Beschreibung:

(Capt. Samuel) An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Thibet, containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet, first edition, folding engraved map, 13 engraved plates including plate of yak after George Stubbs (with aquatint) and folding sheet of script, engraved illustration in text, foxed and browned, folding map with tear to fold (repaired with sticky tape), last few leaves creased across lower outer corner, engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with black morocco label, rubbed, a few scratches and slightly worn patches to boards, spine ends a little worn, [Marshall 319; Yakushi T277a], 4to, printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1800. *** The first eye-witness report of Tibet and Bhutan to be published in English. Turner, an army officer in the East India Company, led Warren Hasting's mission to the countries in 1783 and 1784 with the aim of enlisting the Panchen Lama's help in arranging a British mission to Peking. His "account of carefully observed conditions in Tibet and Bhutan, their forms of government, religious customs, trade, and topography, has stood the test of time and remained a source of great value" (ODNB). The plates include an image of the Bhutanese yak that Turner succeeded shipping alive to Hastings in England, where it was painted by George Stubbs