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TURNER, Samuel. 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 ... the Second Edition, London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1806. 4° (295 x 235mm). Folding engraved map, 13 plates, one double-page. (Map torn and repaired with some loss at inner edge, some spotting and staining to map, some light mainly marginal browning and staining, some spotting mainly to text.) Contemporary half calf gilt (corners rubbed, some light staining). Provenance: semi-legible inscription on front free endpaper reading: "?Captain Turner, From Leslie ?Millar's Private Library, price $0.75, Dec. 2, 1882 - Boston, Mass."; Henry H. Humphrey (bookplate); John E. Davis (ex-libris sticker); de-accession stamp of Boston Athenaeum on verso of title.
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