Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS,
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 26: Description de la Tartarie orientale et du Tibet (suite). Voyages dans la Tartarie, le Tibet, la Bukkarie, et de la Chine.
Description: Paris, Didot, 1749. 12mo. (III)+467 pp. Complete with 3 fold. maps (Tartary; Asia showing the routes of William of Rubruck, Marco Polo and Anthony Jenkinson) & 3 plates. Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with raised bands & 2 title labels. (Top of spine & top corners sl. dam.). VG. ¶ Incl. descriptions of the Kingdom of Kharazm (Uzbekistan), Great & Little Bukaria, Turkestan; travels by Italian John of Plano Carpini (1246) & Flemish William of Rubruck (1253).

Keywords: Topography of country people National history. Travel journals accounts Central Asia China d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1246 1749


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