HUC, Evariste Regis. Translated from the French by W. Hazlitt.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, During the Years 1844-5-6.
Rare first edition in English of French missionary and Catholic priest Évariste Régis Huc's historic travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1844-1846.
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First edition in English of French missionary and Catholic priest Évariste Régis Huc's famous account of his travels throughout central Asia, including Tibet. Octavo, two volumes bound as one in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, black spine labels, raised bands, frontispiece engravings to each volume, illustrated throughout with fifty wood engravings, folding map. In very good condition with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine.
French missionary Évariste Régis Huc was first sent to China on Holy Orders in 1839 where he spent eighteen months in a seminary in Macua, preparing to become a missionary. He gained more knowledge of the English language after moving to Beijing and then set out on a journey across the continent to Tibet with fellow missionary Joseph Gabet and a young Mongour priest. After crossing the perilous Ordos Desert, they waited eight months in Tang-Kiul for a 2,000-man Tibetan embassy to accompany them to Lhasa. The missionaries spent these months closely studying the Tibetan language, and after joining the embassy engaged in meditations with the contemplative lamas of the Koko Nor island. Upon reaching Lhasa, they were favorably received and welcomed to open a small chapel; but were later expelled under Chnese resident Qishan at the approach of the First Opium War. Upon return to France, Huc's work changed many of the generally held prejudices regarding the people of Asia at the time and later blazed the trail for modern Asian studies.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, During the Years 1844-5-6.
$350.00
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