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. By Captain Samuel Turner. To which are added views taken on the spot, by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and observations botanical, mineralogical, and medical, by Mr. Robert Saunders.
Samuel Turner (1749-1802)
Category
Books
Date
1800
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3040970
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii,473,[1]p, [14] plates : maps ; 4to. Old Lyme Park library label: "Case D Shelf 3". Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119).. Binding: Nineteenth-century half navy morocco, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, edges uncut, gilt-lettered "Turner's Embassy to Tibet". Gilt-stamped Legh crest at base of spine.
Makers and roles
Samuel Turner (1749-1802) Samuel Davis (1760 - 1819), illustrator Robert Saunders