AMBASSADE DE M. SAMUEL TURNER AUPRÈS DU TESCHOU-LAMA, AU THIBET ET OU BOUTAN
Turner, Samuel
Sold by Cedar Tree Antiques, Upland, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 3 May 2019
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Cedar Tree Antiques, Upland, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 3 May 2019
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketAMBASSADE DE M. SAMUEL TURNER AUPRÈS DU TESCHOU-LAMA, AU THIBET ET OU BOUTAN, Avec une Notice des événements qui s y sont passés jusqu e en 1793. Tome Premier. Translated from English and published in 1803 in Paris, with a large (21.5 cm x 26cm) fold-out map Asie par Hérisson by Beaublé fils from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and from Russia to Java Full calf with gilt title & ornaments to spine, 5 tall, 200 pages, marbled endpapers. Red ribbon page marker. No markings, no bookplates, no inscriptions. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright except for a few small spots of foxing. Front free endpaper has open tear at hinge. In fine condition, nearly pristine after more than 200 years. In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian trade across the Himalayas. Samuel Turner (1759 1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appointed leader of the mission. His journal, offering first-hand descriptions of these countries, was originally published in 1800 and remained the only such English-language work for more than half a century. Assisted by the botanist and surgeon Robert Saunders and the surveyor and illustrator Samuel Davis, Turner interweaves geographical and scientific observations with descriptions of social and religious customs; the vivid account of his reception by the infant Panchen Lama is of particular note. The introduction sketches the history of Bengal Bhutan relations and George Bogle's prior mission, while later sections deal with Tibet and the influence of China. This was and remains an invaluable account of eighteenth-century diplomacy. Cambridge University.
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