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Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler, [1888]. Presumed first edition, second or third issue, pp.[viii], 114, vii [publishers adverts]. A good used copy, front section loose, but still held by stitching. Both wrappers worn and frayed. Text clean. This scarce early issue of the first edition has the apostrophe before "Rickshaw" in the title on front wrapper, and full stops after the A. and H. of publishers name. Livingstone 40
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales. Indian Railway Library No.5.
by Kipling, Rudyard
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Proceedings of the Association for promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa [and] African Researches; [bound with] Proceedings...1792. [and] Elucidations of the African Geography; from the Communications of Major Houghton, and Mr. Magra; 1791. Compiled in 1793.
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London: printed by C. Macrae, 1790-1802. First edition Five parts in two volumes, 4to, pp.[xiv], 236, 24, 31, 2 folding maps; viii, 215, 6 folding maps. A very good set bound in contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked preserving original spine. Minor spotting to extremities. The African Association was founded in 1788 by a dozen titled Englishmen led by Sir Joseph Banks, with the purpose of exploring Africa and of furthering British trade and influence on the continent. This narrative of the proceedings was written by a member of the committee. This first edition is extremely scarce. Folding maps. Vol. I: - Sketch of the Northern Part of Africa: exhibiting the geographical information collected by The African Association. Compiled by J. Rennell 1790. Corrected 1793. - Sketch of Major Houghton's Track to Bambouk with his intended route to Timbuctoo. Vol. II: - The Route of Mr. Mungo Park, from Pisania on the River Gambia, to Silla, on the River Joliba, or Niger; with his return by the…
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Puteshestvie cherez Mongoliiu v Tibet, k stolitse Tale-lamy [A Journey across Mongolia to Tibet, and the Capital of the Dalai-Lama. Translated from the French]
by Huc, R.E., and Gabet, J
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Moscow: K.S. Henry, 1866. First edition in Russian, 8vo, pp.[ii], vi, 322, [ii]. A very good copy in later half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt. Slightly foxed throughout, a few ink stains. Red Chinese chop on title. Russian newspaper clipping (1880's) about Mongolia and Baikal bound in at end. The Russian translation of Huc and Gabet's account of their travels undertaken in 1844-46, first published in Paris in 1850 as Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine, which proved so popular that it was rapidly reprinted and translated into several European languages. Évariste Régis Huc (1813-1868), a French Lazarist missionary, was first sent to China in 1839, and went on to travel extensively in China, Tartary and Tibet. In 1844, with his fellow missionary Joseph Gabet (1808-c.1850), he was ordered to approach and study nomadic Mongol tribes. Assuming the dress of lamas they embarked on an 18-month voyage to Lhasa, and were the first Europeans to enter the…
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