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Title: Across Thibet: Being a Translation of "De Paris au Tonking a Travers le Tibet Inconnu" Author: Bonvalot, Gabriel Place: New York Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company Date: [1892] Description: xiii, [1], 417 pp. Numerous engraved plates & illustrations after photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans; folding map loose in front endpaper pocket. (8vo) original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and colors, beveled edges, top edge gilt. First American Edition. "Bonvalot traversed not only that portion of Tibet which several English travellers had explored, but going beyond the limits which their predecessors had reached, forced their way over the table-lands and came out on the other side, this journey one which no European had ever accomplished" - from the Preface. With bookplate of Library of Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn., over the map pocket, and the signature of Sarah Porter on front free endpaper. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to cloth, pencil notes on rear endpaper; map separated along horizontal folds; very good. Item number: 285561