Item #40239 Across Thibet: Being a Translation of "De Paris au Tonking [sic] a travers le Tibet inconnu". By Gabriel Bonvalot. With illustrations from photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans. Translated by C. B. Pitman. Gabriel BONVALOT.

Across Thibet: Being a Translation of "De Paris au Tonking [sic] a travers le Tibet inconnu". By Gabriel Bonvalot. With illustrations from photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans. Translated by C. B. Pitman.

New York. Cassell Publishing Company. c1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tall8vo, 24cm, the First US edition of the English Translation by C.B.Pitman. xiv,417p., with 106 illustrations, including frontis. portrait, coloured folding map in front pocket, Publisher's pictorial grey cloth, with a scene in brown, grey and gilt "camels carrying supplies" on the front cover, bevelled boards, t.e.g., binding generally dust worn, wear on the edges, gilt spine title and portrait faded., with the rare Folding Map which is usually wanting in this issue. (Tr) This edition not in Yakushi or Cordier, but located in LC, McGill and Harvard. French explorers Bonvalot and d'Orlans (1867-1901) travelled overland om Paris to the French colony of Tonquin, passing through Siberia and across the Tibetan plateau to Lhassa, which at the time was closed to foreign visitors. C.B. Pitman has translated other books on travel and geography from the French. A well-illustrated narrative of a very interesting expedition. Item #40239

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