Search Results: Travels In Tartary, Thibet and China During the … by M Huc

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: 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 one hundred engravings on wood." Folding map. Photographs available on request.

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 marbled boards. Two volumes bound in one. With a frontispiece, illustrated title page and numerous vignette illustrations in both volumes. Alongside a folding map in volume one. A popular nineteenth century travel account of Huc's travels throughout China, Mongolia and Tibet. It was first published in Paris in 1850, and went on to have many editions and translations. Évariste Régis Huc was a French Catholic priest, missionary and traveller. He is best known for his travel accounts of Asia and for being the first European, alongside his companion Joseph Gabet, to reach Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812. Translated from the French by W. Hazlitt.… Read More