huc évariste régis abbé translated (1 Ergebnisse)

Two volumes 19 x 12.5 cms, original gilt decorated cloth, top edge gilt, a little soiled, still a good attractive set of a classic work. Volume I: folding map, black and white wood engravings, viii + 293 pp + [1] publisher's adverts, owner's inked inscription on the flyleaf; Volume II: black and white engravings, x + 304 pp, publisher's adverts (some offsetting). Early edition in English, translated by William Hazlitt, son of the great essayist. One of the world's great travel classics. Written by Abbé Evariste Régis Huc a French missionary and explorer. Huc and his travelling companion and fellow priest and Lazarite missionary Joseph Gabet were among the very first Europeans to have reached Lhasa and Huc's account remains a vivid first hand history of western contact in China and Central Asia.