Huc abbé (26 risultati)
Editore: Harper & Brothers, New York 1957
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. 8vo. xxvi,[27]-421pp. Original cloth, spine letters gilt. Good condition, head of spine frayed, gilt dulled, moderate wear to foot of spine and lower corners of boards, interior light-moderately foxed. Mounted on the front pastedown is a typed note signed by a forme…r owner regarding the Provenance which includes Lt. Col. McCoy who was an aid to Gen. Sherman and was gifted the 2-volume work by a Charles Ewing, U.S. Army, St. Louis, 18 Feb. 1867, so indicated in a contemporary inked inscription recorded on the front blank. Lacks folded map.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 421 pages.
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Editore: Herbert Joseph Limited, London 1937
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1937 first edition hardback, with unclipped dustjacke, from the Great EXplorations Series. Interior very clean with no writing, marks or tears. Green cloth covers clean and unscuffed. Dustjacket has a few chinks missing but still in one piece.
Altre immaginiHigh Road in Tartary: An Abridged Revision of Abbe Huc's Travels in Tartary, Tibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6
Abbe Huc (Edited by Julie Bedier) (Illustrated by Joseph Notarpole)
Editore: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1948
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ; 219pp; DJ edgeworn & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, endpapers illustrated with map, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Abridged revision of Abbe Huc's travels in Tartary, Tibet and China… from 1844-1846. Illustrated by Joseph Notarpole.
Editore: Herbert Joseph 1937 1937
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Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova ZelandaHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Editore: Herbert Joseph Ltd 1937
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Da: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Regno UnitoWorld of Rare Books
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Condizione: Good. 1937. First Edition. 352 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edg…e wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.
Editore: Heron Books 1970
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Da: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nuova ZelandaBook Haven
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Hardback. Condizione: Good. 429 pages.
Editore: 1937 New edition, Herbert Joseph. 1937
Da: Verandah Books, Sherborne, , Regno UnitoVerandah Books
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352pp. First published in Paris 1850. Very good.
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Editore: T Nelson & Sons, London UK 1874
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Early reprint of this much abbreviated version of Abbe Huc's travels. This selective retelling was originally published in 1867, this printing dated 1874. with colour frontispiece and second illustrated title page also in colour. Black and White illustrations in text. Decorative cloth binding which h…as wear at the spine ends. Spine sightly sunned. Splash marks to rear board. Endpapers tanned. Contents in very good condition. Small size - 16mo, 120pp, 180g. Illustrated (illustratore).
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Herbert Jenkins, United Kingdom 1937
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hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered green to spine, minor spotting to the closed edges else a very good tightly bound copy with an unmarked text. The pictorial dust jacket has foxing and some loss at the head of the spine and top left of the front panel, now pro…tected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 352pp.
Editore: Heron Books 1970
Da: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, Regno UnitoCotswold Internet Books
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Condizione: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. A bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Blue faux leather with elaborate gilt decoration on front board and spine; gilt lettering on spine. Blue ribbon page marker.
Editore: HODDER & STROUGHTON, LONDON
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Paperback. Soft Cover. Good plus/very Good. 8vo SLIM. ILLUS. FRONTISPIECE. 128 PP.; 60446.
Editore: T. Nelson and Sons, London 1869
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Da: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
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128 pp. Engraved text illustrations. 16mo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. 1869 ink ownership annotation; neat repair to rear (inner) hinge.
Editore: 1937 New edition, Herbert Joseph. 1937
Da: Verandah Books, Sherborne, , Regno UnitoVerandah Books
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352pp. First published in Paris 1850. Very good in chipped dw.
Editore: Heron Books, Geneva 1970
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Da: Dromanabooks, Newstead, VIC, AustraliaDromanabooks
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated with engravings from 1852 English edition of Huc's travels in Tartary and Thibet. Decorative gold and royal blue cover with ribbon marker. 510gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages.
Editore: Herbert Joseph: London, 1937 1937
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Da: Antiquariaat Fenix, Amsterdam, Paesi BassiAntiquariaat Fenix
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Condizione: Good. Cloth with dustwrapper (but warpper in bits, spine of the wrapper missing). 352pp. Foxing on edge. Great explorations. Vol 3. Translation: W. Hazlitt. 19x13.5x2.8 cm. In good condition.
Editore: Herbert Joseph Ltd. 1937
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Da: Stephen White Books, Bradford, , Regno UnitoStephen White Books
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hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Editore: Nelson, GB 1881
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Da: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, , Regno UnitoRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Hardback. Condizione: VG. No DW. Reprint. Publishers blue cloth lettered and decorated in black and gold. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.
Editore: Heron Books, London 1970
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Da: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, , Regno UnitoPEND BOOKS
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Blue leatherette, gilt decoration and marker ribbon. Owner's name and inscription on second blank endpaper.
Altre immaginiEditore: Imprimerie des apprentis-orphelins 1903
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Da: Au Coeur à l'Ouvrage, BAGNERES DE LUCHON, , FranciaAu Coeur à l'Ouvrage
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Couverture souple. Condizione: Bon. Abbé A. Huc Vers l'Orient Palestine Constantinople Athènes Albi Imprimerie des apprentis-orphelins 1903 122p format 25,5x16,5cm Couverture avec extrémités du dos abîmées, intérieur propre et en bon état.
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New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1948. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly defective illust. dustjacket. (xii 220pp.). With illustrations and endpaper maps.
Travels In Tartary, Thibet and China During The Years 1844-5-6 Translated from the French. 2 volumes
Editore: Open Court Publishing, Chicago & London 1900
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Da: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition thus. Octavos; xv, 326; x, 342, [v] pages, black cloth with pictorial designs in yellow. spines a bit scuffed Huc was a Vincentian missionary to Beijing, and later Hei Shui (beyond the Great Wall). Then he travelled to Tibet and opened a church at Lhasa. It was a remarkable journey…. His considered remarks on Buddhism resulted in this memoir being put on the Index of Banned Books by the Catholic Church. This work exhibits "for the first time, a complete representation of countries previously almost unknown to Europeans, and indeed considered practically inaccessible . - publisher's Preface." Folding map, 50 woodcuts.
Altre immaginiEditore: George Routledge & Sons Ltd 1928
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Da: Hungry Traveller Bookstore, Singapore, SG, SingaporeHungry Traveller Bookstore
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First Edition. 'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard' One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early n…ineteenth century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account of Tibet.Both Vol I & II – Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Complete in two volumes. Part of The Broadway Travellers series. Translated from the French by William Hazlitt. Edited with an introduction by Paul Pelliot. First edition thus. Both volumes are in very good condition. No dustjacket.
Altre immaginiEditore: Harper & Brothers, New York 1857
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Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Important account of the Chinese Empire before the intense incursion of Europe. Abbé Huc was a French missionary who went to Asia in 1838, not returning to France until 1852; he earlier wrote a popular book of his travels in Tibet with Joseph Gabet, where they attempted to… establish a Christian mission. His accounts are still respected as historical sources, more focused on Chinese reality than Christian piety, though completely reliable. This set belonged to Thomas C. Dudley, with his name inside each front cover and first text page. Dudley was a purser's clerk aboard the USS Powhatan, which became Commodore Perry's flagship upon joining his fleet in 1853, overwintering in Hong Kong before participating in the forced opening of Japan to American trade. Dudley's papers, held by the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, document Dudley's low opinion of the Commodore & interest in China, where he was able to do a fair bit of travel between trips to Japan; he returned to the States in early 1856. Hardcover, two volume set, as pictured; first published in America in 1855, these are early reprints dated 1856 & 1857. Light general wear, spines faded, corners bumped; folding map mis-folded with a short tear; some foxing, heavier to the rear of volume 2, with discolored endsheets; a few pencil notes - possibly Dudley's, possibly an heir's - the initials J. C. D. are pencilled into one volume; Dudley's name is dated '57. 421; 422 pages; index, folding map. Size: Duodecimo. Set.
Altre immaginiTravels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, During the Years 1844-5-6.
[TIBET] HUC, ÉVARISTE RéGIS, ABBé. TRANSLATED BY W. HAZLITT.
Editore: Office of the National Illustrated Library. [1852]., London. 1852
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Two volumes 19 x 12.5 cms, original gilt decorated cloth, top edge gilt, a little soiled, still a good attractive set of a classic work. Volume I: folding map, black and white wood engravings, viii + 293 pp + [1] publisher's adverts, owner's inked inscription on the flyleaf; Volume II: black and white engravings, x + 304 pp, pub…lisher's adverts (some offsetting). Early edition in English, translated by William Hazlitt, son of the great essayist. One of the world's great travel classics. Written by Abbé Evariste Régis Huc a French missionary and explorer. Huc and his travelling companion and fellow priest and Lazarite missionary Joseph Gabet were among the very first Europeans to have reached Lhasa and Huc's account remains a vivid first hand history of western contact in China and Central Asia.
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Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to 'Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne', circular postal markings in black 'Paris 8 Janv. 47' and 'Toulouse 11 Janv. 47'…; the letter commences 'Mes chers parents' and is signed at the foot 'Je vous embrasse tous filialement et fraternellement, É. Huc'; remnants of red wax seal; a couple of small closed tears at edges of the folds (no loss of text), otherwise complete, clean and legible. A rare and important letter by the missionary and travellerAbbéHuc, containing what is surely the earliest written account of his extraordinary journey through Tartary and Tibet in 1844-46. The French Vincentian missionary father Évariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), often referred to simply as AbbéHuc, had departed from Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia in August 1844 with the intention of crossing into Tibet to proselytise the indigenous population and study their culture, and then travelling on to India via Sikkim. He was accompanied by Father Joseph Gabet, a fellow Vincentian. Their journey would be a perilous one. Disguised as lamas, the two men traversed the Ordos Desert, reaching the border of the Tibetan kingdom early in 1845. The pair then spent eight months studying the Tibetan language and Buddhist scriptures at the Kumbum lamasery, before joining a Tibetan embassy returning from Peking which granted them permission to travel to Lhasa. When Huc and Gabet entered Lhasa in late January 1846, they became the first westerners since Thomas Manning (1811) to visit the Forbidden City. The regent allowed them to establish a small chapel, and they began their missionary work among the Tibetans. At the end of February, however, they were expelled by the Chinese imperial commissioner, Qishan, who, suspicious of their activities and fearing that they could supply strategic information about Tibet to the British in India, ordered them to be escorted back to Canton, where they arrived in October 1846. Huc later recorded his travels in his Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, et la Chine pendant les années 1844, 1845 et 1846, published in Paris in 1850. An English translation by William Hazlitt, Travels in Tartary, appeared soon afterwards. In the present letter, which as far as we can ascertain has never been published, Huc provides an extensive commentary on the remarkable journey that he and Gabet had so recently made through regions largely unvisited and uncharted by Europeans. Theletter, written at the Vincentian seminary in Macau on 1 November 1846, was the first piece of correspondence Huc sent to France following his travels, and thus it confirmed that he and Gabet had survived their journey. During the expedition, which had lasted almost two years, no news had been heard of the missionaries' activity or whereabouts; the lack of correspondence from Huc had led his family and colleagues to believe him dead. In the Postscript to his Souvenirs, reflecting on the missionaries' arrival at Macau, Huc wrote: 'Our long and painful journey was at an end; and at last we were able, after so many tribulations, to enjoy a little quiet and repose'. Addressed to his parents at home in Toulouse,the present letter is as intimate as it is richly detailed in its account ofthe historic journey. [Translation of extracts from letter]: 'Macao, 1 November 1846. My dear parents, It has been at most a fortnight since I arrived in Macao after a journey of more than two years in legendary countries and across extraordinary paths. It was with my colleague and friend Mr Gabet that I undertook this gigantic journey. We set off on 1 August 1844 and from that time until the present day we were denied communication with Europe, even with our colleagues from China and Tartary. It was only yesterday that I had the pleasure of receiving a letter. The previous letters and the things you have sent me, all of these have been sent to Tartary, where I will go to retrieve them later on. To satisfy your curiosity, I will outline for you my itinerary. First of all, it is necessary to mark our point of departure in Tartary, in Tartarian-Chinese Christendom a little below Peking. We arranged a caravan with four camels to carry our luggage and food, two horses which Mr Gabet and I were to ride, along with a little mule owned by a young lama who was serving us; and so, organised in this manner, we plunged ourselves into the Tartarian deserts, with only the sun and a map for guidance. We visited the majority of the kingdom of Tartary. It is useless to tell you the names of the places, since they are not yet on our maps. We camped by the blue sea in the country of the Kalmonts, and after a stay of more than 8 months in a well-known lamasery inhabited by 5,000 lamas, we joined a Tartarian caravan headed for Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Nothing can compare to this wretched journey! We were attacked by brigands, we were buried under snow, we were more than once on the brink of death from starvation, and we were daily exposed to death from the cold. The crowded caravan was obliged to abandon 40 men who had been suddenly frozen, to say nothing of the innumerable number of camels, of horses. What is more, almost every day the site where we had pitched camp was strewn with the corpses of men and animals. Mr Gabet very nearly joined the number of victims of this murderous climate: for three days his feet and body were frozen. But God did not permit his death. At last we arrived at Lhasa, capital of Tibet - and what a country is Tibet! What a city is Lhasa! And the grandiose Boutala temple where the great Lama resides! In truth, nothing is comparable to Tibet. We were very well received by the authorities of the place and especially by the prime minister regent of the kingdom, who is serving during the youth of the great Lama, who is at present a child.
