An account of Tibet. Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J., 1717-27 ... With an introduction by C. Wessels, S.J. ... Revised edition
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1937. 8vo, pp. xviii, 477, [1], [4] ads; title page printed in red and black, mounted color frontispiece, 22 illustrations on 16 plates, plus a folding color map; spine slightly dull, else a very good, sound and clean copy in original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Issued in the publisher's Broadway Travellers series under the editorship of E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. Desideri 1684-1733) "was an Italian Jesuit missionary and traveller and the most famous of the early European missionaries who founded Catholic Church in Tibet. He was also the first documented Tibetologist and the first European to have successfully studied both Classical and Standard Tibetan" (Wikipedia). Item #67774
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