Description du Tibet

First edition, rare, translated by Baron Jean de Reuilly.
Contemporary full red Russia leather binding. Smooth spine decorated with 5 fleurons and fillets. Gilt title. Wide decorative border on boards with eagles, serpents, rabbits and stars in the corners. Interior garland. Spine darkened, having become dark red. Dark stains on lower board. One scratch on upper board. Endpapers having suffered humidity with discoloration. In lower margin, faint trace of dampstaining throughout the volume, more extensive at end of volume, with traces in outer and lower margins. Handsome copy in contemporary Russia leather.
Manuscript ownership inscription Sorlin d'origny, Constantinoples, 1882. Below, a biographical note on Baron de Reuilly.
Sole separate edition of Pallas's journey to Tibet, which had not been printed in the French editions. It was translated from the first and third volumes of the German edition of Pallas's voyage published in St. Petersburg from 1771 to 1776. This edition was prefaced and annotated by Reuilly based on the missions of several travelers (Bogle, Stewart, Georgi and Andrade) and from his own observations.