hasting's mission to the countries in 1783 and 1784. His "account of carefully observed conditions in Tibet and Bhutan, their forms of government, religious customs, trade, and topography, has stood the test of time and remained a source of great value" (ODNB). The plates are mostly views after drawings by Turner and the expedition's surveyor Samuel Davis, and an image of the Bhutanese yak that Turner successfully shipped alive back to Hastings, where it was painted by George Stubbs.

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