1898 Wellby - UNEXPLORED TIBET - CHINA - Early Map

Title: Through Tibet to China.

Author: WELLBY, Captain M. S.
Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1898

Notes & Condition: The author's firsthand reminiscence of pioneering explorations through the mountains to remote Tibetan villages also includes remarks on Bana and Mongol tribes, yak hunting, rival religions and rebellions, so forth. Accompanied by a large fold out colour map, showing routes traveled by Wellby and Lieutenant Malcolm, from Leh - then capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, through previously uncharted and forbidden regions, to Peking (Beijing).

Excerpts from the text: "On May 31 we at last launched forth over northern and unexplored Tibet..... We also picked up a keg of opium.....Everything we could possibly do without had now to be abandoned; in fact we only kept one tiny tent, pir bedding, ammunition, and instruments, and the clothes we wore, and we left our two cubs behind with a large supply of meat. We commenced the descent of the pass a sadly reduced party...." End excerpts.

19 pages, plus a large fold-out colour map measuring 9 inches x 20 inches (23cm x 51cm). These are original text pages and map printed in 1898, except one page which is in facsimile. Occasional foxing, otherwise in very good condition. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.