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xxviii, 473 pp. With 12 copper-engraved plates including the frontispiece; folding engraved map; folding engraved facsimile. (4to), 29x23 cm (11¼x9"), period speckled calf, gilt-roll border, rebacked with modern calf, original gilt-tooled spine strip with morocco lettering piece laid on, raised spine bands. Second Edition.

Samuel Turner (1759-1802), English diplomat, Asiatic traveler and cousin of Warren Hastings, was dispatched from India on a mission to Tibet in 1783  following news of the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, with a message of congratulation designed to strengthen the amicable relations established by George Bogle during his 1774 visit to Tibet. Although unable to visit the Tibetan capital at Lhasa, he did have an audience with the infant Panchen Lama at Shigatse in Tibet's Tsang Province, and received a promise that merchants sent to the country from India would be encouraged.