First Edition of Bogle and Mannings Voyages, in Original Cloth
Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, And of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. Edited, with Notes, an Introduction, and Lives of Mr. Bogle and Mr. Manning.
London: Trubner and Co., 1876.
First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 139 mm). clxi,, [1, blank], [2], 354, [2, blank] pp. With frontispiece portrait of Warren Hastings, and seven engraved plates, one of which is folding. And with four folding maps, two of which have color. A few small illustrations in the text. With errata slip bound before Introduction.
Publisher's maroon morocco-grain cloth. Boards paneled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. To edge dyed gray. Spine lightly sunned and wrinkled. Some wear to head and tail of spine and a bit of light rubbing to boards. A small, unobtrusive oval blindstamp of the "Royal United Service Institution Library" stamped on frontispiece, title-page and all plates and maps. Overall a very good copy.
"Clements R. Markham, the then president of the Royal Geographical Society of Britain, did a marvelous job when he started editing the largely unpublished accounts of the first British voyages to Tibet of George Bogle (1747–1781) and scholar Thomas Manning (1772–1840), who followed him. In the preface to the book Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa (London: Trubner & Co., 1876), Markham clarifies: 'In the long period that has intervened, since the first Governor-General [Warren Hastings] retired, no greater advances have been made towards the establishment of friendly commercial intercourse between [British] India and the countries on the northern side of the Himalaya than in the time of your Lordship [Northbrook]'s administration.' Markham decided to work on the book, because till that time, 'no full account of this important mission [of George Bogle had] been given to the world.' This is what happened with the remarkable journey of Thomas Manning also. 'These two gaps in the history of intercourse between [British] India and Tibet have now been filled up.' The book that Markham edited is based on these newly discovered information and knowledge." (SpotlightNepal, Vol: 07 No. -5 Aug. 9- 2013).
HBS 68727.
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