huc gabet translated william hazlitt (1 Ergebnisse)

Two volumes. Double-page map, maroon cloth covered boards, ruled and stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Volume I: Map, xliv + 387pp. Volume II: viii + 406pp, index. 21 x 14cm. The ex-library stamp of the Felician College Chicago on each title page but no other library markings. Endpapers slightly browned, 2 small light small cellotape stains on each endpaper, else a crisp, clean and firm set. The Broadway Travellers edition of a great travel classic. 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.