An account of an embassy to the court of the Teshoo lama, in Tibet; containing a narrative of a journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet . To which are added, views taken on the spot, by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders. This item is unavailable.An account of an embassy to the court of the Teshoo lama, in Tibet; containing a narrative of a journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet . To which are added, views taken on the spot, by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders

First edition of the first book in English on Tibet and Bhutan, 4to, pp. xxviii, 473, [1]; engraved folding map (one edge creased) and 13 engraved plates (1 folding), and including one aquatint of the Yak after George Stubbs; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, gilt spine, maroon morocco label on spine; some foxing, small crack starting at the bottom of the upper joint, front free endpaper removed leaving an old shadow on the front pastedown; good and sound. Lowndes, p. 2725: "News having reached Calcutta, in February 1782, of the reincarnation of the Tashi-Ihunpo grand lama of Tibet . in the person of a child, Warren Hastings proposed the dispatch of a mission to Tibet to congratulate the lamaist regency on the event, and strengthen the friendly relations . Turner was appointed on 9 January 1783 chief of the mission." Turner was granted an audience with the eighteen months-old infant, and published this report of his mission, "The only published account of a journey to Great Tibet written by an Englishman until Bogle and Manning's narratives were printed in 1875" (DNB). Lust, 208; Yakushi T277a.…