Search Results: across thibet being a translation of de paris au tonking a travers le tibet inconnu by gabriel bonvalot

Cassell and Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 35 oz.; 447 pages; HC no DJ ex library cover wear/spotting front hinge cracked aged solid reading copy only. .

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. 418 pp. Original yellow cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit darkened. Leaves age toned. Front hinge just starting. Illust. w/ b/w text illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cassell Publishing Co. Fine. 1892. Hardcover. Larger octovo in bright blue cloth covers, faint shelfwear, tight binding, pages toned, square tight, else FINE, no DJ as issued. Profusely illustrated, photos by a prince from Orleans. The travel accomplished a feat no other European had ever done. 417 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York / Rahway, N.J: Cassell Publishing Company / Mershon Company Press, 1892. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Prince Henry of Orleans. First American edition. Includes color folding route map in front pocket. Hinges weakening, boards a bit soiled, a few tears along map folds but complete. 1892 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 417 pp. Engraved illustrations from photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans. Bonvalot was a French explorer who traveled to Tibet and central Asia, and wrote ten books based on his experiences. This work focuses on his 1889 expedition, which made him one of the first Europeans to visit the Tibetan plateau. Prince Henry of Orleans and his father, the Duke of Chartres, financed the trip. His planned route measured 9500 kilometers, but he was unable to enter Lhasa as he had planned. Despite this and other setbacks, he did reach his final destination of Hanoi in September of the following year.

NY 1892 Cassell. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 417pp., photo illustrations, large folding map in pocket, light purplish tan cloth with brown and gilt pictorial front. Two volumes in one. Good, map splitting at folds, corners a bit worn, light cover wear and soiling, spine lettering very faded. Not exlibrary, no owner marks. Excellent travel narrative. .

E-013. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1892. Xiii, 417 pages. Illustrated with 106 illustrations and many photos. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in publisher's pictorial grey cloth, with a scene in brown, grey and gilt "camels carrying supplies" on the front cover with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Starting from the frontiers of Siberia, and coming out at the other end of Asia, on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin, M. Bonvalot and his companions traversed not only that portion of Thibet which several English travelers, such as Dalgleish and Carey, and the great Russian Prjevalsky, 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 being… Read More

New York, New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. xiii + 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front, approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that "...Starting from the frontiers of Siberia, and coming out at the other end of Asia, on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin, M. Bonvalot and his companions traversed not only that portion of Thibet which several English travelers, such as Dalgleish and Carey, and the great Russian Prjevalsky, 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 being one which no European had ever accomplished..." Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name stamp of collector George R. Brush, M.D. U.S. Navy; he served as a surgeon & medical inspector, from 1861-1894. Approx. 7" x 10" size; bound in the original light… Read More

New York. Cassell Publishing Company. c1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tall8vo, 24cm, the First US edition of the English Translation by C.B.Pitman. xiv,417p., with 106 illustrations, including frontis. portrait, coloured folding map in front pocket, Publisher's pictorial grey cloth, with a scene in brown, grey and gilt "camels carrying supplies" on the front cover, bevelled boards, t.e.g., binding generally dust worn, wear on the edges, gilt spine title and portrait faded., with the rare Folding Map which is usually wanting in this issue. (Tr) This edition not in Yakushi or Cordier, but located in LC, McGill and Harvard. French explorers Bonvalot and d'Orlans (1867-1901) travelled overland om Paris to the French colony of Tonquin, passing through Siberia and across the Tibetan plateau to Lhassa, which at the time was closed to foreign visitors. C.B. Pitman has translated other books on travel and geography from the French. A well-illustrated narrative of a very interesting expedition.

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, [1892]., 1892. frontis. & numerous text illus. (some full-page) after photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans. A nice copy in original black & gilt-stamped cloth (a few spots on rear cover, inner front hinge cracked but binding tight). First American Edition of the English Translation by C.B.Pitman. Apparently some copies have a map, not present here as usual. On his third expedition, 1889-90), Bonvalot became the first European to traversed Asia from north to east, travelling from Siberia to Tonkin. Cordier IS 2436.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

London, Cassell, 1891. . First English edition, 8vo, xii, 218; viii, 230 pp., 109 illustrations from photographs taken by Prince Henri d'Orleans, folding map in pocket, original pictorial cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine extremities, a very good set. travel2023 Scarce in original cloth. Narrative of the journey with Henri d'Orleans from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90. Yakushi B479b.