Travels In Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6

New York [1928], Harper. Red cloth, very good, 2 vols., 387+ 406p., index, appendix, map. Edited by Sir E. Denison Ross & Eileen Power, Broadway Travellers series. See Yakushi H249c. Gabet and Huc, Lazarists attached to the mission of Si-Wang, were dispatched to examine the nature & extent of the Apost- olic Vicariat established by the Pope in 1844. They… Read more about this item

London n.d. [c.1852], National. Illustrated. Library. Orange cloth, 293+304p., 98 wood engravings, very good, spine and corners bit rubbed, contents clean. Yakushi H249. SCARCE Gabet and Huc, Lazarists attached to the mission of Si-Wang, were dispatched to examine the nature & extent of the Apost- olic Vicariat established by the Pope in 1844. They suffered incredible hardships and dangers, and… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Nelson, 1856 A very good professionally rebound copy, with b&w illstns and fold-out map. Square bindings, foxing in some pages, owner's name stamp in front and rear endpapers.

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library , 1852. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5" . Not Stated. Huc's popular travel account of China, Tibet and Mongolia, with beautiful engravings throughout. The early National Illustrated Library Edition. Dated from the National Library of Scotland. In a half calf binding with gilt detail and… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1856. Third Edition . Hardcover. Good. A good plus copy in blind-stamped boards lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine. Rear board a little marked. Small ex libris plate on front fixed end-paper. Neatly hand-written presentation label dated 1859 fixed to verso of frontispiece. Pp.xii,576. Frontispiece. Title page vignette. "Illustrated with… Read more about this item