1855 The Chinese Empire

Description

Early Edition, Folding Maps, Leather Binding

The second edition. Published the same year as the first. 

Complete in two volumes.

Volume I illustrated with a colour folding map. Collated, complete. 

Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked and the spine laid down to volume I. 

Half titles have been retained, with both volumes bound without the publisher's advertisements. 

The sequel to Evariste Regis Huc's work 'Remembrances of a Journey in Tartary, Tibet, and China during the Years 1844, 1845, and 1846'.

'The Chinese Empire' is a comprehensive study on the religion, laws, usages, and institutions of China. Huc details the three traditional religions of China: Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, as well as offering a sketches of Chinese culture and his experiences working as a missionary across the country.

Evariste Regis Huc was a Catholic priest, who is remembered for his account of what was then the almost unknown country of Tibet, and for being the first European to reach Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812.

Translated from French to English.