Author: WELLBY, CAPTAIN MONTAGU SINCLAIR:
Title: Through Unknown Tibet. London 1898.
Description: . Pp. xiv, 440. With portrait frontispiece, 4 folding lithographic charts, 76 illustrations in the text (of which 25 full page). Original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn, recased with new endpapers. Marginal stain to frontispiece and title page. St.o.t. (blind). First edition of this narrative of Wellby and Malcolm's journey across Tibet and northern China in 1896. They found a more northerly route to Peking than that of Bower. The journey started at Lucknow, continued to Simla and finished in the wilds of Waziristan. Cordier BS 2922. Marshall 869. Yakushi (1984) W50.

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