Ambassade au Thibet et au Bhoutan

by Samuel Turner, - Samuel Davis, J. Castera

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Text volumes: contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt. Atlas: contemporary sheep-backed paper boards. First French edition of Turner's account of the embassy to Bhutan and Tibet: the first great western account of the region. Acting on Warren Hastings' orders, Samuel Turner's expedition was despatched with the aim of improving trans-Himalayan trade after the Nepal war. Turner's party, including the surgeon and botanist Dr Robert Saunders, set off from Calcutta in

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